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DemLab Webinar Series: Session 2 – Hegemonic defeatism: How the liberal elite paved the way for the reactionary resurgence

Date: 18 December 2025
Time: 12:00 (GMT+2 / Athens, Greece)

Dear colleagues,

Please join us again in 2025-202 for our monthly Friday lunchtime online English-language seminars from London, a collaboration of the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK and DiscourseNet. 

Dear all,

I'm pleased to share the programme for the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics research seminars. They run every other Thursday, 16:00-17:00 (UK time) and can usually be attended either online or in person (unless stated otherwise).

For Eventbrite links, abstracts, recordings of past seminars and future events please go to our website: https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics/events.

Upcoming seminars:

The Seminar Series "Discourse and Sustainability" is an international forum for presenting and discussing new, cutting edge, research on discourse and issues of sustainability, environment, climate change and ecology. Please join us again in 2025-2026!

To join our seminars, you will need to register:

The discourse seminar - call for interest

Are you interested in the study of discourse? This online seminar is open for graduate students and early-career researchers who want to deepen their theoretical understanding of discourse and to develop their discourse research projects. We started in fall 2024 and our discussions centred on the question of truth and critique.

Dear all,

I'm pleased to share the programme for the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics research seminars. They run every Thursday afternoon, 4 to 5 pm (UK time) and can be attended online.

For Eventbrite links, abstracts, recordings of past seminars and future events you can go to our website: https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics/events.

This month, the seminars are:

6 February: Anthony Elisha Anowu, Anchor University Lagos. Turn-taking and Power in Cross-Examination of Expert Witnesses in Nigeria.

The Seminar Series "Discourse and Sustainability" is an international forum for presenting and discussing new, cutting edge, research on discourse and issues of sustainability, environment, climate change and ecology. Please join us again in 2024-2025!

To join our seminars, you will need to register:

Please join us again in 2024-2025 for our monthly Friday lunchtime online English-language seminars from London, a collaboration of the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK and DiscourseNet. 

To join our seminars, you will need to register: