The DN34 International Conference on Discourse, Identity and Polarisation

November 10-12, 2026 

Hybrid mode 🖥

  • The call for papers and panel proposals will be open until 15 May 2026. This international hybrid conference aims to open an interdisciplinary forum for discussing how individual and group identities are discursively construed in today’s increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse can serve as a medium for reproducing or challenging social divisions.
  • The conference invites international scholars at all career stages from across the transdisciplinary field of Critical Discourse Studies to explore how social divisions and identities are discursively shaped, contested and transformed.
  • We encourage submissions that examine the role of discourse in shaping identities and polarisation at local, national and transnational scales, as well as how identities may offer grounds for solidarity, resistance and social change through explicit theoretical discussions and/or through relevant case studies.
  • We invite both quantitative and qualitative studies that especially reflect upon these phenomena from a critical viewpoint, and which may adopt new or existing discourse theoretical approaches. We also welcome contributions that explore theoretical and/or methodological challenges of researching discourse, identity and polarisation.
  • The conference is hosted by Vilnius University (Lithuania), in collaboration with DiscourseNet (International Association for Discourse Studies) and the DARE Horizon Europe postdoctoral project, which investigates how polarisation and identities surrounding the abortion debate are constructed in European mainstream media.
  • Full information can be found on the Call for Papers section and the DiscourseNet website.
  • Submissions can be sent through the registration section.

 

 

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