Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Call for Submissions - The Discursive Construction of Reality IV



Call for Submissions

The Discursive Construction of Reality IV
Interdisciplinary perspectives on a
sociology of knowledge approach to discourse research
Location: University of Augsburg, Germany
Date: March 21, 2019 (begins ~ 1:30 pm) – March 22, 2019 (ends ~ 6:00 pm)
Conference organizers: Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller, Dr. Saša Bosančić

Concept
Over the last decade, the research programme outlined by the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (SKAD) has spread to many disciplines in social science. A common interest in discourse research has resulted in a widely distributed community that prevalently, but not exclusively, uses qualitative research designs to examine forms of 'discursive construction of reality'. Corresponding studies may be found in sociology, but also in neighbouring disciplines such as political science, historical science, educational science, theology, linguistics, and criminology, among many others. This approach to discourse research combines social constructionist and interpretive-pragmatic schools of thought with the theoretical concepts and lines of investigation of discourse in the tradition of Michel Foucault, with the intention of analysing knowledge relations and policies in society. Bearing these core tenets in mind, the original approach has nonetheless been successfully amended, expanded, and occasionally modified to meet the demands of different fields of study and forms of data.
Following the Augsburg conferences in 2013, 2015, and 2017 on interpretive and sociology of knowledge discourse research with over 120 participants and 40 contributions from different disciplines in each year, the upcoming conference would like to continue in the spirit of an interdisciplinary discussion about the foundations and applications of SKAD and SKAD-inspired discourse research, as well as related perspectives.