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
The language of citizenship has, in recent years, been mobilized by feminists
to articulate a wide range of claims and demands. The notions of economic,
political, social, cultural, sexual/ bodily, and intimate citizenship, for example,
have all been developed and explored in terms of their normative potential and
their actual realization. In Europe, in particular, there has been a strong steer
from research funders and policy makers towards research agendas which
address the question of citizenship in the context of increasingly diverse and
Please note the second call for papers for the interdisciplinary ‘Spectres of Class’ conference at the University of Chester, UK, on Friday 15- Saturday 16 July 2011 organised by the University of Chester English department in association with CADAAD (Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines).
We welcome abstracts of no more than 300 words by Friday 25 March 2011.
Submissions are now open for the next International Systemic Linguistics Conference to be held at The University of Technology Sydney (UTS), in Sydney, Australia, July 16th - 20th 2012. We are pleased to invite abstracts related to the conference themes which encompass language, society, semiotics, education, knowledge, learning, and multi-literacies.
Conference workshop:
(CRITICAL) DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND CORPUS LINGUISTICS: A METHODOLOGICAL SYNERGY FOR THE STUDY OF MODERN GREEK
Held in the context of the 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece (September 26-29, 2013, www.rhodes.aegean.gr/icgl11).
Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy
School of Communication Science
University of Cagliari
We are pleased to announce the 10th conference of the Association for
Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM), which will be held in
Cagliari, Island of Sardinia, Italy, from 20 to 23 June 2014.