Workshop

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)

The Loughborough University Discourse and Rhetoric Group hosts the 5th Conversation Analysis Day, on Monday, December 19th, 2011.

The one-day meeting will comprise a series of 30-minute paper presentations, in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

Invited Speakers:
Jon Hindmarsh (King's, London)
Anna Lindström (Örebro University, Sweden)

“Development” played various and at times contradicting roles in the discursive and non-discursive practices of late colonialism. It both served to legitimize European control and to underpin African endeavours for social and political emancipation.

This workshop aims at exploring discourses of development during the period when development first came to play a central role in shaping the relations between Africa and Europe, that is between the end of World War I and decolonization (1918-ca. 1960).