Conference

Metaphors in Specialized Discourse In and Across Cultures

Stefania Maci — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:48:36 +0000

Metaphors in Specialized Discourse In and Across Cultures Stefania Maci Fri, 11/29/2024 - 08:48

Category

Conference

Date

Wed, 06/12/2024 - Fri, 06/14/2024

Registration deadline

Wed, 06/04/2025 - 12:00

Call for papers ending on

Tue, 12/31/2024 - 12:00

Piazza Rosate 2
24129 Bergamo BG
Italy

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to thank all the people who have already submitted their proposals and, following up on the many requests we have received over the past few days, we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions until December 31st!

The CERLIS2025 conference on Metaphors in Specialized Discourse In and Across Cultures (12-14 June 2025, University of Bergamo) aims to explore the intricate and multifaceted roles that metaphors play in specialized forms of discourse, encompassing scientific, technical, medical, legal, business, media, tourism, and political communication, across diverse cultural contexts.

The call for papers and further details can be found on our website:

https://sites.google.com/unibg.it/cerlis/conferences?authuser=0

We are now accepting proposals in English, German, French and Spanish.

We look forward to receiving more great abstracts and hopefully meeting more of you in Bergamo in June!

Please feel free to get in touch with us (cerlis@unibg.it) if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Stefania Maci

CERLIS

Institution

University of Bergamo

Contact person

Stefania Maci

Contact person email address

stefania.maci@unibg.it

Internet address

https://sites.google.com/unibg.it/cerlis/conferences/cerlis2025?authuser=0

Advances in Critical Policy Discourse Analysis

Montesano Montessori — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:05:53 +0000

Advances in Critical Policy Discourse Analysis Nicolina Montesano Montessori Mon, 11/25/2024 - 13:05

Category

Conference

Date

Mon, 08/25/2025 - Thu, 08/28/2025

Call for papers ending on

Mon, 01/06/2025 - 12:00

Thessaloniki
Greece

This Section seeks to bring together scholars using critical text analytical and discourse analytical approaches in the study of policy and politics, with the aim to contribute to Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 2013; Montesano Montessori, Farrelly and Mulderrig (eds.) 2019; Montesano Montessori, 2023). The Section Chairs are particularly interested in exploring: ▪️ how policies are constituted and contested ▪️ how to bring complexity into processes of policy making and policy analysis ▪️ how to approach to the role of ideology and how critical discourse approaches might lead to improved policy making processes▪️To present examples of critical constructive policy analysis, for instance through suggesting alternative practices or processes (Mukhtarov and Gasper, 2022; Montesano Montessori and Lautensach, 2024). We aim to discuss these questions under the analytical umbrella of Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (Montesano Montessori, Farrelly, and Mulderrig, 2019), and we invite proposals for themed Panels and individual Papers which critically interrogate the role of text(s) in constituting, legitimating, and contesting policy problems in a range of political contexts. Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (CPDA) combines critical discourse analysis with critical policy studies by establishing theoretical and methodological synergies between these two fields to enrich our understanding of how policy is constituted and contested in various contexts. It does so by bringing the rigorous and systematic analysis of texts, informed by linguistic theory, into transdisciplinary dialogue with theoretical frameworks capable of recognising the socially structuring potential of discourse, but which alone tend to overlook the micro-textual processes. This approach seeks to achieve explanatory adequacy in critical policy research by attending to the micro, meso and macro levels at which policy ideas operate; and the knowledge, values and ideologies which underpin them. CPDA emerges from two long-standing traditions in social science research whose origins lie in Linguistics and Political Science respectively. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) combines detailed analysis of texts with theoretically informed accounts of policy problems. It asks how political language construes specific policy problems in a way that transmits and naturalises ideologies, thus linking directly to patterns of injustice, discrimination and power (Fairclough et al., 2011; Wodak and Meyer, 2016; Flowerdew and Richardson, 2018). Critical Policy Studies (CPS) continues Lasswell’s commitment to developing critical and democratic policy science, while placing a strong theoretical emphasis on the idea of ‘contingency’ in policy formation. It pays particular attention to (ideological) norms, values and assumptions which underpin policy processes (Fischer et al., 2015). As such, CPS shares an analytical focus with CDA on the socially constitutive role of knowledge, power and discourse. Furthermore, both CPS and CDA mark the ‘ideational’ turn in social science, which views discourse as having causal powers in social life (Fairclough, Jessop, Sayer, 2004). Section Chairs invite proposals for Panels and Papers which follow and enhance the tradition of CPDA in combining textually oriented discourse analysis (TODA) with theoretically informed explanatory critique of policy and political texts. Panels should be organised around a particular theme which may be based on a particular policy field, political issue, theoretical framework, or methodological approach. We would particularly welcome proposals which advance CPDA by focusing on its application in the following areas of policy and practice: ▪️ Economic Policy ▪️ Education Policy ▪️ Environment and Sustainability Policy (SDGs and beyond) ▪️Health Policy ▪️Security Policy Research questions which might be explored in those areas include, but need not be confined to, the following: ▪️ What are the specific ideological issues at stake? How are these legitimated? ▪️ Are there identifiable political ‘mantras’ which naturalise particular policy perspectives? (e.g. ‘There is no alternative’; ‘Expert knowledge is redundant in the digital era’; ‘Policy must keep pace with rapid social and technological change’) ▪️ How does policy operate and translate across scales? ▪️ How do policy imaginaries (simplifying discourses) seek to reduce complexity? What problems arise from this? What constructive and evidence-based alternatives can replace simplifying or biased imaginaries? ▪️ (How) is policy constrained and framed by discourses of risk and resilience? ▪️ (How) is policy inflected by populist political discourse? We also welcome Papers which explore the tensions between policy hegemony and counter-hegemonic resistance, for instance: ▪️ The role of the digital in new social movements ▪️ Initiatives to free ‘sustainability’ from the grip of technology and digitalisation. References: Fairclough, N (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis London: Longman Fairclough, N. (2013) Critical Discourse analysis and critical policy studies. Critical Policy Studies 7(2): 177-197 Fairclough, N., Mulderrig, J. and Wodak, R. (2011). ‘Critical Discourse Analysis’, in T Van Dijk (Ed.) Discourse Studies: a multidisciplinary introduction, London: Sage (357-378) Fairclough N. Jessop R. and Sayer A. (2004). Critical realism and semiosis. In: Joseph J. and Roberts J. (Eds.) Realism discourse and Deconstruction. London: Routledge Fischer, F., Torgerson, D., Durnová, A and Orsini, M. (2015). Introduction to critical policy studies. In Handbook of Critical Policy Studies, (Eds, Fischer, F., Torgerson, D., Durnová, A and Orsini, M.) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 1-24 Flowerdew, J. and Richardson, J. (Eds.) (2018). The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. London, New York: Routledge Montesano Montessori, N. (2023): Critical Policy Discourse Analysis. In: M. Handford & J.P. Gee (eds). Handbook of Discourse Studies. Pp. 610-624. Routledge Montesano Montessori, N., Farrelly, M., Mulderrig, J. (Eds) (2019) Critical Policy Discourse Analysis Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Wodak, R. and Meyer, M. (Eds). (2016, 3rd Ed.). Methods of Critical Discourse Studies. London: Sage Montesano Montessori, N., & Lautensach, A. (2024). A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application. Critical Policy Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2024.2355140 Mukhtarov Farhad, Des Gasper, Aditya Alta, Neha Gautam, Maria Sattwika Duhita & Diego Hernández Morales (2022) From ‘merchants and ministers’ to ‘neutral brokers’? Water diplomacy aspirations by the Netherlands – a discourse analysis of the 2011 commissioned advisory report, International Journal of Water Resources Development, 38:6, 1009-1031, DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2021.1929086

