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

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….

Reminder: Analyzing Discourse and Foucauldian Regimes of Power/Knowledge with the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse and related perspectives

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.

XII JORNADAS Antropológicas de literatura y semiótica

La Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, a través del Cuerpo Académico de Análisis del Discurso y Semiótica de la Cultura, en coordinación con la Facultad de Psicología de la UNAM con el Proyecto Emergencia e Interculturalidad (PAPIIT -IT300116) invita a las XII Jornadas Antropológicas de Literatura y Semiótica.
A llevarse a cabo el 5, 7 y 9 de SEPTIEMBRE en la ENAH
y el 6 y 8 en la Fac. de Psicología. UNAM

Sedes: PSICOLOGÍA UNAM y ENAH

2nd International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL): Language in Society

The organising committee of the 2nd International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL) are pleased to invite predoctoral students in English Linguistics programmes, including both PhD and Master's degree students, to participate in our second instantiation, which will be held on September 20, 21 and 22, 2017 at the Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. This conference is organised by the PhD Programme in English Linguistics of UCM, which has consistently maintained an Excellence Distinction by the Spanish Ministry of Education since 2004.

In the Name of the People: representing the people in twenty-first century politics

In today’s world, shaken by the effects of globalization, the aftermath of the financial crisis and widespread political corruption, people in many countries are reaching out for radical political solutions. In many parts of Europe, experts have perceived a growing mistrust of conventional politics: as the perceived gap between citizens and their representatives has widened, new political formations have arisen that promise to shake up the status quo and give more concrete expression to people’s real needs and desires.

ESA Midterm Conference: Innovating Qualitative Research: Challenges and Opportunities

Innovating Qualitative Research: Challenges and Opportunities
New Directions in Religion, Technology, Migration and Beyond

European Sociological Association
Research Network 20 Qualitative Methods

Including plenary contributions from Ruth Wodak and David Silverman

Sociolinguistics Symposium 19

In 2012, the 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium will be hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. The general theme of the 2012 conference will be Language and the city.

Conference date
August 22 - 24, 2012

Plenary speakers (confirmed)
- Peter Auer (FRIAS, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies)
- Penelope Eckert (Linguistics, Stanford University)
- Maria Eugênia Lamoglia Duarte (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
- Xu Daming (China Center for Linguistic and Strategic Studies, Nanjing University)

Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication: Analysis and Impact in Linguistic Ethnography

This is the second call for abstracts for papers and posters for the 2012 conference Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication. The theme of the conference is ‘Analysis and Impact in Linguistic Ethnography’. We invite contributions from across disciplines and topics such as research on health, education, culture and identity. Abstracts should provide a clear focus on what kinds of results can be achieved with an ethnographic approach to linguistic and communicative data. How do we interpret our data? How do our analyses add to wider knowledge of our target disciplines?