[Commlist] Discourses and their impacts on a world of multiple crises (Conference CFP)

Conference

Faculty of Social Sciences - University of Valencia
46021 Valencia, España

Date: 25/07/2023 - 28/07/2023
Registration deadline: 15/02/2023
Call for papers ending on: 15/11/2022

Versión española [1], versão em português [2], versionfrançaise [3]



Call for papers DNC5ALED

DiscourseNet Congress #5 in collaboration with ALED

Discourses and their impacts on a world of multiple crises
25-28 July, 2023

University of Valencia, Spain



Congress theme
Discourse, language, and communication are central to our understanding of
the world today. Researchers from many disciplines have become interested in
how discourses shape social, political, and economic realities and they 
study
discourses in many areas of social life: as a meaning-making practice of
groups, as an aspect of cultural and aesthetic tendencies, as a tool for
political mobilization and as a way to imagine hopeful futures and organize
social justice. As a transdisciplinary field, Discourse Studies responds not
only to the theoretical and methodological questions important for academia
but also to real-life and practical challenges of a changing social world.

Co-organized by DiscourseNet, the International Association of Discourse
Studies, and ALED, the Latin American Discourse Studies Association, this
congress explores how discourses and Discourse Studies have impacts on the
contemporary world. We invite participants to reflect on the impact that
discourses can make on our lives in a globalising world facing multiple
crises: What is the role of language in contemporary political struggles and
how does it promote values such as democracy, social justice, and tolerance?
What is the place of discourse in our current economic model of global
neoliberalism and how can we imagine alternative visions that are culturally
and environmentally more sustainable? How does the looming climate
catastrophe or the coronavirus pandemic intersect with discursive
developments? The uses of language are often associated with the idea of
conveying a particular idea and pursuing a given ideological agenda. Yet,
discourses not only represent our world but they also shape it in crucial
ways. In their own work, discourse researchers may be committed to bring
about positive social change. However, in many cases, the effects of
discourses on the social fabric need to be accounted for more systematically
and in detail, allowing for more complexity, than is currently the case.

DNC5ALED invites contributions that explore the impact of discourse in a
world facing multiple crises. We invite discourse analysts from around the
world, and other people interested in Discourse Analysis, to take stock of
contemporary developments in Discourse Studies. Possible paper proposals for
the conference include but are not limited to the following:

public debates around social issues and political concerns;the social,
economic, political, legal, cognitive, institutional, historical, cultural,
or linguistic dimensions of discourse in communities;discursive practices
that bring about social, technological, political change;discursive
strategies and tactics of valuing and devaluing people, things,
ideas;strategies and tactics of disseminating research findings to a
non-academic public;the symbolic and material relations between orders of
discourse;the impact of emancipatory and authoritarian discourses;political
and environmental crises in contemporary democracies;colonising and
decolonising practices in the field of Discourse Analysis;discourses of 
race,
class, gender, sexuality, and ability
The focus of Discourse Studies varies according to the specific national or
regional contexts in which issues of power and language, subjectivity and
inequality, language and context are being problematized. For instance,
Spanish-, Portuguese-, French- and English-speaking communities of discourse
analysts and theorists follow different dynamic debates, terminologies and
approaches that are not always well known outside of each language
community.

DiscourseNet [4] is the International Association of Discourse Studies,
founded in 2019 in Paris during our first joint congress with ALED.
TheAsociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso [5] was formed in
1995 to promote Discourse Studies in Latin America. ALED has organised 14
International Congresses and more than 30 national events in the member
countries.

DNC5ALED is the second DiscourseNet-ALED joint congress, and aims to be a
site of dialogue and reflection across and about different traditions in
Discourse Studies.

DNC5ALED:

is open to discourse researchers from all disciplines,welcomes presentations
in the many languages in which discourse research is conducted,aims to 
create
and develop multilingual non-hierarchical and open spaces for interepistemic
dialogue,welcome social movements and policy practitioners interested in
discourse as well as academics.
We encourage contributions that seek to develop novel approaches to, for
instance: subjectivity in contemporary societies; epistemologies; 
ontologies;
cosmologies; indexicality; ideology; knowledge and hegemony; 
(de)coloniality;
governmentality in the knowledge economy; protest and activism; critique and
reflexivity; bi-, multi- and translingual communication; language policy;
discourse and gender, sexuality; class; race; ability; indigenity; 
migration;
populism; (neo-)fascism; discrimination; argumentation and rhetorics; social
cognition; institutional discourse; workplace communication; psychoanalysis;
practices and identities in workplace; multimodality; media and digital
culture; materialism and discourse; digital humanities; cross-cultural
interaction; corpus and computer-aided analysis; conversation and
interaction; poststructuralism ...

DNC5ALED welcomes papers which re-examine existing discourse theoretical
frameworks, articulate new approaches from different fields and schools,
study social processes empirically, and reflect on the critical 
potentials of
Discourse Studies. We also invite contributions that deal with theoretical
and/or methodological challenges in Discourse Studies, preferably with a
focus on the impact of discourses in a world in crisis. Abstracts of no more
than 250 words can be submitted in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French as
well as in other languages. They will be considered as long as there are
sufficient submissions in one language to fill a panel or stream. By 
bringing
discourse researchers together from many backgrounds, we aim at creating
productive encounters across and between discourse researchers working in
different languages.



Call for proposals of thematic sessions
Co-organised by DiscourseNet (International Association of Discourse 
Studies)
and ALED (Latin American Discourse Studies Association), this congress
explores how discourses and Discourse Studies have impacts on the
contemporary world. We invite participants to reflect on the impact that
discourses can make on our lives in a world facing multiple crises: What is
the role of language in contemporary political struggles and how does it
promote values such as democracy, social justice and diversity? What is the
place of discourse in current economic models of global neoliberalism andthe
resistance to them, and how can we imagine alternative visions that are
culturally and environmentally more sustainable? How does the looming 
climate
catastrophe or the coronavirus pandemic intersect with discursive
developments? The uses of language are often associated with a particular
idea and a given ideological agenda. Yet, discourses not only represent our
world but they also shape it in crucial ways (for more information see
https://discourseanalysis.net/DNC5ALED [6]). In order to explore these
questions and related issues, we welcome proposals for thematic sessions.
These proposals should include the following information:

TitleActivity coordination (preferable various researchers from different
institutions)Short abstract (approx. 150 words) including objectives,
rationale and approach of the activityMinimum and maximum number of
participants in the activity
For the publication of the activity, we strongly recommend to elaborate the
information in different languages.

For questions about the sessions, please mail to (dnc5aled /at/ gmail.com)

Timeline:

Submission of proposals until the 1st of July 2022 to: (dnc5aled /at/ gmail.com)

Communication of accepted proposals: 15th of July 2022.


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