Advancing Political Science

THE EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL

Internet address

https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1491

Migration, identity and transnational discourses Conference

ENCARNACION HIDALGO TENORIO — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:40:44 +0000

Migration, identity and transnational discourses Conference Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:40

Category

Conference

Date

Wed, 09/03/2025 - Fri, 09/05/2025

Registration deadline

Wed, 05/07/2025 - 12:00

Call for papers ending on

Fri, 03/21/2025 - 12:00

18071 Granada Granada
Spain

Poster

Dear colleagues,

This is an invitation to participate in a conference we are organising at the University of Granada, Spain, on migration, freedom of movement and transnational discourses from all angles possible, yours too. The dates: 3-5 September 2025.

Here you can read more about the event:

The evolving landscape, especially shaped by the effects of Brexit, and populism, extremism, or the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, has significantly shifted perceptions of critical issues such as freedom of movement and, consequently, migration. Hatred on social media and violent behaviours are some of the alarming consequences of this new reality.

The University of Granada, alongside the Universities of Zaragoza, Perpignan, L'Orientale, and Parthenope in Naples, is actively participating in a project led by Prof. Pascual Pérez-Paredes from the University of Murcia, focused on the aforementioned initiative (FOM@Play, KA220-HED-236D1825).

In its essence, FOM@Play aims to be a key reference in understanding the profound impact of freedom of movement on EU citizens and the broader EU project. To achieve this, Europeans living in countries other than their own have been interviewed to share their experiences and perspectives on identity, among other topics.

In line with our commitment to advancing knowledge and facilitating a meaningful debate, from 2 to 5 September 2025, the teams involved in FOM@Play will present their findings, and look forward to engaging with other fellow scholars who share an interest in the project and its related themes, encouraging them contribute their own research on migration and freedom of movement from their own angles.

Important dates

Abstracts submission: From 1 October 2024 to to 1 March 2025
Abstracts submission deadline: 21 March 2025
Communication to authors: 7 April 2025
Early registration fee: From 7 January to 7 May 2025

This is our website: https://www.granadacongresos.com/fomaplay

We hope to have the opportunity to share with you this project, and to
listen to yours as well.

Warmly,

Encarna

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E. Hidalgo Tenorio
Catedrática de Universidad

The _Nutcracker_ and _FAKES _Projects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9talwSrex0M

Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana, Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras
Edificio Anexo, Planta 3º, Despacho F28
Campus de Cartuja s/n, 18071, Granada, España
+34 958241000 (Ext. 20251)

Institution

UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA

Contact person

E. Hidalgo Tenorio

Contact person email address

ehidalgo@ugr.es

Internet address

https://www.granadacongresos.com/fomaplay

DN32 - Discourse across cultures

ThomasJacobs — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:57:22 +0000

DN32 - Discourse across cultures Thomas Jacobs Tue, 11/12/2024 - 13:57

Category

Conference

Date

Fri, 03/21/2025 - Sat, 03/22/2025

Registration deadline

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 12:00

Call for papers ending on

Sun, 01/05/2025 - 12:00

Transilvania University of Brasov
“Sergiu T. Chiriacescu” Aula Magna, U-Building, 41 A, Iuliu Maniu St.
Brasov
Romania

