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Protest Culture - Cultural Protest

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.

PhD Methodology Course: Empirical Applications of Discourse and Post-Structural Analysis

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

Continental and Analytical Political Theory: An Insurmountable Divide?

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?

5th Conversation Analysis Day

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)

Developing Africa: Development Discourse(s) in Late Colonialism

“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).