Term 1
| 21st October | 2pm | Sole Alba Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II)
Ecoliteracy in Higher Education: how knowledge of multimodality can encourage the young generations to take ecological action |
| 4th November | **3pm**
**In person** County South B59 |
Zirui Xiong (Visiting Researcher, Lancaster University)
An ecolinguistic study of news reports on wildlife in China’s mainstream English-language media |
| 18th November | 2pm | Niamh O’Dowd (University of Oslo)
Multimodal discourse representations of the climate crisis |
| 2nd December | 2pm | Katy Brown (Maynooth University)
The role of media reporting in far-right mainstreaming |
Term 2
| 27th January | 2pm
MS Teams |
Steve Oswald (University of Fribourg)
Are we more persuasive when we reformulate than when we argue? An experimental study |
| 10th February | 2pm
MS Teams |
Manuela Romano (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) The discourse of dissent and its influence in hegemonic discourses |
| 24th February | 2pm
MS Teams |
María Martínez-Lirola (University of Alicante)
Exploring the use of picture books to develop emotional literacy: Compositional and interpersonal analysis of Marwan’s Journey (de Arias and Borrás, 2018) and Ziba Came on a Boat (Lofthouse and Ingpen, 2012) |
| 10th March | 2pm
**In person** County South B59 |
Elena Semino and Yufeng Liu (Lancaster University)
Metaphors and identities on two cancer forums |