📚 #CULCORC Seminar Series

On 14 October, Shomaila Sadaf (University of Jyväskylä) will present “Positioning and Othering in Social Media Discourse”, based on her doctoral research into identity, relationships and positioning in YouTube comment sections.

🕑 14:00 (GMT+2)
📍 H508, Voršilská, Prague

📚 Looking back at ECREA 2026!

From 9 to 11 September, CULCORC researchers took part in the conference with seven contributions spanning peace, democracy, ecology, community media, identity, environmental journalism and more-than-human communication.

#CULCORC #ECREA2026

📣 New review of AGON: Constructions of Democracy

Martin Bubanović reviews the academic film essay AGON, exploring democracy, space, intercultural dialogue and political struggle through theory, fiction and dance.

🎬 ojs.srce.hr/medijske-stu...
🔗 culcorc.fsv.cuni.cz/construction...

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📣 International Academic Cooperation in Communication

The latest JLACR special issue on academic cooperation brings together 20+ contributions.

The special issue was presented online yesterday, with contributors from around the world.

▶️ youtube.com/live/nUDrARO...

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Very happy I could join the wonderful celebration of the publication of the ALAIC Journal Issue on International Academic Cooperation. The recording of the discussion is here: www.youtube.com/live/nUDrARO... and the special issue is here: journal.pubalaic.org/index.php/jl... #IAMCR #CULCORC #SQRIDGE

📣 CULCORC at #ECREA2026

At ECREA 2026, Lenka Marxova (Charles University) presented:

“Negotiating female identity through collage creation in South Africa: A discourse-theoretical analysis and decolonial perspective”

📍 Session: “Visual Stereotypes, Imaginaries and Identities”

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🌿 CULCORC at ECREA 2026

Nico Carpentier and Vaia Doudaki present “Transcending anthropocentrism: A discourse-theoretical analysis of Moulding Nature’s communicative-artistic tactics.”

📍 Session: More-Than-Human Communication

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Having fun at the ECREA conference in Brno, with a presentation on Transcending Anthropocentrism and the Moulding Nature exhibition. Apparently, this is my of entanglement ... #CULCORC

📣 UPCOMING | Internationalisation and Academic Nationalism

On 14 Sept, Nico Carpentier & Vaia Doudaki join Robert Silverio, Bart Cammaerts & Josef Seethaler for a panel on international research cooperation

📅 13:00–14:30 | 📍 Charles University, Prague

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📣 #CULCORC at #ECREA2026

Elisabeth Wennerstrom presented her dissertation research on “The discursive constructions of nature and culture in Swedish environmental journalistic assemblages.” in the session: "Framing & Reporting The Environment"

📣 #CULCORC at #ECREA2026

Karolina Simkova presented “The invisible rhizome,” exploring the characteristics, roles and challenges of community media in Czechia and their place in the wider media landscape.

📍 Grassroots Communication, Citizenship, and Community Governance in Times of Change

📣 CULCORC at #ECREA2026

Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier & Miloš Hroch presented “Constructions of democracy in the Czech citizen parliament: Articulations and struggles,".

📍 Media in the CEE Between Autocratic Attacks and Democratic Resistance

#CULCORC #Democracy

🌍 CULCORC at #ECREA 2026

How do museums in oil- and gas-rich countries imagine our environmental futures?

Yaroslava Kutsai presented “Spaceship Earth” or “the Womb”? How Museums in Petrostates Envision the Future in the Context of Climate Change

📍 Session: Energy & The Green Transition

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📣 CULCORC at #ECREA2026

David Ongenaert (Charles University) presented research co-authored with Nico Carpentier on how peace was discursively constructed in Russian and Ukrainian news coverage.

📍 Geopolitics, War, and Media Session

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Lovely panel at the "Communicating Narratives, Imaginaries and Epistemes of Hope" Conference, where I was in the great company of Ilija Tomanić Trivundža. Three cheers to Vaia Doudaki and team for a job well done, and to uxia for the photo. #culcorc, #iamcr, #ecrea

📣 Pirate airwaves of hope

In “Assemblages of hope: Media, protest and political imaginaries”, Vaia Doudaki examined the illegal radio station of the 1973 Polytechneio occupation in Athens and how protest broadcasting enacted democratic hope under dictatorship.

📅 7 Sept | Prague

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📣 Hope as a democratic practice

Giulia Ferri (IULM) explored hope as an epistemic practice in complex media environments in her presentation titled “Knowing enough to hope: Media literacy and the unequal conditions of democratic imagination”.

📅 7 Sept | Prague

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📣 A new #hope?

Giulia Ferri and Andrea Miconi (IULM University) presented the paper "A new hope? Counterintuitive insights from a wide-scale research on political disillusion in Europe"

Thank you for your contribution!

📅 7 Sept | 📍 Prague

#CULCORC #Democracy #MeDeMAP

📣 Peace as a discourse of #hope?

David Ongenaert and Nico Carpentier (Charles University) presented research on how Czech journalists perceive and report on peace amid the Russian-Ukrainian war.

📅 7 Sept | Prague

#CULCORC #Peace #MeDeMAP

📣 Creative practices of hope

One of the parallel sessions brought together Ali Minanto and Yaroslava Kutsai. They explored street art and democratic contestation and how museums in Oslo and Dubai construct environmental futures, respectively.

📅 7 Sept | Prague

#CULCORC #ECREA2026 #IAMCR