The Language of (Perma)Crisis: Discourses and Politics of the 'New Normal'

The Language of (Perma)Crisis: Discourses and Politics of the 'New Normal'.

DAY I (Thursday, September 26)

09:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10:10 Welcome and opening

10:10 – 11:40 SESSION I.  Conceptualization of crisis 1: Health crisis and its metaphors

Ksenija Benčina & Marija Omazić (University of Osijek) – Tigers, speeding trains and snowballs: explaining complex scientific concepts during the Covid-19 pandemic

Mojca Brglez (University of Ljubljana) – Building the tweets dataset TCMeta: A look at Covid-19 metaphors in citizens’ social media posts

Mojca Ramšak (University of Ljubljana) – “The battle on the frontline”: Violence against healthcare workers in the era of Covid-19

11։40 Coffee Break 

11:50 – 12.50 SESSION II.  Figurative representations: Assessing the effects of language

Ljiljana Šarić (University of Oslo /  Institute of Croatian Language) & Radoslava Trnavac (National Research University HSE Moscow) – Climate crisis in Croatian online news media: Metaphor, agency and news values

Mateusz-Milan Stanojević (University of Zagreb) – Framing effects of metaphor in crisis discourse and socio-cultural situatedness: A view from psycholinguistics

13։00 Lunch Break Pizza & salads, ICMS kitchen

15:15 Book workshop: (Re)imagining nationhood and collectivity in the ‘new normal’ Europe

16:00 – 17:00 SESSION III. Negotiating crisis: Climate, ecology and local mobilizations

Nadine Thieleman (WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business) – Framing energy transition as a socio-economic threat: Tracing the social media discourses in central and eastern Europe

Jelena Ćuković (University of Belgrade) – Ecological activism and cultural heritage narratives in Serbia: Managing ecological crisis through a bureaucratic discourse

17.00 Coffee Break 

17:15 – 18:45 SESSION IV. Perspectives from history: (Perma)crisis, memory and continuity

Tamara Banjeglav (ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana) – “It was the winter of despair”: War narratives, collective memory and the media framing of the 2020 Petrinja earthquake in Croatia 

Marko Zajc (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana) – The long life of the Yugoslav crisis discourse

Adela Hîncu (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana) – Looking back into the future: Sociological reflections on crisis before and after the end of state socialism in Romania

20.30 Conference drinks LP Bar, Novi Trg 2 (by ZRC SAZU Main Entrance)

DAY II (Friday, September 27)

10:00 – 11:30 SESSION V.  Conceptualization of crisis 2: Metaphors in political discourse

Dario Del Fante (University of Ferrara) – Crisis and migration in Italian political discourse over time: A corpus-based study 

Špela Antloga (University of Maribor) – Metaphorical potentials and the notion of crisis in Slovenian parliamentary discourse 

Elena Negrea-Busuioc (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Romania) – Running a humanitarian marathon: Metaphors used in Romanian investigative media reports on the Ukrainian refugee crisis

11:30 – 11:45 Cake Break

11:45 – 13.15 SESSION VI. Crisis (mis)communication, ‘truth’  and meaning-making 

Eva Triebl (University of Vienna) – Too difficult for you to process: Metapragmatics in Austrian political discourse during permacrisis

Emilija Radibratović (University of Belgrade / Ministry of Information and Telecommunications, RS) – Persuasion in confusion: Pandemic vaccine discourse from a critical perspective

Marija Mandić & Jelena Ćeriman (University of Belgrade) – Gender-sensitive language, linguistic truths and anti-gender mobilizations in times of ‘gender crisis’ in Serbia

13։15 Conference closing