LIP Programme, Term 1 2025 

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Tuesday, 13:00pm, via Microsoft Teams 

  

Week 1 – 7 October:  Tasneem Solie (Lancaster University): Metaphors in Syrian Refugees’ Narratives of Forced Displacement: A discourse-dynamics approach (**Hybrid Session – Bowland North SR23) 

 

Week 2 – 14 October: PhD workshop (**Hybrid Session – Bowland North SR23) 

   

Week 3 – 21 October: Jack Wilson (Salford University): Are the Outputs of AI Meaningful? 

   

Week 4 – 28 October:  Teun van Dijk (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona): Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right  

   

Week 5 – 4 November: Kate Barber & Emily Powell (University of Reading; University of South Wales): Biblical and Religious Themes in Extreme Right-Wing Discourses 

   

Week 6 – 11 November: [READING WEEK]  

   

Week 7 – 18 November: Joe Spencer-Bennett (Birmingham University): Talking Down: the Demotic Speech Ideal in British Politics 

  

Week 8 – 25 November: Małgorzata Chałupnik (University of Nottingham): Discourses of Feminist Protest and Political Change in the Face of Anti-liberalism 

  

Week 9 – ** Wednesday** 3 December:  Vasiliki Saloustrou (Deree The American college of Greece): Teasing and Moral Identities in Jocular Pretence Sequences in Greek Scripted Interactions 

 

Week 10 – 9 December:  Bernhard Forchtner & Franco Zappettini (University of Leicester; University of Liverpool): Book launch: Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies 

   

All welcome!