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Discourse and Sustainability
Description
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.
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Programme 2024-2025
24 January 2025 (1-2 pm UK time): Peter Mayeso Jiyajiya (University of Glasgow, UK): Recounting The Socio-Structural Realities in NGO-Community Engagement and their Implications On Sustainability in Malawi: The Researcher’s Experience, Please register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/29db2d58-5035-4550-be7e-a9d17cef08df@4a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8
21 February 2025 (1-2 pm UK time): Katherine E. Russo (Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy): Negative Solidarity in Environmental Crisis Contexts: A Corpus-based Online News and Social Media Critical Discourse Analysis of the Australian Black Summer. Please register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/2c3d0c71-82fc-4141-8e75-d7544d427a46@4a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8
21 March 2025 (1-2 UK pm time): (date and time TBC!) Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (University of Opole, Poland), Imagining sustainable futures: Critical multimodal analyses of policy discourse, activist discourse and science popularization discourse, Please register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c7b8049b-59c0-4249-a759-4aca3c411c38@4a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8
23 May 2025 (1-2 UK pm time): Arran Stibbe (University of Gloucestershire, UK), TITLE TBC, Please register here:https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ffdf37a8-4e6e-4426-9316-a37fc602f0c2@4a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8
20 June 2025 (1-2 pm UK time): SPEAKER TBC, TITLE TBC, Please register here:https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/befeb228-b683-4e0e-8bc4-06b21c2b7cdd@4a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8
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Previous Talks
15 November (1-2 pm UK time): Anders Horsbøl and Anne Grethe Julius Pedersen (Aalborg Universitet, Denmark): Reorganising citizen participation in green energy transition: first insights from an ongoing study of municipality, civil society and industry discourses in a Danish context., Catch up here: https://youtu.be/PX11yg6jz6g
Programme Summer Term 2024
9th February 2024, 11 am UK time (note the different time): Rescheduled talk, Ben Clarke (University of Gothenburg) Wanting for a better climate of discussion on the environment: Patterns of impoliteness, transitivity and Engagement in online newsreader comments that receive uncivil replies - catch up here: https://youtu.be/4oAxX0OCdco
16th February 2024, 12 noon UK TIME, Jonathan Joseph (University of Bristol): Resilience, sustainability and the crisis of the Liberal International Order - catch up here: https://youtu.be/0NQniwwGZR4
15th March 2024, 12 noon UK TIME, Kelsey Campolong (Ulster University): Neoliberalism in the Glasgow Climate Pact: Interdiscursivity and Faux-Sustainability at COP26 - catch up here: https://youtu.be/4DJsghVbWBk
19th April 2024, 12 noon UK TIME, Robert Poole (University of Alabama): Investigating ecological change and climate crisis through diachronic corpus-assisted ecolinguistics - catch up here: https://youtu.be/Tz3ilma3qWY
17th May 2024, 12 noon UK TIME, Nicolina Montesano Montessori (HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht): Towards a systemic, social ecological justice: ways forward for Critical Policy Discourse Analysis. catch up here: https://youtu.be/mpZw_opqY0g
7th June 2024, 12 noon UK TIME, Bernhard Forchtner (University of Leicester): Sustainability and the far right? The case of degrowth’
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The programme Winter Term 2023-2024:
20 October 2023, 12noon-1pm (note the different time) John Dryzek (University of Canberra) 'The Rise (and Fall?) of Grey Radicalism'
17 November 2023, 1-2pm, Tom Bartlett (University of Glasgow), Just Transitions to sustainable practice - Is there a role for discourse analysts?
15 December 2023, 1-2pm, Anabella Carvalho (University of Minho), Political imaginaries and climate change
****POSTPONED**** Ben Clarke, (Göteborgs universitet), TBC