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DN35: Mapping and Countering Authoritarian Discourses

During DN35, we want to reflect on (neo)authoritarianism today, its role in public discourse, and its impact on contemporary politics. We want to map the discursive construction of the (neo)authoritarian appeal across the Global North and South, and the ways in which they can be counteracted. We welcome a wide range of methodologies and approaches to researching these issues, including critical political, psychological, and post-structuralist discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and rhetorical analysis.

II International Symposium of the Centre of Discourse Studies: Discourses of Power, Resistance, and Reaction in the Global Era

General registration is now open for the II International Symposium: Discourses of Power, Resistance and Reaction in the Global Era. This event will take place online, from May 19th to the 21st, 2026. The purpose of the symposium is to offer an interdisciplinary and international platform for dialogue and exchange on the ideological and discursive tensions shaping today’s polarized world.


The symposium will be structured in the following three thematic days: 

DI14: Diskurs – discourse – diskurssi – discours. Bringing discourse studies into translingual dialogue

14th instalment of the conference series “Diskurs – interdisziplinär”
Åbo Akademi University, Åbo/Turku, Finland, 22nd and 23rd of October 2026
in cooperation with U Bremen, TU Dresden, IDS Mannheim and U Warsaw

Beware of the Stereotype: Categories, Generalizations and Clichés in Journalistic Language and Journalism Practice

Building on its longstanding engagement with journalism theory and practice, the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) launches its sixth international conference, devoted to the study of categories, generalizations and clichés in journalistic language and journalism practice.