Conference

Sponsored by the Communication History Division of the International Communication Association
Date: May 22, 2014
Time: 8:30 AM – 5 PM

The question of materiality has emerged as a central topic in studies concerned with the body, affect, sexuality, bio-politics and digital culture in recent years. Under the umbrella term “new materialism”, this interdisciplinary and multifaceted academic debate seems to have revived a Marxist vocabulary. Yet, the question of why “materiality” matters in times of crisis capitalism is rather absent in this debate.

European integration goes back over 62 years including the European Coal and Steel Community. For a long time it remained closed to popular concern, and was mainly a matter for the political class and a few professions directly affected such as civil servants, financial and industrial elites and exporters, and specialist lawyers. Everything changed when the political and economic elites decided to transform the common market, with its famous common agricultural policy, into an Economic and Monetary Union.

‘Critical approaches to sustainability’ Panel Proposal to be presented at the CADAAD 2016, University of Catania, 5-7 September 2016. Panel Organisers:
Barbara Loester, University of Winchester
Douglas Ponton, University of Catania
Franco Zappettini, Royal Holloway, University of London

The session will discuss empirical research on discourses and regimes of power/knowledge in different social areas, using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). This perspective on discourses and their analysis draws on Foucault, Berger and Luckmann and the interpretative paradigm of sociology including symbolic interactionism and "communicative constructivism". In comparison to the Foucauldian tradition, SKAD focuses more on social actors and societal arenas of discursive disputes.

Call for Papers
ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue)

Abstract submission deadline extended until 5 April 2017

4th ESTIDIA Conference
Dialogues without Borders: Strategies of Interpersonal and Inter-group Communication
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky”, Sofia, Bulgaria
29-30 September 2017

CRAL‐2009: Figurative Language Learning and Figurative Language Use: Theory and Applications. An International Conference in Honor of Professor Paul Meara (University of Swansea)
Call for Papers
Call Deadline: September 1, 2009
Acceptance notification: September 10
Registration deadline: October 15
Date: October, 29‐31, 2009

Conference Theme: Dialogue and Representation

We invite researchers to submit proposals that address the connections of representation and dialogue, which can be problematized in at least the three following ways:
1. Dialogue as representation,
2. Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues, and
3. Representations of dialogue.
The conference also welcomes any contribution addressing the question of dialogue.

*Keynote speakers:*
Luc Boltanski (France)
Kathrine Gibson (Australia)
Anne Balsamo (USA)
Campbell Jones (New Zealand).

Part of the Research Program on: Recognition, Agency and the Politics of Otherness

International Network for Alternative Academia
(Extends a general invitation to participate)