An ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE to celebrate
25 years of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG)
10 years of the Culture and Media Analysis Research Group (CAMARG)
Plenary speakers include:
Charles Antaki
Michael Billig
David Buckingham
David Deacon
Teun A. Van Dijk
Paul Drew
Derek Edwards
Peter Golding
Jim McGuigan
Angela McRobbie
Graham Murdock
Mike Pickering
Jonathan Potter
Elizabeth Stokoe
Liesbet Van Zoonen
The Communication Research Centre at Loughborough University invites you to join in our celebrations as our two research groups reach key anniversaries: the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) celebrates twenty-five years of discursive psychological, rhetorical and conversation analytic research, and the Culture and Media Research Group (CAMARG), celebrates ten years of communication, media and cultural analysis.
Call for individual papers
We encourage submissions that engage with empirical and theoretical topics in communication studies, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, media studies, social interaction, or cultural studies - especially those that address in original ways the promises and challenges or research in any of these (inter)disciplinary areas.
Deadline for Abstracts: 1st November, 2011
Registration deadline (for guaranteed on-campus accommodation) is
November 30th, 2011.
Conference registration fee £90 (£60 concessions)
Pre-conference workshop fee £50 (£30 concessions).
Pre-conference workshops:
conversation analysis
critical discourse analysis
comparative media methods
discursive psychology
memory & methodology
transcription
visual digital ethnography
with:
John Downey, Derek Edwards, Alexa Hepburn, Emily Keightley, Sabina Mihelj, Mike Pickering, Sarah Pink, Jonathan Potter, John Richardson, Cristian Tileaga and Sue Wilkinson.