To see what you can expect as a registered attendee of the conference, please go to Information for Attendees. Please note that all the sessions listed here will be live sessions, and may change on the day due to technical difficulties or otherwise.
As this year’s conference is being hosted in the UK, all times are in (BST). To convert these times to your own timezone, feel free to use the following site: Time & Date Converter.
Monday 12th April
| Time (BST) | Information |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:15 | Entry to Online Conference |
| 09:15-09:30 | Welcome Meet the ICE-5 Team |
| 09:45-12:00 | Presentation Panel 1 (Chaired by Jessica Hampton) Mario Leto: The Game Changers: Narratives of the Vegan Hero Maria Cristina: Caimotto Campaigning for cycling and well-being as resistance to hegemonic economic discourses Sarah Kirk-Browne: An analysis of climate change discourses in the UK parliament (2006 – 2018) Emile Farmer: A tale of two narratives in a time of climate and ecological uncertainty: Rewilding as an inspiring imaginary or economic, utilitarian, value-free pragmatism? Paul White: “the food we eat is responsible for 80% of tropical forest loss”: Visibility of the ‘environmental destroyer’ in activist campaign mails Reeta Holopainen: Revealing the Greenness of Northern Words. Linking Ecolinguistics with the Study of Finnish Poetry Alena Zhdanava: Human–Nonhuman Animal Dichotomy: Towards a Harmonious Relationship Between Human and Nonhuman Animals |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00-15:00 | Presentation Panel 2 (Chaired by Mariana Roccia) Diego Forte: All Activism is Political Activism: Discursive Strategies for Animal Rights in Argentina Jonathan McKinney: Extinction, Joy, and Eco-Linguistic Activism Douglas Ponton & Peter Mantello: The representation of Nature in Covid-19 Memes: Contagion and Public Discourse David Stringer: The linguistic underpinnings of environmental personhood Valentina Boschian: Stories-in-progress: Communicating environmental migration Annabelle Mooney: Dirty or clean? Frameworks for waste Morgan Sleeper & Jessica Love-Nichols: A musico-linguistic analysis of the imagined futures of ‘eco grime‘ |
Tuesday 13th April
| Time (BST) | Information |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:15 | Entry to Online Conference |
| 09:15-09:30 | Daily Greetings |
| 09:30-10:50 | Parallel Workshops 1 Tania Haberland (chaired by Camila Montiel McCann) Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/149890204637 BodyWording: An art/body workshop Wendy Wuyts (chaired by Mariana Roccia) Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/149892507525 Shortened forest therapy Helina Hookoomsing (chaired by Jessica Hampton) Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/149894320949 Rising from seed to tree – ‘The Walk Home’ |
| 11:10-12:30 | Parallel Workshops 2 Pamela Candea (chaired by Mariana Roccia) Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/149895835479 Using the tools of Nature to Breakthrough for Resilience Gazelle Buchholtz (chaired by Maddie Mancey) Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/149898338967 Your World in Words – Nature, Creative Writing & Shared Reading Polly Moseley (chaired by Jessica Hampton) Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/149899450291 Whose narrative is it anyway? |
| 12:30-13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00-15:00 | Presentation Panel 3 (Chaired by Maddie Mancey) Sandra Kouritzin, Taylor Ellis, & Satoru Nakagawa: Sustainability weaponised: Ecojustice versus the marketization of Canadian higher education Elizabeth Burt: Introducing climate change into teachers’ literacy curriculums Catrin Bellay: Linguistic rewilding on a university campus? John Katunich: Revitalizing a translingual commons in language education: Toward a convivial vision of English language teaching Josh Skjold: The Garden Party Isaac Ramírez Benavides: 20 Years of Ecolinguistics: An Overview on the Evolution of the Field |
| 16:00-17:15 | Workshop with Lee Lee: SEED: Restoration Liberation (Chaired by Camila Montiel McCann) Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/149900066133 |
Wednesday 14th April
| Time (BST) | Information |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:10 | Entry to Online Conference |
| 09:10-09:15 | Daily Greetings |
| 09:15-10:15 | Presentation Panel 4 (Chaired by Jessica Hampton) Giulia Lepori: The Language of Becoming-with Liu Ming & Huang Jingyi: “Global Warming” or “Climate Change”? A Corpus-assisted Discourse Study of the Competing Use of Two Catchwords in Environmental News Discourse He Wei: A Contrastive Ecological Discourse Analysis of Thematic Choices in Trump’s and Wang’s Speeches |
| 10:25-11:00 | “Getting your Ecolinguistics book published” (Chaired by Maddie Mancey) Q&A session with Bloomsbury’s Commissioning Editor, Prof Arran Stibbe and Mariana Roccia |
| 11:15-13:15 | Presentation Panel 5 (Chaired by Jessica Hampton) Q&A for website presentations Helina Hookoomsing & Shameem Oozeerally: Ecology and language in motion: Analysis of a creative performance of holistic trainee teachers in the Mauritian context Taylor Ellis: Ethnic vs. Civic Nationalism: Capitalist enclosures and Indigenous land rights in Nunavut Maddie Mancey: Beyond the Hard Rain: Multimodal Ecolingusitic Analysis Andrea Boom, Jack Wilson, & Janet C.E. Watson: From Naming to Numbers |
| 13:15-13:45 | Close (don’t forget to drop by at the evening panel to see exclusive guests!) |
| 18:00-19:30 | Exciting panel discussion hosted by ICE-5 and the NWCDTP – “Eco-language in action: tackling real-world issues” (Chaired by Camila Montiel McCann) Free online event open to all with Small Steps Liverpool, Greens of Colour UK, Prof Arran Stibbe, Mariana Roccia, and Jessica Hampton Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eco-language-in-action-tackling-real-world-issues-tickets-146815853169 |