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WDA Spring School 2026

The next Spring School Discourse Analysis in Sociology of Knowledge will take place from March 25 to 27, 2026. Over the past decade, discourse research in the social sciences and humanities has experienced a boom. Methodological training in the various disciplines has only begun to address this boom. In particular, questions relating to concrete work on texts, dealing with different data formats, and interpreting data in the context of discourse research are among the gaps in methodological training.

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The Spring School on Sociological Discourse Analysis (WDA) is aimed at researchers from various social science and humanities disciplines who are working or wish to work on qualification projects or research projects using the discourse-theoretical and discourse-analytical perspectives of WDA. It offers an introduction to the theoretical and conceptual foundations of WDA, an introduction to methodological implementations and their exemplary testing in joint analyses of data provided by the organizers, the opportunity to discuss questions and research designs in WDA-based discourse and dispositif research, and the chance to bring questions from your own ongoing projects or project plans into the discussions.

In addition, two optional specializations are offered:

Specialization A: Specific questions on discourse research in the sociology of knowledge

Specialization B: Analysis of modes of subjectivation

More Information: 

The Spring School will be held in German and in person at the University of Augsburg. It will begin on March 25, 2026, at 3 p.m. and end on March 27 at 3:30 p.m. The number of places is limited.

• Additional program: Open space for questions and discussions, joint dinners, city walk if applicable, etc.

• Venue: The Spring School will take place on the premises of the University of Augsburg. They are located on the university campus. 

Detailed information is available on the website www.diskurswissenschaft.de

New publication (in German): Anthology “Diskurssoziologie der Kritik” (Discourse Sociology of Criticism) published by Springer VS

Springer VS

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-48278-7

Editors: Reiner Keller, Amira Malik, Natalie Schwarz, Christopher Schwitanski & Patricia Thomas

About the anthology:

• Current debates on freedom of science and art 
• Investigations into phenomena of “cancel culture” 
• On the possibilities of a sociological discourse analysis of criticism

For some time now, there has been heated public debate about events surrounding so-called ‘cancel culture’. Different scientific and political positions argue about whether academic freedom, artistic freedom, and ultimately freedom of expression are under threat or not. Such debates are predominantly conducted along fundamental philosophical, intellectual, and political lines, or on a case-by-case basis. Systematic empirical studies are rather rare. This is where the present volume comes in. It introduces the concept of a sociological discourse analysis of criticism and, based on four case studies, explores its analytical potential in relation to phenomena of what can be said and shown in ‘cancel culture’. At the same time, it lays the foundations for further research.

 

New publication (in German): 

"Knowledge relations and knowledge policies:  Analyses of the discursive construction of reality and its consequences "

 

 

Source: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-48453-8

Overview

Editors:

• Martin Blessinger,
• Moritz Hillebrecht,
• Reiner Keller,
• Lena Schürmann,
• Georg Tiroch

•     addresses conflicts of interpretation in various fields and current social debates
•     provides insight into current topics, issues, and developments in sociological discourse research
•     illustrates the breadth and connectivity of discourse research

 

 

 

New publication (in German): 

"Knowledge, Self and Society: The Research Perspective of Interpretative Subjectivation Analysis" written by Saša Bosančić and edited by Reiner Keller and Boris Traue

 

 

Source: link.springer.com/book/9783658478681

Overview

Authors:

• Saša Bosančić

Editors:

• Reiner Keller,
• Boris Traue 

• Saša Bosančić posthumously receives the Thomas A. Herz Prize for Qualitative Social Research
• The book offers orientation in the complex field of subject and subjectivation research
• Interpretative subjectivation analysis as power-critical social analysis

 
The manuscript for this book was submitted by Saša Bosančić as his habilitation thesis at the University of Augsburg in February 2020. In early summer of the same year, the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences habilitated him with the venia legendi in sociology. The German Sociological Association posthumously awarded the manuscript the Thomas A. Herz Prize for Qualitative Social Research at its Bielefeld Congress in fall 2022.

 Upcoming Events

 

 

 

DNC6 (6th DiscourseNet Congress) - Discourse and the imaginaries of past, present and future societies: media and representations of (inter)national (dis)orders at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels), 7-10 July 2025

https://discourseanalysis.net/en/dnc6-6th-discoursenet-congress-discourse-and-imaginaries-past-present-and-future-societies-media

 

Call for Papers: Ad-hoc-group „Digitale Diskurstransitionen und algorithmische Macht/Wissen-Regime.“ [Digital discourse transitions and algorithmic power/knowledge regimes] at the Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) 22-26 September 2025

https://discourseanalysis.net/de/de/call-papers-ad-hoc-gruppe-digitale-diskurstransitionen-und-algorithmische-machtwissen-regime-dgs