Summer Workshop
›The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
(SKAD)‹
University of Augsburg, July 29-31, 2019
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Reiner
Keller, Dr. Saša Bosančić, MA Matthias Roche
Please visit www.diskurswissenschaft.de
for up-to-date information and details concerning registration, venues, etc.
Register via E-mail: skad@phil.uni-augsburg.de
Following the
success of the last two international workshops with participants from
different countries spanning from Indonesia to Brazil, from Japan to the
Netherlands, from Scotland to Poland and from Canada to Russia, there will be another
introductory workshop in English on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
(SKAD) at the University of Augsburg in 2019. The organizers invite novice as
well as experienced academics from a wide range of disciplines, including but
not limited to sociology, ethnology, political science, linguistics, psychology
and educational science, to explore the potential of this approach to studying
discourses in the context of their own projects and research.
Discourse Studies today cover a large field of approaches across the social sciences, ranging from work inspired by Foucault to Critical Discourse Analysis and through to hegemonic stability theory, corpus linguistics, and on to more interpretive approaches. SKAD is perhaps the most recent major approach to emerge in this field, drawing from Berger & Luckmann's sociology of knowledge, the interpretative paradigm in pragmatist sociology, and core Foucaultian concepts in the analysis of regimes of power/knowledge. In doing so, SKAD re-directs discourse research towards Foucaultian research interests about questions of social relationships of knowledge & knowing and politics of knowledge & knowing. Concerning itself with ‘ways of doing’, it uses elements of qualitative research design (like theoretical sampling, sequential analysis, analysis by contrasting cases, category building, discourse ethnography) and interpretative analytics.
Since the late 1990s, the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has experienced considerable popularity in discourse research in Germany and several other countries. Today, it informs a large amount of discourse research and publications in the field of discourse studies. Workshops introducing theory, methodology and methods of SKAD research have been established in Germany for more than 15 years now. Workshops in French and English have followed suit in the last years (e.g., in the United States, Switzerland, Austria, France, Denmark, Belgium, United Kingdom, Romania).
The Augsburg SKAD summer school builds on the broad interest in SKAD in international contexts. SKAD workshops address core issues of the concrete doing and practice of discourse research. It addresses colleagues from the Social Sciences and the Humanities who are interested in learning about SKAD and its particular profile within the field of discourse studies as well as in doing SKAD research/using SKAD methodologies in their own concrete work in the context of discourse research.
The workshop concerns itself with the following topics:
- SKAD: what is at stake when using SKAD in discourse research?
- SKAD theory: discourses - and how to conceptualize them
- Research questions and conceptual tools in SKAD
- The methodology of interpretative analytics
- Getting into the field: methods of data collection and analyzing data
- Getting out of the field: from data analysis to comprehensive diagnostics
During the workshop, small data sessions will be
included, that is participants will work together on concrete data. Furthermore,
participants may present their own research project and data, which will
discussed in a group setting.
Keller, R.: The Sociology of
Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD), in: Human Studies 2011, 34 (1) S.43-65
Keller, R.: Entering Discourses: A New Agenda for Qualitative Research and Sociology of Knowledge. In: Qualitative Sociology Review 2012, Vol. VIII Issue 2, pp. 46-55
Keller, R.: Doing Discourse Research. An Introduction for the Social Sciences. London: Sage 2013]
Keller, R.: Comparing Discourse Between Cultures. A Discursive Approach to Movement Knowledge. In: Baumgarten, B., Daphi, P., Ulrich, P. (Hrsg.) (2014) Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research. Hampshire: Palgrave, pp. 113-139 (with P. Ullrich).
Keller, R./Hornidge, A./Schünemann, W. (Ed.)(2019): The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. Investigating the Politics of Knowledge and Meaning-Making. London: Routledge
Keller, R. (forthcoming): The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. A Research Agenda. New York: Springer 2019 (translated from the 3rd German edition, in prep).
Keller, R.: Entering Discourses: A New Agenda for Qualitative Research and Sociology of Knowledge. In: Qualitative Sociology Review 2012, Vol. VIII Issue 2, pp. 46-55
Keller, R.: Doing Discourse Research. An Introduction for the Social Sciences. London: Sage 2013]
Keller, R.: Comparing Discourse Between Cultures. A Discursive Approach to Movement Knowledge. In: Baumgarten, B., Daphi, P., Ulrich, P. (Hrsg.) (2014) Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research. Hampshire: Palgrave, pp. 113-139 (with P. Ullrich).
Keller, R./Hornidge, A./Schünemann, W. (Ed.)(2019): The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. Investigating the Politics of Knowledge and Meaning-Making. London: Routledge
Keller, R. (forthcoming): The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. A Research Agenda. New York: Springer 2019 (translated from the 3rd German edition, in prep).
The venue: University of Augsburg
The University
of Augsburg is
located in the city of Augsburg in southern Germany, which is 60 km/40 miles
from the Bavarian capital of Munich and can be easily reached by train or by
flight (via Munich (MUC) airport). Hotel rooms are available from 30-80 Euro
per day. The workshop organizers will provide more detailed information after registration.
The
workshop
·
The workshop starts on July 29/2019 at 4:30 pm
and ends on July 31/2019 at 6:15 pm.
·
The number of participants is limited to 25
people max. Depending on the number of participants who wish to present their
own projects, the organizers may need to select which individual cases will be
discussed in the analysis sessions.
·
Additional
programme: open
space time slots for questions and discussion, dinner, pubcrawl
·
Venue:
University of Augsburg Campus; for more information see www.diskurswissenschaft.de , “Travel
and Hotel Information”.
Workshop
fee
The workshop
fee is 50.00 Euro per person (includes
refreshments during the workshop). This fee does not cover travel,
accommodation, or meals, which are the responsibility of each individual
participant.
Registration
- Last name, first name, e-mail
- Address at your institution (or private address)
- Current position
- If applicable: your current research project in discourse analysis and whether or not you are interested in presenting and discussing your own research/data at the workshop.
You will receive
a preliminary e-mail confirmation including bank account details for payment of
the workshop fee (bank-to-bank transfer only; no credit cards or cheques can be
accepted). Registration is approved if payment is received within four weeks
after the initial confirmation. You will receive final confirmation upon
receipt of the fee. Withdrawing from the workshop is possible until eight weeks
before the event; cancellations after this time will not be refunded. There
will be a waiting list in case the event is fully booked.
Preliminary Workshop Program
Monday (29/07/2019)
4.00 pm Registration
4.30 pm Welcome
from the organizers + Introduction of the participants
The Arena
of Discourse Studies
SKAD:
What’s it all about?
7.30 pm Welcome reception
with food & drinks
Tuesday (30/07/2019)
9.30 am Methodological Foundations
11.00 am Break
11.20 am The
SKAD Perspective
12.30 pm Lunch
2 pm The Research Program I
3.30 pm Break
3.50 pm The
Research Program II
5.20 pm Break
5.40 pm Open
Space
6.15 pm ---End of Day 2---
7.00 pm Dinner
at Bauerntanz
Wednesday (31/07/2019)
9.30 am Discussion
of projects (1)
10.20 am Break
10.40 am Data
analysis session I
12.40 am Lunch at Unikum
2 pm Data analysis session II
4 pm Break
4.20 pm Discussion
of projects (2)
5.10 Break
5.20 pm Open Discussion
6.15 pm End of Workshop
7.00 pm Dinner
at Riegele & optional pubcrawl
The Organizers
Prof. Dr.
Reiner Keller is
Professor of Sociology at the University of Augsburg; co-director of the Centre
for Transnational Studies and member of the executive board of the German
Sociological Association (DGS). From 2011 to 2016 he headed the sociology of
knowledge division of the DGS. He started working on and with SKAD in the 1990s.
He has longstanding experiences in discourse workshops as well as a long list
of publications in discourse research. His
work & research interests include social science discourse research,
sociology of knowledge and culture, qualitative methods, and analysis of
contemporary societies. He has a longstanding experience in conducting and
directing collaborative research projects. Keller was a member of the Munich
Centre for Reflexive Modernization from 1999 to 2010 and has just finished
co-directing a comparative research on French and German history of
sociological knowledge production since the 1960s, funded by the German
Research Foundation (DFG). Current projects include several DFG-funded projects
on politics of knowledge in the field of hydraulic fracturing (2017-2020),
energy transition (2018-2021) and regulatory conflicts surrounding prostitution
(2018-2021), respectively.
Dr. Saša Bosančić is Assistant Professor at the University of Augsburg, Visiting
Professor at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt and an editor of the Journal for Discourse Studies. Besides
his work in the field of discourse studies with numerous workshops and lectures
on SKAD, his research interests include
the theory, methodology and methods of subjectivation analysis.
Matthias Roche, M.A. is a research assistant in sociology at the
University of Augsburg. His primary research interests are centered around
qualitative research methodology, discourse studies, and transnationalization.
In addition to considerable experience in teaching discourse theory and
especially SKAD, he has also translated several German-language texts on SKAD
into English.
General conditions
1. Participants
who have received preliminary confirmation must pay all fees associated with workshop
participation within four weeks after initial confirmation. Should payment not
be received at this time, their right to participate is forfeit.
2. Paying
the appropriate fee within the allocated timeframe grants participants access
to a workshop. Participants may transfer their right to participate to another
person with the organizers’ permission.
3. Participants
may withdraw from workshops up to 8 weeks before the event. Participants will
receive a refund in this case. Fees cannot be refunded if a participant withdraws
after this time.
4. In case
that the workshop must be cancelled by the organizers due to force majeure, all
fees will be refunded.
5. The organizers
take no responsibility for damage to or loss of electronic and other equipment.
6. Exceptions
for international applicants: Non-EU residents may ask to pay their fees in
cash upon commencement of the workshop if the costs incurred by international
money transfers are unreasonably high. Please indicate that you require this
exception within 10 working days of receiving your preliminary confirmation.
The organizers may require further information or guarantees to be provided for
participants to qualify. The decision to grant this exception lies solely with
the organizers.
