You are invited to join our panel on Truth and Post-Truth in Discourse. Please contact me as soon as you can if you are interested in this topic.
DiscourseNet – ad hoc workshop: The language, discourse, and symbols of violence and peace in Gaza, Israel, and Palestine
DiscourseNet ad hoc workshop – online
Language, Discourses, and Symbols of violence and peace in Gaza, Israel, and Palestine
Following the high interest and success of the last five international workshops with participants from different countries and all world regions, there will be another introductory workshop in English on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) at the University of Augsburg in July 2024.
Peer review, an integral part of scientific publishing, ensures the validity, reliability, and quality of academic papers, and plays a vital role in maintaining the integrity and trustworthiness of scholarly publications, contributing to the advancement of knowledge in all disciplines. Navigating the complexities of the peer review process can prove to be a daunting task.
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.