New RaAM-endorsed event in Otago, New Zealand

We are pleased to announce a new RaAM-endorsed event!

On 11-12 October 2019 the Division of Humanities in the University of Otago (New Zealand) will host the international colloquium ‘The Body Politic Metaphor in Discourse, Past and Present’

The colloquium will examine various aspects of the metaphorical discourse on the body politic from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The diachronic and cross-cultural approach to the body politic metaphor in this colloquium aims to enhance our global understanding of a metaphorical dimension of contemporary political discourse./p>

Call for Papers

Abstracts of approx. 200 words for 20-minute papers may be submitted to bodypoliticotago@gmail.com until 15 June 2019.

More information can be found here.