Conference

First International Scientific Conference “Language in the Coordinates of the Mass Media”

SEPTEMBER 6-9, 2016 VARNA, BULGARIA

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Since its beginnings in the late 19th century, the Blues has been more than a music style with a seminal impact on 20th century popular music. As a medium of social expression, it articulated the tribulations of an entire black culture, male and female. Discourses about race were as much an integral part of the evolution of the blues as were those of class, when young white kids - in America and European countries, especially the UK - adopted the music for their political and social ends.

Conference Theme

The Chair of Pragmatics at the University of Łódź, Poland is starting a new conference series: Cognition, Conduct & Communication. CCC2011 is the first international conference devoted to a complex yet integrated and consistent study of cognitive approaches to pragmatics and discourse analysis, language learning and use, and language disorders.

Ethnography of Communication: The Ways Forward June 10-14, 2012 Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska Proposal Deadline: December 17, 2011

The summer of 2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of Dell Hymes’ 1962 landmark publication of “The Ethnography of Speaking,” and the 25th anniversary of Gerry Philipsen’s 1987 influential theoretical work, “The Prospect for Cultural Communication.” These milestones in the Ethnography of Communication (EC) come at a time when EC scholarship is developing intensively as it is being applied to practical concerns and social problems worldwide.

Cutting Edges Research Conference

Is it appropriate to talk of “our culture” and “their culture”?
Interrogating common perceptions of culture in language education

A conference for those researching in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, modern languages, intercultural communication and education

Friday, 5th July, 2012

Department of English and Language Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK

Invited Speaker:

Professor Cathie Wallace, Institute of Education, London

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.

European integration goes back over 62 years including the European Coal and Steel Community. For a long time it remained closed to popular concern, and was mainly a matter for the political class and a few professions directly affected such as civil servants, financial and industrial elites and exporters, and specialist lawyers. Everything changed when the political and economic elites decided to transform the common market, with its famous common agricultural policy, into an Economic and Monetary Union.