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Dear users and members of DiscourseNet,

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce a post in sociolinguistics at the University of Glasgow:

The Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (OOC DTP) is committed to addressing under-representation in Arts and Humanities doctoral study. In October 2021 we launched a scheme to increase the number of studentship awards made through our standard route competition to Black and Global Majority students ordinarily resident in the UK.

The Discursive Construction of Reality V - Interdisciplinary perspectives of sociology of knowledge approaches to discourse

Dear discourse researchers,

Die Diskursive Konstruktion von Wirklichkeit V – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven einer wissenssoziologischen Diskursforschung

Liebe Diskursforscher:innen,

Understanding the conceptualization of nature in spatial planning: a discourse analysis of the Portuguese national spatial program

Rúben Tiago Mendes & Teresa Fidélis

GOVCOPP- Research Unit on Governance Competitiveness and Public Policies, Department of Envrionment and Planning University of Aveiro, Portugal

Dear members of the Open DiscourseNet Seminar London,

we are excited to invite you to our next seminar , which will take place on Friday, 2 December  2022, 1-2pm (London time).  We will hear Michael Farrelly (University of Hull) on the topic of "Can discourse analysis predict policy failure? - Applying Critical Policy Discourse Analysis to Policy Concepts of ‘Competition’ and ‘Cooperation’"

A Zoom link will be sent out on the night before. 

Our next event in the mini series on 'Liberty and Freedom’ is next Tues (29 November) when Ruth Kinna (Loughborough University) will be giving a talk on ‘Freedom and Anarchism’.

Freedom and Anarchism

Tuesday, 29 November 2022, 16:00 – 17:00 GMT, Online.

Dear All,

You are warmly invited to the second talk in the Language Literature and Politics Group’s series on Freedom and Liberty. The speaker is David Kazanjian, the topic is Freedom in Liberia and the Yucatán, and the talk is on Teams on Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 16:00 – 17:00 GMT, Online.