DN32 - DISCOURSE ACROSS CULTURES (2025)

Call For Papers

The two key concepts of this event are discourse and culture. Showcasing multifarious attributes, culture has been defined by Samovar& Porter as:

‘the deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, social hierarchies, religions, notions of time, roles, spatial relationships, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving’ (Samovar and Porter, 2003: 8)

Despite variation in defining the concept, scholars concur that culture is a multi-layered construct, characterised by patterned routines/behaviours. As a research topic, culture has been approached from various vantage points: anthropology – Levi-Straus (1985), sociology – Geertz (1986), Kottak (2015), linguistics – Kaplan (1996), Halliday (1973), language learning – Scollon & Scollon (1995), child language acquisition – Berman & Slobin (1994), or translation studies – Bassnett (1980), to mention just a few. Discourse, defined as language in use (Brown & Yule 1983), has become “common currency in a variety of disciplines: critical theory, sociology, linguistics, philosophy, social psychology and many other fields” (Mills 2004: 1).

Now, more than ever, globalization encourages communication among people from various cultures. In this context, as Shi-xu contends, “culturally divergent discourses possess the moral-rational force to reflect upon themselves and others (…) and to produce progressive change” (2005: 44).

The aim of this event is to bring together the two strands in this increasingly interconnected world, providing the opportunity to use language comparisons

between/among cultures in order to get a deeper insight into the language phenomena around us (Moder 2004: 3). The focus is on cross-cultural discourse patterns, as well as on specific communicative practices within cultures.

We invite discourse scholars from all disciplines, as well as other scholars in humanities and social sciences to contribute with studies that cover, but are not limited to, the following areas:

· Linguistics

· Cultural studies

· Social development

· Translation studies

· Bilingualism/multilingualism

· Culture and language

· Rhetoric

· Sociolinguistics

· Narrative studies

· Discourse and pedagogy

The event encourages scholars to participate in person, but also offers the opportunity of virtual or hybrid presentations. The conference is envisaged as a platform for engaging in a meaningful dialogue that could lead to new interdisciplinary collaborations or practical applications. At the same time, by attending this event, participants can benefit from network opportunities, publication potential or contributions to emerging trends.

Important dates

Conference date: 21/03 – 22/03/2025

Deadline for abstract submission: 05/01/2025

Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15/01/2025

Registration deadline for presenters: 28/02/2025

Venue: Transilvania University of Brasov

“Sergiu T. Chiriacescu” Aula Magna, U-Building, 41 A, Iuliu Maniu St., Brasov, Romania

Fees (for on-site participation)

Full registration: € 100/500 Lei

Students: € 50/250 lei

DiscourseNet (DN) members are exempted from the fees. To join DN, please click on the link or check out the DiscourseNet website

Abstracts should be sent to

Elena Buja: elena.buja@unitbv.ro

Cristina Vâlcea: cristina.valcea@unitbv.ro

References

Bassnett, Susan. 2002. Translation Studies (3rd. edition). London & New York: Routledge.

Berman, Ruth & Dan Slobin. 1994. Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum.

Brown, Gillian & George Yule. 1983. Discourse analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Geerts, Clifford. 1986. “The uses of diversity”. Michigan Quarterly Review 25: 105-123.

Halliday, Michael A. K. 1973. Explorations in the Functions of Language. London: Edward Arnold.

Kaplan, Robert B. 1966. “Cultural thought patterns in intercultural education”. Language Learning 16: 1-20.

Kottak, Conrad P. 2015. Cultural anthropology: Appreciating Cultural diversity. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.

Levi-Straus, Claude. 1985. The View from Afar. New York: Basic Books.

Mills, Sara. 2004. Discourse: The New Critical Idiom. New York: Routledge.

Moder, Carol Lynn. 2004. “Discourse across cultures, across disciplines. An overview. In Moder, Carol Lynn & Aida Martinovic-Zic (eds.), Discourse Across Languages and Cultures. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Samovar, Lary & Porter, Richard (eds.). 2003. Intercultural Communication: A reader. Australia, Canada: Thomson Wadsworth.

Shi-xu. 2005. A Cultural Approach to Discourse. London & New York: Palgrave.

Elena Buja

Institution

Transilvania University of Brasov

Contact person

Elena Buja

Contact person email address

elena.buja@unitbv.ro

Network

DiscourseNet

Cfp Call for papers

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Internet address

/DN32

LISTENING TO AFRICA: ENGLISHES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

crispinthurlow — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 11:08:32 +0000

LISTENING TO AFRICA: ENGLISHES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH Crispin Thurlow Sun, 11/10/2024 - 12:08

Category

Conference

Date

Fri, 06/06/2025 - Sat, 06/07/2025

Registration deadline

Fri, 03/14/2025 - 12:00

Call for papers ending on

Wed, 01/15/2025 - 12:00

Bern
Switzerland

Founded in 1947, the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE) holds a biennial conference; next year, it is the University of Bern's turn to host the conference.

In June 2025, we are inviting SAUTE colleagues and any others to join us in reflecting on the way our work engages, or might engage, with English languages and literatures in/from Africa. With 27 of its 54 countries using English as an official or secondary language, Africa is home to an estimated 240 million English speakers and has produced four Nobel laureates writing in English. These sorts of figures are obviously complex and fraught, but English continues to have a considerable presence in the continent.

