LIP Programme, Term 1 2026-27

Sessions will be on Tuesday, 13:00 UK Time, either online via Microsoft Teams or in hybrid format (online and in County South C89) as indicated  

Week 2 – 13th October: Introduction to LIP  

Week 3 – 20th October: **Hybrid talk** Zozan Balci (University of Liverpool), A Place for Every Name: Everyday Acts of Inclusion and Belonging 

Week 4 – 27th October: Tamsin Parnell (University of Exeter), Discourses of National Health and Nationhood under Keir Starmer’s Labour  

Week 5 – 3rd November: Eva Triebl (University of Vienna) & Johann Wolfgang Unger (Lancaster University), Seduction by proxy: Multimodal persuasion and the calibration of desire in Spicy BookTok 

Week 6 – 10th November: Letizia Paglialunga & Jekaterina Nikitina (University of Milan), Grammars of Responsibility: Obstetric Violence in International Human Rights Courts 

Week 7 – 17th November: **Hybrid talk** Mustafa Elmenshawi (Lancaster University), When War Has a “Spirit”: Language, Memory and the Legitimation of Authoritarianism 

Week 8 – 24th November:  **Hybrid talk** Yuze Sha (University of Edinburgh), When Health Claims Become Jokes: Multimodal Irony and the Classification of Contested Health Communication

Week 9 – 1st December: **Hybrid talk** Yusuf Al Arief (Lancaster University), Anti-Hegemonic Humour in Indonesian Stand-Up Comedy: Towards a Critical Discursive Framework for the Analysis of Humour as a Form of Sociopolitical Resistance 

Week 10 – 8th December: **Hybrid session** PhD Workshop 

All welcome!