General registration is now open for the II International Symposium: Discourses of Power, Resistance and Reaction in the Global Era. This event will take place online, from May 19th to the 21st, 2026. The purpose of the symposium is to offer an interdisciplinary and international platform for dialogue and exchange on the ideological and discursive tensions shaping today’s polarized world.
The symposium will be structured in the following three thematic days:
- "Discourses of far-right political groups and reactionary movements: construction of the enemy, victimization, and radicalization"
- "Social movement discourses: strategies of resistance, rearticulation, and construction of the commons"
- "Human rights as a discursive field in dispute: resignifications, appropriations, and exclusions"
The program includes daily keynote lectures, roundtable discussions, and sessions featuring selected paper presentations. The official languages of the event are English and Spanish.
Confirmed Keynote and Roundtable Speakers:
- Ariadna Estévez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- Daniel N. Silva (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
- Karina Ochoa (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco)
- Manuela Caiani (Centre on Social Movement Studies, Università di Firenze)
- Manuela Romano (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
- María Martínez Lirola (Universidad de Alicante)
- Michal Krzyzanowski (Uppsala)
- Michelle Lazar (National University of Singapore)
- Mirta Antonelli (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
- Óscar García Agustín (Aalborg University)
- Paolo Gerbaudo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University)
- Simon Goodman (De Montfort University)
Registration open until May 17th: https://forms.gle/zpgYPQwa4n86zdvy6
Registration prices:
More information about the symposium, including the full program, can be found on the following webpage: https://www.discoursestudies.org/iisymposium