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We are happy to announce that the CADAAD 2024 conference programme is now available! 🗓️
Go to www.cadaad2024.amu.edu.pl to view and download the schedule.

✏️ REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN ✏️

We cannot wait to see you in Poznań in July for CADAAD 2024!

Please go to https://cadaad2024.amu.edu.pl to submit your registration form, and follow payment instructions to complete the registration.

Early registration rates apply until March 31st!

Payment in cash will also be possible at the conference venue.

The final deadline for abstracts for CADAAD 2024 in Poznan is THIS FRIDAY, 15th December. Please go to https://tinyurl.com/OxfordAbstractsCADAAD to submit your abstract.

This year’s conference theme is Borders and boundaries in/across discourses. With the invasion of Ukraine, Europe has yet again seen people moving across borders in search for security and new life from yet another direction. Around the world, state borders are being fought over and people are more mobile than ever, including war, climate change, poverty, and post-COVID mobility.

The conference theme understands borders in a much broader way, including identity (self/other, us/them), time (past/present), politics (left/right, mainstream/extreme), and society (public/private), as well as borders within and between academic fields (quantitative/qualitative, interdisciplinarity) and those that exist between research and praxis.

As with previous CADAAD conferences, we are also happy to see abstracts of discourse analytical work from any field that looks at, among others:
* Post/de/anti-Colonialism
* Corporate and organisational communication
* Culture, cultural studies, and cultural promotion
* Education
* Environment and environmentalism
* Mental or physical health
* Gender & sexuality
* News and (social) media analysis
* Protest and social movements

The conference will be in-person only and online presentations will not be possible. Papers can be individually or co-presented. Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes. Abstracts for presentations should be 300 words (including references).

2nd Call for Abstracts

We are extending the deadline for abstracts and panel proposals:
❗️New deadline for abstracts: 15th December❗️
❗️New deadline for panel proposals: 27th November❗️

This year’s conference theme is Borders and boundaries in/across discourses. With the invasion of Ukraine, Europe has yet again seen people moving across borders in search for security and new life from yet another direction. Around the world, state borders are being fought over and people are more mobile than ever, including war, climate change, poverty, and post-COVID mobility.

However, the conference theme understands borders in a much broader way, including identity (self/other, us/them), time (past/present), politics (left/right, mainstream/extreme), and society (public/private), as well as borders within and between academic fields (quantitative/qualitative, interdisciplinarity) and those that exist between research and praxis.

As with previous CADAAD conferences, we are also happy to see abstracts of discourse analytical work from any field that looks at, among others:
* Post/de/anti-Colonialism
* Corporate and organisational communication
* Culture, cultural studies, and cultural promotion
* Education
* Environment and environmentalism
* Mental or physical health
* Gender & sexuality
* News and (social) media analysis
* Protest and social movements

Follow the link in bio to read more and submit your abstract!

🗓️DEADLINE EXTENDED – Thematic panel proposals – November 27th

We’ve got some great news if you’ve been thinking about organising a thematic panel at CADAAD 2024. 📚 The deadline for proposals has been extended until November 27th. Please email us at [email protected] to discuss your ideas. Panels should include 6 individual presentations.

Here it is! The final CADAAD 2024 plenary talk abstract, and it’s one that is sure to give cause for reflection.

Witold Klaus of the Migration Consortium, which unites 9 social organisations working on behalf of migrants and refugees, will deliver the talk “Exclusionary discourses & practices: The segregation of people in need along Polish borders”.

It is stating the obvious that national borders segregate people but the recent situation in Poland shows how far that practice can be stretched. Public authorities are quite committed to wide-opening borders for refugees fleeing Ukraine and at the same time actively persecute other asylum seekers at the Polish-Belarusian border. Not only do they seal borders against those people in need, but they allow them to die in forests and force them to return to Belarus where they are exposed to violence and torture. This segregation is ethnicity-based (privileged white versus repressed people of colour) and in discourses and practices divides real from bogus refugees, the ones deserving from others undeserving of our help.

Howdy, CADAAD folks. 🤠 The weather rollercoaster that we’ve been experiencing in Poznań this Autumn serves as a stark reminder of the impact of climate change on our daily lives.

The CADAAD 2024 plenary talk by Viviane de Melo Resende titled “Boundaries of Science and Traditional Knowledge on Climate Change: Lessons from decoloniality and intersectionality” is sure to present a fascinating view of this issue.

Since Eco ‘92, the climate and biodiversity conferences have invited indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) to participate in the international debate. Their presence and participation highlight boundaries between science and other systems of knowledge in the understanding of sustainability and climate change since ancestral wisdom tends to be scarcely considered in the building of the final documents of the conferences, and especially the agreements. This conference will look at this problem through the lens of discourse studies, decolonial studies, and intersectionality.

Hello from sunny Poznań! ☀️ To start off the week, we’re happy to share another CADAAD 2024 plenary talk abstract.

