[Commlist] CFP: MAPD2020 (Multidisciplinary Approaches to Political Discourse)

*MAPD 2020 (Multidisciplinary Approaches to Political Discourse) #3: 
Responding to new challenges *

*25-26 June 2020 *

*University of Liverpool*

Following on from previous “Political Discourse - Multidisciplinary 
Approaches” conferences in London 2016 and Edinburgh 2018, we are 
pleased to announce MAPD 2020 (Multidisciplinary Approaches to Political 
Discourse) will take place in the Department of Communication and Media 
at the University of Liverpool on 25-26 June 2020.

The global political arena is changing at an unprecedented pace. We see 
the resurgence of authoritarianism, nativism/nationalism, sovereignism, 
populism and far-right movements driving major changes across societies 
against the backdrop of increasing global inequalities and left/right 
fragmentation. In addition, we witness power plays between 
well-established and emerging global players resulting in 
re-militarization and ‘trade wars’. Obvious manifestations of these 
turbulent times include phenomena such as Brexit; the rise of political 
actors like Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Salvini and discursive 
articulations around hate speech, incivility, Islamophobia and 
Euroscepticism.

At the same time, we see an increase in the mediatisation and 
(re)articulation of political discourses (both top-down and bottom-up) 
through the use of technology and digital platforms.Along with 
traditional broadcasting and reporting of politicians’ speeches, party 
political broadcasts, campaign advertisements and government statements, 
we increasingly experience the political daily in new popular media 
forms such as Facebook feeds, promotional videos, tweets and online mash 
ups. These transformations require us to think critically about issues 
of saturation, manipulation, relations of power, interference, 
influence, information bubbles and fake news, to name a few.

The theme for this year’s conference reflects our aim to bring together 
scholars from a variety of discursive and political approaches to 
critically examine the challenges we face in such a volatile landscape 
and the theoretical and analytical responses we can provide. We 
encourage contributions which explore any aspect of the conference theme 
of “responding to new challenges”. These may include (but are not 
limited to):

  * The role of social media and/or popular culture in the production,
    distribution and consumption of political discourses
  * New theoretical and analytical challenges to the analysis of
    legitimation processes in discourse
  * The (dis)advantages of present approaches to political discourse
    (e.g. cognitive, historical, corpus-driven, etc.)
  * Mediatization of discourses of authoritarianism,
    nativism/nationalism, sovereignism, populism and far-right movements
  * Theoretical challenges: How to address issues of saturation,
    manipulation, relations of power, interference, influence,
    information bubbles, fake news, and incivility of political discourse
  * Case studies of new social/ political phenomena, top-down/bottom-up
    political actors and their discursive articulations

*Keynote speakers*

/Prof Kay O’Halloran (University of Liverpool)/

/Prof Michal//Krzyzanowski (Örebro University, Sweden)///

  * The conference language is English.
  * We encourage single papers and theme specific panels
  * Papers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions
    and discussion
  * Abstracts of 250-300 words (excluding bibliography) of single papers
    should be sent by email as a Word document attachment to
    (MAPD2020 /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(MAPD2020 /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>
  * Please include name, affiliation, email address and paper title in
    the body of the email.
  * Abstracts of panels (500 word maximum) must be submitted by the
    panel organiser(s) and should include a maximum of six
    contributions. Each panel paper must follow the criteria of the
    single papers outlined above.
  * Abstracts will be subject to review by an international scientific
    committee.


    Deadlines:
  * 15th December 2019: Deadline for submission of panel proposals and
    individual abstracts
  * 31^st January 2020: Notification of panels/papers acceptance. Please
    note that if a panel is not accepted panel papers will be considered
    individually

Queries about the conference and abstracts should be sent to the 
conference organisers, Franco Zappettini and Lyndon Way at 
(MAPD2020 /at/ liverpool.ac.uk).

*Conference Fees (including lunches and refreshments, but excluding 
conference dinner):*

Full fee: £ 200   - early bird (before 15 April 2020): £ 160

Post graduates: £ 100 – early bird (before 15 April 2020): £80

Single day fee: £ 150 – Post graduate Single Day fee: £60

Conference Dinner: £ 40 (/to be booked separately/)

There will be reasonably priced accommodation available on campus

*Contact Email: *

(MAPD2020 /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(MAPD2020 /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>

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