Apologies for cross posting - but a reminder below from the NZDC co-convenor, Assoc Prof Donald Matheson, that the deadline for abstract submissions to the New Zealand Discourse Conference | Korerorero Aotearoa, closes at the end of the day on 2 August, 2021. There are some great keynotes (see below), including Angela Moewaka Barnes from the Whariki Research Centre at Massey, NZ. We’ve kept registration costs as low as possible, starting at NZ $60, to make the event accessible to all. Regards Philippa Smith 8th New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC8) Location: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand and virtually via Zoom Dates: 10-11 December 2021 https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/nzdc8/ Call for papers The New Zealand Discourse Conference is a biennial event which brings together scholars working in a range of fields who study some form of discourse or use discourse analysis to understand other phenomena. The conference welcomes contributions that consider discourse and interaction in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal talk, institutional settings, organisational communication, mediated communication, as well as policy, political and cultural lenses on discourse. The conference welcomes diversity in theoretical and analytical approaches. Suggested areas of interest include: Political discourse Communication in bicultural and multicultural contexts Discourse and identity Language, gender and sexuality Leadership discourse Corpus approaches to discourse analysis Multimodal discourse analysis Narrative, stance and positioning Life stories Media discourse Interpretive discourses Discursive tensions and conflict Digitisation and discourse Plenary speakers include: Dr Angela Moewaka Barnes, Massey University, NZ https://shoreandwhariki.ac.nz/angela-barnes Prof Gail Fairhurst, University of Cincinnati, USA https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/fairhug Prof Monica Heller, University of Toronto, Canada https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/sje/People/1615/Monica_Heller.html Dr Majid KhosraviNik, Newcastle University, UK https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/people/profile/majidkhosravinik.html Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: 5pm NZT, 2 August 2021 Decision on acceptance: Monday 12 September 2021 All abstracts will be blind peer-reviewed and must be between 750 and 1000 words. A selection will be invited to submit full 7000 word papers for a special issue of Communication Research and Practice. Waged, attending in person: NZ$200 Student and unwaged, attending in person: NZ$95 Waged, attending virtually: NZ$110 Student and unwaged, attending virtually: $60 Further information and registration see https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/nzdc8/ Email: nzdc8@canterbury.ac.nz<mailto:nzdc8@canterbury.ac.nz> Format The conference will operate live during Aotearoa New Zealand day time, although sessions will be recorded and available afterwards. You can participate by attending in Christchurch or from your home town via Zoom. Plenary presentations will take place live. Other presentations (7-10 minutes long) should be recorded, but at least one presenter of each paper should attend their session in person or on Zoom. The conference will encourage discussion and provide time in each session for face-to-face questions and Zoom chat. At sites with multiple participants, we will help you gather and with providing morning and afternoon tea (according to what is possible while following good public health advice for the region). Because travel to Aotearoa New Zealand from outside the bubble with Australia is uncertain, we recommend international participants plan to take part remotely. In case of New Zealand entering Covid-19 level 3 or 4, the conference will move entirely online. Submission guidelines Please email abstracts of papers and proposals for panels to nzdc8@canterbury.ac.nz<mailto:nzdc8@canterbury.ac.nz>. Abstracts should be 750-1000 words in total. Please specify the area of your presentation and provide keywords to help us put together the sessions. Panel proposals should provide an overall justification of 300-500 words, name of chair/respondent and also specify how each participant will contribute (300 words per presenter). When proposing panels, please let us know the format you suggest would work best for the panel. Panels may be either face-to-face or Zoom-based. All abstract and panel proposals will be reviewed by our conference team and invited reviewers. Conference convenors Assoc Prof Donald Matheson donald.matheson@canterbury.ac.nz<mailto:donald.matheson@canterbury.ac.nz> Prof Colleen Mills colleen.mills@canterbury.ac.nz