One does not have to be an “Africanist” to turn one’s attention to Africa, to reflect momentarily on its particular relationship with English languages and literatures. While the conference organizers will be glad to receive submissions addressing African scholarship, African writers, and/or African settings, the conference is open other perspectives from the Global South. As always, SAUTE colleagues are invited to submit other examples of their current work too. Regardless, the conference will be a special chance to consider how English studies in Switzerland responds to current work on decoloniality and Southern theory. The organizers plan to create a dedicated space for a discussion about these issues too.

Keynote speakers:

Moradewun Adejunmobi is a Professor in the African American and African Studies Department at the University of California, Davis.

Nicky Falkof is Professor of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Atiqa Hachimi is an Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

Please see our website (below) for the call for papers (ConfTool abstract submission), registration information, and venue details.

Crispin Thurlow, Gwynne Mapes and Zoë Lehmann Imfeld

Institution

University of Bern

Contact person

Crispin Thurlow

Contact person email address

saute2025@gmail.com

Internet address

https://saute2025.ch/

Call for Papers: From the extremes to the centre and back again? Radicalisation, mainstreaming and reconciliation in local, national and global context

ICSpublicdiscourse — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:16:12 +0000

Call for Papers: From the extremes to the centre and back again? Radicalisation, mainstreaming and reconciliation in local, national and global context Melike Akkaraca Mon, 10/14/2024 - 12:16

Category

Conference

Date

Thu, 06/05/2025 - Sat, 06/07/2025

Registration deadline

Sat, 03/01/2025 - 12:00

Call for papers ending on

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 12:00

Pamplona Navarra
Spain

Call for Papers

International Symposium

From the extremes to the centre and back again? Radicalisation, mainstreaming and reconciliation in local, national and global context
Instituto Cultura y Sociedad (ICS)

Public Discourse Research Group

Universidad de Navarra, Spain

5th-7th of June, 2025

Different actors, such as political parties, political figures, and the media, occupy distinct positions within the public sphere, and these varying spaces can shape their behaviour and discourse in diverse ways. Those within mainstream circles benefit from extensive exposure, which may make them appear more secure or legitimate to the public. However, this visibility also subjects them to heightened scrutiny, often prompting them to adopt less risky positions or employ more nuanced rhetoric. In contrast, actors on the margins may be less recognizable to a wider audience and, consequently, face less public criticism. This can enable them to take clearer and, at times, more confrontational or unfiltered discursive approaches.

These positions are highly fluid, and what once existed on the margins may become mainstream, and vice versa. These processes, whether occurring by chance or design, are observable in their discourse. For example, politicians operating on the margins for a long time will likely adapt their discourse when becoming mainstream, either by mitigating, transforming, or concealing aspects of their ideology, or by linguistically adjusting their discourse.

At the same time, the centrifugal and centripetal forces that redistribute positions in the public sphere also affect political actors who have not undertaken significant shifts in position. In some contexts, polarization occurs within traditionally mainstream political parties in response to new movements from the margins.

The complexities of these processes need to be addressed across various disciplines. We are pleased to invite submissions for an interdisciplinary conference exploring the dynamics of negotiating political, ideological, and social positions within national and global contexts. The conference will focus on processes of radicalization, mainstreaming, and reconciliation in discourse, politics, and social interactions.

This conference invites scholars from the research fields of discourse studies, discourse analysis, political science, international relations, law, sociology, communication studies, social psychology, and linguistics to explore these questions through various theoretical and empirical lenses. We encourage contributions that investigate these dynamics from both national and global perspectives, as well as historical and contemporary case studies. The conference will be held in-person at ICS, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain).

Conference Themes:

Claiming the Centre: How do political actors, social movements, and institutions assert their positions as "mainstream"? What discursive and strategic tools are used to legitimize their claims? How do these claims vary across different sociopolitical and cultural landscapes?
Contested Ground: How do actors negotiate and compete for positions within the public sphere? What strategies are employed to gain or lose influence?
Subverting the Centre: How do marginalized actors challenge and redefine the concept of "mainstream"? Can the centre be a fluid or contested space?
Moving to the Extremes: What drives individuals, groups, or political movements to adopt more radical positions? How do these radical shifts occur, and what social, psychological, economic, or cultural factors fuel them? This theme encourages exploration of the role of social media, echo chambers, political and ideological identities, and the narratives of "othering" that facilitate radicalization and polarizing behaviours. How do marginal movements use media and digital spaces to amplify their messages and shift mainstream discourse?

Reconciliation and Return to the Centre: How do societies, political actors, or movements reintegrate radicalized individuals or groups back into the mainstream? What role do dialogue, restorative justice, or transitional mechanisms play in fostering reconciliation in deeply divided communities?

Collateral Effects of the Redistribution of Positions in the Public Sphere: How do shifts in political positions impact other actors, both within and outside the mainstream? What are the unintended consequences of these changes? What are the broader impacts on actors that remain stationary while others shift toward extremes or the centre? How do these non-shifting actors influence or react to these shifts? Can polarization be understood as a consequence of mainstreaming formerly marginal ideologies? This theme invites papers that explore how discourse around identity, loyalty, and belonging changes when positions in the public sphere are realigned.

