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2nd International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL): Language in Society

The organising committee of the 2nd International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL) are pleased to invite predoctoral students in English Linguistics programmes, including both PhD and Master's degree students, to participate in our second instantiation, which will be held on September 20, 21 and 22, 2017 at the Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. This conference is organised by the PhD Programme in English Linguistics of UCM, which has consistently maintained an Excellence Distinction by the Spanish Ministry of Education since 2004.

TOWARDS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: The Challenges, Promises and Processes of New Paradigm

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TOWARDS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
The Challenges, Promises and Processes of New Paradigm

A conference on Language, Law and Social Justice co-presented by the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association and the Sydney Institute of Criminology. 7th-9th December 2009, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney.

4th Annual International Free Linguistics Conference

The aim of this conference is to provide an open and widely accessible
forum to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate and undergraduate
students, with research issues from all fields of Linguistics and TESOL.

The main feature that distinguishes this conference is its focus on *freedom*:
- Freedom from linguistic sub-field divisions;
- Freedom from an established and rigid theme for presentations;
- Freedom from fees!

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Negative Cosmopolitanisms: Abjection, Power, and Biopolitics

Organizers: Terri Tomsky (University of Alberta), Eddy Kent (University of Alberta), Imre Szeman (University of Alberta)

Keynote Speakers:

Timothy Brennan (University of Minnesota)
Pheng Cheah (University of California, Berkeley)
Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia)
Peter Nyers (McMaster University)

Cutting Edges Research: Competing Discourses

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A conference for those researching in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, modern languages, intercultural communication and education

Friday 6th July 2012

Department of English and Language Studies
Canterbury Christ Church University
Canterbury, England

Invited Speakers:

Ben Rampton, King’s College, London
Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University

Irony: Framing (post)modernity. 4th Graduate Conference in Culture Studies

Irony, either as a paradigmatic strategy of inquiry and critique or as a trait of character and existential perspective, has deeply informed Western culture and its philosophical and political tradition. The contemporary presence of irony in arts and everyday life – in the use of quotation, appropriation, pastiche, parody, kitsch, etc. – while questioning authenticity and authority, often conceals a lack of commitment that might be seen as a revival of the Jena romantics’ epistemological view, in some cases taken to a solipsistic extreme.

Communication, Postcoloniality, and Social Justice: Decolonizing Imaginations

Keynote Speakers:
Arjun Appadurai (New York University, USA),
Inderpal Grewal (Yale University, USA), and
Ravi Sundaram (Center for the Study of Developing Societies, India)

Plenary Speakers: Ramesh Srinivasan (USA); Mohan J. Dutta (Singapore); Shanti Kumar (USA), Ramaswamy Harindranath (Australia); Nitin Govil (USA); John Erni (Hong Kong); Aniko Imre (USA); Radhika Parameswaran (USA); Soyini Madison (USA); Raka Shome (USA); Boulou Ebanda De B’Beri (Canada) (These are confirmed so far; we are awaiting confirmation from other speakers.)

The analysis of political discourse: confronting approaches (Section, ECPR General Conference)

The Standing Group on Political Methodology of the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) organises a section on "The analysis of political discourse: confronting approaches" at the next ECPR General Conference in Montreal, Canada, 26-29 August 2015.

The section welcomes paper or panel proposals on any issue related to the analysis of political discourse, and working with a variety of methodological approaches, from quantitative text analysis to various strands of discourse analysis. Proposals from disciplines other than political science are very welcome.