[Commlist] XVI International Congress of the Latin American Association of Discourse Studies - ALED 2025

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We are pleased to invite all researchers from Latin America and other 
regions
and continents to the XVI ALED INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. This is a special
edition that will celebrate the 30th anniversary of ALED's founding, a time
to reflect on contemporary discursivities, research networks, and the
challenges emerging today in the field of discourse studies and language
sciences, embracing the interdisciplinarity that has always been the essence
of discourse studies.

The central theme, resistance, allows for a plural and essential reflection
on the challenges of the present world, including political transformations,
climate change, the advancement of digital communication, and, paraphrasing
Michel Foucault, the powers and dangers that come with these new discursive
forms and practices, their emergence, exercise, and order. In this sense,
discourse studies play an important role in understanding the various
socio-linguistic phenomena at stake, involving resistance, discursive
confrontations, setbacks, and advances.

Bring your contribution to this great debate that will undoubtedly be partof
the history of discourse studies in Latin America and the world. The XVI 
ALED
International Congress aims to foster research development and scientific
exchange in the spirit of an open, democratic, critical, and pluralistic
society. Discussions will be enriched by the presence of researchers from
various regions, countries, institutions, and international research
networks, as well as the expected contribution from different areas of
knowledge, given the interdisciplinarity of discourse studies and the chosen
theme.

1. DATE and LOCATION
The UFMG – Federal University of Minas Gerais, located in the city of Belo
Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, was chosen to host the XVI ALED
International Congress. The congress will be held from July 8 to 11, 2025.
BELO HORIZONTE, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais, is a modern and
welcoming city. Minas Gerais, known for its baroque historic cities and 
as an
intellectual and literary hub in Brazil, is also a land of resistance and
historical memory marked by the Inconfidência Mineira, represented bythe
national hero, Tiradentes. July is wintertime in Minas Gerais, with mild
temperatures, usually clear blue skies, and no rain, a great opportunity to
explore and appreciate the mountains and hills surrounding Belo 
Horizonte and
its surroundings.

2. A PLURAL AND NECESSARY THEME
"Discourses of Resistance, Networks of Meaning, and Discursive Diversitiesin
a Digital and Non-Digital World"

Although the congress is open to transversal topics not necessarily 
linked to
the central theme, the theme seeks to stimulate problematizations, focusing
on dimensions considered important in contemporary times:

Resistance as a relevant dimension of social discourses in action, a theme
that, as we will try to show in Annex I accompanying this circular,
encompasses a plurality of possibilities for intervention, reflection, and
research.Networks of meaning, a subtopic addressing the problem of the 
social
and dialogical construction of language and the meanings produced within and
between discursive communities.Discursive diversities, a subtheme that
embraces the great plurality of devices, genres, and models of communication
situations in which discourses are manifested, structured, and
structured.Digital discourses, expanding globally as a fascinating universe
for research and language practices, structuring new discursive practices,
forms of social action, discourse circulation, manipulations, and public and
political challenges of all kinds.
This set of guiding topics will allow the congress to host different
reflections on the modes of discourse constitution, circulation, 
interaction,
configuration, influence, regulation, and incitement to action. We 
understand
that by fostering such problematizations, ALED, as a scientific society, and
Discourse Analysis, as an (inter)disciplinary field, contribute to the
construction of more critical societies open to democratic debate. Read the
theoretical description of the central theme at the end of this circular
(Annex I).

3. ACADEMIC STRUCTURE OF THE CONGRESS
To foster discussions that ensure an understanding of Discourse Analysis,
whether in an internal relationship with linguistic border disciplines or an
external location with disciplines that have sought DA, or in addressing
conceptual and methodological problems, the symposium has been structured
with various integrated activities:

PLENARY SESSIONS: Reserved for invited speakers of the XVI International
Congress. These will focus on reflecting on the problems, challenges, and
alternatives that have shaped the theoretical and methodological development
of DA, as well as its application and/or problematization of the event's
theme. The invited and confirmed speakers will be announced 
soon.ROUNDTABLES:
Comprised of 3 invited researchers from the XVI ALED International Congress,
these roundtables will especially discuss: (i) international plenaries from
ALED research networks, presenting ongoing studies, (ii) invited 
national and
international speakers, leaders of emerging research with
theoretical-methodological interfaces on digital discourses, and
more.COORDINATED COMMUNICATIONS: Proposed by professors with PhDs, membersof
ALED, with 4 participants. These will focus especially on: (i) presentations
from research group coordinators, mapping and describing research groups at
Latin American universities (assessment, dominant perspectives, research
results, and defended theses); (ii) communications proposed by research
leaders from different institutions on related topics, network research, 
etc.
Professors may invite graduate students to participate.INDIVIDUAL
COMMUNICATIONS: Proposed by PhD researchers or graduate students on the
event's theme or related axes listed below.POSTER: Open to undergraduate
students (or high school students in junior research programs) who wish to
present their research findings in discourse studies.Mini-Courses: Given by
invited speakers.Thesis and Dissertation Contest, according to a specific
call that will be announced later.Book Launches: Authors can register their
works on the event's website.Book Fair: Featuring major commercial and
university publishers.Cultural ProgramALED's 30th Anniversary Exhibition:
Images, testimonies, publications, memories, etc.
4. CALENDAR: IMPORTANT DATES

First Circular: June 2024Second Circular: August 2024 – with confirmed
speakers and updates.Submission of Coordinated Papers, Individual 
Papers, and
Posters: August 15 to November 30, 2024Acceptance notifications: From 
October
20, 2024, to December 1, 2024Work registration on the event website: 
December
1, 2024, to December 30, 2024.
https://www.aledinternacional.com

Event Date: July 8-11, 2025
IMPORTANT: Only ALED members can register for the Congress. Those who arenot
yet members must join. Contact your national ALED delegation to do so (see
the list of delegations on the ALED
website:https://comunidadaled.org/delegades-nacionales .

5. TARGET AUDIENCE
The primary audience of the congress includes professors, researchers, and
graduate and undergraduate students involved in discourse studies and other
academic institutions in Brazil and Latin America, as well as from other
continents, along with professionals in linguistics and related fields
interested in the congress theme.


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