Contributions
Ulrich Hoinkes
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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hoinkes
(Kiel University)
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Threats and dangers as a relevant world experience: How public discourses and ways of social learning fit with our anxiety culture and what can be done for its overcoming.
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Antje Wienke
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Antje Wienke (M.A., PhD Stud.)
(Kiel University)
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Michel Houellebecq’s Novel Submission
against the Backdrop of Social Threats and Public Education
The French author Michel Houellebecq presents
in his novel Submission (2015) a socially critical vision of the future
in which France adopts a moderate Islam as defining culture and identity. The
novel has caused heated debates. This presentation can be considered as
the point of departure for a critical scrutiny of the social threats and its
effects of public education as presented in the novel.
Bàrbara Roviró
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Bàrbara Roviró (M.A.)
(Bremen University)
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How to Maintain Spain’s Unity? Stoking Fears Instead of Providing
Arguments in the Face of Separatism in Catalonia
In this brief contribution I will first give a
short introduction to the separatist movement in Catalonia and then take a look
at the Spanish answer spread in the mass media. The involved stakeholders from
both sides participate intensively in a social discourse making – not only when
arguing about the recent development of the Catalan question, but also with
regard to the frightening consequences the Catalan independence is supposed to
entail.
Elmar Eggert
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Prof. Dr. Elmar Eggert
(Kiel University)
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Two Linguistic Approaches to Social Threats: Etholinguistics and
Discourse Traditions
The presentation will introduce two linguistic
approaches that aim to analyse the linguistic-communicative depiction of media
report on so called social threats.
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Biography
Elmar Eggert (born in 1970)
started his maîtrise de lettres modernes in 1994 at the University Charles de Gaulle, Lille III in
France. He completed his PhD in 2002 at the University François Rabelais in
Tours. Between 2002 and 2012, he held scientific positions at the universities
of Bochum, Frankfurt a.M., Heidelberg.
Since 2012 he has served as
the Chair in Romance Linguistics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.
His main research focus has been in the History of languages in the Middle
Ages, languages for special purposes and translation studies as well as
language policy. His Publications include Bisontins ou Besançonnais? A
la recherche des règles pour la formation des gentilés pour une application au
traitement automatique, Tübingen 2005; [ed.]: Scientia valescit. Zur Institutionalisierung von kulturellem Wissen in
romanischem Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit,
Munich 2009; [ed.]: Historische Sprachwissenschaft als philologische
Kulturwissenschaft in der Romanistik, Göttingen 2015.
Holly Brewster
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Dr. Holly Brewster
(Washington University)
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Certainty and Risk in Democratic Mathematics Education
Imke Hoppe
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Dr. Imke Hoppe
(Hamburg University)
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Climate Change Communication – A Short Introduction to the Research
Perspectives in Communication Studies
Climate
science is an abstract field. Often the results are too complex to be applied
to one particular situation. For example, climate scientists do not know
whether or not it will be raining in a certain place at a certain time in the
future. The reason is that climate, in contrast to the weather forecast,
focuses on statistical values. These are monitored for at least 30 years as
cannot be felt with one’s own sense.
In
addition, the findings about climate are often temporary and uncertain. At the
same time, climate change not only has great relevance for society, but is also
ever-present in the media.
In
the last few years, news coverage of the topic has expanded all over the world.
At the point where media and the public converge, the abstract findings of
climate science are being simplified and pointed - knowledge about climate
change is “socially constructed”.
Jan Gerwinski
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Dr. Jan Gerwinski
(Siegen University)
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Assessments in Online Discourses: An Analytical Approach to Social
Threats?
I want to find out what we can learn about
actual social threats by analysing assessments in special online discourses
with the help of discourse and conversation analysis.
Jordi Cassany Bates
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Jordi Cassany Bates (M.A.)
(Kiel University)
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Threats and Safeties of Language Immersion According to Catalan Media
The Catalan school system has followed for
decades a language immersion program which now, in the context of big political
changes, is being questioned by part of the society. We will try to analyse how
Catalan media discusses the issue and, specially, how it attacks or defends
this method of language teaching.
Michael Schapira
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Dr. Michael Schapira
(Hofstra University)
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The Longing for Total Revolution Revisited: Total Critique in an Age of
Crisis
The economic
collapse of 2008 intensified a discourse that had been building since the early
21st century, namely that the modern university was in a state of
crisis. Crisis discourse in higher education has become as ubiquitous as it is
imprecise, focusing on issues as desperate as curricular reform, student debt,
the obsolescence of tenure, and the corporatization of university management.
In this presentation, the author takes a historical perspective to show that
this current talk of the “university in crisis” is not unique. He discusses two
prior iterations of crisis – the global student protests of 1968 and debates within
German universities in the early 20th century – to highlight the
background conditions which lead to the crisis designation, and then links this
with a 19th century tradition of social critique which Bernard Yack
has called “the longing for total revolution.” He concludes by suggesting that
our talk of the “university in crisis” could benefit from revisiting this
history to clarify how critics and defenders alike imagine the purpose and
function of the 21st century university, especially in how they envision
its relation to both the state and the economy.
