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CfP:Panel 5: Democracy under stress? Interpreting empirical and conceptual challenges in argumentative policy analysis

Call for Papers Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) Conference, 5-7 July 2017, Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Panel 5: Democracy under stress? Interpreting empirical and conceptual challenges in argumentative policy analysis

Second University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society (UMDS 2010)

The Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya is pleased to announce the second University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society (UMDS 2010).

UMDS 2010: 'Interdiscplinary Approaches to Discourse' aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines to exchange ideas as well as offer new and critical perspectives and directions in research on discourse and society.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Ruth Wodak (University of Lancaster)
Prof Theo Van Leuwen (University of Technology Sydney).

IADA 13th International Conference on Dialogue Analysis

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.

Making Projects Critical 7

Call for Papers for the 7th international workshop on critical studies of project based work, project management and the projectification of society and life at large

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 7th Making Projects Critical workshop, to be held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in central Stockholm on January 23th-24th2014.

Governance and Beyond: Knowledge, Technology and Communication in a Globalizing World

Interpretive approaches to research and analysis—methodologies and methods concerned with situated meaning(s), historical context(s), and the importance of human subjectivity—are experiencing renewed interest and revitalisation in the social sciences broadly. They constitute the basic cornerstone of a critical approach to policy analysis which challenges the positivism and scientism that still characterize much policy analytic research.

Sites of Protest

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)