Background
This regional conference emerged out of a meeting of
scholars in the Nordic region in 2009 who were concerned about the future of
publishing in the Nordic region. It was decided to hold an (annual)
conference in order to assemble all the scholars and students who study
text, discourse, talk and/or social interaction across the faculties and
disciplines. The Nordic/Baltic region is rich and ripe with work on
text, discourse and talk, and it is about time we met together to hear what we
are doing, to discuss where we are heading and to plan collaboration in
the future. Time will be reserved on Friday afternoon to discuss plans
for the second conference, for starting a Nordic Association and for an
international journal based in the Nordic countries.
The conference will consist of invited keynote
lectures, parallel paper sessions and one or more doctoral workshops, organised by
doctoral students.
Plenary speakers
Four plenary speakers
have been invited to the conference.
Contributions
Submissions are solicited for paper presentations
(30 minute slots including question time) to be scheduled in parallel
sessions. If you wish to submit an abstract for
consideration by the scientific committee,
then please use our open conference system.
Topics
The conference does not restrict presentations to
specific topical areas, but it is hoped that the following areas will be
covered:
- Environmental discourse
- Organisational discourse
- Health sector discourse
- Discourse and social change
- Classroom and pedagogical discourse
- Talk and culture
- Applied conversation analysis
- Applied discourse studies
- Talk in/of space and place
- Discourse and mobility
- Discourse and gender
- Political discourse
- Discourse as commodity (neoliberalism,
marketisation...)
- Discourse and globalisation
- Discourse and citizenship
- Discourse and ethnicity / race / migration
- Discourse and identity
- Discourse, human rights and social justice
- Discourses of development
- New media discourses
- Discourse and aesthetics
- Discourse and music
- Literary discourse
Languages
Presentations can be given in English or in a
Nordic/Baltic language (if preferred). Please indicate your language
preference when you submit your abstract. It is expected that
presentations in specific languages
will be clustered together when appropriate. The specific form (length,
format, etc.) of the non-English slots remains open until the organisers
know how many non-English submissions they receive.
Doctoral workshops
We have planned
two doctoral workshops, organised
by local doctoral students in collaboration with Nordic doctoral
students, to take place on Friday afternoon from 13:00-16:00. Please
register to participate when you register
and pay the fee for the conference.
Proceedings
From the papers presented at the conference a
selection will be made (based upon quality, topicality and originality)
for inclusion in an edited collection and/or journal special issue to
published by an international publisher after the conference.
Conference site
The conference will take
place in the Department of Language and Culture of Aalborg University, which was
founded in 1974. Aalborg University has successfully established a
progressive pedagogical model as the foundation for its curriculum
across all Faculties. Every semester, students at Aalborg form groups
and take relevant courses in order to independently solve a problem they
themselves have formulated based on their studies. They are officially
appointed a vejleder -- a ‘path leader’ or 'wayfinder' -- whose
job it is to guide the students to a successful solution to their
‘problem’ over the course of the semester. In conclusion, students write
a project report and are assessed on their work in a discussion/oral
exam at the end of the semester. Roskilde and Linköping
are our sister universities in the Nordic region. |