Timothy Ignaffo
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Timothy Ignaffo (PhD)
(Teachers College/Columbia University)
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Rainer Zaiser
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Prof. Dr. Rainer Zaiser
(Kiel University)
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Dangerous Passions: Emotions as Social Threat
in Early Modern French Literature
The purpuse of this essay is to show that the meaning
of love in literature refers in most cases to social, religious, philosophical,
epistemological or moral issues and that outbursts of emotional love are even
able to jeopardize the maintenance of the social and ideological orders at
issue. So Niklas Luhmann points out in his book on Love as Passion that in mid-seventeenth-century treatises and
fictional works love is no longer codified as a socially ritualized play whose
parts had been inherited from the medieval tradition of courtly love, but as a
passion, this means as a strong and irrational emotion tempted to break with
social rules and moral norms. The foremost examples are The Princess of Clèves, written by Madame de Lafayette and
published anonymously in 1678, and The
Portuguese Letters, one of the first French epistolary novels anonymously
published, too, in 1669. Both of the characters’ love could be described in
terms of a passion which becomes dangerous to social and moral orders. As far
as it concerns the topic of social threat, it is worth noting that strong
emotions seem to have the potential to resist laws, moral codes or other
behavioural conventions. This potential is grounded in the individual and what
makes it dangerous is the fact that the individual is not able to master it. So
the outbursts of passionate love always latently claim the abolishment of such
norms, for better or for worse.
Biography
Rainer
Zaiser is Professor of French and Italian Literatures in the Department of
Romance Languages of the University of Kiel. He has published on the
seventeenth-century French novel, the French classical theatre, Medieval and
Early Modern Italian Literature. He is the editor of the journals Œuvres et Critiques and Papers on French Seventeenth Century
Literature, and of the book series Biblio
17 and Études littéraries françaises.
rainer.zaiser@romanistik.uni-kiel.de
Literature
“Gefährliche Leidenschaften: Vom
Wandel der ‘amour galant’ zur ‘amour passion’ im Roman der französischen
Klassik: La Princesse de Clèves und Les Lettres portugaises”, in Kirsten
Dickhaut, Dietmar Rieger (ed.), Liebe und
Emergenz. Neue Modelle des Affektbegreifens im französischen Kulturgedächtnis
um 1700. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2006, pp. 183-195.
Anna-Kira Roggon
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Anna-Kira Roggon (MEd)
(Kiel University)
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Youth Unemployment in Spain - An Empirical Study
Blanka Niewrzella
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Blanka Niewrzella (MEd)
(Kiel University)
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The ‘Crisis’ of Cologne - A Critical Discourse
Analysis of French and Spanish Media
The night of the 31th December in
Cologne had led to a discursive event in the international media characterized
by discourse interlays causing effects.
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Lisa Paetz
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Lisa Paetz (M.A.)
(Kiel University)
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HIV/AIDS in Spanish Campaigns
Madlen Pockrandt
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Madlen Pockrandt (MEd)
(Kiel University)
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The Hispanic Challenge - Are Hispanics really
threatening the “Traditional American” Way of Life?
The presentation will discuss the issue of
Hispanics in the United States, who are often regarded or rather presented as
posing a threat to U.S. society. As a basis, Samuel P. Huntington’s article
“The Hispanic Challenge” from 2004 will be used, supplemented with data from
the Pew Research Center from 2013.
Sara-Ann Simon
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Sara-Ann Simon (MEd)
(Kiel University)
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After
Charlie Hebdo - Optimism and Hope or Resentment and Revenge? An International
and Interlingual Discourse Analysis on the Basis of French and Spanish Printed
Mass Media
In 2015, France declares the state of
emergency.
At the very start of 2015, on 7 January, the
editorial offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo became victim of an Islamic motivated terror attack. The
two brothers belonging to Al-Qaida, shot 11 persons, hurt several persons
present and killed a policeman during the escape. Until the day of the attacks
on the Bataclan, theses aggressions
were the deadliest in France since 1961. On the evening of 13th
November of the same year, a series of jihadist-motivated terrorist attacks
occurred in Paris. The attackers killed 130 people, including 89 in the Bataclan concert hall.
The attacks on Charlie Hebdo in January, against the Bataclan in November and other attacks that claimed more lives,
raised difficult questions about issues ranging from free speech and satire to
immigration, religion, diversity and extremism in a civil society.
The idea of my research work is to analyze all
the sentiments people express in traditional medias of Romance countries
(mainly France and Spain) in order to make a data-based assessment of the level
of consensus about the value of multiculturalism and freedom. This analysis
refers to a fixed period of approximately one month before and one year after
the first attacks and will be done by a discourse analysis.
A discourse analysis studies larger linguistic
units such as written texts in different languages, connected to social
questions and problems. In my case, I will focus on the following research
questions:
- Does
France and Spain react in a different way to the attacks?
- Did
the consciousness of people change? How?
- Does
people tend toward deepening the conflict in the society or toward reinforce
the consensus in the society?
To work out these questions, I will refer to
each three renowned daily French and Spanish newspapers, which are relevant to
the formation of public opinion and open to European topics. Consequently, I
assume that my research will be representative in democratic countries like
France and Spain.
Biography
I studied French and Spanish Philology in Kiel. During
my studies, I spent several months in France and Spain. Currently I am writing
my master’s thesis in Spanish literature and translation. After this, I will apply
for a position of a teacher training.
During my studies, I also completed a correspondence
course that enables me to teach German as a foreign language. Since one year, I
work in a language school, teaching not only private and company courses, but
also daily integration courses for refugees and citizens of the EU who want to
learn German – an important experience and challenge for me.