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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008
Research
Committee on
Language and Society RC25
Main theme
Speaking of justice: Social research and social justice
Programme Coordinators
Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, USA pascale@american.edu and Isabella Paoletti, Social Research and Intervention Centre, NGO, Italy paoletti@crisaps.org
Local Host
Octavio Uña, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, Spain, octavio.una@urjc.es
Venue of RC25 sessions:
Faculty of Philosophy, Geography and History
University of Barcelona
Montalegre, 6
08001 Barcelona, Spain, map
Session 1: Classrooms and the struggle for equality
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Antonia Randolph, University of Delaware, USA, arandolp@udel.edu
Session 2: Media representation and social justice
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30Chair: William Housley, Cardiff University, Wales, UK, housleyw@Cardiff.ac.uk
Session 3: Critical analysis of discourses of stereotyping and commonplaces
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Erzsebet Barat, University of Szeged, Hungary, b_zsazsa@freemail.hu
Session 4: Youth identities and social justice
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30Chair: Meredith Izon, University of Tasmania, Australia, maizon@postoffice.utas.edu.au
Session 5: Social research for social justice
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30Chair: Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, USA, pascale@american.edu
Session 6: The discourses of ageism and anti-ageism
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30Joint session of RC25 Sociolinguistics with TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice
Chairs: Elisabet Cedersund, Jönköping University, Sweden, ceel@hhj.hj.se
John Macnicol, London School of Economics, UK, J.Macnicol@lse.ac.uk
Session 7: Nationalization and identity: Discourses of (not) belonging
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Mahmoud Dhaouadi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, mthawad@yahoo.ca
Session 8: New language forms in computer-mediated-communications: “Net Lingo” and related developments
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Corinne Kirchner, Columbia University, USA, ck12@columbia.edu
Session 9: Contests for meaning and identity in education
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Jean Humphreys, Dallas Baptist University, USA, jean@dbu.edu
Session 10: Making sexuality and gender meaningful
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Jyoti Puri, Simmons College, United States, puri@simmons.edu
Session 11: The discourse of multiculturalism: Migrant women and human rights violations in Western countries
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Faculty of Communication Blanquerna, University of Ramon LLull
Joint session with RC05 Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations, RC25 Language and Society and TG03 Social Justice and Human Rights
Chair: Isabella Paoletti, Social Research and Intervention Center (NGO), Italy, paoletti@crisaps.org
Session 12: Indigenous language shift in Mexico
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30Chair : Roland Terborg, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, rterborg@servidor.unam.mx
Session 13: Codeswitching as a human right?
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: M. Paramasivam, University Putra, Malaysia, mparam98@hotmail.com
Session 14: Beyond black and white: New issues in racial discourse at schools
Friday, September 5, 2008, 15:30-17:30Chair: Antonia Randolph, University of Delaware, USA, arandolp@udel.edu
Session 15: Analyzing racism
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00Chair: Melissa Steyn, University of Capetown, South Africa, Melissa.Steyn@uct.ac.za
Session 16: The (Re)production of knowledge: Classifications in health care organizations
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30Chair: Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, United States, pascale@american.edu
Session 17: Changing science, changing knowledge
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chairs: Svjatoslav I. Grigorijev, Moscow State University, Russia, rebs.tpp.rf@mail.ru and Joerg-Henner Harnisch, Institute for Economic and Cultural Analysis, Germany, joharnisch@googlemail.com
Session 18: The linguistic transformation of public spaces
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 18:00-20:00Chair: Federico Farini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, federico.farini@unimore.it
Session 19: Cross-talk in the professional spheres
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Panel Organizer: Svetlana I. Harnisch, Institute of Sociology, Moscow, Russia
sve-harnisch@yandex.ru
Session 20: Cross talk in professional spheres, Panel B
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chairs: Maya Khemlani David, University of Malaysia, Malaysia, mayadavid@yahoo.com and Vladimir Alpatov, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, Russia, v-alpatov@yandex.ru
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