Dear All - Apologies for cross-posting - but here is the call for papers for this year's New Zealand Discourse Conference which welcomes abstract submissions connected with the digital. Best regards Philippa Smith Auckland University of Technology, NZ Please join us at NZDC8 in Christchurch this December! Call for papers below. 8th New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC8) Location: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand and virtually via Zoom Dates: 10-11 December 2021 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: Prof Monica Heller, University of Toronto Dr Majid KhosraviNik, Newcastle University Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: 5pm NZT, Monday 14 June 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 www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/nzdc8<http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/conferences/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 Abstracts of papers and proposals for panels are welcomed. 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<mailto:colleen.mills@canterbury.ac.nz>