International Summer School on Discourse and Social Justice

17 – 22 August, 2009 at the Centre for Discourse Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. Application deadline: 29 May, 2009.

The thematics of this summer school is prompted by the recent emergence of a set of interlocking global crises – including climate, energy, food, water, finance – which demands a renewed interdisciplinary effort to understand how to mediate the future, the past and the present in ways that attend to equity, justice and rights. The aim is to bring together people investigating and promoting social change and transformation with an explicit focus on the role of discourse in shaping a just future (and the past). Discourse is understood as encompassing an interdisciplinary perspective on text, talk, discourse, genre, narrative, archive, document, image and rhetoric in all their modal, social and cultural forms, not only in terms of representation but also action and practice. More information on the school website.