Language, Ideology and Power (LIP) Research Group
Current Schedule - 2011/12
Except where indicated, forthcoming events take place Monday 18:00 to 19:00 in FASS/ MR2, Lancaster University. (Occasional venue changes are posted on our mailing list).
Term 3
| Week | Date | Presenter / topic |
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| Week 2 | 30/4/ 2012 | Neil Foxlee, UCLAN/Lancaster University “An Introduction to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism” |
| Week 3 | 7/5/ 2012 | No LIP |
| Week 4 | 14/5/ 2012 | Sten Hansson, Lancaster University TBA |
| 15/5/2012* | Joint event with LRDG, LIP, CeMoRe event Adam Jaworski, Cardiff University “Tourism Discourse: Languages and Banal Globalization” |
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| Week 5 | 21/5/ 2012 | Soudeh Ghaffari, Lancaster University TBA |
| Week 6 | 28/5/2012 | Bob Jessop and Amelie Kutter, Lancaster University “Meaning-making and structuration: how cultural political economy can inform a combined corpus and discourse analysis of crisis representations” |
| Week 7 | 04/6/2012 | Jose Manuel Ferreiro Gomez, Lancaster University “The construction of Latin-American identity in the UN Mission in Haiti” |
| Week 8 | 11/6/2011 | No LIP |
| Week 9 | 18/6/2011 | Andrew Sayer, Lancaster University TBA |
| Week 10 | 25/6/ 2011 | Kay Schiller, Durham University “The German national football team and discourses of national identity” |
* Event on 15th May takes place on Tuesday 1-2pm in Bowland North SR 6 - more information about this event
Term 2
| Week | Date | Presenter / topic |
|---|---|---|
| Week 2* | 23/1/ 2012 | Johnny Unger, Lancaster University “LIP text analysis session: protests, cuts and occupations" |
| Week 3 | 30/1/ 2012 | Jean-Jacques Weber, University of Luxembourg “Multilingualism and the politics of language in Luxembourg" |
| Week 4** | 9/10 Feb 2012 | Two-day conference “Contesting/contested memories: The Holocaust in the twenty-first century” |
| Week 5 | No meeting | |
| Week 6 | 21/2/2012 | Joint event with Literacy Research Discussion Group Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese, University of Birmingham “Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy”, Time and Venue: TBA |
| Week 7 | Reading Week | |
| Week 8 | 5/3/2011 | Neil Foxlee, Lancaster University “The Rhetoric of the 2011 English Riots” |
| Week 9 | 12/3/2011 | Bertie Kaal, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam “Holland is full!: Identifying temporal and spatial reference frames as discursive ground for ideologically motivated political agendas” |
| Week 10 | 21/3/ 2011 | Van Dijk, University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain "Knowledge and Context in the Cognitive Approach to Discourse Study" NB - time and venue change - 6.00-7.30 pm, Furness, Lecture Theatre 2 |
* Workshop coordinated by Johnny Unger takes place in Bowland North, Seminar Room 7, 6-7 pm; registration is required (s.elnaggar@lancs.ac.uk).
**Conference on 9/10 Feb takes place in Bowland North Seminar Room 2 and IAS, Meeting Room 1 & 2, for more information, please check the following website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/dynamicsofmemories/event/3861/
Term 1
| Week | Date | Presenter / topic |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 10/10/2011 | Margaret Kettle, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia “Writing critical discourse analyses and claims: An example of rigour and method” |
| Week 2 | 20/10/2011 | Martin Reisigl, University of Vienna Lecture – ‘Argumentation analysis in Critical Discourse Studies. A methodological framework, with special attention to the DHA’ |
| 21/10/2011 | Martin Reisigl, University of Vienna Workshop – “A methodological framework for argumentation analysis in the Discourse-Historical Approach” |
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| Week 3 | 24/10/2011 | Half day symposium “Critique meets corpora: Implications for research on contentious issues” |
| 26/10/2011 | Agnieszka Sowińska, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland “(E)valuative polarity in the US state of the Union Addresses (2001-2010): An application of an axiological semantic approach to the analysis of political discourse” |
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| Week 4 | No session - Reading Week | |
| Week 5 | 9/11/ 2011 | Paul Kerswill, Lancaster University “Starkey, Jamaican and the riots: just how wrong could he be? Reflections on London, language and blame”. |
| Week 6 | No session Reading Week | |
| Week 7 | 24/11/2011 | Isabela Fairclough (Bucharest University) and Norman Fairclough (Lancaster University) “Analyzing practical arguments. Problems and solutions: Labour and Conservative strategies for dealing with the economic crisis” |
| Week 8 | 30/11/2011 | Johnny Unger, Lancaster University “Current Political Events in the UK” |
| Week 9 | 7/12/2011 | Ana Tominc, Lancaster University Topic, TBC |
| Week 10 | 14/12/2011 | No LIP Reading Session |