Globalism vs. Localism in Shaping Political Identities: How do global and local forces compete or converge in shaping political discourse How do cultural, historical, and political contexts shape the dynamics of radicalization, mainstreaming, and reconciliation? Are there cross-cultural patterns or unique national characteristics?? What roles do nationalism, populism, and transnational ideologies play in either radicalizing or reconciling political actors? Papers in this theme may examine how economic disparities, immigration, global conflicts, and cultural clashes influence movements towards the extremes or back toward the centre.

Media, Technology, and the Shaping of Political Narratives: In an era of digital globalization, how do traditional and social media contribute to the amplification of extreme viewpoints, and how do they support efforts for reconciliation or mainstreaming? This theme welcomes research on the algorithms, platforms, and media ecosystems that facilitate both polarization and de-escalation, as well as their implications for democratic processes and public discourse.

Key Topics Include:

- Political discourse and framing: examining the narratives, metaphors, and rhetorical strategies that shape political positioning.

- Radicalization and deradicalization processes: exploring pathways to and from extremism, and the psychological, social, and cultural drivers involved.

- The role of social media and communication networks in political polarization: investigating how digital technologies contribute to the spread of polarized ideas and enable both radicalization and deradicalization.

- Sociocultural dimensions of mainstreaming ideologies: studying how ideologies migrate from the margins to the mainstream and the social, cultural, and historical contexts that facilitate these movements.

- Psychological and social mechanisms of reconciliation and peacebuilding: addressing how individual and collective processes of healing, empathy, and communication contribute to de-escalation and re-entry into mainstream discourse.

- The interplay of nationalism, globalism, and identity politics in shaping public discourse: analysing how competing forces of local and global identities impact political movements, polarization, and reconciliation efforts.

- Polarization as a political strategy: investigating how polarization is not only a consequence but also a deliberate tactic employed by political figures and movements.

- The ethics and challenges of political reintegration: exploring the ethical questions involved in reintroducing radicalized actors back into the mainstream and the societal tensions this might create.

- Legal Studies: How do legal frameworks and institutions shape political discourse and power dynamics? This topic invites exploration of how laws, courts, and legal policies either reinforce or mitigate polarization, radicalization, and mainstreaming, and the role of legal institutions in promoting reconciliation and social cohesion.

Format: The symposium will be held in-person at University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

Submissions: Submissions will be evaluated by the scientific committee of the conference. Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words outlining the scope of your research, methodology, and key findings to conferencepolipos@unav.es by 31 January, 2025. We welcome both individual papers and panel proposals. The conference will be held in English. Certificates of attendance and participation will be provided.

Key Dates:

- Abstract submission deadline: 31st January, 2025

- Notification of acceptance: 14th of February, 2025

- Conference dates: 5th-7th of June, 2025

Institution

Instituto Cultura y Sociedad (ICS), Universidad de Navarra

Contact person

Melike Akkaraca Kose

Contact person email address

conferencepolipos@unav.es

Cfp Call for papers

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Internet address

https://www.unav.edu/web/instituto-cultura-y-sociedad/actividades/international…

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 23rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET2025)

bkruk — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:49:20 +0000

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 23rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET2025) Bartłomiej Kruk Thu, 10/10/2024 - 23:49

Category

Conference

Date

Wed, 06/25/2025 - Fri, 06/27/2025

Call for papers ending on

Mon, 01/20/2025 - 12:00

Poznań
Poland

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 23rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics (COMET 2025), which will be hosted by Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań and Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland on 25-27 June, 2025. The conference will be held entirely in person in Poznań.

The COMET conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving various healthcare specialties and the human and social sciences. A special emphasis is on the dissemination of ongoing research in language/discourse/ communication studies in relation to healthcare education, patient participation and professional ethics.

The proposal submission deadline has been extended until 20 January 2025.

The Pre-COMET Masterclass is scheduled for 24 June, 2025, and will be delivered by Professor Srikant Sarangi. For more information, see this website.

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Featured speaker: Szczepan Cofta (Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland):

Challenges in the management of chronically ill patients, with particular emphasis on pulmonary conditions

Lars-Christer Hydén (Linköping University, Sweden):

Social interaction and communication involving people living with dementia

Jessica Lester (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA):

Reflective interventionist conversation analysis: Connecting research and practice in clinician – patient interactional studies

Alison Pilnick (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK):

Understanding the ‘failure’ of patient-centred care

CONFERENCE THEMES INCLUDE:

· client–professional encounters (involving doctors, counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, speech and language therapists, psychotherapists etc.)

· communicating risk and uncertainty

· communication in chronic disease

· communication in palliative care

· communication skills training

· distributed expertise among professionals and clients

· disturbed patient

· ethics and communication

· evidence in diagnosis and non-diagnosis

· health and disability

· health, wellbeing and the lifespan

· health literacy

· health technologies and medical informatics

· healthcare services and organisations

· interpreter-mediated healthcare delivery

· intercultural communication in health

· interprofessional communication and hospital management systems

· media and health communication

· medical education

· mental illness

· narratives of illness experience

· patient centricity

· patient empowerment

· public understanding of health and illness

· quality of life and quality of care

· representation of the body

· research ethics

· simulated patient training

· (shared) decision making

· tailoring health messages

· telemedicine

· values and responsibilities in professional practice

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Proposals include panels, individual presentations (oral or poster) and work-in-progress sessions.

1. PANELS

Panels should address a common theme, content or methodological area, and will be scheduled for 90 minutes or multiples of 90 minutes. A 90-minute panel usually includes 3 individual presentations, plus a brief introduction and preferably time allocated for a general discussion.

