37.3259, Confs: Telling the Truth? Authorship, Audiences and Authenticity Across Discourse, Texts and Narratives

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Subject: 37.3259, Confs: Telling the Truth? Authorship, Audiences and Authenticity Across Discourse, Texts and Narratives

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Date: 08-Oct-2026
From: Caroline Tagg [caroline.tagg at open.ac.uk]
Subject: Telling the Truth? Authorship, Audiences and Authenticity Across Discourse, Texts and Narratives


Telling the Truth? Authorship, Audiences and Authenticity Across
Discourse, Texts and Narratives

Date: 05-Nov-2026 - 06-Nov-2026
Location: Online
Contact: Caroline Tagg
Contact Email: OU-Truth-Conference at open.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://telling-truth.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Forensic
Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics

We’re delighted to announce that registration is open for "Telling the
Truth: authorship, audiences and authenticity across discourse, texts
and narratives", a two-day online conference hosted by The Open
University, 5th-6th November 2026.
The conference reflects on the role played by “telling the truth” in
literary works and non-literary discourses across historical
periods, languages and cultures, with the aim of bringing a wide range
of perspectives to bear on a concept of enduring importance and
throwing new light on present-day tensions.
The conference features three plenary panel discussions:
Authorship: Andrew Bennet, Edmund King, Karina van-Dalen-Oskam
Audiences: Dawn King, Stuart Johnstone, Lara Frumkin
Authenticity: Maxine Ali, Siobhan Campbell, Matti Kangaskoski, Trask
Roberts
There will also be one public engagement event on Thursday evening:
Translation, truth, and textual afterlives: an evening of translation:
Bianca Maria Alecu, Matthew Reynolds and Helen
Zaltzman in conversation with Daria Chernysheva (18:30-20:00, Thursday
5th November)
To register and view the programme, visit the website:
https://digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/truth2026/programme-and-registration/ 
Registration is free.
Please share this call with relevant networks and interested
individuals.
For further information, please contact the local organising committee
at OU-Truth-Conference at open.ac.uk
Telling the truth is hosted by the School of Languages and Applied
Linguistics (LAL) and the School of English and Creative Writing (ECW)
at The Open University, UK. The local organising committee is:
Caroline Tagg (chair), Rachele De Felice (deputy chair), Francesca
Benatti, Daria Chernysheva, Korina Giaxoglou, Kristina Hultgren,
Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský, Donáll Maccathmhaoill, Joanne Reardon,
Philip Seargeant



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