DeXusChange 2009: summer school on discourse and social justice

[carrie shapiro]

To whom it may concern,
 
I am really interested in discourse studies and linguistics.  I am currently a law student ad Southwestern University of Law, yet miss the discourse field.  I live in LA, CA and wonder if you know of any lectures on the subject out here?
 
Thanks!
 
Carrie Karney> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:24:50 +0100> From: paul at HUM.AAU.DK> Subject: DeXusChange 2009: summer school on discourse and social justice> To: DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG> > Sorry for cross-posting.> Please circulate this information to interested parties.> > ---------------------------------------------> > *** FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ***> > DeXusChange 2009: Shaping Discourse to Come!> > An Alternative, International Summer School> on Discourse and Social Justice> > Invited guests:> > Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal> Lawrence Frey, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA> Shi-xu, Zhejiang University, China> Thomas Tufte, Roskilde University, Denmark> TBA> > Dates:> 17th - 22nd August, 2009> > Location:> Centre for Discourse Studies> Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark> > Web site:> http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dxc2009> > The recent emergence of a set of interlocking global crises -- including> climate, energy, food, water, finance -- demands a renewed> interdisciplinary effort to understand how to mediate the future, the past> and the present in ways that attend to equity, justice and rights. The aim> of this summer school is to bring together people investigating and> promoting social change and transformation with an explicit focus on the> role of discourse in shaping a just future (and the past). Discourse is> understood as encompassing an interdisciplinary perspective on text, talk,> discourse, genre, narrative, archive, document, image and rhetoric in all> their modal, social and cultural forms, not only in terms of> representation but also action and practice.> > Themes within the interdisciplinary focus of the summer school will> include the following clusters:> > * Discourse/Style/Genre/Semiotics/Rhetorics> * Mediation/Modality/Action/Practice> * History/Narrative/Memory/Experience> * Change/Intervention/Critique/Social Justice> * Rights/Ethics/Care/Hope> * Suffering/Risk> * Identity/Gender/'Race'/Ethnicity/Kinship> * Belonging/Citizenship/Linking/Relationality> * Nature/Environment/Habitus/Context> * Interaction/Technology/Artefact> * Structure/Ordering/Organisation/Governance> * Space/Movement/Mobility/Flow/Scale> > DeXusChange will interest students and scholars who work in the diverse> fields of discourse studies, communication studies, development studies,> globalisation studies, media studies, political science, sociology,> history, anthropology, international studies, social movement studies,> communication activism, participatory communication, critical journalism> studies, action research, and human-centred communication and informatics.> > DeXusChange 2009 draws upon the innovative pedagogical tradition at> Aalborg University to experiment with a problem-based, project-centred> research summer school for doctoral students and scholars who are engaged> in interdisciplinary studies. Following on from the successful "DeXus:> Discourse Nexus" summer school series 2003-2006, the core concept in> DeXusChange is the free play of ideas within the thematic context of> group-derived problems and reflexive project work developed during the six> fruitful days of the summer school.> > Following the first two days of lectures and workshops by the invited> guests, which will establish a common ground work, we concentrate over the> following days on group project work. On the last day, all groups will> come together to report on their findings, solutions and applications,> with commentary and discussion from the guests and wayfinders. A poster> session will take place during the first day for those who wish to present> their research publicly. More details on the DeXusChange web site:> http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dxc2009.> > The summer school is international and open to researchers, doctoral and> graduate students. Please apply online at> http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dxc2009> > For more academic information, contact the organisers:> DeXusChange Collective - dxc2009 (at) hum (dot) aau (dot) dk> > The deadline for applying is 29th May 2009. The participation fee payment> deadline is 15th June 2009.> > The participation fee is 3500 Danish kroner (approx. 450 Euros), which> covers administrative costs, tea/coffee and lunches every working day, one> evening drinks reception (Monday) and one evening dinner (Thursday). More> information on the web site. If you are enrolled as a doctoral student at> a Danish University, then please see the web site for specific> instructions. One free scholarship will be given to a qualified student> from the Global South. Please see the website for more information about> how to apply.> > Warm regards, DeXusChange Collective> Ben Dorfman> Oscar Garcia> Inger Lassen> Paul McIlvenny> Pirkko Raudaskoski> > The DeXusChange summer school is supported by the Centre for Discourse> Studies, the Doctoral Programme in Discourse and Contemporary Culture, the> Human-Centred Communication and Informatics Doctoral Programme, and the> Department of Language and Culture at Aalborg University.> > -----------------------------------------
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