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The Politics of Memory Practices: Making the past present in contemporary schooling

The last decade has witnessed a profound change in the interdisciplinary field of memory studies. Instead of analysing representations of memory in different media, researchers are increasingly paying attention to memory practices, i.e. how people in various sites and contexts negotiate the meanings they ascribe to the past.

Social Science as Social Semiotics: Bridging Theories, Methods, and Practices

Submitted by Ivan Fomin on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 14:49

2018 is a year to celebrate two important milestones in the history of social semiotics – publication of landmark books in 1978 and 1988. Forty years ago, Michael Halliday issued Language as a Social Semiotic. Ten years after, Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress published Social Semiotics. To mark these two important anniversaries the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University holds the conference Social Science as Social Semiotics as a part of wider research and education program Baltic Modes of Social Semiotics.

The Third International Conference on Multicultural Discourses

Submitted by xu shi on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 14:49

The Third International Conference on Multicultural Discourses
Following the great success of the first two tri-annual International Conference on Multicultural Discourses in 2004 and 2007, respectively, the Third will be held between August 27 and 29, 2010, again in Hangzhou! The organiser is the Institute of Discourse & Cultural Studies of Zhejiang University and the co-sponsor the University’s Centre for Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies.

Dissent! Histories and Meanings of Opposition from 1968 to the Present

Globalization, post-9/11 politics and the post-2008 financial crisis have all birthed modes and histories of opposition and dissent, be they dissent from global political-economic systems or opposition to ranges of international authoritarian regimes. Contemporary dissent, however, oft-draws from forms and imaginations of earlier modes of protest, be they student protests from the late ‘60s onward, the peace movement in the same period, the anti-nukes movement of the 1980s or the anti-Apartheid movement spanning the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

The Seventh Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference

The Seventh Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference
Corpus Linguistics: The Future??

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
o Michael McCarthy, University of Nottingham
o Ronald Carter, University of Nottingham
o Brona Murphy, University of Edinburgh
o Dawn Knight, Newcastle University
o Tony McEnery, Lancaster University
o Andrew Wilson, Lancaster University

Voices from Below - Corpus Linguistics and Social Media

We are pleased to announce that the eighth Corpus Linguistics in the South event is going to take place on Saturday, 15 November 2014 at the University of Reading.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who use the tools and approaches of Corpus Linguistics to study communication in online environments especially social media sites and interactive online and comment forums. We invite papers which: