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Mon Dec 09 20:10:19 GMT 2019
*MAPD 2020 (Multidisciplinary Approaches to Political Discourse) #3:
Responding to new challenges*
*25-26 June 2020*
*University of Liverpool*
Due to a large number of requests and repercussions from recent strike
actions, we are extending the deadline for contributions to MAPD2020.
The deadline has changed from 15 December 2019 to *Friday 11 January 2020*.
Full details about the conference can be found on the call for papers
email below and on our website
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/communication-and-media/events/mapd-2020/
(MAPD2020 /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(MAPD2020 /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>
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*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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