2019/20

LIP Programme

Term 3 2019/20

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Wednesdays, from 12pm, via Microsoft Teams.  Some sessions may have to be cancelled at short notice depending on circumstances.

Week 24 – Wednesday, 13 May: Steve Wright, ‘Auto-coding whitehouse covid-19 press conferences with QDA software’
Week 26 – Wednesday, 13 November:Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka (University College London), ‘Language Endangerment Discourse in Poland: Constructing National Identity in the Era of Political Transformations’
Week 27 – Wednesday, 3 June: Camila Montiel McCann (University of Liverpool), ‘Hegemonic femininity, feminism and the media: the positioning of the ‘alt-right woman’ in media discourse’
Week 28 – Wednesday, 10 June: Dr Jai Mackenzie, University of Nottingham, ‘“It is 100% normal”: Negotiating family normativities as a single-mum-by-choice’
Week 29 – Wednesday, 17 June: Evelin Nikolova, ‘”The balance of power is me: 0, Harvey Weinstein: 10″: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the press representation of Hollywood’s biggest sexual harassment scandal’
Week 30 – Wednesday, 24 June: Radoslava Semanová (Slovak Academy of Sciences),
Johnny Unger, Dana Gablasova, ‘Political resistance and contention in a totalitarian regime: Tramp subculture in former Czechoslovakia’

Term 2 2019/20

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Wednesdays, from 12pm, County South B89. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.

Week 13 – Wednesday, 29 January: PhD Workshop
Week 14 – Wednesday, 5 February: Aqsa Mat Isa, ‘The Semiotic Construction of Identity for Radicalisation:
   A Critical Multimodal Approach to Understanding Terrorist Recruitment Materials’ (Mock viva session)
Week 16 – Wednesday, 19 February: Maka Julios Costa, Rethinking the Ideological Square – Discrimination, Essentialist Cognition and Social Change in Context
Remaining sessions this term cancelled due to UCU industrial action

Term 1 2019/20

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Wednesdays, from 12pm, County South B89. Some sessions may have to be moved at short notice depending on attendance.

Week 1 – Wednesday, 9 October: LIP Introductory session
Week 2 – Wednesday, 16 October: Follow-up discussion following a talk on Brexit, the UK/German relationship & EU Policy On Tuesday evening (15th October)
Week 4 – Wednesday, 30 October: Javier Mármol-Queraltó, ‘Exploring event-construal in British and Spanish online newspapers: The refugee ‘crisis’ from a CL-CDS perspective’
Week 6 – Wednesday, 13 November: Rachel Cooper, ‘The concept of disorder’
Week 7 – Wednesday, 20 November: Evelin Nikolova, “‘Slut I hate you’: A Critical Discoure Analysis of gendered conflict on YouTube”
Week 8 – Wednesday, 27 November: PhD Project Ideas Workshop
Week 9 – Wednesday, 4 December: Kristine Endsjo, ‘Emotion in extremist discourse’
Week 10 – Wednesday, 11 December: Aqsa Isa, ‘Manipulation and misconception: unmasking concepts in terrorist recruitment’