For panel submissions, please include a) an overview description of no more than 300 words (including references), highlighting the panel’s content and objectives, and including 3-5 key words; b) an abstract of no more than 250 words (including references) for each individual presentation within the panel. Also provide information about the panel members and the coordinator, including full institutional addresses and emails. Please indicate how many 90-minute slots you are requesting.

Submit your panel proposal via e-mail with subject header “COMET 2025 Panel Proposal” to comet2025@amu.edu.pl

2. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS (ORAL OR POSTER)

Proposals for individual papers (no more than 250 words, including references) must clearly indicate a preference for oral or poster presentation. Following the peer review process, the organisers will determine whether a proposal is selected for oral or poster presentation. There will be an opportunity for all poster presenters to briefly outline their main argument in a poster panel session in 2-3 minutes each prior to the poster viewing session. Poster presenters must be physically present both at the poster panel session and at their poster board to discuss their work during the dedicated sessions.

Oral presentations will typically be scheduled in blocks of 90 minutes to contain 3 presentations, with 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for discussion) allocated to each individual presentation.

Submit your proposal for individual paper (oral presentation or poster) via Oxford Abstracts.

3. WORK-IN-PROGRESS SESSIONS

Proposals for work-in-progress should be no more than 250 words (including references), targeted at oral presentation. The presentations will be in blocks of 90 minutes, with individual presentations lasting 30 minutes (15 minutes for presentation + 15 minutes for discussion). This format is particularly suitable for early career researchers pursuing doctoral and postdoctoral studies and for experienced researchers undertaking/planning pilot projects or interested in reporting preliminary findings.

Submit your proposal for work-in-progress via Oxford Abstracts.

PROPOSAL REVIEW AND SELECTION CRITERIA

All proposals, except panel proposals, undergo a double-blind peer-review process. For panels, the reviewers will have access to the names of the panel coordinators and the panellists.

Please note that COMET conference policy is one main oral presentation per presenter. You may choose to submit more than one proposal, but normally only one proposal will be accepted for oral presentation. An additional accepted proposal may be presented as poster. Any individual presenter – even as part of a team – is limited to one oral presentation and one poster presentation.

There is no fixed format for writing proposals, but we suggest the following structure: Background (including findings from and absences in previous literature); Aims/Objectives (including research question); Methodology (research design, type of data, participants, analytical framework); Results/Findings; and Conclusion (including practical relevance).

Please note that the following criteria will form the basis for peer review:

· originality of the topic and its relevance to the conference

· background contextualisation of the study

· relationship between title and content

· structural organisation

· theoretical/methodological appropriateness

· clarity of claims and relevance

Individual panels are reviewed without anonymisation in their entirety on the above criteria but also on the basis of their relevance to broader issues in communication, medicine, and ethics; the overall coherence of the proposal; and the usefulness of the panel to participants.

Decisions about acceptance/rejection will be communicated by the end of February, 2025. Following formal acceptance, the responsible (presenting) authors must register their participation. Early registration opens in early March.

Please visit the COMET 2025 website (https://comet2025.web.amu.edu.pl) or send an email to comet2025@amu.edu.pl for further details regarding submission guidelines or for additional information about the conference.

Joanna Pawelczyk

Elżbieta Paszyńska

Magdalena Zabielska

Zuzanna Jechna

Bartłomiej Kruk

On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee of COMET 2025

Contact person

Bartłomiej Kruk

Contact person email address

comet2025@amu.edu.pl

Cfp Call for papers

COMET 2025 third CfP_0.pdf145.24 KB

Flyer

COMET 2025 flyer_0.pdf726.06 KB

Internet address

https://comet2025.web.amu.edu.pl

Twitter

https://x.com/Comet_2025

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559228923406

Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP5)

daolaozu — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:49:06 +0000

Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP5) Alexander Alekseev Mon, 10/07/2024 - 11:49

Category

Conference

Date

Wed, 03/05/2025 - Fri, 03/07/2025

Call for papers ending on

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 12:00

Helsinki
Finland

Poster

Since 2019, the HEPP conferences have provided a space to explore themes related to populist mobilisation, polarisation, and the dynamics of emotional engagement in various political and mediatised contexts. Our thematic core remains the same this year, and the HEPP5 conference will also include a special focus on the relationship between populism, polarisation, and emotions and the heuristic device of the social contract, understood as a tacit agreement among the members of society on the principles of the polity. The conference particularly invites investigations into how social contracts as societal consensuses and sources of solidarity are challenged by polarisation and exploited by populist politics and how these phenomena affect societies’ well-being and democratic trajectories. We also encourage contributions on the notion of resilience. We also aim to explore how populism and emotional mobilisation renew or create new social contracts. HEPP5 also marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radically Democratic Politics by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, which has been an inspiration at HEPPsinki since its founding.

