Workshop

It has become a common understanding that higher education is highly relevant for the production of elites in Western countries (Collins 1979; Brown et al. 2010). What however is less researched is how education does this (cf. Zald and Lounsboury 2010), especially under the impact of mass higher education. While a considerable body of literature discusses the reproduction of social elites through higher education, the formation processes within and through the educational institution are treated as a side‐aspect.

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Workshop on
Privacy and Data Protection in Europe: Traditions, Practices, and Discourses

A workshop organized by Johannes Angermuller and Sue Wharton
for the ‘Professional and Academic Discourse’ (PAD) group

at Centre for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
February 5, 2015, 1-5pm
Room A1.11, Social Sciences 1st floor

La date de clôture de l'appel à communication du colloque
"Texte/discours en confrontation dans l'espace européen.
Pour un renouvellement épistémologique et heuristique"
a été repoussée au
1er février 2015
Vous trouverez l'appel actualisé avec la liste des conférenciers invités ci-dessous

Texte et discours en confrontation dans l’espace européen.
Pour un renouvellement épistémologique et heuristique. Metz, Université de Lorraine
15-18 septembre 2015
Centre de recherche sur les médiations

Academic trajectories refer to the course of research careers, but also of certain concepts or research subjects. They consist of different positions that are attributed or occupied over time and space, take place within a wider framework of symbolic and institutional positions, and within the structured field of higher education. What are possible determinants or characteristics of academic trajectories? How do they result from everyday positioning or classification practices, and how do they intertwine with the structured contexts of academic disciplines or higher education systems?

International Workshop on Populist Discourse

Michel Foucault figures among the icons of today's cultural and social sciences. The French philosopher and historian is productively read, quoted, discussed, refuted, and recycled in virtually every cultural and social scientific discipline. Voiced in 1975, Foucault's invitation that people should help themselves to his works and concepts as if using a toolbox' ('make of it what you will') was so widely taken up that the toolbox has since become standard equipment above all for the work of the cultural sciences.

The purpose of the workshop is to explore the closely related frameworks of mediated action (MA) (Wertsch, 1998) and mediated discourse analysis (MDA) (Scollon & Scollon, 2004). In the spirit of a study group, participants will 1) engage in a dialogue around what these frameworks can bring to the learning sciences, 2) get hands-on experience analysing empirical material from these two perspectives, 3) discuss their own research practices within these frames.

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Thematic Seminar: Changing Discourses, Changing Workplaces: Postmodern Trends in Institutional Communication

12th ESSE conference, Kosice, Slovakia (29 August – 2 September 2014) http://www.esse2014kosice.sk

Seminar Convenors:

The course consists of a one-day workshop for research students and young researchers. The aim of the workshop is to examine deconstruction as a method for political analysis. We read examples of deconstructive analyses by Jacques Derrida and discuss the methodological implications of deconstruction as well as the philosophical assumptions behind it. Deconstruction is often used in literature, cultural studies and philosophy, but is little used as a method for political analysis.