Discourse Workshop in Augsburg, Autumn 2018
Autumn
School
›The
Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD)‹
Registration now open!
University
of Augsburg, October 11-13, 2018
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.
Following the success of last year’s
inaugural international workshop in English, with 26 participants from 14
different countries spanning from Indonesia to Brazil, from Japan to the
Netherlands, from Scotland to Poland and from Canada to Russia, there will once
again be an introductory workshop on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
(SKAD) at the University of Augsburg in 2018. 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 covers 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 it first appeared in 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 a decade now. Workshops in French and English have followed suit in
the last few years (e.g., in the United States, Switzerland, Austria, France,
Denmark, Belgium, United Kingdom, Romania).
The Augsburg workshop builds on the
emerging interest in SKAD in international contexts and will be the starting
event for an annually recurring series of SKAD workshops in English at the University
of Augsburg. 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 will discuss 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 and
their own research project and data, which will discussed in a group setting.
References:
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, S.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, p. 113-139 (with P. Ullrich).
Keller, R./Hornidge, A./Schünemann, W. (Ed.):
Doing SKAD research. London: Routledge 2018 (in prep.)
Keller, R.: The Sociology of Knowledge Approach
to Discourse. A Research Agenda. New York: Springer 2018 (translated from the
German, 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 October 11/2018 at 4:30 pm and
ends on October 13/2018 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
Thursday (10/11/2018)
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
Friday (10/12/2018)
9.30 am Methodological Foundations
11.00 am Break
11.20 am The SKAD
Perspective
12.30 pm Lunch
1.45 pm The Research
Program I
3.15 pm Break
3.30 pm The Research
Program II
5.00 pm Break
5.20 pm Discussion of
projects (2x35min)
6.30 pm ---End of Day 2---
7.15 pm Dinner at Bauerntanz
Saturday (10/13/2018)
9.30 am Discussion of
projects (2x35min)
10.40 am Break
11.00 am Data analysis
session I
12.10 am Break
12.30 pm Data
analysis session II
1.40 pm Lunch at Unikum
3.00 pm Discussion of
projects (2x35min)
4.10 pm Break
4.20 pm Discussion of
projects (1x35min)
4.55 pm Break
5.15 pm Open Discussion
6.15 pm End of Workshop
8.00 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 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.
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