Conference

Since the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the rise of Trump, Orbán and Le Pen, to name but a few, ‘populism’ has re-emerged as a common keyword in international news coverage. This term has become highly contested, often used to stigmatise political opponents. The current conflation of new right-wing politics with ‘populism’ backgrounds leftist mass movements such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain, despite a rich history of left wing populism.

The Postgraduate Winter School Language for Communication: Research Perspective is a three to-five-day event for individuals or groups organised by the University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia) in cooperation with the Field Committee of Linguistics of Discourse of International Committee of Slavists (Belarusian & Polish branch of the Field Committee), and international academic project D-ART (Germany).

Call for Papers

"Nations and States: On the Map and In the Mind"

15th Annual World Convention of the
Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, NY
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute
15-17 April 2010
www.nationalities.org

***Proposal deadline: 4 November 2009***

The Conference on “Reported speech and its markers: theoretical and pedagogical perspectives” is organised by the NaviLireResearch Group” (NRG), comprising researchers from different countries and with different mother tongues. The group has initiated a project which makes use of the principles of contrastive textual linguistics using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. It is in this context that the NaviLire software package has been developed, enabling the identification and visualisation of the linguistic markers which characterise the various textual logics.

That there is a relationship between publicness and democracy has often been taken for granted. However, at this time of widespread instability, political upheaval and experimentation, when publics are increasingly being called upon to act, it is sometimes in the name of democracy, but not always. By exploring how ideas and practices of publicness and democracy are being constituted, enacted, related and reconfigured in different settings, this workshop aims to investigate the modes of public action and democracy being invoked, imagined and struggled over around the world.

4th New Zealand Discourse Conference
02.12.13-04.12.13
AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand

2-4 December 2013
Deadline for abstracts: 26 July 2013

AUT University, Auckland
New Zealand

Confirmed keynote speakers

Professor Cindy Gallois
Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland.

Professor Adam Jaworski
Professor of Language and Communication, The University of Hong Kong.

The 8th International Gender and Language Association Conference will take place for the first time in Canada. The venue is Simon Fraser University, Harbor Centre, located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, BC. The New York Times describes Vancouver as, “…a liquid city, a tomorrow city, equal parts India, China, England, France and the Pacific Northwest.”

The conference will provide scholars and researchers worldwide with an opportunity to present their work and share ideas in the fields of language, gender, and sexuality.

Keynote Speakers:

Call for Papers
Second Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts (BCLL #2)
In the context of the research focus Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany, the interdisciplinary Second Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts (BCLL #2) on

›Space in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts:
Language, Literature, and the Construction of Place and Diaspora‹

will take place:

September 3–7, 2014

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, dear colleagues,

In the name of Crossroads Asia and the Conference Organizing Team, I cordially invite you to our upcoming Crossroads conference:

“Crossroads Studies: Mobilities, Immobilities and the Issue of Positionality for Rethinking Area Studies”

November 27-28, 2014 in Bonn.

For the conference program, please go to http://crossroads-asia.de/fileadmin/user_upload/news/Flyer_Internationa….

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