The Call for Papers for our next DiscourseNet Congress is now open until October 31, 2026. You can find all necessary information here: discourseanalysis.net/DNC2027 #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #Discourse

We are excited to announce our Congress, this time augmented with 500 years anniversary of the University Marburg Discursive Imaginaries of Change - Heterotopias, PowerKnowledge, and the "Great Transformation" 19–21.7.27 Marburg, Germany Save the date and apply soon! discourseanalysis.net/DNC2027

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We are excited to invite you to our next Open DiscourseNet Seminar on 22 May 2026. Katy Highet: “Far-right co-optation: Hindu nationalism & decoloniality in India”. For more information visit: discourseanalysis.net/DN/seminars/... #DiscourseAnalysis #FarRight #HinduNationalism #India

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Book series on the Social Studies of Economics is now out. Both are online available for free! Congrats, dear Jens! (please share if you are interested in the topic) Book I: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... Book II: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Power and Influence of Economists: Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics

Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational corporations, the state and the media, as well as serving as policy consultants on ever...

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Post-congress chill. Random beer on the table and the vivid discussion on the nature of discourse in the background, 2025, colorized. #dnc6 #brussel #academicsuffering #chill #seeyouneXtyear

Last session. Presenting the DN-Network #DiscourseNet #DN #Coolness Plans for future

On the way home after @discoursenet.bsky.social conference! Thanks to the ULB colleagues for organising and to the UCLouvain colleagues for copresenting our work on a complexified discursive analysis of the use of the term #populism @anaisauge.bsky.social, Coline Rondiat & Laetitia Aulit.

Marco A. Arroyo-Mata Relations and interconnections between the individual and collective memory: a multimodal analysis of the documentary I Am Not Your Negro (2016) A highly relevant and relatable take on multimodal construction of collective memory.

Jens Maeße Finding a job: How students (e)valuate labour markets Important take on students' professional career pathway through value orders understood as heterogenous markets.

Noelia Belén Rojo Zabalaga: From biopolitics to necropolitics: Older women and unpaid domestic and care work in Bolivia Extremely relevant take on the inequality and vulnerability in Bolivia, and life of women who worked their all life. #rentadignidad #dnc6 #discoursenet

David Adler's take on: Building Capitalist Futures. On the Labour Imaginary and the Discursive Construction of Office Architecture #ArchitectureDiscourse #panopticon #dystopiaiscapitalism #dnc6

#DNC6 is a multilingual congress. There are panels and presentations in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. E.g. about ex-muslims in social media, new right in Bolivia, conspiracy theories and the #discourse of the “great replacement”. #AnalyseDuDiscours #AnálisisDelDiscurso #AnáliseDoDiscurso

Keynote lecture by Annette Knaut: Creating future imaginaries in a world of discursive upheavals. A sociology of knowledge approach to discourse #DNC6 #SKAD #DiscourseStudies #brussels

Michael Kranert — a very important take on metapolitics of the new right populists. Title: The metapolitical project of the German far right and its influence on German political discourse #DNC6 @kranertmichael.bsky.social #DiscourseStudies

Olivier Rasquinet & Cédric Tant : Imaginaries and Commitment of the deaf community Very important take on discourses of disability! #DiscourseStudies #DisabilityStudies #Deafness #DNC6

Dimitris Kitis (University Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool): Conceptual history: The case of gentrification #DNC6 Brussels #DiscourseStudies #gentrificación #HistoricalInsights

Dirk Netter: Simulated Temporality: The Discursive Capture of Past, Present, and Future #DNC6 Brussels #NiceGuy

Jan Krasni on parrhesiastic technology #DNC6 Brussels #DiscourseNet

Interesting presentation from Adel Tayebi from Paris on the representation of AI in AI companies' YouTube channels, for instance the ascription of agency to the AI models. #AI #DiscourseAnalysis #DNC6

Demetrios Mitres-Sioupis and Athina Sioupi talked about the #discourse and imaginaries of British Nuclear power. #DNC6

Irina Dushakova and Natalia Dushakova discussed how new technologies are construed and evaluated In the discourse of the religious group “Old Believers” in Russia. #DNC6 #DiscourseStudies #Religion

Niki Johnson gave insights on the gender-biased discourse about political representation in #Uruguay, drawing on #DiscourseTheory. #DNC6 #Representation

Check out the “Language & Power” podcast with our Michael Kranert on the wickedness of net-zero policy. #DiscourseAnalysis #ClimateChange languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog...

We are so happy to have had such a cool and engaging guest! We are looking forward to new encounters and new insights! #theGuy #mkrzyzanowski #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseCoolness

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Delighted to be plenary speaker at the @discoursenet.bsky.social DNC6 earlier today with my talk on ‘Retrotopias & Past-to-Future Dis/Continuities: Temporal Scales in Normalisation of Illiberal & Neoliberal Discourse’. Million thanks for great discussion & for having me @ulbruxelles.bsky.social

Keynote speaker day 2: Michal Krzyzanowski on normalization & mainstreaming of illiberalism and neoliberalism

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Panel on post truth welcome #dnc6

Ma communication "When the local meets the global: viral world dissemination of the catchphrase “Hawk Tuah” on social media" aura lieu le lundi 7 juillet 2025 à @ulbruxelles.bsky.social @discoursenet.bsky.social Congress 6 "Discourse and the imaginaries of past, present and future societies"

Amazing speech of the 1st keynote speaker Alister Miskimmon, Professor of International Relations (Queen’s University Belfast) who's just finished talking about #Narrative #imaginaries of international order. His research focuses on strategic narratives and International Relations. #DNC6 #Congress

DiscourseNet@discoursenet.bsky.social · last yr.

First keynote speaker: Alister Miskimmon on strategic narratives of future: Where next: imagining a future world order #Dnc6