All seminars will take place online via Microsoft Teams. Joining links and abstracts will be sent to our mailing list prior to each seminar.
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Please carefully note the times and dates of each seminar below. All times refer to Irish Standard Time (GMT+1).
| Date | Time | Presenter(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July (Wed.) | 15:00 | Katharine Schulmann (TCD) | Constructions of older people’s vulnerability during the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland: A Grounded Theory analysis of official discourses |
| 12 July (Wed.) | 15:00 | Roumaissa Nora Sayoud (UL) | Legitimating a “humanitarian” military intervention: A critical discourse analysis of the political discourse of David Cameron (the 2011 Libyan Arab Spring rebellion as a case study) |
| 17 July (Mon.)* | 18:00* | Robyn Cunneen & Maria Rieder (UL) | A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of language ideologies in parliamentary debates about the recognition of Irish Sign Language |
| Alexander Pavlenko & Anatoly Uchvatov (TGPI, RSUE) | An attempt at transforming an island dialect into an Ausbau-language (the case of Ulster Scots) | ||
| 19 July (Wed.) | 14:00* | Chris Fitzgerald (MIC) | The Discourse of Oral History: A Corpus-Informed Exploration of an Irish Archive |
| Antonio Bibbò (Trento) & Mariavita Cambria (Messina) | Three Quarters of a Nation Once Again: Discourses on/of “Irishness” during the decade of centenaries | ||
| 26 July (Wed.) | 15:00 | Belinda Vigors (The Women of Ireland Project) | The “Ghost” of Tight Culture Past: Exploring the impact of cultural tightness in the life histories of women of Ireland |
| 2 August (Wed.) | 15:00 | Simon Statham (QUB) & Helen Ringrow (Portsmouth) | Ireland’s hidden diaspora: multimodal stylistic constructions of journey and landscape on the Irish abortion trail |
| 9 August (Wed.) | 15:00 | Elizabeth Kiely (UCC) | Interrogating Class Discourses: The Value of Critical Discourse Studies |
| Stephen Gaffney (UoG) | Activating or Exiling our Youth? The (de)legitimation and re-contextualisation of an austerity policy | ||
| 16 August (Wed.) | 15:00 | Steph Hanlon (Carlow / UCD) | ‘Unvetted, Military-Aged Men’: A Discourse Analysis of Far-Right Use of Rhetorical Devices in Disinformation Strategies |
| 23 August (Wed.) | 15:00 | Olena Marina (Kerry Education and Training Board) | Present-Day Discourse of Global Challenges: A Multimodal and Transmedia Perspective |
| 30 August (Wed.) | 15:00 | Brian Hurley (UL) & Maria Grazia Porcedda (TCD) | Can European parliaments lead the way? Discourses of cybersecurity in Europe |
| Muhammad Irfan (UL) | The Perception of Artificial Intelligence on Public Discourses in the Republic of Ireland: A Study of Fear and Hope |