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Annette Knaut

Annette Knaut (Augsburg University) is a cultural scientist and sociologist. She is currently working on her ‘Habilitation’ at Augsburg University, Germany. In this work Annette develops a new imaginary of public spaces, called Transcultural Public Spheres, by re-reading and counter-reading common social science concepts of publics and spaces with postcolonial literature. Annette is engaged in different research networks of post- and decolonial thinking as well as discourse studies. Her research lies at the intersection of social science theory, discourse research, gender studies, as well as cultural and postcolonial studies.

Keynote lecture (provisional title): Creating future imaginaries in a world of discursive upheavals. A sociology of knowledge approach to discourse.

Alister Miskimmon

Alister Miskimmon is Professor of International Relations at Queen’s University Belfast. His research focuses on strategic narratives and International Relations. He has published two books on these themes with Ben O’Loughlin and Laura Roselle entitled, Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order (2013) and Forging the World: Strategic Narratives in International Relations (2017). 

Keynote lecture (provisional title): to be announced

Michał Krzyżanowski

Michał Krzyżanowski is the Chair in Media & Communications at Uppsala University, where he is also Deputy Head of School of Informatics & Media and Director of Research at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies of Racism. He is known internationally for his interdisciplinary work on critical discourse studies of communication, media and social change with special focus on discourses and imaginaries of crisis, inequality, discrimination and exclusion. Michał is editor in chief of the Journal of Language & Politics, one of the leading journals in discourse studies. See also: https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N20-1042 .

Keynote lecture (provisional title): Retrotopias & Past-to-Future Dis/Continuities: Temporal Scales in/as Strategies of Normalisation in Contemporary Illiberal & Neoliberal Discourse.