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Communication, Postcoloniality, and Social Justice: Decolonizing Imaginations

Keynote Speakers:
Arjun Appadurai (New York University, USA),
Inderpal Grewal (Yale University, USA), and
Ravi Sundaram (Center for the Study of Developing Societies, India)

Plenary Speakers: Ramesh Srinivasan (USA); Mohan J. Dutta (Singapore); Shanti Kumar (USA), Ramaswamy Harindranath (Australia); Nitin Govil (USA); John Erni (Hong Kong); Aniko Imre (USA); Radhika Parameswaran (USA); Soyini Madison (USA); Raka Shome (USA); Boulou Ebanda De B’Beri (Canada) (These are confirmed so far; we are awaiting confirmation from other speakers.)

36th GERAS Conference; March 19th-21st,2015.

GERAS (Groupe d’Étude et de Recherche en Anglais de Spécialité) in association with the research group LACES EA 4140 (Laboratoire Cultures – Éducation – Sociétés) and the Département Langues et Cultures of the University of Bordeaux will be holding its 36th annual conference at the University of Bordeaux from 19th-21st March on the following theme:
Integration in English for Specific Purposes as a ferment of intellection and innovation for research, didactics and pedagogy
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Reminder CfP: Panel "Governmentality and expertise: imagining economy after crisis" at IPA 2016

Reminder: CfP Panel "Governmentality and expertise: imagining economy after crisis" at the IPA conference 2016, University of Hull

5 days left for submissions: the call closes on February 15th, 2016

Conveners: Amelie Kutter, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Jens Maesse, University of Gießen, Germany

Economics and Language Use: The pragmatics of economics experts’ engagement with non-specialists

Call for Papers for Panel on Economics and Language Use: The pragmatics of economics experts’ engagement with non-specialists, 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2017) to be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16-21 July 2017.
Organised by Brendan K. O’Rourke (College of Business, Dublin Institute of Technology) and Jens Maesse ((Institute of Sociology, University of Giessen)

Discourses of the Ukrainian Conflict: Linguistic Creativity in the Time of Crisis

We invite submission of abstracts for a panel entitled “Discourses of the Ukrainian Conflict: Linguistic Creativity in the Time of Crisis”, to be proposed as a part of The Seventh International Conference on Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD 2018), which will take place 4-6 July 2018 and will be hosted by Aalborg University, Denmark.

Glocalisation as catalyst for new discourses and genres

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Call For Papers: ‘Glocalisation as catalyst for new discourses and genres’

If you are interested, then please send an abstract (max 350 words), title and brief bio by November 11, 2011 to the convenors Laura Alba-Juez (UNED, Spain), Dorien Van De Mieroop (University of Leuven, Belgium) and Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK)

I-mean 3, Identity and Language Conference

The third i-mean conference will address the relationship between language and identity.
Following the imean tradition, we seek to explore ways in which researchers can fruitfully work across methodological and disciplinary boundaries. We also welcome scholars from other disciplines who have an interest in the links between language and identity.
The conference aims to explore whether and to what extent bringing together different methodological and theoretical approaches can:
- Enhance understanding of identity attribution in interaction