Conference

“The Political Economy and Political Discourse”

Dear Colleagues,

this is the second call for papers for this exciting event in July.

This conference addresses the issue of ethics - its expression as well as its legitimization - from a multidisciplinary approach, inviting proposals from the fields of discourse analysis, (applied) linguistics, communication studies, organizational scholarship, management studies, business communication training and coaching, and further, practice-related areas, like marketing, branding, customer service industry, financial studies and similar.

The Third International Conference on Multicultural Discourses
Following the great success of the first two tri-annual International Conference on Multicultural Discourses in 2004 and 2007, respectively, the Third will be held between August 27 and 29, 2010, again in Hangzhou! The organiser is the Institute of Discourse & Cultural Studies of Zhejiang University and the co-sponsor the University’s Centre for Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies.

Deadline: 15.07.2011

Second call for papers:

NORDISCO 2012

2nd Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction
Linköping, Sweden, 21-23 November 2012

- Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 March 2012 -

Globalization, post-9/11 politics and the post-2008 financial crisis have all birthed modes and histories of opposition and dissent, be they dissent from global political-economic systems or opposition to ranges of international authoritarian regimes. Contemporary dissent, however, oft-draws from forms and imaginations of earlier modes of protest, be they student protests from the late ‘60s onward, the peace movement in the same period, the anti-nukes movement of the 1980s or the anti-Apartheid movement spanning the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

The Seventh Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference
Corpus Linguistics: The Future??

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
o Michael McCarthy, University of Nottingham
o Ronald Carter, University of Nottingham
o Brona Murphy, University of Edinburgh
o Dawn Knight, Newcastle University
o Tony McEnery, Lancaster University
o Andrew Wilson, Lancaster University

This section will focus on interactions between the modalities of semiosis, which have recently become a topic of interest in sociosemiotics (Kress 2010), film studies (Bate-man/Schmidt 2011), and the general analysis of multimodal documents (Bateman 2008, Jewitt 2009).

We invite submissions for extended abstracts for a thematic panel, “Removing the Mask: Decoloniality in the 21st Century,” to be held during the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in Chicago on August 21-23, 2015. This year, the conference theme is Removing the Mask, Lifting the Veil: Race, Class, and Gender in the 21st Century.

The last decade has witnessed a profound change in the interdisciplinary field of memory studies. Instead of analysing representations of memory in different media, researchers are increasingly paying attention to memory practices, i.e. how people in various sites and contexts negotiate the meanings they ascribe to the past.