2021-22

LIP Programme

Term 1 2021/2022

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Thursdays, from 12pm, Microsoft Teams. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.

Week 1 – Thursday, 14 October: LIP Introductory session
Week 2 – Thursday, 21 October: PhD workshop
Week 3 – Thursday, 28 October: Data analysis session on Facebook whistleblower
Week 4 – Tuesday, 02 November **4pm**: Kendra Calhoun (UC Santa Barbara): (De)constructing ideologies of whiteness through linguistic performance of the ‘straight white boy’ on social media
Week 7 – Thursday, 25 November: Carolina Fernández Quintanilla, Jane Lugea and Gemma Carney (Queen’s University Belfast and University of Huddersfield): Dementia in the mind of characters and readers. 
Week 9 – Thursday, 09 December: Federica Formato (University of Brighton): Investigating language, gender and sexuality: A quest to integrate CADS (Corpus Approaches to Discourse Studies) and FCDA (Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis). 
Week 10 – 16 December **3pm**: Frazer Heritage (University of Birmingham): Corpus construction and controllers: methodological challenges in exploring the representation of identity in videogames 

Term 2 2021/2022

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Thursdays, from 12pm, Microsoft Teams. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.

Week 11 – Thursday, 20 January **2PM**: Rachelle Vessey (Carleton University): Gender and public health guidance on Twitter: A Canadian case study
Week 12 – Thursday, 27 January: Caroline Staquet (University of Ghent): Research as a Policy Instrument? Critically Deconstructing the Outset of CLIL Research in European Language Policy
Week 13 – Thursday, 3 February **10am**:  Tamsin Parnell (University of Nottingham): “I still felt British”: Negotiating Brexit-related identities through stories
Week 14 – Thursday, 10 February: Yating Yu (Tiffany) (Hong Kong Polytechnic): Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media: a critical discourse analysis of the representation of ‘leftover men’
Week 15 – Thursday, 17 February: Kate Barber (University of Cardiff): Investigating ideological overlap and divergence in Alt-Right and Manosphere discourses on sexual violence against women [cancelled due to industrial action]
Week 17 – Thursday, 3 March **4pm**: Riki Thompson (University of Washington): Gender, power, and making the first move on the dating app Bumble
Week 18 – **Tuesday 8 March 9-10.30am**: Book launch, Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide (2ndedn), by Ruth Page, David Barton, Carmen Lee, Johnny Unger and Michele Zappavigna
Week 19 – 17 March: PhD Workshop [cancelled
Week 20 – 24 March: Mark McGlashan (Birmingham City University): TBC  [cancelled due to industrial action]

 

Term 3 2021/2022

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Thursdays, from 12pm, Microsoft Teams. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.

Week 21 – Thursday, 28th April: Susana Martínez Guillem (The University of New Mexico): Sharing dislike, degrading the ‘other’: Humor, language ideology, and political identities
Week 22 – Thursday, 5th May: Jacopo Castaldi (Canterbury Christ Church University): Cognition and ideological effects in the interaction between viewers and BBC travel documentaries: Combining multimodal critical discourse analysis and audience research
Week 23 – Thursday, 12th May:  Anna Islentyeva (Universität Innsbruck, Austria): Europe/EU Migrants in British media and political discourses: Combining corpus methods and CDA
Week 24 – Thursday, 19th May: Javier Mármol Queraltó (Lancaster University): Multimodal representations of the Refugee ‘Crisis’ in online newspapers: A cognitive approach.
Week 27 – Thursday, 9th June: Jenny Bergström (Umeå University): “English is not really a subject” – Power and language ideology in a multilingual classroom
Week 28 – Thursday, 16th June: Kate Barber (University of Cardiff): Investigating ideological overlap and divergence in alt-right and manosphere discourses on sexual violence against women
Week 29 – Thursday, 23rd June: Alexandra Krendel (Lancaster University/University of Edinburgh): TBC
Week 30 – Thursday, 30th June **2PM**: Camila Cárdenas-Neira (Universidad Austral de Chile – MIRCo) and Carolina Pérez-Arredondo (Universidad de O’Higgins): The construction of a mythical narrative of collective action after the 2019 Chilean uprising.