Conference

-With apologies for cross postings -

Dear Colleagues

Due to expansion of our programmes, we are currently advertising two permanent Assistant Professor posts at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK. They will be of interest to ambitious academics with expertise in two or more of the following areas: pragmatics, sociolinguistics, qualitative research methods, quantitative research methods, linguistics.

Special theme: "Pragmatics in the real world"

We would like to organize a panel entitled Doing discourse analysis in post-Soviet studies at the conference The Russian Revolution and Its Legacies: Taking Stock a Century Later (Tartu, Estonia, 4-6 June, 2017).

We are organizing the International Conference on Multicultural Democracy. The conference will take place in Fukuoka, Japan on May 11-12, 2018. Now we call for papers and posters for the conference. If you are interested in joining the conference and meeting other scholars and graduate students working on multicultural democracy, please visit the conference website and send an abstract of no more than 500 words via submission form. There’s a limited number of travel grants available too! No registration fee is required. We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts.​

Deadline: 18 Dec 2009

The 9th conference in the ‘Discourse, Power, Resistance’ (DPR) series – whose official journal is Power and Education - will be held at the School of Education and Training, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom, between 30 March and 1 April, 2010.

The venue is part of a world heritage site laid out in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries by Sir Christopher Wren and his successors. The conference will use the King William Building and the Stephen Lawrence Building.

Call for Papers and Participation
THE SOCIETY FOR PEACE STUDIES AND PRACTICE
Holds its’
5th ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
In Collaboration
With
THE INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN, NIGERIA
JUNE 27 - 29, 2011

Theme: Towards Sustainable Peace, Security and Development in Nigeria

Over the past decade, the rise of populist democracies in South America has taken place against a backdrop of growing corporate media opposition. The legitimacy of the governments of Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, and to a certain extent, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay has been questioned most harshly, not by elected oppositional political parties, but by media conglomerates acting as de facto powers.

The panel is part of the fifth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) which will take place at ELTE (Loránd Eötvös University) in Budapest, Hungary, 1-3 September 2014.

The music panel will explore the broad area of music and discourse from a critical-analytical perspective. Papers may wish to explore (but are not limited to) discourses in music in the areas of:

Discourse Power Resistance
DPR is an annual international conference that has been held each Spring since 2002. The conferences began with a focus on the social, economic, political and cultural forces that shape education policy and practice world-wide. Over the years this broad focus has been maintained; but what has established the international reputation of DPR has been the on-going critical analysis of issues of social justice, and the commitment to enable silenced and marginalized voices to be heard: discourse, power, resistance.

Hybridity and the News: Hybrid Forms of Journalism in the 21st Century