The dimensions of conflict in political discourse: deliberation, polarization, identity, media, global balances

The second edition of the Early-Career Scholars Transdisciplinary Seminar will take place at the main building of the “Guglielmo Marconi” University in Rome, on October 9th-10th, 2025. The event is promoted by the Department of Economics, Management, Law and Political Sciences of the same University and organized in collaboration with the Department of Humanities of the University of Foggia. The call for proposals is addressed to PhD students and early career scholars from various academic fields, including political theory and philosophy, classical and modern philology, aesthetics and philosophy of language, discourse analysis (linguistics, semiotics, pragmatics), sociology, media studies, history, law, and economics. This call invites contributions that explore, from theoretical, historical, analytical, and critical perspectives, the multiple conflictual dimensions of political discourse. The aim is to foster a transdisciplinary reflection on how conflict is represented, narrated, articulated, and regulated through the languages of politics, both in ancient and contemporary societies. Particular attention will be paid to the processes by which political discourse constructs oppositions, mobilizes collective identities, structures dissent, and gives voice to demands for justice and recognition. This call thus seeks to gather proposals that, through diverse yet complementary approaches, analyze conflict as a structural and ambivalent element of public life – a force capable of generating fractures and polarization, but also of opening up spaces for negotiation, representation, and democratic innovation. All details regarding participation, deadlines, and selection criteria are available in the full version of the call for proposals (PDF attached). For further information, please contact the Organizing Committee at: seminariotransdisciplinare.phd@gmail.com 
Deadline: 15/07/2025
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