[ecrea] Conference Announcement - Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders

Hellenic American University, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA in 
cooperation with Hellenic American College, Athens, Greece

announces the

1st International Conference on
Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders

September 23rd -25th, 2016

 Athens, Greece

CALL for papers: to be announced on the Conference website at: 
http://www.europeindiscourse.eu/


The Conference seeks to examine issues in the ongoing construction of 
European identity, including notions of diversity and (physical and 
symbolic) borders. It will focus on critical investigations that draw on 
discourse theory or bottom-up textual analysis to investigate these 
topics from the following perspectives:

    * historical,  to explore the determinants which have been used to 
support a collective European identity;
    * geopolitical, to understand the importance of space and its role 
in the European edifice;
    * ideological/discursive, to investigate, synchronically and 
diachronically, key concepts that have informed EU practices of 
inclusion and exclusion.


Methodologically, the Conference will highlight discourse as a major 
practice that both shapes and reflects European identity.

The Conference will welcome contributions that investigate the role that 
key European Union texts have played in forging, maintaining or 
challenging European identities. The Conference will thus highlight 
identity not as a static concept, but as a construct that is continually 
negotiated and re-written in multiple discourses.

In addition to attracting contributions from discourse analysts and 
linguists, the Conference hopes to bring together leading scholars and 
researchers from a broad range of other fields, including history, 
European studies, cultural theory, media studies, sociology, political 
science, and ethnology.

The following plenary speakers have been confirmed to date:

·         Jan Blommaert

·         Ruth Wodak

·         Andreas Musolff

·         Michal Krzyzanowski

For more information and updates on call for papers please visit the 
Conference website at: http://www.europeindiscourse.eu/


















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