DAY 2: February 25, 2025
09.00 – 09.30 Walk in
09.30 – 13.30 Academic presentations
Please note: Presentations have been randomly assigned to tracks to encourage discussion across disciplines and enable the emergence of converging problem solving for various aspects of the polycrisis. Talks cover the following broad topics:
◉ Power: Language as a tool for reinforcing or challenging power structures, shaping perception, and influencing decisions.
◉ Social Change: Communication in public speaking, media, activism, and persuasion as forces that transform society.
◉ Representation: The role of language in constructing cultural identity, gender expression, indigenous & minority languages, and perceptions of bias.
◉ Technology: AI, computational linguistics, and LLMs reshaping language use, learning, and digital interaction.
◉ Environment & ethics: Sustainability, environmental justice, and ethical business practices through the lens of language.
◉ Education: Pedagogy, critical literacy, coaching, and language learning as foundations for knowledge and communication.
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| Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 | |
| 9.30-10.00 | Nicolina Montesano Montessori Critical Language Awareness, Citizenship and the Voice of Nature ◉◉ | Bettina van Hoven, Anna Fornari, CJ Hickey, Josephine Berghorn, Mara van Hermon, Sven Overbeeke, Caitlin van Hoven, and Ilse van Dijk Learning from the W̱SÁNEĆ: Language Revival and Decolonizing Education ◉◉ | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Leonidas Zotos Using LLMs to Explore Framing of Events in Educational Contexts ◉◉ | Arran Stibbe Towards a Grammar of Enchantment ◉◉ | Laura Robaey Gender-Inclusive Language in Multilingual, Gender-Sensitive Contexts ◉ ◉ |
| 10.30-11.00 | Walter Giordano Communication strategies in prescription drug advertising: Ethics and “sustainability” ◉◉ | Chloé Lybaert & Sarah Van Hoof Students’ attitudes towards university lecturers’ language use and ethnicity: A contextualised speaker evaluation experiment ◉◉ | Hanna Sofia Rehnberg The Struggle for Collaboration Between Researchers and Practitioners: Challenges and the Satisfaction of Knowledge Exchange Finally Taking Place ◉◉ |
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 13:30 Academic presentations Round 2
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| 11.30-12.00 | Orrie Staschen Doing Critical Literacy: A Case Study of UCT Graduate School of Business MPhil Students in Cape Town, South Africa ◉◉ | Matt Drury Sustainability, Language, Impact! ◉◉ | |
| 12.00-12.30 | Aurélie Joubert & Marcela Huilcán ‘Indigenous’ European Languages: Reflections on cultural appropriation and global minoritisation practice ◉ ◉ | Bernard De Clerck & Lotte Remue Looks, likes and language: Does beauty still boost business? ◉◉ | Francesca Padovani How Can Machines Be Taught Language More Efficiently, Mirroring the Natural Processes of Young Learners? ◉◉ |
| 12.30-13.00 | Marie-Louise Brunner Shaping public perception of sustainability efforts: A study of Instagram business accounts from the food industry ◉◉ | Olga Abreu Fernandes Coaching Lab: Re-shaping stories, transforming experience, capturing change ◉◉ | John Hoeks & Janette Bosma The persuasive power of poetry ◉◉ |
| 13.00-13.30 | Marc Pauly Speaking to Nature: A Dialogical Philosophy Perspective ◉◉ | Frank Hindriks Language For and Against Social Change ◉◉ | Hanne Verhaegen A Thematic Analysis of Attitudes Towards Gender-Neutral Pronouns in Dutch ◉◉ |
13.30 – 14.30 LUNCH