37.1638, FYI: Débats sur le débat (Online)

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Subject: 37.1638, FYI: Débats sur le débat (Online)

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Date: 30-Apr-2026
From: Emili Avramovic [emili.avramovic at etu.univ-orleans.fr]
Subject: Débats sur le débat


The Observatoire Linguistique du Discours Numérique OLinDiNUM
(https://olindinum.huma-num.fr/) and the Institut des Transitions
Environnementales et Sociales ITES (https://ites.univ-lille.fr/) at
University of Lille (https://www.univ-lille.fr/), are pleased to
invite you to the seminar series Débats sur le débat, which will be
held online and in English.
This seminar series offers an interdisciplinary reflection on the
relationships between language, environment, and social dynamics,
drawing on approaches from ecolinguistics, discourse analysis, and
cognitive science.
The next session will take place on Thursday, 7 May 2026, at 3:00 p.m.
(CET). We will have the pleasure of hearing Sune Vork Steffensen
(University of Southern Denmark), who will present a talk entitled:
Language, Bodies, Environments: The Corporeal Turn in Ecolinguistics
Abstract:
In this lecture, I will argue that ecolinguistics is undergoing a
"corporeal turn": a fundamental shift toward studying language as an
embodied, ecological phenomenon rather than a symbolic structure that
represents environmental issues. This lecture develops the theoretical
foundations of this turn, drawing on radical embodied cognitive
science and Marxist anthropology to argue that language is part of the
human ecology, grounded in the corporeal organisation of human bodies
and their metabolic entanglement with the environment.
The lecture addresses what might be called the incongruity problem in
ecolinguistics: how to align ecolinguistic methods with its object of
study, namely the impact of language on life-sustaining interactions.
The corporeal turn addresses this by taking dynamic, emplaced
behaviour as the unit of analysis and reconceiving language as a
cognitive device that interweaves cultural knowledge with direct
perception and action. Drawing on case studies of climate change
perception, from Andean farming communities to the Lytton wildfire in
British Columbia, the lecture demonstrates how this approach gives
ecolinguistics the coherence it needs to address urgent environmental
challenges.
Bio:
Sune Vork Steffensen est professeur de Language and Cognition à la
University of Southern Denmark et Chair of the Humanities au Danish
Institute for Advanced Study. Spécialiste reconnu en écolinguistique,
il développe une approche transdisciplinaire intégrant linguistique
écologique, sciences cognitives incarnées radicales et anthropologie
marxiste. Il a dirigé six ouvrages et publié plus de 80 articles et
chapitres d’ouvrages. Il est actuellement rédacteur en chef de la
revue Language Sciences.
Programme:
 - [passed] Jeudi 22 janvier 2026, 11h00 (CET) – Arran Stibbe
(University of Gloucestershire) : Econarrative and Ethical Leadership
 - [passed] Jeudi 5 mars 2026, 15h00 (CET) – Jacqueline Ajello
(Università di Salerno) et Emilia Di Martino (Università Suor Orsola
Benincasa, Napoli) : Giving Voice to the Future: Discursive Strategies
and the Language of Agency in Youth Climate Advocacy Online
 - Jeudi 7 mai 2026, 15h00 (CET) – Sune Vork Steffensen (University of
Southern Denmark) : Language, Bodies, Environments: The Corporeal Turn
in Ecolinguistics
 - Jeudi 4 juin 2026, 15h00 (CET) – Albin Wagener (Université
Catholique de Lille) : Les récits : des leviers d’action pour la
transition sociale et écologique
Inscription with the link bellow :
https://framaforms.org/inscription-au-seminaire-en-ligne-debats-sur-le-debat-7-mai-2026-1777450609

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Sociolinguistics




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