In 2016, the 11th international conference on researching and applying metaphor took place at the Freie Universität Berlin, from 1 to 4 July.

The theme of the conference was “Metaphor in the Arts, in Media and Communication”.

The invited speakers at this conference were:

  • Jennifer M. Barker (Georgia State University, US)
  • Petra Gehring (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
  • José Gutierrez Marquez (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)
  • Irene Mittelberg (RWTH Aachen University in Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany)

The call for papers can be found here.

The book of abstracts can be found here.

The programme can be found here.

A pre-conference PhD workshop was held at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder from 29-30 June. The theme of this workshop was “How meaning becomes graspable”. The programme for this workshop can be found here.

Here you can find the conference website.