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.