Workshop

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.

Call for papers

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.

Recent protest movements in different parts of the world are characterized by aesthetic intervention and artistic creativity while it becomes more and more difficult to explain these protests in political terms or by using the standard concepts which the theory of social movements has to offer. The workshop focuses on such recent phenomena as (post)migrant and (post)feminist art forms and activism.

This one-day advanced PhD methodology course (May 14, 2-6pm) aims to stimulate collegial
discussion between faculty and students in Warwick Business School, the
Centre of Applied Linguistics and the broader University.
PhD student participants will be able to present their research informally
and to flesh out their ideas with other discourse theorists. If you are
interested in building a stronger internal and inter-disciplinary network of
colleagues around an interest in discourse analysis, and/or discuss your

The course consists of a one-day workshop for research students and young researchers. The topic is ‘Post-Structuralism and Political Analysis’ which we approach through the theme of ‘Democracy and Government’. The course will examine the contribution of post-structuralism to political analysis: what are the ontological and epistemological assumptions made by post-structuralists? How are assumptions translated into methodological approaches and guidelines? How does one apply post-structuralism to the analysis of political texts? How do post-structuralists think about the political?

Disentangling Crisis Discourse

a one-day workshop on crisis discourse analysis at Lancaster University, sponsored by Sociology and LAEL

organisers: Amelie Kutter (Sociology) and Johnny Unger (LAEL)

Wednesday 11th July, 2012, times TBC, Lancaster University

Call for Papers : Foucault and Mobilities Research

A Two-Day Symposium, 6th and 7th of January 2013, Lucerne, Switzerland

Program (see http://www.socum.uni-mainz.de/veranstaltung/)

Friday, 19th of October 2012 (new room! Senatssaal, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 7. Stock, Campus Mainz)