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Past conferences

2019: Organisation (with colleagues from DiscourseNet): DiscourseNet International Congress DNC3 ALED "Knowledge and Power in a Polycentric World: Discourses across languages, cultures and space", 11-14 September 2019, Paris Seine, Université Cergy-Pontoise, France.

2018: Organisation (with colleagues from DISCONEX): "Researchers and their practices; discourses, knowledges, practices", 11-12 June 2018, Paris, EHESS.

2017: Organisation (with colleagues from Warwick): DiscourseNet International Congress #2. Warwick (Coventry, UK), Septembre 13-15, 2017.

2015: Organisation (with colleagues from EHESS): Valuation and Evaluation - Second Workshop of Sciences and Technologies Group, EHESS, Paris December 9-10, 2015.

2015: Organisation (with Martin Nonhoff and other DiscourseNet members): DiscourseNet International Congress #1: Discourse: language, society, critique. Bremen, Germany, September 24-26, 2015. Download programme here.

2015: Organisation (with Gilles Philippe, Mathilde Vallespir, Frederic Cossutta): Autour de Dominique Maingueneau. Paris, mai 18, 2015.

2015: Organisation (with Jan Krasni): DN15 - 15th DiscourseNet meeting: Discourses of Culture - Culture of Discourses. Belgrade, March 19-21, 2015.

2015: Organisation (with Tilman Reitz et al.) of a conference on "The Structural Transformation of Higher Education. Between market logic and neo-feudal hierarchies" Jena (Germany), March 16-17, 2015

2015: Organisation (with Claude Rosental): Journée d’étude du groupe Sciences et Technologies de l’Institut Marcel Mauss. Paris, EHESS, March 9, 2015.

2015: Organisation (with Sue Wharton): Discourse and the Political. Centre for Applied Linguistics, Warwick, February 5, 2015.

2015: Organisation (with Benno Herzog, Valencia, Francesc Hernàndez, Valencia, Ronny Scholz, Warwick): DiscourseNet Winter School. Doing research on academic, educational and intellectual discourses, Valencia, Spain, 20/01-24/01/2015

2014: Organisation (with Heidrun Kaemper and Ingo Warnke) of the conference Diskurs - interdisziplinär 2014: "Diskurs - semiotisch" (4. Jahrestagung) and 14th DiscourseNet meeting, Mannheim, 4.-6.12.2014

2014: organisation (with DiscourseNet, PAD, DISCONEX etc.) of a discourse research workshop, 20-22 March 2014, Warwick.

2013: organisation (with Martin Reisigl, Ludwig Gasteiger) of the twelfth DiscourseNet meeting. October 10-12, 2013, Bern, Switzerland.

2013: organisation (with Stefan Hirschauer) of a workshop on "Classifying Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities", January 15, 2013, Mainz, Germany.

2012: organisation (with SOCUM AG 4) of a workshop on "Discursive Crossings". October 19-20, 2012, Mainz, Germany.

2011: organisation (with DiscourseNet) of the ninth DiscourseNet meeting. October 27-29, 2011, Berlin.

2011: Organization with Martin Nonhoff der Discourse Research Workshop Mainz July 14-15, 2011, Mainz, Germany

2011: organization (with DiscourseNet) of the seventh DiscourseNet meeting. April 7-10, 2011, Berlin.

2010: Organization (with Juliette Wedl and Felicitas MacGilchrist) of the sixth meeting of the DiscourseNet; Methodologies and Methods of Discourse Analysis (MeMeDa), November 4-6, 2010 in Berlin

2010: Organization (with Gesa Lindemann) of a Panel of the section on Qualitative Methods "Praxis, interaction, discourse - on the actors in the research process" at the 35th Congress of the German Association of Sociology, October 11-16, 2010 in Frankfurt on the Main

2010: Organization of Workshops #1 "Education, Democracy, Freedom" of the Summer Factory on Education of the Institute Solidary Modernity, September 24-26, 2010 in Frankfurt on the Main

2010: Organization of the Discourse Workshop Mainz, July 8-10, 2010 at the University of Mainz.

2009: Organization (with colleagues from the DiscourseNet) of the fifth meeting of the research group Methodologies and methods of discourse analysis am April 23-25, 2010 in Sankt Andreasberg, Harz, Germany.