Traditionally, HEPP conferences have welcomed contributions with a focus on semi-peripheral regions such as the Global South and East Central Europe, and we hope to continue that this year. We also invite papers addressing ongoing conflicts, such as those in the Middle East, Ukraine, Ethiopia, or Venezuela. HEPP maintains a broad take on populism, polarisation, and emotions, and the following themes:

Affects, a(nta)gonism, and political polarisation
Audiovisual political communication
Authoritarianism and illiberalism
Climate, crises, and grievances
Cultural populism, conspiracy theories, and misinformation
Datafication and methods in large social media data
Gender in populism and polarisation
New social contracts and challenges to democracy
Political theory of populism, resilience, and social contracts
Memory politics and the political (mis)use of time and space
Tribalism, nationalism, and racism
Political communication in the 2024 European elections
(Post-)Pandemic populisms and resilience
Hegemony, common grounds, and epistemic populisms
Populist logics and dynamics
Post- and de-colonialism
Political frontiers and “us” building
Political humour and populist rhetoric
Political communication and media in times of war and crisis
Religion and populism

After the conference, presenters are invited to submit their papers to be considered for our Working Papers series.

We always aim to cultivate a friendly, fun atmosphere at the HEPP conferences. To this end, we seek to gather various international researchers at all career stages and from various fields engage in conversation around our critical areas of interest.

The conference is organised in collaboration with the Continuous Construction of Resilient Social Contracts through Societal Transformations (CO3) Horizon Europe project and with the ENDURE project.

Important dates and submission details

HEPP5 will take place on 5-7 March 2025 at the University of Helsinki and online (as with previous conferences, HEPP5 will be fully hybrid).

Please submit your papers and pre-formed panels by 17 November 2024 through the links below. Submissions should include:

A paper title
A 100–150-word abstract
Five keywords answering the paper’s topic, method, theory, data, country case (if applicable)
A short bio of the presenter, with a link to preferred social media and/or personal website (e.g. LinkedIn)

We further encourage the submission of panel proposals comprising three to five papers with a panel chair. Please include paper abstracts according to the description above. Panel proposals should be submitted by 17 November 2024 through the links below.

UPDATE: The call for panels and papers was extended until 17 November 2024.

Acceptances will be sent in early December, and registration will open shortly thereafter.

The conference is organised by the HEPPsinki research group.

Institution

University of Helsinki

Contact person

Ilana Hartikainen (conference secretary)

Contact person email address

hepp@helsinki.fi

Internet address

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/emotions-populism-and-polarised-politics…

Social Semiotics and Social Media

Fiona Rossette — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:35:47 +0000

Social Semiotics and Social Media Fiona Rossette-Crake Tue, 09/17/2024 - 19:35

Category

Conference

Date

Fri, 10/04/2024

Registration deadline

Mon, 09/23/2024 - 12:00

Université Paris Nanterre
Paris Nanterre
France

Dear colleagues,

Our conference "Social Semiotics and Social Media" on Friday October 4th (9 am to 6 pm Paris time) can be followed online at the following link:
https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/88358472467?pwd=JG9Axs751RAblaciPuianrEzQClkb…
ID: 883 5847 2467
Code: 780881

Best wishes,
Fiona Rossette

Fiona Rossette

Institution

Université Paris Nanterre - AFSFL (French Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics)

Contact person

Fiona Rossette

Contact person email address

rossette@parisnanterre.fr

Program

Social Semiotics and Social Media_Program.pdf569.41 KB

DN31: Online workshop - Discourses of Capital, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence

ThomasJacobs — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:17:16 +0000

DN31: Online workshop - Discourses of Capital, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Thomas Jacobs Tue, 09/03/2024 - 18:17

Category

Conference

Date

Mon, 11/04/2024 - Sat, 11/09/2024

Registration deadline

Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Call for papers ending on

Sunday, 6 October 2024

DN31: Online workshop - Discourses of Capital, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence

Website: discourseanalysis.net/DN31

Contact: east.west.dn.wg@gmail.com

Location: Online, parallel

Date: November 4 - 9 (with November 4 for videos going live and sessions online throughout the week) 2024

Language policy: the working language for the workshop is English

Call for Papers

The “East-West dialogue” working group of DiscourseNet and the University of Valencia invite submissions for an upcoming online workshop on "Discourses of Capital, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence."

In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and the increasing influence of artificial intelligence (AI), the intersection of capital, technology, media, and AI in discourse has become a crucial area of study. AI technologies have commanded billions of dollars in capital, and have been implicated in maintaining and contributing to inequalities in global employment markets (Perrigo, 2023).

In the last years AI has attracted high expectations around its capabilities and potential in both public and scientific discourses (De Togni et al. even refer to this interest as ‘hype’), different technologies that contain embedded AI are constantly in the focus of the researchers. Thus, in 2023 only Google Scholar indexes more than 35 000 articles upon request “AI” and 17800 papers upon request “Generative AI”. At the same time, we can state that the key term – AI – has not yet crystalized (Ekbia 2012, Elliott, 2021, Elliott 2022). It leads to interpretative flexibility (Bijker 2012) and makes the discourses around AI crucial as they partially impact further development of this technology.

Moreover, AI becoming a strategic priority for global players such as the USA, the EU, Russia, China, India and others fighting for the leadership in this technological area, politicizes the technology and makes the development of AI deeply incorporated in political and geopolitical context, tightly connected to capital and different strategies of technological development in different states. So it is important to analyze how AI is discursively constructed and publicly discussed on a global level, which involves the dialogue between different global regions.

This workshop aims to explore the discursive practices that shape our understanding of the structures of these domains, and explore the relationship between capital, technologies, and the social conditions through which they emerge.

