📣 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

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🌍 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

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📣 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

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📣 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

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📣 #Hope in the details

Elisabeth Wennerström (Charles University) explored how hope emerges in Swedish environmental journalism through resistance, dialogue and small-scale actions that challenge powerlessness amid environmental crisis.

📅 7 Sept | Prague

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📣 (Youth) voices of hope: Digital media, civic imagination and identity

Maedbh Pierce explored bi+ community media as a site of hope and self-determination, while Uxía Sánchez Lorda examined the ambivalent role of hope in #ThatGirl and #CleanGirlAesthetic.

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📣 Keynote session: #Hope, change and critique

Ilija Tomanić Trivundža and Nico Carpentier opened the conference with keynote talks exploring hope, critique and social change, from “post-hope” to the translation of hope into social practice

Chaired by Vaia Doudaki
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📣 What does hope look like under democratic backsliding?

Lungta Seki (Koç Üniversitesi) explores hope as a communicative practice through which opposition actors name injustice and defend democratic norms.

📅 7 Sept | Prague
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📣 Can hope be built through dialogue?

Martina Hrgović and her co-authors explore multilingual online deliberation as a space where conflict-affected people can collectively imagine and negotiate hopeful futures of peace and coexistence

📅 7 Sept | Prague
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