Prof. Michał Krzyżanowski will deliver the talk “Analysing Discursive Shifts: Exploring Normalization of Illiberal Politics of Bordering, Othering and Exclusion Using Critical Discourse Studies”.

My presentation will elaborate on the notion of discursive shifts (Krzyżanowski 2013, 2018a, 2020b) used for well over a decade as one of the central, critical-analytical notions used to explore discourse in relation to wider facets of social change. Building on such classic critical discourse concepts as, in particular, recontextualization (Bernstein 1990, Krzyżanowski 2016) – with its focus on hegemonic ordering of discourse as well as its diffusion across spatial and temporal scales – discursive shifts have been central in connecting analysis at micro-/meso-level of discourse dynamics with the macro-level aspects of global and transnational discursive change (Fairclough 1992). As a concept, discursive shifts have also enabled tracing various social actors’ context-specific responses to wider social, political and economic dynamics, both seen as incremental or gradual change (Krzyżanowski 2018b) and/or as periodic ‘crises’ (Krzyżanowski 2019; Krzyżanowska & Krzyżanowski 2018, Krzyżanowski & Krzyżanowska 2022, Krzyżanowski et al 2023; Moffitt 2016). In order to highlight the viability as well as applicability of discursive shifts and their inherently recontextualization-based logic, the paper will highlight their application to the critical deconstruction of discourses carrying normalization of contemporary illiberal politics of exclusion (Krzyżanowski 2020; Wodak 2015). My special focus will be on, in particular, recent discourses related to bordering and othering in relation to immigrants, asylum-seekers rooted in illiberal critique of multiculturalism. Therein, I will focus on the ways in which the wider perspective of discursive shifts was helpful in tracing differentiated dynamics of public discourses and their diachronic, gradual slide towards politics and regimes of exclusion in such countries as, inter alia, Poland, Sweden or the UK. I will show how deploying discursive shifts has not only allowed exploring the linear or incremental discourse dynamics but also its strongly mediation-based nature (Krzyżanowski, Triandafyllidou & Wodak 2018; Krzyżanowski & Ekström 2022). As will be shown, the former and the latter enabled tracing the spread of the immigration-related moral panics (Cohen 1972; Krzyżanowski 2020b) including via recontextualization of far-right, populist and neoliberal discourses and frames (Phelan 2019; Wodak & Krzyżanowski 2017) as well as via ‘borderline discourses’ of un/in-civility (Krzyżanowski and Ledin 2017; Krzyżanowski et al 2021; Ekström, Krzyżanowski & Johnson 2023) which eventually penetrated the wider public imagination.

Happy Friday! 🤩 Before you knock off for the week, here is the third CADAAD 2024 plenary talk abstract.

Prof. Anna Marchi will deliver the talk “Pushing the outside of the methodological envelope in corpus-assisted discourse studies”.

At the core of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) is the idea of systematically and comprehensively identifying patterns that are not available to the “naked eye”. Since we tend to be interested in counting what is difficult to count, though, we often face the problem of finding ways to make complexity available and countable to a CADS eye and methods. This talk reflects on (and questions) so-called qualitative and quantitative approaches in CADS, aiming at pushing and testing methodological boundaries, in a spirit of “eclectic empiricism”. I will use as a case study an exploration of nostalgic discourses over different text types, to see how far a CADS toolkit can stretch. Along the way I will give examples of challenges and failures, and wander across disciplinary borders to try out new perspectives.

Hello and “dzień dobry” from Poznań! We at CADAAD 2024 are delighted to share with you the abstract for another of our plenary talks.

Prof. Zohar Kampf (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will deliver the talk “Bonding strategies: blurring boundaries and building affiliations in diplomatic discourse”.

My talk will show how statespersons use bonding strategies in order to blur cultural and ideological boundaries and to build interpersonal and interstate relations. On the basis of three years of ethnographic study at the Israeli president residence, interviews with 40 past and present diplomatic actors, and analysis of statespersons autobiographies, I will survey the main interpersonal bonding strategies and their perceived consequences for and international relations. Adding a critical layer to the progressive discourse analysis, I will discuss the limits and pitfalls of amicable discourse and argue that while bonding strategies transform the SELF/OTHER distinction into a unified US, they often positioned against a threatening THEM.

Wondering if you should take the trip to Poznań for CADAAD 2024? ✈️Over the next few days, we will be sharing some details about the exciting plenary talks that we have planned for our participants.

Dr Audrey Alejandro (London School of Economics and Political Science) will deliver the talk “Ethnocentrism as a discursive process: the making of identities, social borders and hierarchies”.

The concept of ethnocentrism was developed in the early XXth century to investigate the simultaneous process through which socialisation legitimises in-group identities, knowledge, and norms and delegitimises their out-group counterparts. While it is acknowledged that language plays a key role in this process and its subsequent (re)production of social borders, the concept of ethnocentrism has largely fallen outside the scope of discourse studies. This talk explores the articulation between ethnocentrism and discourse, and the benefits and limits of this relation for the understanding of (social) borders.