Program
Wild Publics
Thursday, March 22, 2018
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10am - 4pm |
Workshops for junior researchers |
FU Campus, Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße |
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Piia Varis (Tilburg) Ethnographic approach to digitally mediated publics |
room 2.2059 (second floor) |
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Tatjana Scheffler (Potsdam) Quantitative approaches to discourse on social media |
room 2.2058 (second floor) |
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| 7pm | Public evening lecture |
Christinenstraße 18/19 |
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Theresa Heyd, Britta Schneider (Berlin) Conference opening |
10119 Berlin Prenzlauer Berg |
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Anatol Stefanowitsch (Berlin) Introduction to Kathrin Passig |
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Kathrin Passig (Berlin): The trouble with talking |
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| RECEPTION AT ICI |
Friday, March 23, 2018
| 8:15am | REGISTRATION |
FU Campus, Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße |
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Authority over Language – New Debates and Discourses (Chair: Theresa Heyd) |
room -1.2009 | |
| 9-9:45am |
Anne Curzan (Ann Arbor) How linguistics gets lost in public debates about language |
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| 9-45-10.30am |
Christian Mair (Freiburg) Wenn diese Feds watchen … vs. der Rassismus ist subtle: English in subcultural German languagescapes |
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| 10:30am-11:15am |
Kristine Horner (Sheffield) Counter/publics and counter/ideologies of linguistic authority: Debating the ‘normalisation’ of Luxembourgish |
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| 11:15-11:45am | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:45am-12:30pm |
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Leiden) Codification – prescription – prescriptivism: The authority of the lay-person |
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| 12-30-1:15pm |
Jürgen Jaspers (Brussels) Authority and morality in militant sociolinguistics: The case of translanguaging |
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| 1:15-2:45pm | LUNCH BREAK |
(for invited speakers) |
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Converging Media and Materialities (Chair: Britta Schneider) |
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| 2:45-3:30pm |
Jürgen Spitzmüller (VIenna) Ideological visions: The discursive appropriation of ‘public space’ as a reflexive practice |
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| 3:30-4:15pm |
Sirpa Leppänen (Jyväskylä) Performing private life tensions in public: Migrant parody and the agonism of social media |
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| 4:15-4:45pm | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 4:45-5:30pm |
Jan Blommaert (Tilburg) The formatting of life: Elliot Rodger's online-offline world of masculine victimhood |
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| 5:30-6:15pm |
Mary Bucholtz (Santa Barbara) The public life of white affects |
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| 7pm |
CONFERENCE DINNER |
Potsdamer Straße 102 (for invited speakers; self-paying option available) |
Saturday, March 24, 2018
| 8:15am |
REGISTRATION |
FU Campus, Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße |
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Contested Elites and Counter Discourses (Chair: Britta Schneider) |
room -1.2009 | |
| 9-945am |
Susan Gal (Chicago) The homogenization of national publics: Unexpected results of mass mediation |
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| 9:45-10:30am |
Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv) LL in the city as masks and illusions |
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| 10:30-11:15am |
Tom Van Hout (Leiden) Infotaining the imagined audience. How journalists recontextualize elite discourse |
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| 11:15-11:45am | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:45am-12:30pm |
Crispin Thurlow (Bern) Premium power: Obedient publics and the violent rhetorics of elite discourse |
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| 12:30-1:15pm |
Jannis Androutsopoulos (Hamburg) Named and framed: linguists in news stories about the German language |
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| 1:15-2:45pm | LUNCH BREAK | eßkultur Berlin (for invited speakers) |
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Governing Digital Public Space (Chair: Theresa Heyd) |
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| 2:45-3:30pm |
Rodney Jones (Reading) Algorithmic publics and the future of discourse analysis |
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| 3:30-4:15pm |
Cornelius Puschmann (Hamburg) Affective or algorithmic publics? Social media discourse dynamics from Pegida to Brexit |
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| 4:15-4:45pm | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 4:45-5:30pm |
Christian Strippel, Sünje Paasch-Colberg (Berlin) Community managers as new gate keepers of public discourse |
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| 5:30-6:15pm |
Ana Deumert (Cape Town) Of underbellies and sensational signs: Reflections on taboo in the digital public sphere |
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| CLOSING DISCUSSION | ||
| 8pm | DINNER and NIGHT OUT (self paying) | TBA |