Wild Publics: Language in Public Space during Late Modernity

Conference at Freie Universität in cooperation with the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, March 22 to 24, 2018. No 040/2018 from Mar 01, 2018 The complex relationship between language and the public in late modernism is the focus of a conference scholars at Freie Universität Berlin are holding in cooperation with the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. From March 22 to 24, 2018, 20 scholars from Germany and abroad will discuss sociocultural processes of change in times of digital communication and against the background of sociopolitical developments such as the rise of populist parties in Europe or Brexit. The studies to be presented at the conference cover a wide range of topics, from the algorithmization of linguistic interactions to the public presentation of white male identities or linguistic authority in multilinguistic territories such as Luxembourg and Tel Aviv. Workshops for junior researchers will be held where two experts will present qualitative and quantitative methods of discourse analysis in social media. The conference is being organized by Britta Schneider and Theresa Heyd, researchers at the Institute for English Language and Literature at Freie Universität. The opening event of the conference "Wild Publics - Language under the Conditions of Late Modernity" will take place on March 22 at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin.