[Cadaad] Invitation to Keynote Event – TaalX2: Discourses of Discrimination
Serafis, Dimitris
d.serafis at rug.nl
Tue Apr 29 06:00:00 UTC 2025
🚩🖋️ *Invitation to Keynote Event *🚩🖋️
*TaalX2: Discourses of Discrimination
<https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx2>*
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to the *keynote closing event *of the* "TaalX2:
Discourses of Discrimination"* lecture series, which we have had the
pleasure of co-organising this year. The event will take place at the
University of Groningen on *May 16th, 2025*, *(Room A900, Broerstraat 9). *
We are honoured to welcome two distinguished keynote speakers:
*- Professor Michał Krzyżanowski *(Uppsala University, Sweden)
*- Professor Veronika Koller* (University of Lancaster, UK)
You will find the abstracts and further information about the guest
lecturers and the program below.
*Please register via our website
<https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx2> to attend online or in person.*
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Best wishes,
Dimitris and Joanna
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*Friday May 16, 2025 - Keynote event "TaalX2: Discourses of Discrimination"*
*PROGRAM*
*10:00-12:00 | A900 (Broerstraat 9) *
Professor Michał Krzyżanowski (Uppsala University, Sweden)
"Discursive shifts and the manufacturing of illiberal public imagination:
Borderline discourses, proxies, and conceptual flipsides"
*14:00-16:00 | A900 (Broerstraat 9)*
Professor Veronika Koller (University of Lancaster, UK)
"Discrimination in *absentia*: Online misogyny and the manosphere"
*16:30-17:30 | A900 **(Broerstraat 9)*
Round table discussion | Chair: Dr. Erika Darics
*ABSTRACTS*
*"Discursive shifts and the manufacturing of illiberal public imagination:
Borderline discourses, proxies, and conceptual flipsides"*
Professor Michał Krzyżanowski (Uppsala University, Sweden)
This lecture highlights key concepts developed in recent, interdisciplinary
(critical) discourse studies in order to systematically explore public
discourse dynamics in the context of, especially, the ever more widespread
politics of the populist far-right (Krzyżanowska & Krzyżanowski 2018;
Krzyżanowski 2012 & 2013; Krzyżanowski & Ledin 2017; Krzyżanowski,
Triandafyllidou & Wodak 2018; Wodak & Krzyżanowski 2017) and its growing
impact on the normalisation of illiberal politics of exclusion in Europe
and beyond (Krzyżanowski 2018 a,b; 2020 a,b; Krzyżanowski & Ekström 2022,
2024; Krzyżanowski & Krzyżanowska 2022; Krzyżanowski et al 2021). Building
on research conducted in, inter alia, Poland, Sweden or the UK, the
presentation will highlight the application of the central notion of
discursive shifts (Krzyżanowski 2018 a,b; 2020 a,b) as a key analytical
model guiding the systematic exploration of complex logic of changing and
shifting boundaries of public discourse and of public imagination under the
impact of the far-right, illiberalism and populism. The presentation will
show how taking the wider perspective of exploring discursive shifts can be
helpful in tracing differentiated dynamics in/of public discourses and
their ‘linear’, or incremental, change (Krzyżanowski & Ekström 2022),
including via recontextualization processes taking place between various
mediated discourses in the public domain. However, it will also point to
how discursive shifts can at the same time allow examining the persistently
‘oscillatory’ or recursive nature of various strategies used in the
shifting public discourse - including, inter alia, ‘borderline discourses’
(Krzyżanowski and Ledin 2017; Krzyżanowski et al 2021) at the verge of
civility and in/un-civility, ‘proxy discourses’ (Ekström, Krzyżanowski &
Johnson 2023) based on various public implicatures and their discursive
path dependencies, or, to the logic of by now widespread ‘conceptual
flipsiding’ (Krzyżanowski & Krzyżanowska 2022, 2024) wherein
liberal-democratic notions are purposefully infused with illiberal and
anti-democratic understandings. The lecture will show how, often deployed
in concerted manner, all of the said strategies contribute to the
manufacturing of intended and strategic volatility and instability of
public discourse and a wider specific ‘doublethink’ (Orwell) residing in
the shifting discourse boundaries. These, as I will aim to show, are often
put in place to create path-dependencies for normalisation of illiberal
ideologies and views in contemporary (European) societies while infusing
public imagination with the increasingly exclusionary, nativist ‘common
sense’ via such of it articulations as, e.g., the ever more widespread
‘normalised hate speech’ (Breazu, Katsos & Krzyżanowski 2026).
References:
- Breazu, P., N. Katsos & M. Krzyżanowski (Eds.)(2026). Researching
Normalised Hate Speech as Discourse: Tracing Borderline Discourse Logics
and Public Sphere Dynamics through a Critical and Interdisciplinary
Approach. Special Issue of *Discourse Studies*, forthcoming.
- Ekström, H, M. Krzyżanowski & D. Johnson (2023) Saying ‘Criminality’,
Meaning ‘Immigration’? On the Role of 'Proxy’ Discourses and Public
Implicatures in Normalization of the Politics of Exclusion. *Critical
Discourse Studies* https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2282506.
- Krzyżanowska, N., & Krzyżanowski, M. (2018). ‘Crisis’ and Migration in
Poland: Discursive Shifts, Anti-Pluralism and the Politicisation of
Exclusion. *Sociology*, 52(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038518757952
- Krzyżanowski, M. (2018a). Discursive Shifts in Ethno-Nationalist
Politics: On Politicisation and Mediatisation of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in
Poland. *Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies* 16 (12).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15562948.2017.1317897
- Krzyżanowski, M. (2018b). ‘We Are a Small Country that Has Done
Enormously Lot’: The ‘Refugee Crisis’ & the Hybrid Discourse of
Politicising Immigration in Sweden. *Journal of Immigrant & Refugee
Studies* 16 (1-2).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15562948.2017.1317895
- Krzyżanowski, M. (2019). ‘Brexit’ and the Imaginary of ‘Crisis’: A
Discourse-Conceptual Analysis of European News Media. *Critical
Discourse Studies* 16(2).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405904.2019.1592001
- Krzyżanowski, M. (2020a). Normalization and the Discursive
Construction of ‘New’ Norms and ‘New’ Normality: Discourse in/and the
Paradoxes of Populism and Neoliberalism. *Social Semiotics* 30:4,
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330.2020.1766193
- Krzyżanowski, M. (2020b). Discursive Shifts and the Normalisation of
Racism: Imaginaries of Immigration, Moral Panics and the Discourse of
Contemporary Right-Wing Populism. *Social Semiotics* 30:4
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330.2020.1766199
- Krzyżanowski, M. & P. Ledin. (2017). Uncivility on the Web: Populism
in/and the Borderline Discourses of Exclusion. *Journal of Language &
Politics* 16(4). https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.17028.krz
- Krzyżanowski, M., M. Ekman, P-E. Nilsson, M. Gardell & C. Christensen.
(2021). Uncivility, Racism, and Populism: Discourses and interactive
practices in anti- & post-democratic communication. *Nordicom Review*
42(S1). https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/nor-20210003
- Krzyżanowski, M. & M. Ekström (2022). The Normalisation of
(Right-Wing) Populism and Nativism Authoritarianism: Discursive Practices
in Media, Journalism and the wider Public Sphere/s. *Discourse &
Society *33:6 https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221095406
- Krzyżanowski, M. & H. Ekström (2024). “No longer the haven of
tolerance”? The Press and Discursive Shifts on Immigration in Swden
2010-2022. *Social Semiotics*
https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2024.2352656
- Krzyżanowski, M. & N. Krzyżanowska (2024). Conceptual Flipsiding
in/and Illiberal Imagination: Applying Discourse-Conceptual Analysis to
Explore Ambiguities in Current Rhetoric of the European Far-Right. *Journal
of Illiberalism Studies* 2/2024 (in press).
- Krzyżanowski, M., R. Wodak, H. Bradby, M. Gardell, A. Kallis, N.
Krzyżanowska, C. Mudde, & J. Rydgren. (2023). Discourses & Practices of the
‘New Normal’: Towards an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda on Crisis and
the Normalization of Anti- & Post-Democratic Action. *Journal of
Language & Politics* 22(4). https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23024.krz Moffitt,
B. (2016). The Global Rise of Populism. Stanford: Stanford University
Press.
- Wodak, R. & M. Krzyżanowski. (2017). Right-Wing Populism in Europe &
USA: Contesting Politics & Discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and
‘Trumpism’. *Journal
of Language & Politics* 16:4, https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.17042.krz
*Professor Michał Krzyżanowski* holds the Chair in Media and Communication
Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden, where he is Deputy Head of
School/Department of Informatics and Media as well as Director of the
Uppsala University Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR).
He is one of the leading international scholars working on critical
discourse studies of public discourse in the context of normalisation of
illiberalism and neoliberalism. His focus is on communication, media and
social change, and specifically on anti-immigration rhetoric, racism,
social inequality and discursive dynamics in challenges to liberal
democracy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the international *Journal of
Language and Politics* and a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Advances in
Critical Discourse Studies and on a number of boards in various journals in
critical discourse studies and wider critical/qualitative social research.
He is also widely known for his teaching of qualitative methods and
critical discourse studies across social and political sciences and
humanities across Europe, Australia, Asia and the USA. More information:
https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N20-1042
*"Discrimination in absentia: Online misogyny and the manosphere"*
Professor Veronika Koller (University of Lancaster, UK)
In this talk, I will review an ongoing research project that focuses on
language use in the so-called manosphere. The manosphere can be described
as a loose online network of websites and discussion forums dedicated to
specific issues that are relevant to its members, such as techniques for
seducing women, male separatism, men’s rights activism, and involuntary
celibacy. Consistent across many of these sites and forums is the
legitimation of misogyny through discussion of ‘red pill philosophy’, which
disavows feminism and gender equality. The MANTRaP (Misogyny and The Red
PIll) project examines language use within and
between manosphere communities and considers how the popularisation and
normalisation of misogynistic discourse, especially online, may have
profound social effects on beliefs, values and social behaviours. The talk
will introduce the members of the project team (Jessica Aiston, Alexandra
Krendel and Mark McGlashan), highlighting their contributions and
elaborating on the special aspects of manosphere discourse that they work
on. This will be followed by a review of publications that have resulted
from our collaborative work, alongside other previous studies that inform
our research. I will also present some current work on how specific
concepts of manosphere discourse are argued and talked about online. The
focus here will be on the often blurred boundaries between hate speech,
verbal aggression and linguistic discrimination. The team has worked with a
broad range of academic and non-academic research partners to develop tools
and strategies for countering the social harms resulting from the
normalisation of misogynist discourse and practices, especially via
mainstream online media. Accordingly, the final part of my talk will focus
on collaborations between the MANTRaP team and individuals and
organisations in academia and beyond.
*Veronika Koller* is Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University
(UK). Her research interests centre on language, gender and sexuality,
political discourse, and corporate discourse. She has published widely in
those areas, with book-length publications including *Metaphor and Gender
in Business Media Discourse* (2004), *Lesbian Discourses: Images of a
Community* (2008), *Discourses of Brexit* (co-edited, 2018) and *Voices of
Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European
elections* (co-authored,
2023).
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*Dimitris Serafis, PhD*
Assistant Professor in Language and Social Interaction
University of Groningen | Faculty of Arts
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