PhD students in the Department of English Language & Linguistics and the School of Politics and International Relations are co-organising a transdisciplinary colloquium on Pragmatics, Discourse, and Society’ to be held on Tuesday 16 July 2018.

The purpose of the colloquium is to bring together PhD students and Early Career Researchers from a wide range of disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences with a common interest in the role of language in shaping discourse(s), culture, and society.

Through language, we create meanings, power relations, identities, and interpersonal ties. Given its social function, it is unsurprising that many researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences examine aspects of culture and society through a linguistic or discursive lens. This event aims at creating bridges between different research strands of and approaches to discourse in a wide sense. It will also function as a platform and networking opportunity for academics who are at beginning of their careers.

The organisers encourage submissions from a wide range of discourse-theoretical approaches. For a list of suggested topics, please click here.

Presentations should be approximately 20 minutes in length. Please submit abstracts of approximately 300 words (excluding bibliography) containing title, outline and up to five keywords as a PDF via EasyChair here.

The deadline for submission is 23.00 on Monday 9 April 2018.

The colloquium is funded by the Eastern Academic Research Consortium and organised by doctoral students at the University of Kent. It is further supported by the Centre for Language and Linguistics and the Centre for Critical Thought at Kent. The registration fee will be £15, covering lunch and refreshments.

Queries about the colloquium may be send to pradiso@kent.ac.uk.

For further details and updates, please see the blog page here.