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Colloquium
Discourse Theory: ways forward
Brussels, Belgium
​7 & 8 February 2019
Paper proposals deadline: 30 May 2018

https://www.researchcentredesire.eu/discourse-theory.html

DESIRE, the centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and 
Resistance is happy to invite you to submit paper proposals for the 
colloquium ‘Discourse Theory: Ways Forward’. The colloquium will take 
place on 7-8 February 2019 in Brussels. The colloquium starts on 
Thursday 7 February at 9.00 and ends on Friday 8 February at 17.30.

​The aim of the colloquium is to critically and constructively consider 
where Discourse Theory is at this moment, and to reflect on ways forward 
for discourse theoretical approaches to society, politics, communication 
and media. In particular, the colloquium will focus on five topics:

-The discursive and the material
-Discourse theoretical perspectives on political economy
-Discourse theoretical perspectives on health, ageing, and the body
-Populist discourses and discourses about populism
-Discourse theory and visuality

We invite paper proposals on any of these five topics that are based on 
a post-structuralist or post-foundationalist discursive approach, 
broadly defined.

The deadline for paper proposals is 30 May 2018.

Please send an abstract of around 300 words to [log in to unmask]
Please indicate clearly which of the five topics indicated above your 
paper fits with. ​If accepted, full papers of maximum 6000 words are 
expected by 20 December 2018.

Confirmed keynote speakers are Ruth Wodak (Lancaster 
University/University Vienna) and Michael Freeden (Oxford).

Other confirmed speakers are Nico Carpentier (Uppsala), Benjamin De 
Cleen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Edina Doci (Vrije Universiteit 
Amsterdam), Fani Giannousi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Jason 
Glynos (Essex), David Howarth (Essex), Giorgos Katsambekis 
(Loughborough), Pieter Maeseele (Universiteit Antwerpen), Thomas Siomos 
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle 
University of Thessaloniki),  Savvas Voutyras (Essex), Laurens van der 
Steen (Universiteit Antwerpen), Ilija Tomanic-Trivundza (Ljubljana), 
Andreja Vezovnik (Ljubljana), and Jan Zienkowski (Université Saint Louis 
Brussel).

The colloquium program committee consists of the chairs of the five 
institutional members of DESIRE: Benjamin De Cleen (Vrije Universiteit 
Brussel, colloquium coordinator), Nico Carpentier (Uppsala University), 
Ilija Tomanić Trivundža (University of Ljubljana), Jason Glynos 
(University of Essex), Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of 
Thessaloniki).

The local organizing committee consists of Benjamin De Cleen 
(coordinator), Karel Deneckere and Jana Goyvaerts (Vrije Universiteit 
Brussel) and Pieter Maeseele (Universiteit Antwerpen).

For PhD students, a masterclass is organized on Wednesday 6 February 
2019. See 
https://www.researchcentredesire.eu/masterclass-discourse-theory.html

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