37.981, FYI: Critical Media Studies Lecture Series - Dominika Baran 19/3 4PM CET

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Subject: 37.981, FYI: Critical Media Studies Lecture Series - Dominika Baran 19/3 4PM CET

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Date: 10-Mar-2026
From: Catherine TEBALDI [catherine.tebaldi at uni.lu]
Subject: Critical Media Studies Lecture Series - Dominika Baran 19/3 4PM CET


The University of Luxembourg and Marie Speyer Gender Excellence Grant
is happy to support a new lecture series in critical media studies,
with many focusing on digital/media/and linguistic anthropology,
language and gender, or critical discourse analysis   Our first talk
by the fantastic Prof. Dr.  Dominika Baran (Duke, USA) exemplifies
these with a critical discourse analysis of reactionary media and
anti-gender ideology.   The talk is March 19, at 4pm CET, 10am EST
Please see the invitation and abstract below. We hope to see you
there!
Webinar topic:
Critical Media Studies Lecture 1
Date and time:
Thursday, March 19, 2026 4:00 PM | (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin,
Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Join link:
https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m096de4b8981ce41e0ff1e6b65994867c
Access code: 279 435 06525
What’s ‘rainbow’ got to do with it? Discourse analysis and media
representations of LGBTQ+ issues in Poland
This talk presents two case studies of media discourse in Poland,
focusing on theories and methods that draw from Critical Discourse
Analysis (CDA) and related approaches, and on how these can help us
examine and interpret how words can be strategically appropriated,
redefined, and recontextualized. The central thesis on which this talk
builds is that meanings – of words, phrases, and concepts – are never
stable and final, but rather dynamic and negotiable. They can become
sites of ideological, political, and cultural struggle (Laclau 1990).
Discourse analysis provides an excellent and concrete tool through
which we can examine just how users of language – be they politicians,
journalists, influencers, activists, or anyone else – employ tactics
that shape meanings in particular ways. The two case studies discussed
in this talk examine media discourse surrounding LGBTQ+ issues and
what the “phantasm” of “gender ideology” (Butler 2019) in Poland. The
first analyzes how the lexeme tęcza “rainbow” is used across liberal
and rightwing media outlets in Poland and argues that it has become a
floating signifier through which the contrasting visions of Poland’s
history and future are being fought over. The second offers a detailed
discourse analysis of an email newsletter sent out to subscribers by a
far-right Polish organization, Center for Life and Family, in which
language – including mentions of “rainbow” as a stand-in for
“gender/LGBTQ+” – is manipulated in ways that construct a particular,
cisheteropatriarchal and Catholic nationalist version of social
reality.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis




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