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Open invitation to all students and researchers in English studies.
The Tunisian Association of Young Researchers (TAYR) organizes A study Day On "Hot Topics in English Studies: Current and Future Debates in Linguistics, Literature, and Civilization"
Saturday, December, 6th, 2014
Faculty of Human Sciences 9 avril
Guest Speakers:
Dr. Tahar Labassi (Discourse Analysis)
Dr. Abdelhak Mejri (Civilization)
Dr. Ikram Ben Afya (Literature)
10:00 - 10:10: Opening Speech of TAYR
President: Mimoun Melliti

Wednesday 29 October 2014 @ 5 pm DEBT SOCIETY: INTERROGATING THE PSYCHOSOCIAL Discussant: Prof Dany Nobus (Brunel University) With a reception afterwards Wednesday 19 November 2014 @ 5 pm THE GLOBAL POPULIST CHALLENGE: BEYOND EURO-CENTRISM Discussant: Prof Engin Isin (Open University) Wednesday 3 December 2014 @ 5 pm POPULISM, ANTI-POPULISM AND CRISIS: POST-DEMOCRATIC EUROPE AND ITS DISCONTENTS Discussant: Prof Chantal Mouffe (University of Westminster)

1. Psychoanalysis and Politics: The Problem of Reductionism
(Wednesday 1 October 2014, 4.30pm)

2. The Imaginary: Identity and Alienation
(Wednesday 22 October 2014, 4.30pm)

3. The Symbolic: Lacanian Semiotics
(Wednesday 26 November 2014, 4.30pm)

4. The Real: Typologies and Implications
(Wednesday 21 January 2015, 4.30pm)

5. Ethics and Politics: On Antigone
(Wednesday 4 February 2015, 4.30pm)

The symposium aims to reflect on CDA and formulate new directions for critical discourse studies and analysis. It will facilitate discussions on establishing new ways of 'doing CDA' to account for and challenge social change, and strengthening its social relevance and the promotion of social justice.

Organised by the Association for the Study of Ethnicity & Nationalism (ASEN) and the School of Political, Social & International Studies, University of East Anglia

All information on the 1st International Symposium EDiSo 2014 - Studies in Discourse and Society, which will take place in Seville on the 15th and 16th of May, 2014, is now available on the EDiSo website. http://www.edisoportal.org/simposium2014/ We encourage you to participate in the following seminars: Seminar 1: Discourse, movements and social networks Seminar 2: Discourse, humour and gender Seminar 3: Discourse and health Seminar 4: Discourse, multilingualism and migrations Seminar 5: Discourse and society Other activities organized are: Interview/debate with Teun A.

ESRC seminar on ‘Queering ESOL: towards a cultural politics of LGBT issues in the ESOL classroom’. We are pleased to announce the second in the series of six events, to be hosted at the University of Leeds. Seminar Title: Sexual Migration and the ESOL Classroom Saturday 29th March, University of Leeds, Leeds, 10.00am – 5.00pm ‘Sexual Migration and the ESOL Classroom’ is the second in a series of six ESRC-funded seminars exploring LGBT issues in the ESOL classroom, held across the Institute of Education, the University of Leeds, and King’s College London.

Tuesday 28th January & Friday 31st January 2.30-5pm

Two lectures being given by Professor Ernesto Laclau on the topics of 'The Discursive Construction of Social Antagonisms' and 'Three Routes, One Argument: Heidegger, Lacan, Gramsci'.

L’association ADAL (Analyse des Discours de l’Amérique Latine) a le plaisir de vous annoncer son prochain atelier doctoral qui aura lieu le vendredi 25 janvier 2013 à l’Institut des Amériques dans le Espace Tocqueville (175 rue du Chevaleret, 8e étage, Paris 13, plan d’accès en pièce jointe) de 14h30 à 17h30.

La séance, ouverte à tous, aura lieu en français et en espagnol et sera consacrée aux discours politiques argentins.

This 'colloque junior' attempts to explore economic expert discourses in their relation to politics and the public in comparative perspective. In view of the most recent economic and financial crisis we intend to bring together young and more advanced scholars in economic history, sociology, and economy to discuss the role of economic knowledge at the interface of sciences and the state.