Critical Policy Discourse Analysis – International Conference 2026 is a three‑day international gathering dedicated to the critical study of policy texts, talk, and wider discursive practices. Hosted at The Mowbray, Kelham Island (Sheffield, UK), the conference brings together scholars who work on policy text and discourse from a critical perspective, with a particular focus on Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (CPDA).
Invitation to send in abstracts for the panel "Tranformations of political discourse", organised by Johannes Angermuller.
The DN34 International Conference on Discourse, Identity and Polarisation will be held 10–12 November 2026 at Vilnius University and online. The call for papers and panel proposals is open until 15 May 2026. This hybrid conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today’s increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.
Disinformation is commonly discussed through a set of dominant narratives, such as the claim that we live in a post-factual era, that we are witnessing an unprecedented boom of disinformation and conspiracy theories, that disinformation is the main driver of societal polarization, or that language itself is losing its meanings. Regardless of the empirical validity of these narratives, disinformation and conspiracy theories have become a central topic across many scientific disciplines.
The International conference “Humanities – Challenges & Prospects” organized by the Faculty of Humanities to mark the 55th anniversary of
Communicating (with) Non-Humans. Animals and Machines as Interlocutors
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Decades after formal decolonisation, anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism have remained a wellspring of inspiration and contestation. Studies about anticolonial thought, the 1955 Bandung Conference, and transcontinental solidarity movements have proliferated in academia and activist networks, providing the basis of theories and practices of resistance in contemporary times. Nevertheless, the ideas and the movements they inspired did not perish with the epoch that produced them.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED
Proposal submission close: February 15, 2026
We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 2026 Positioning Theory Research Conference (May 30 – June 3, 2026), which will be hosted by the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. The conference will be entirely on-site and in-person.
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Dear All,
The 34th edition of the European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference will be held at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden on 1st-3rd July 2026.
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In addition to regular research seminars, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics runs a series which sheds light on forensic linguistics from an interdisciplinary perspective. The next in the series is the Forensic Linguistics and History Symposium on 7th November 2025, 13:00-17:00 UK time.