[Chass-gsaos] Fwd: UCLA Discourse Conference CFP

[Perla Fabelo]

Good morning, please forward this graduate conference announcement to your
graduate students.  Thank you.
Best,
Perla


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From: Pavel Savgira <savpal at g.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Subject: UCLA Discourse Conference CFP
To: <perla.fabelo at ucr.edu>


Dear Perla,

I hope your week is going well! I’m reaching out from UCLA to share a call
for papers for an upcoming interdisciplinary graduate student conference on
Discourse. Could you share with the graduate students in the department?
Would love to see them there.

Here is a bit more on the conference and you can find the whole CFP
attached:

The conference, *Discourse in the Age of Political Upheaval and Artificial
Intelligence*, brings together graduate students and scholars interested in
rethinking discourse analysis amid algorithmic governance, platform
monopolies, authoritarian resurgence, and the proliferation of AI systems.
The event will take place in person at UCLA on *May 7-8, 2026 *and all
panels will have faculty responders, which will give presenters in-depth
feedback on their papers.

We are honored to welcome Dr. *Julia Alekseyeva *(University of
Pennsylvania) as our keynote speaker. Professor Alekseyeva is Assistant
Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies at Penn. Her recent
book, *Antifascism
and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s*(UC Press, 2025),
examines the intersections of global media and radical politics. She is
also the author-illustrator of the award-winning graphic memoir *Soviet
Daughter* (2017), and her scholarship spans film, art, and political
movements across Japan, France, and the USSR

We invite abstracts that address topics including (but not limited to):
contemporary discursive subversions in popular media; global resistances to
authoritarian rhetoric; critiques and reinventions of the public sphere and
digital commons; algorithmic and Gen-AI studies; platform and LLM impact on
discourse; and analyses of bias, misinformation, and deep fakes

The submission deadline is *March 23rd* at 11:59 PM PST. Please see the CFP
(here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TXm46Mn3l0Y4AWj0Aj3Jh8YlK6Cm2gKG6xdeinefr44/edit?usp=sharing>,
and attached) for more information and submission links. Acceptance
notifications will be sent at the end of March.

Abstracts can be submitted via the following form:
https://forms.gle/ynHiRZothVVkgVdp8.

Best,
Pavel
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