2009: Organization (with colleagues from Magdeburg) of the fifth Transdisciplinary Forum Magdeburg ("Transforma #5"): Moving (Con)Texts, Magdeburg, Germany, July 10-12, 2009

2009: Organization (with Silke van Dyk) of the conference Discourse analysis meets governementality studies/a>, Jena, June 12-13, 2009

2009: Organization (with members of MeMeDa) of third meeting for the research network Methodologies and methods of discourse analysis, April 2-4 , 2009 at the University of Paris 12

2008: Organization of a conference (with Jacob Torfing, Maarten Hajer, David Howarth) "Discourse analysis" (ESF project/Euroqual, University of Roskilde, Denmark, December 1-4, 2008

2008: Support for a conference of students from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg "Transforma Reloaded 08", University of Magdeburg, 11-13 July 2008

2008: Organization of a conference (with Frédéric Lebaron, Malika Temmar, Isabelle Laaborde-Mila) "Les discours sur l'économie. Journalisme, expertise, militantisme", University of Paris 12 (CEDITEC)/University of Amiens (CURAPP), 14-15 February 2008

2008: Organization of the first meeting of the DFG funded network "Methodologies and Methods in Discourse Analysis", University of Magdeburg, Germany, January 18-20, 2008

2007: Organization of a Journée d'études "Analyser les pratiques discursives en sciences sociales", University of Paris 12, France, April 27th, 2007

2006: Organization (with Stephan Moebius) of Ad Hoc Group 23 "Die Materialität sozialer Praxis: Zur Rolle des Poststrukturalismus in der Soziologie" at the Convention of the German Sociological Society The Nature of Society, Oktober 9-13, 2006

2006: Organization (with Anke Bartels, Dietmar Fricke, Britta Krause, Jörg Meyer, Raj Kollmorgen, Michael Schultze, Agata Stopinska and Dirk Wiemann) of the 4th transdisciplinary forum Magdeburg ("Transforma #4"): Revolutions: Concepts, Discourses, Practices of Revolutionary Action in Our Time, Magdeburg, July 7-9, 2006 (sponsored by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2005: Organization (with Anke Bartels, Dietmar Fricke, Britta Krause, Jörg Meyer, Raj Kollmorgen, Michael Schultze, Agata Stopinska and Dirk Wiemann) of the 3rd transdisciplinary forum Magdeburg ("Transforma #3"): Time - Space - Agency, Magdeburg, July 15-17, 2005 (sponsored by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2005: Organization (with Dominique Maingueneau and Malika Temmar) of the symposium Discourse Analysis in Germany and France: Current tendencies in linguistics and the social sciences, Paris/Créteil-Céditec, June 30 - July 2, 2005 (sponsored by the German-French University and the University of Paris 12)

2004: Organization (with Jens Badura and Andreas Niederberger) of the research network: Penser l'Europe, Frankfurt on the Main, November 20 - 21, 2004 (sponsored by the German-French University)

2004: Organization (with Jörg Meyer, Dietmar Fricke, Britta Krause, Michael Schultze, Agata Stopinska, and Dirk Wiemann) of the second transdisciplinary forum Magdeburg ("Transforma"): Discourses of Violence - Violence of Discourses", Magdeburg, July 2-4, 2004 (sponsored by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the University of Magdeburg)

2003: Organization (with Jörg Meyer, Raj Kollmorgen and Dirk Wiemann) of the first transdisciplinary forum Magdeburg ("Transforma"): Reflexive Representations: Discourse, Power, and Praxis in Global Capitalism, Magdeburg, Juli 4-6, 2003 (sponsored by the Land of Saxony-Anhalt and the University of Magdeburg)

2003: Assistance to Autonomy und Heteronomy of Politics - Political Thought between Post-Marxism und Poststructuralism, Frankfurt am Main, July 18-19, 2003 (sponsored by the Department of Philosopy, the "Freunde und Förderer der Universität Frankfurt" and the association Gradnet e.V.)

2000: Organization (with Katharina Bunzmann, Martin Nonhoff and Christina Rauch) of the third international interdisciplinary graduate conference PostModern Productions: Text - Power - Knowledge, Erlangen, November 24-26, 2000 (sponsored by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Bavarian American Academy)

1999: Organization (with Katharina Bunzmann and Christina Rauch) of the second international interdisciplinary graduate conference PostModern Perspectives: Culture, Literature, Society, Erlangen, November 19-21, 1999 (sponsored by Bavarian American Academy)

1998: Organization (with Martin Nonhoff) of the first international interdisciplinary graduate conference PostModern Discourses between Language and Power, Erlangen, November 20-22, 1998