LIP Programme
Term 3 2022/2023
Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Thursdays, from 11am (BST), Microsoft Teams. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.
| Week 21 – 25 April: Innocent Chiluwa (Freiburg): ‘Researching discourse, media and conflict’ | |
| Week 22 – 02 May: Laura Mercé Moreno-Serrano (València): ‘Studying the discursive representation of domestic violence in Big Little Lies (Kelley, Vallée, & Arnold, 2019)’ | |
| Week 23 – 09 May: Nelly Gérard (University of Liège): ‘Competing political party discourse on Scotland’s constitutional status and constitutional change after Brexit’ | |
| Week 24 – 16 May (hybrid session – County South C89 & Teams): MA/PhD Workshop | |
| Week 25 – 23 May (hybrid session – County South C89 & Teams): Pavan Mano (UCL) : ‘Queerness disseminated: sexuality as a modality of racial governance’ (+ a LIP social meal in the evening) | |
| Week 26 – 30 May: [Reading week] | |
| Week 27 – 06 June: Christos Sagredos (King’s College): The pleasure of pleasing: a corpus-assisted small stories approach to male clients’ affective identity constructions of heterosexual desire in PunterNet reviews | |
| Week 29 – 20 June (hybrid session – County South C89 & Teams): Alice Ashcroft (Lancaster): ‘Gendered Language in Software Development Teams’ | |
| Week 30 – 27 June: Katy Brown (Bath): ‘Mainstream constructions of the far right: how talking “about” can lead to mainstreaming’ |
Term 2 2022/2023
Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Tuesdays, from 11am, via Microsoft Teams. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.
Week 13 – 31 January (hybrid session – County South B89 & Teams): Jessica Aiston (Lancaster) : “Flying freely without any nagging”: A study of male separatist discourse on Reddit |
| Week 14 – 07 February: Eleonora Esposito (University of Navarra): A Critical Discursive Perspective on Gender-based Cyber Violence |
| Week 15 – 14 February (hybrid session – County South B89 & Teams): Data analysis session |
| Week 17 – 28 February: Nelly Gérard (University of Liège): Competing political party discourse on Scotland’s constitutional status and constitutional change after Brexit |
| Week 18 – 07 March: Jose B. Berna Alvarado (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona): ‘The social protest paradigm in Spanish right-wing demonstration coverage’ |
| Week 19 – 14 March (hybrid session – County South B89 & Teams): MA Workshop |
| Week 20 – 21 March: No session |
Term 1 2022/2023
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, 13 October: LIP Introductory session |
| Week 2 – Thursday, 20 October ( hybrid session – County South B89 & Teams): Marina Niceforo (Naples): Quite like before: The power of emotional storytelling in Coca–Cola’s campaign Open Like Never Before |
| Week 3 – 27 October (hybrid session – County South B89 & Teams): Mikka Lene Pers (KCL): Negotiating credibility and clickability in YouTube vlogging: The case of Mummy Vlogger Influencers |
| Week 4 – **MONDAY 31 October*** Special LIP event (hybrid session – FASS Meeting Room 2 & Teams *12–2pm**) Ruth Page (Birmingham), Matteo Fuoli (Birmingham) and Sten Hansson (Tartu/Birmingham): Blame games in Twitter
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| Week 5 – Thursday, 10 November: Inge Beekmans (Tilburg): Discourse in and around Big Tech hearings |
| Week 6 – 17 November (hybrid session – Bowland North Seminar Room 11 & Teams): Anna Stanisz–Lubowiecka (UCL): The Polish language and authoritarian regimes: Language ideologies in political discourse in Poland (1970–1989 and 2015–2022) |
| Week 8 – 01 December: Olga Baysha (HSE Moscow): “Civilization” vs. “barbarism“: Transnational populism of Volodymyr Zelensky during the Russia–Ukraine War |
| Week 9 – 08 December: Océane Foubert, Lola Marinato and Robin Vallery (Lille): Liberation of speech or liberation of listening? #MeTooInceste testimonies and their reception on Twitter |
| Week 10 – 15 December: Mark Nartey (UWE): Why we need an interventionist approach and an activist–scholar posture in investigating emancipatory discourses |