Events
SKAD-Network Meeting
29th SKAD-Network Meeting
The 29th network meeting “Sociological Discourse Analysis of Knowledge” will take place online on January 15 and 16.
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The meeting starts on January 15 at 2 p.m. and ends on January 16 at approximately 3 p.m.
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You are cordially invited to participate and join the discussion or even present your own research. If you would like to discuss your work, dissertation, or project, please send us a few sentences about your plans (wda.skad@gmail.com). In addition to discussing work in progress, empirical material can also be contributed and worked on together. If you are interested in discussing your WDA-based work with us, we can discuss all further details by email—there are no formal requirements for “membership” or other obligations. Based on previous experience, however, we and all other participants would be grateful if you could try to attend the entire day and not just join us for an hour. Participation is free of charge for everyone.
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A maximum of six projects will be discussed at the meeting, but each will be given a generous 60 minutes. There will also be opportunities to discuss general and specific questions that are currently on your mind in an open space. You are welcome to submit suggestions for this in advance.
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Please write to us if you would like to attend the meeting or simply to find out more about the network meeting. The program will then be sent out at the end of the year via email to this distribution list at? wda.skad@gmail.com.
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We look forward to receiving lots of registrations.
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Organisation: Noemi Trucco & Tessa-Marie Menzel
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SKAD Autumn School
Autumn School ?The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD)? |?September 15-17, 2025
Following the high interest and success of the last six international workshops with participants from different countries and all world regions, there will be another introductory workshop in English on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg in September 2025. The organiser invites novice as well as experienced academics from a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to sociology, ethnology, political science, cultural studies, linguistics, education, and other humanities, to explore the potential of this approach to studying discourses in the context of their own projects and research. Please note that the English Autumn School SKAD gives priority to participants without a German language background. German speakers are invited to register for our German language Summer School WDA.
The workshop will discuss the following topics:
- What is at stake when using SKAD in discourse research?
- SKAD theory: discourses & dispositifs – and how to conceptualise them
- Research questions and conceptual tools in SKAD
- The methodology of interpretive analytics
- Getting into the field: methods of data collection and analysing data
- Getting out of the field: from data analysis to comprehensive diagnostics
- Discussion of participants’ research
- Special interest session
Further information on the Autumn School, registration process and general conditions of participation can be found here:
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The registration is closed now.
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WDA Spring School 2026 (in German)
WDA Spring School 2026
Im vergangenen Jahrzehnt erlebte die sozial- und geisteswissenschaftliche Diskursforschung einen starken Boom. Dem tragen die Methodenausbildungen in den verschiedenen Disziplinen nur ansatzweise Rechnung. Insbesondere die Fragen der konkreten Arbeit am Text bzw. des Umgangs mit unterschiedlichen Datenformaten und der Interpretation der Daten im Rahmen der Diskursforschung geh?ren zu den Leerstellen der Methodenausbildungen.
Die Summer School Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse (WDA) wendet sich an Wissenschaftler:innen aus verschiedenen sozial- und geisteswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, die in Qualifikationsvorhaben oder Forschungsprojekten mit diskurstheoretischen und diskursanalytischen Perspektiven der WDA arbeiten bzw. arbeiten wollen. Sie bietet
- eine Einführung in theoretisch-begriffliche Grundlagen der WDA,
- eine Einführung in methodische Umsetzungen und deren exemplarische Erprobung in gemeinsamen Analysen von den Veranstaltern bereit gestellter Daten,
- die M?glichkeit, Fragenstellungen sowie Forschungsdesigns der WDA-basierten Diskurs- und Dispositivforschung zu diskutieren sowie
- Fragen aus den eigenen laufenden Projekten bzw. Projektvorhaben in die Diskussionen einzubringen.
Daneben werden optional zwei Vertiefungen angeboten:
- Vertiefung A: Spezifische Fragen zur wissenssoziologischen Diskursforschung
- Vertiefung B: Analyse von Subjektivierungsweisen
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Weitere Informationen zu den Inhalten der Vertiefungen, zur Anmeldung und den Teilnahmebedingungen finden Sie in der Ankündigung hier? Spring School 2026
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