Workshop

Early Career academic workshop

“Humanities and Social Sciences: crises and changes”

Tunis, 29 February–1 March 2024

The Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research organizes, in collaboration with St John’s College, the University of Oxford and the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts “Beit al-Hikma”, a workshop around the theme “Humanities and Social Sciences: crises and changes” on February 29–March 1, 2024, in “Beit al-Hikma”, Tunis.

Dear all, 

A quick reminder that you can hear no fewer than three of DiscourseNet's own experts speak at this week's online workshop titled "Discourse analytical approaches to online hate speech. What is its societal impact?", organised by the Decoding Antisemitism project team. 

The three presentations by Benno Herzog, Johannes Angermuller and Monika Kopytowska will be followed by a discussion - questions from the audience are very welcome! We very much look forward to seeing you all there. 

Dear all,

In the autumn of 2023, we are hosting a series of seven virtual workshops on contemporary online hate speech. Their aim is to establish a dialogue between our research experiences and other expert approaches, opening up the debate on the challenges of hate speech in various areas of academic and professional practice. 

DiscourseNet Winter School No 8 - Discourse studies and power from the margins

Tuesday 16 until Friday 19 January 2024, Universitat de València, Spain

The core interest of the DiscourseNet Winter School No 8 lies in

Since decades, rationality has been viewed as a cornerstone of linguistic-pragmatic theories of communicative action. Both in Habermas’s theory of communicative action (derived, among others things, from speech act theory) and in Grice’s intentionalist theory of meaning, the presupposition of rationality of conversationalists plays a central role.

Following the success of the last four international workshops with participants from different countries and all world regions, there will be a fifth introductory workshop in English on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) at the University of Augsburg in October 2023.

ROUND TABLE

The Russian government’s war against Ukraine has exposed multiple dimensions and geopolitical faultlines of contemporary authoritarianisms: The systematic hijacking of state institutions and accumulation of wealth through the extraction and capitalization of gas, oil and coal clearly stand out as indispensable preconditions for Russia’s neo-imperialism and military power. The invasion has been accompanied by the dissemination of state-steered lies, disinformation and ethno-nationalist narratives.

It is our pleasure to invite you to our workshop on "discourse and alterity", which is supported by WELS and will take place in London on Wednesday. It is open to anybody who wants to join us on Mile End campus. Please write to Elise if you want to attend.