Professor Crispin Thurlow's guest lectures online

The first guest lecture on "Symbolic capitals: Visual discourse and intercultural exchange in the European Capital of Culture scheme" takes place on November 13. The second lecture on "Designing (dis)engagement: Reading the Throwaway waste exhibition as a spatial text" is on November 20. Both lectures will be held in English.

Prof. Crispin Thurlow is a world-renowned scholar in applied linguistics, a professor of language and communication at the University of Bern, a researcher in critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, who has also worked at the University of Washington in the USA and Cardiff University in the UK.

Professor Thurlow researches such topical areas as critical discourse analysis, multimodality, language and globalization, new media forms.

His most significant works include the books “The Business of Words” and “Visualizing Digital Discourse”, the professor is also an editor and member of the editorial boards of books and scientific journals (book series Language and Social Life, DeGruyter; Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Taylor & Francis; Text&Talk, De Gruyter; Language in Society, Cambridge; Visual Communication, Sage; Linguistic Landscape, John Benjamins, etc.).

To receive a Zoom link for access, please write to assoc. prof. Jana Kuzmina of the Department of English at jana.kuzmina@lu.lv!

Guest lectures are organized within the framework of the Language Initiative project (project No. 2.3.1.1.i.0/1/22/I/CFLA/002) with the direct participation and involvement of the Department of English.

The project “Language Technology Initiative” (No. 2.3.1.1.i.0/1/22/I/CFLA/002) is co-financed by the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility Investment and the State Budget.