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“Basic and Applied Research”. Historical Semantics of a Key Distinction in 20th Century Science Policy

The conference brings together researchers from the interdisciplinary field of science studies to discuss the origins, meanings and transformations of the distinction between “basic research” and “applied research” in the course of the 20th century.

Another University Is Possible: Praxis, Activism, and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy

The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites proposals from its current and future members for participation in its thirteenth annual meeting in the Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, Greater Los Angeles Area, California.

Proposals from all areas and on all topics of relevance to cultural studies are welcome, and are not limited to proposals that critically and creatively engage this year's highlighted problematic.

5th New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC5)

Submissions are invited for the 5th New Zealand Discourse Conference from academics and others interested in discourse analysis that addresses theoretical, methodological or empirical research in a variety of applications.

Given the increasing use of discourse analysis in many disciplines submissions are not limited to any one particular theme. However some of the areas that have been included in our previous conferences include:

Media, War and Conflict Journal 10th Anniversary Conference - Spaces of War, War of Spaces

Keynote:
Professor Andrew Hoskins: MWC Founding Editor and Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Glasgow

Film Screening:
‘The Faces We Lost’ Film Screening with Q&A with Director and Scholar Piotr Cieplak, University of Sussex

International Gender And Language Association conference (IGALA 6)

Proposals for paper presentations (individual and panel), posters and workshop sessions are invited on any aspects of gender and language analysis from a variety of fields, including bilingualism, communication studies, conversation analysis, cultural studies, discourse analysis, language acquisition, linguistic anthropology, media studies, multicultural studies, multilingualism, queer studies, second language teaching, sociolinguistics, and other related fields and disciplines.

11th Essex Conference in Critical Political Theory: Global challenges - New imaginaries. Image, Voice, and Radical Democracy

Few doubt, today, that we face a series of connected global challenges: the dangers of climate change and environmental degradation; a crisis of international finance and global capitalism; an ever-increasing logic of minoritization, which threatens to fragment communities and societies; greater social and economic inequalities, both nationally and globally; the intensification of various forms of religious belief, including fundamentalism, alongside a growing secularization of communities and societies; securitization of society, and a palpable disillusionment with politics and politicians