The CfP for our DN35 Conference ”Mapping and Countering Authoritarian Discourses“ in Opole, Poland, 25–26 February 2027, is now open.

During DN35, we want to reflect on (neo)authoritarianism today, its role in public discourse, and its impact on contemporary politics. We want to map the discursive construction of the (neo)authoritarian appeal across the Global North and South, and the ways in which they can be counteracted. We welcome a wide range of methodologies and approaches to researching these issues, including critical political, psychological, and post-structuralist #DiscourseAnalysis, #CorpusLinguistics, and #RhetoricalAnalysis.

For all relevant information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN35

#Authoritarianism #Discourse #DiscourseStudies

A new video from our Open DiscourseNet Seminar is online now. If your are interested in how Office #Architecture is discursively constructed as sites of #communication, check @perspektivbrocken's talk on Office architecture as a Discourse Machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_xbbVV6XRQ.

For more information on our monthly Open DiscourseNet Seminar, see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN/seminars/OpenDNLondon #Discourse #DiscourseStudies #Performativity

The deadline of the Critical Policy Discourse Analysis Conference, which will take place on 15–18 June 2026 in #Sheffield, UK, has been extended until 16 April.

For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/critical-policy-discourse-analysis-conference

#CriticalDiscourseAnalysis #Policy #PolicyAnalysis #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies

General registration is now open for the II International Symposium: Discourses of #Power, #Resistance and Reaction in the Global Era. This event will take place online, from May 19th to the 21st, 2026. The purpose of the symposium is to offer an interdisciplinary and international platform for dialogue and exchange on the ideological and discursive tensions shaping today’s polarized world.

For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/ii-international-symposium-centre-discourse-studies-discourses-power-resistance-and-reaction

#Discourse #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis #Polarization

The CfP for our DN34 International Conference on #Discourse, #Identity and #Polarisation is now open. It will be held 10–12 November 2026 at #Vilnius University and online. The call for papers and panel proposals is open until 15 May 2026. This conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today’s increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.

For more information visit: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN34

#DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies

You still have a chance to submit an Abstract for our 2026 Congress with ALED in #Puebla, #Mexico, until February 1., 2026.

https://discourseanalysis.net/en/ALED-DN2026 #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #CDA

„How to use critical discourse analysis in your research“

In-person #workshop for PhD students & early career researchers
15 & 16 January 2026, Sheffield, UK

With:
Professor Tom Bartlett, University of Glasgow | Dr Michael Farrelly, Discourse Academy | Dr Michael Kranert, University of Southampton | Dr Jane Mulderrig, University of Sheffield

For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/how-use-critical-discourse-analysis-your-research #CDA #DiscourseAnalysis #Discourse #DiscourseStudies

Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026: A reminder that the deadline for abstracts is coming up, on 16 November!
More info on BlueSky or the conference website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/

Source:
https://bsky.app/profile/corporadiscourse.bsky.social/post/3m52aijonnk2z

#CorpusLinguistics
#DiscourseStudies
@DiscourseNet

Check out the new paper in our Collaborative Working Paper Series:

Thomas Huygens examines the conceptual uses of imaginary temporality by Xi Jinping’s thought to legitimise the CCP’s actions and positions.

You can find this and other working papers from our #DNCWPS here: https://discourseanalysis.net/dncwps
#PoliticalImaginaries #China #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #Castoriadis #propaganda #XiJinping #CCP

Please join us again in 2025/2026 for our monthly Friday lunchtime online English-language Open DiscourseNet Seminar from London, a collaboration of the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK and @DiscourseNet.

Our next session will be on 28 November 2025 with Tom Bartlett (University of Glasgow) on “Positive #Critique as Immanent Critique“.

For more information visit: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/open-discoursenet-seminar-monthly-online-seminar-discourse-studies-0 #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies