call for papers for special issue A special issue of the journal Sociological Research Online will be published in September 2009. Theme: using narrative to explore ‘big structures, large processes, huge comparisons’. The issue is in memory of historical sociologist Charles Tilly who died in April 2008. Contributions are called for which avoid re-describing Tilly’s [...]
Spring 2009 the discourse unit diary for spring 2009 is now up at http://www.discourseunit.com/diary.doc more information available at http://www.discourseunit.com
Issue 3/2008 went online. Title: “The Comeback of the Psychology of Religion”. Contributions by Jacob A. v. Belzen, Robert A. Emmons, Ralph W. Hood Jr., Stefan Huber, Ulrike Popp-Baier, Ana-María Rizzuto, Kelly M. Trevino and Kenneth I. Pargament, Tatjana Schnell. The journal is open access. All articles are available in full at http://www.journal-fuer-psychologie.de/jfp-3-2008.html All abstracts [...]
First Graduate Conference in Frankfurt/Main Whether or not “critical theory” constitutes a well-defined, easily identifiable and self-contained school of thought has been a matter of debate. For the organizers of this conference, given the plurality of theoretical projects that consider themselves in the tradition of the “Frankfurt School,” critical thinking cannot be reduced to one [...]
Call for papers for special issue Radical Psychology: A Journal of Psychology, Politics and Radicalism invites submissions for a special issue in our upcoming series on feminism and psychology focused on the topic of girlhood. The special issue of Radical Psychology seeks conceptual and empirical articles that address any issue relevant to girlhood (i.e. adolescent [...]
University of the West of England, Bristol The conference aims to disseminate multi-disciplinary research in the area of meaning in interaction. The conference will host two colloquia on: 1: Workplace Discourse. more information at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/llas/events/0809/i-mean/colloquia1.shtml 2:Meaning in Diachrony more information at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/llas/events/0809/i-mean/colloquia2.shtml to submit an abstract go to http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/llas/events/0809/i-mean/submission.shtml general information about the conference available [...]
Vancouver, BC, Canada The conference provides opportunities for those involved in the organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss their work, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as, but not restricted to, PKP’s OJS, OCS, OMP, Lemon8-XML, and OA Harvester) can make to improving access [...]
Oslo, Norway The invited program for the congress is almost complete. Philip Zimbardo and Paul Costa are both coming along with a multitude of other scholars presenting research that matters. more information available at http://www.ecp2009.no. abstract submission deadline: December 31 2009 conference dates: 7-10 July 2009
call for reviewers ENQUIRE is a high-quality online journal for the Social Sciences. It provides a critical, high quality-oriented but nevertheless supportive and motivating procedure for publications by postgraduate students, post-doctoral students and early career academics. 3rd journal issue: women’s engagement in narrative practices and conceptual nature of ‘narratives’, linking this to women’s experiences, the [...]
call for papers on the theme: Love Stories Articles, preferably of an interdisciplinary nature, which analyse histories of romantic love, family affection, of friendship and fraternal ties; of comrades united by intellectual and political bonds; of individuals devoted to the cult of famous personalities or to nostalgic myths are invited. more information are available at [...]