35.3633, Calls: 6th DiscourseNet Congress (DNC6)

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Subject: 35.3633, Calls: 6th DiscourseNet Congress (DNC6)

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Date: 19-Dec-2024
From: Jan Zienkowski [jan.zienkowski at ulb.be]
Subject: 6th DiscourseNet Congress (DNC6)


Full Title: 6th DiscourseNet Congress (DNC6)
Short Title: DNC6

Date: 07-Jul-2025 - 09-Jul-2025
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Jan Zienkowski
Meeting Email: contactdnc6 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://discourseanalysis.net/DNC6

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2025

Meeting Description:

The congress will be organized between July 7th and July 10th 2025, at
the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). The 6th DiscourseNet Congress
(DNC6) focuses on the discursive construction of social and political
imaginaries. It offers a forum to discuss how social actors imagine
and articulate past, present and future societies in a world marked by
multiple and overlapping crises.

DNC6 welcomes contributions of authors who explore ontological,
theoretical, and methodological aspects of imaginaries that may
(re)shape our societies. We also welcome analyses and case studies of
specific imaginaries circulating in our mediatized societies. These
may focus on linguistic, textual, narrative, visual, multimodal,
and/or ideological articulations of social and political imaginaries.

This conference is open to discourse scholars from all disciplines, as
well as to other scholars in the humanities and social sciences
working on (aspects of) the imaginaries that allow us to make sense of
and shape our realities. DNC6 offers an interdisciplinary forum for
discussing imaginaries and the discursive construction of old and new
(inter)national (dis)orders.

More information can be found on the conference website
https://discourseanalysis.net/DNC6 (in English, French, Spanish and
Portuguese).

Call for Papers:

Topic: Discourse and the imaginaries of past, present and future
societies: media and representations of (inter)national (dis)orders)

The 6th DiscourseNet Congress (DNC6) focuses on the discursive
construction of social and political imaginaries. It offers a forum to
discuss how social actors imagine and articulate past, present and
future societies in a world marked by multiple and overlapping crises.

DNC6 welcomes contributions of authors who explore ontological,
theoretical, and methodological aspects of imaginaries that may
(re)shape our societies. We also welcome analyses and case studies of
specific imaginaries circulating in our mediatized societies. These
may focus on linguistic, textual, narrative, visual, multimodal,
and/or ideological articulations of social and political imaginaries.

This conference is open to discourse scholars from all disciplines, as
well as to other scholars in the humanities and social sciences
working on (aspects of) the imaginaries that allow us to make sense of
and shape our realities. DNC6 offers an interdisciplinary forum for
discussing imaginaries and the discursive construction of old and new
(inter)national (dis)orders.

A non-exhaustive list of questions that may be addressed at this event
is provided below:

How are past, present, and future societies imagined in debates over
culture, education, migration, economy, climate change, AI and/or
robotics?
What are the building blocks of populist, neoliberal,
environmentalist, radically democratic, reactionary and/or
post-humanist imaginaries? How do these evolve?
What role do media play in the production, distribution, and
consumption of imaginaries? How do media impact on the articulation of
imaginaries?
How do media figure with(in) discursive imaginaries of past, present
and future societies? What socio-technical imaginaries inform existing
and future mediascapes?
How can one operationalize discourse analytical approaches, concepts,
and methods to investigate cultural, social, political and/or
environmental imaginaries.
How are imaginaries of past, present and future expressed in different
media types and genres?
How can we identify imaginaries in works of fiction, non-fiction, and
science fiction? What are their characteristics and how do they evolve
over time?
How do discursively constructed imaginaries inform social identities
and subjectivities? How do they impact on past, present, and future
notions of citizenship?
DNC6 invites scholars to submit papers that may enrich our
understanding of social and political imaginaries, through explicit
theoretical discussions and/or through relevant case studies and
discourse studies.

Concepts of the ‘imaginary’ have so far occupied a relatively marginal
position in the field of discourse studies. While the notion is not
absent in (critical) discourse studies, other meta-concepts such as
narrative, ideology, hegemony tend to be used more frequently.

The concept of the imaginary currently figures more prominently in
sociology, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, and media studies. In
these disciplines we find competing and overlapping notions of the
imaginary that merit discourse theoretical and analytical attention.

What place can we give to the concept of the imaginary in the field of
discourse studies? What concepts and methods can discourse scholars
offer to investigate social and political imaginaries? DNC6 invites
discourse scholars to present relevant research and/or explicit
reflections on such matters.

A more detailed version of the call for papers can be found on the
DNC6 website.



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