In this multi-disciplinary conference we wish to think through the imbrications of violence, space, and the political. Given that our present conjuncture is one constituted by innumerable sites of apartheid, exclusion, oppression, and indeed, resistance(s), such an interrogation is both crucial and potentially productive in re-thinking questions of power and radical politics.
2nd Call for Papers
The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to explore the potential for collaboration between researchers in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Conceptual History (CH), the study of key socio-political concepts in their historical context.
The fourth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) will take place at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, 4-6 July 2012.
During the past few decades, the face of social, cultural and linguistic diversity in societies all over the world has changed radically, producing complexity of a different kind than what has traditionally been captured in the notion of multiculturalism. This ‘new’ diversity, or super-diversity (Vertovec 2007), encompasses a wide range of societal and cultural transformations that stem mainly from accelerated processes of geocultural and mediated globalization of the last two decades.
We welcome submissions to the First International Conference on Translation Studies which will be held on 8-9 May 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. ICTS2014 aims to be a supportive space for those who wish to present their latest studies and research projects related to Asian languages and cultures. It further seeks to create a dynamic network of researchers working in Translation Studies. This interdisciplinary conference further welcomes researchers of related disciplines who focus their studies on Asian languages and cultures.
The annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference series is dedicated to research in the broad area of
language and sexuality. Sessions
currently under development include:
* (Anti)Homophobic Discourse Analysis
* Erotic/Porn Socialities
* Language, Sexuality & Hip Hop Culture
* Intersexions: Language & Identity Nexuses
* Language as a Means of Control: Monitoring Salvadoran LGBT Immigrants
* Queering Heterosexuality and Challenging Normativities
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Theory, Culture & Politics at Trent University, TCP will hold a graduate student conference with the theme: Technology/Politics.
Dear colleagues:
We would like to invite paper submissions for our Panel "Doing Policy Analysis with SKAD" (p22) at 10th Interpretive Policy Conference in Lille, 8-10 July. Please find the CfP below and attached to this message.
Paper proposals can only be submitted via the conference’s website (http://ipa2015.sciencesconf.org/). Please send us an e-mail when you submit your proposal. Full papers will be due on 1 June 2015.
The Conference seeks to examine issues in the ongoing construction of European identity, including notions of diversity and (physical and symbolic) borders. It will focus on critical investigations that draw on discourse theory or bottom-up textual analysis to investigate these topics from the following perspectives:
Contradiction Studies: Mapping the Field
Inaugural Conference on Concepts of Contradiction
in the Humanities
University of Bremen, 9–11 February, 2017
Call for Papers