Conference

Sponsored by the Communication History Division of the International Communication Association
Date: May 22, 2014
Time: 8:30 AM – 5 PM

The question of materiality has emerged as a central topic in studies concerned with the body, affect, sexuality, bio-politics and digital culture in recent years. Under the umbrella term “new materialism”, this interdisciplinary and multifaceted academic debate seems to have revived a Marxist vocabulary. Yet, the question of why “materiality” matters in times of crisis capitalism is rather absent in this debate.

DEADLINE: 1 July 2014

'Sites of Protest' is the third event organised by the MeCCSA Social Movements Network since its foundation in 2013. This conference, organised in conjunction with the Canterbury Media Discourse Group, will
be held in Canterbury on 29 October 2014.

Keynote Speakers

Katharine Ainger (Writer, editor and activist. Author of We Are Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism)

B.A.A.L / Cambridge University Press Applied Linguistics Seminar Programme 2014-2015:
The Language of Money and Debt: the view from the ground

7th – 8th September 2015.
University of Roehampton, Whitelands College

Call for Papers:

‘Critical approaches to sustainability’ Panel Proposal to be presented at the CADAAD 2016, University of Catania, 5-7 September 2016. Panel Organisers:
Barbara Loester, University of Winchester
Douglas Ponton, University of Catania
Franco Zappettini, Royal Holloway, University of London

The session will discuss empirical research on discourses and regimes of power/knowledge in different social areas, using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). This perspective on discourses and their analysis draws on Foucault, Berger and Luckmann and the interpretative paradigm of sociology including symbolic interactionism and "communicative constructivism". In comparison to the Foucauldian tradition, SKAD focuses more on social actors and societal arenas of discursive disputes.

Call for Papers
ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue)

Abstract submission deadline extended until 5 April 2017

4th ESTIDIA Conference
Dialogues without Borders: Strategies of Interpersonal and Inter-group Communication
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky”, Sofia, Bulgaria
29-30 September 2017

CRAL‐2009: Figurative Language Learning and Figurative Language Use: Theory and Applications. An International Conference in Honor of Professor Paul Meara (University of Swansea)
Call for Papers
Call Deadline: September 1, 2009
Acceptance notification: September 10
Registration deadline: October 15
Date: October, 29‐31, 2009

Conference Theme: Dialogue and Representation

We invite researchers to submit proposals that address the connections of representation and dialogue, which can be problematized in at least the three following ways:
1. Dialogue as representation,
2. Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues, and
3. Representations of dialogue.
The conference also welcomes any contribution addressing the question of dialogue.

*Keynote speakers:*
Luc Boltanski (France)
Kathrine Gibson (Australia)
Anne Balsamo (USA)
Campbell Jones (New Zealand).