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In the Name of the People: representing the people in twenty-first century politics

In today’s world, shaken by the effects of globalization, the aftermath of the financial crisis and widespread political corruption, people in many countries are reaching out for radical political solutions. In many parts of Europe, experts have perceived a growing mistrust of conventional politics: as the perceived gap between citizens and their representatives has widened, new political formations have arisen that promise to shake up the status quo and give more concrete expression to people’s real needs and desires.

Self-Legitimation Practices of International Organizations: From a Bottom-Up to a Top-Down Perspective

The legitimacy of international organizations seems more contested than ever today. Recent debates on the politicization of international organizations illustrate that IOs have increasingly become subject to critical public review. While the legitimacy of international governance has long been treated as a non-issue, IOs such as the EU or the G8 are now suffering a legitimacy crisis. This panel will explore how IOs attempt to deal with these legitimacy challenges.

10th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Processes, Practices and Performance

Submitted by Tom Keenoy on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 14:49

The biannual Organizational Discourse Conference celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2012. In the past two decades ‘discourse analysis’ has firmly established itself as a topic of interest, an analytical perspective informing a variety of critical theoretical approaches, and a methodology for organizational research. A discursive approach has been widely adopted in a variety of subfields.

I Central American Symposium on Discourse Studies: Discourse and Exclusion in Central America

This symposium will be a space for the researchers, professors and students interested in the field to gather
and exchange theoretical and methodological proposals, and research results.
If you would like to request more information about this activity and the subjects to be discussed, please consult
the websites: jocaed2013.blogspot.com.
We cordially invite you to participate in this event, and would be thankful for your help passing this information
along to your contacts.

47th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics - Learning, Working and Communicating in a Global Context

Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics, should be interesting and innovative in some way. They should be scholarly and of academically good quality and indicate clearly objectives, method(s), and results where appropriate. Abstracts which address the conference theme will be particularly welcome.

Individual presentation for parallel sessions Individual papers have 25 minutes:
• 20 minutes for the presentation
• 5 minutes for questions

Developments in professional/academic communication and implications for language education and research

In the context of growing professional and academic mobility, in parallel with the trend towards the internationalization of Higher Education and emerging new channels for academic and research communication, education and research in the field of languages for professional and academic purposes have acquired new roles.

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