We welcome contributions that examine themes such as:

- The rhetoric surrounding AI and its impact on society, economy, and culture

- Discourses of technological innovation and their relationship to capital

- The language of automation and its effects on labour discourses

- Narratives of progress and disruption in tech-driven economies

- Ethical considerations in AI development and implementation

- The role of discourse in shaping public opinion on emerging technologies

- Critical analyses of techno-capitalist discourses

DN31 invites scholars from all subfields of the transdisciplinary field of (critical) discourse studies to submit papers and to explore what is going on in this dynamic field of strategic struggles. We accept the results of finalized research projects but also work-in-progress and embryonic ideas.

We also explicitly welcome scholars from other disciplines and perspectives in the humanities and social sciences: Media studies, Communication sciences, Political sciences, International relations, History, Ideology studies, Linguistics, Cultural studies, Audience and reception studies, Governmentality studies, Strategic narrative studies, Journalism studies, (Social) media studies, Development studies, Post- and De colonial studies, etc.

We equally welcome people with technological backgrounds as well as representatives of the tech industry.

De Togni, G., Erikainen, S., et al. Beyond the hype: ‘acceptable futures’ for AI and robotic technologies in healthcare. AI & Soc (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01659-4

Ekbia H. Fifty Years of Research in Artificial Intelligence. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (2012). https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2010.1440440112

Elliott A. (ed.) The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI. Routledge, 2021.

Elliott A. Making Sense of AI Our Algorithmic World. Polity, 2022.

Bijker W. E. Social Construction of Technology. A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. (ed. by In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. pp. 88–94.
Perrigo (2023) Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic. https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

Open lecture on November 4, 18-00 CET

Keynote lecture by Lisa Parks (https://www.lisaparks.net/), Ph.D., Distinguished Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Director of the Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab, editor of the book 'Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations' (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jj.10405519).

Submission Guidelines

Important dates

- Deadline paper proposals: October, 6, 2024

- Notification of acceptance or refusal: October 13, 2024

- Deadline registration: October 29, 2024 (authors of papers need to be paying DN members)

Registration and payment

After your abstract has been accepted, please follow these three simple steps:

(1) Sign up to the DiscourseNet website (create an account for free)

(2) Pay the annual DN membership fee: 32 euros (30 euros + 2 euros administration fee) per year with bi-annual membership (62 euros in total). Please get in touch with the organizers if this fee is inhibitive for your participation.

(3) Register for the workshop. The registration link will be sent to you along with the letter of acceptance, on October 21, 2024. The workshop is free of charge, but participants and authors must be fee paying member of the DiscourseNet Association.

Guidelines for abstracts

Please send in an abstract of 150-250 words (excluding title and bibliography) outlining your proposed presentation before October 6 via this link. The abstract should include the problem statement, theoretical framework, and the empirical material that will be used.

Abstracts should be submitted in English.

Format

Accepted presenters will be required to submit a pre-recorded video presentation (e.g. Zoom recording, Teams recording,...) and accompanying written paper if available.

The format of the workshop will be as follows:

- Pre-recorded video presentations available for asynchronous viewing from the 4th to the 9th of November

- Live Q&A sessions with presenters and participants at specified dates between the 4th and the 9th of November via Zoom

- Virtual discussion forums for ongoing dialogue and potential publication and collaboration opportunities

Organizing committee:

Jasper Roe, James Cook University Singapore

Irina Dusacova, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Carmen Aguilera Carnerero, University of Granada

Aurora Fragonara, Université de Picardie

Thomas Jacobs, UCLouvain

Organizing institutions

University of Valencia

DiscourseNet: International Association for Discourse Studies

Video presentations - guidelines for the accepted abstracts

In an effort to allow as many authors to participate as possible the workshop will run in a hybrid format with online attendees participating via Zoom and discussing the pre-recorded video presentations.

ALL presenters whose abstracts will be accepted are required to submit a pre-recorded video by November 1.

The pre-recorded presentation should consist of a brief introduction, with webcam if desired, followed by a presentation consisting of a voice-over with slides. Please note: the file must be in MP4 format (more details below). Please DO NOT try uploading PowerPoint or PDF files. The pre-recorded presentations MUST be submitted by November 1. Pre-recorded presentations not submitted by this deadline will be considered a “no-show.”

Our recommendation for recording a compatible video is to record the presentation using Zoom or MS Teams – available to users on most platforms and in most countries. These platforms allow you to display your slides as the content of your computer screen and to record your voice via the computer microphone. With this method, you may also show your face via webcam (if you like to do so).

For Authors who are unable to access Zoom for free, the free software OBS allows you to simultaneously capture yourself speaking and your slides: https://obsproject.com/

There are also other video conferencing tools available to easily record a presentation. You may use any meeting software as long as you get a good quality recording and your final file is in the MP4 format. Here are some links to instructions on recording a meeting on common platforms:

WebEx: Video Conferencing - Record a Cisco Webex Meeting
Skype: Skype for Business: Recording a Meeting | Information Technology Services | Bemidji State University
Google Meet: Record a Video meeting - Meet Help
Gotomeeting: How to Record a GoToMeeting Session
Teams: Record a meeting in Teams - Office Support

Guidelines for preparing your video

Duration: 15 minutes

File size: 750 MB (maximum)

Video file format: .mp4

Please be sure the video includes the title of the talk, your name, and a mention to DN31

Uploading your video (Deadline: November 1)

The link to upload your video will be sent in the acceptance email along with other instructions.

Institution

DiscourseNet

Contact person

Jasper Roe, Irina Dusacova

Contact person email address

east.west.dn.wg@gmail.com