Its time for another Annual Meeting of “Concilium Civitas” w. Polish social scientists working abroad debating challenges to the future of democracy in times of illiberalism, instability & conflicts. Info & 2026 programme: conciliumcivitas.pl Live stream: www.facebook.com/share/v/1TNJ...

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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 4w ago

Great turnout & full room at #cadaad2026 hybrid session presenting our Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies Book Series coedited by yrs truly @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social & the great John Richardson & David Machin. More info: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bl... @cadaad.bsky.social

We are particularly grateful to all our fabulous speakers: David Machin, Lydia Catedral, Natalia Krzyzanowska, Katherine Russo, Peter Breazu & the lowly organisers Michal Krzyzanowski & Lyndon Way. We hope to follow up with a publication based on the panel soon, so please kindly watch this space!

We have had some truly great day of fabulous intellectual discussions & exchanges at the “New Directions in Analysing Contemporary Public Discourse: Challenges in/for Critical Discourse Studies” Panel which we organised within @CADAAD2026 Conference in Valladolid, Spain.

We are hiring @uumediacomms.bsky.social - a PhD Position in Media & Communications. Application Deadline 29 May 2026. More info & details: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

We were truly delighted & honoured @uumediacomms.bsky.social to be able to host Prof. Bart Cammaerts from @lsemedia.bsky.social who delivered the brilliant 2026 IM Distinguished Lecture „Seeing is Believing? Four Country Comparative Study of Visual Misinformation in Election Campaigns”

Huge congrats to Pedro Camelo who today successfully defended his PhD @uumediacomms.bsky.social with a PhD Thesis on „The Discursive Construction of Brazilian Far Right: Media Discourses, (Accounts of) Journalistic Practice & Normalisation”! Congrats on superb work & a great PhD defence performance!

Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination

The process of strategically redefining key liberal-democratic and other widely accepted social and political concepts by the far-right and other illiberal actors has recently become a widespread, ...

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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

We would like to remind you to our DNC6 (7-10.7.2025) conference taking place in Brussels next year! Please apply and join us for science & networking in these challenging times! Also, if you miss tomorrow, but really want to make it, you always can write organisers an email (after 6 months).

Critical Discourse Studies, Vol 22 (2) We are very pleased to announce this Special Issue>> Political Economy of Discourse: A Festschrift for Phil Graham. Guest editor: Allan Luke www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcds20/c...

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Political Economy of Discourse: A Festschrift for Phil Graham. Guest editor: Allan Luke. Volume 22, Issue 2 of Critical Discourse Studies

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DiscourseNet Congress 6 #DNC6 — the opening. Jan Zienkowski, the organizer and spiritus movens @engage-uclouvain.bsky.social

What does Freedom of Movement really mean? FOM@PLAY IT National Event, 21/05, 0900, Palazzo Du Mesnil, Naples. Keynotes: M. Krzyżanowski, Uppsala University @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social & F. Zappettini, La Sapienza University, Rome, @francozappettini.bsky.social Info: www.unior.it/it/eventi/fo...

V.much looking forward to this fab TaalX event of the NL Graduate School in Linguistics at RUG! Please join us online and/or in person! Thank you so much for organising @dimitrisrf.bsky.social & looking forward to our discussions @veronikakoller.bsky.social cc @uumediacomms.bsky.social

Dimitris Serafis@dimitrisrf.bsky.social · last yr.

We are excited to welcome @veronikakoller.bsky.social & @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social for the keynote event of our lecture series "TaalX: #Discourses of #Discrimination" - register to attend online/in-person 👉 sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx2 @rug.nl

Delighted representing @uumediacomms.bsky.social during two fab days of great presentations & discussions at the annual TRAIN Meeting of Swedish Media & Comms PhD Programmes - with many thx to fantastic colleagues from Jönköping University for fab organization!

Great turnout at the @uumediacomms.bsky.social PhD defence today by our own @emmaronngren.bsky.social defending her Thesis ”Making Sense of Russian Strategic Narratives: Affect & Reception Among Young Russian Speakers in Latvia” w. @goranbolin.bsky.social as opponent, info www.uu.se/en/events/de...

Last week, I officially nailed my doctoral thesis, which is now available open access! The defense will take place on March 21 at Uppsala University. Read it here: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

Two Assoc. Senior Lecturer positions in Information Systems are advertised at School of Informatics & Media, Uppsala University, SE - one post based at UU Main Campus Uppsala & one at UU Campus Gotland in Visby. Uppsala: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-... Visby: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-... Please re-post!

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It is a wrap for another fab @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day! Million thx to all colleagues for attending, commenting & sharing all grand work! @emmaronngren.bsky.social @jakobssonp.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @kajsaklein.bsky.social @mediamartin.bsky.social @pedrobic.bsky.social

Last - but certainly not least - at our @uumediacomms.bsky.social annual Research Day is the presentation by the one and only Jacek Smolicki speaking about his fab work on "Voices as relations: Artistic explorations into voice capturing technologies"

Next on @uumediacomms.bsky.social grand annual Research Day is the one and only Daniel Lövgren speaking about his fab work on "Epistemologies of Communication in Nordic Universities: A Study of (Strategic) Communication Professionals"

After a short lunch break we are resuming our discussions @uumediacomms.bsky.social annual Research Day - with great Johan Lindell now presenting on "Screenequalities: Mapping social inequality in digitalized everyday life"

Next @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day we are moving to the fabulous @emmaronngren.bsky.social & Göran Svensson speaking about their fascinating work on "Propaganda and International Communication: Conceptual challenges and transformations in times of information disorder and war"

Next on @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day is the fab Claes Thoren discussing his fascinating work on "Resonance in an accelerating world: Understanding the emergence and characteristics of post-digital artifacts"

After fab Lucia break a.k.a. 'Fika' we are resuming the fabulous presentations at annual @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Day - with our great Peter Jakobsson now speaking abt "News media as epistemic intermediaries: How has the epistemic practices of journalism changed in age of social media?"

Ahh 'fika', I remember you fondly

Next on at our @uumediacomms.bsky.social Research Away Day is Matilda Tudor with her brilliant and much needed work on "The truth and nothing but the truth: Discourses of datafication in medical age assessment debates"

First on at our @uumediacomms.bsky.social annual Research Away Day is the great Alexandra Brankova speaking about "Transformation of Bulgarian 1990s Print Media Cultures: Technology, Cultural Representations, Piracy, and Identity Formation on a Crossroad between the East and the West"