Schedule
2025 DRAOI Summer Seminar Series Schedule
All seminars will take place online and are free and open to the public. Everyone who is interested is warmly welcomed to attend and to take part in the Q&A session following each speaker’s presentation.
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Please carefully note the dates and times of each seminar below. All times refer to Irish Standard Time (UTC +1). Click here to easily convert your current time zone to IST.
| Date | Time | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July (Wed.) | 15:00 | Elizabeth (Liz) Kiely (UCC) | “What about the ‘Mom-and-Pop’ Landlord?”: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis |
| 16 July (Wed.) | 15:00 | Deepak Singh (MU) | Cross-linguistic Influence in the Acquisition of Spanish as a Third Language |
| 30 July (Wed.) | 15:00 | Muireann Prendergast (SETU) | Time to be seen: Promoting gender balance in media discourses on agriculture and rural communities in Ireland |
| 6 August (Wed.)* | 15:00 | Olena Marina (MTU) | Multimodal Construal of Conflict through Art in the 21st Century Media Discourse |
| 11 August (Mon.) | 15:00 | Giuseppina Di Gregorio (University of Catania) | Aviation with Purpose: an analysis of sustainability discourse in Ryanair’s website |
| 13 August (Wed.) | 15:00 | Gary Hussey (Independent) | A Post-foundational Discourse Theoretical analysis of the spatial dynamics of violence in the north of Ireland, c. 1868-1972 |
| 20 August (Wed.) | 15:00 | Alexander Pavlenko & Nadezhda Gukalova (A.P. Chekhov Institute) | Multiple Modals as a Cross-Level Phenomenon between Grammar and Discourse (The Evidence of Ulster-Scots) |
| 27 August (Wed.) | 15:00 | Olga O’Toole (Jagiellonian University) | (De-)constructing discursive secondary victimization online: Critically analysing Polish and American discourses on rape |
*Please note the new date for this seminar