DiscourseNet Winter School #9 - Transformative discourse studies. Social and political struggle in a polarised world

Monday 19/1/2026 - Wednesday 21/1/2026 

University of Valencia, Spain

The aim of DiscourseNet Winter School is to bring together MA as well as PhD students across disciplines (social sciences, linguistics, cultural studies, humanities, etc.). Advanced BA students with their own research project are also welcome. 

Maintaining a wide scope regarding the thematic, researchers that delve into 1) discourse’s processes of transformation, 2) the transformative effects of discourses, and or, 3) methods and methodologies on transformative discourse studies, are welcomed at DiscourseNet Winter School No 9. Our aim here is to collectively re-think discourse theory and analysis from a transformative perspective. To re-think our practices as academics, researchers, professors and students that are interested in discourse studies, having in mind the real and material effects of discourses. 

The core interest of the DiscourseNet Winter School No 9 lies in

• Transformation through and in:
  • social and political struggles.
  • de/post-colonial discourse studies.
  • ecological and climate change discourses.
• The relation between social injustices and social transformation.
• The impact of transformative knowledge: tensions and opportunities in the production of knowledge.
• The analysis of cultures of remembrance.
• Reflections on actors and spaces of change

Keynote speakers:

Susana Martínez (Berklee University)

Johannes Angermüller (The Open University)

Samuel Bennett (Adam Mickiewicz University)

Organizing team:

Annette Knaut, University of Augsburg (Germany)

Sabine Heiss, Arturo Lance, Benno Herzog; University of Valencia (Spain)

Please send your abstract for participation (max. 250 words, see call) to dnwinterschool9@gmail.com until August 31st, 2025.