{"id":1319,"date":"2021-09-23T09:12:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/recdce2021\/?page_id=1319"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T13:18:33","slug":"keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/recdce2021\/keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.10.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;#004b84&#8243; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;#2b87da&#8221; background_enable_image=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;72px||71px|||&#8221; bottom_divider_style=&#8221;mountains2&#8243; bottom_divider_flip=&#8221;vertical&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.10.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; 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_module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;62.1%&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.10.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;61.5%&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;25px|||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;2px|4px||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Prof. Michal Krzyzanowski<\/h2>\n<p>Uppsala University<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; specialty_columns=&#8221;2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=&#8221;4.10.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;33px||12px|||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||7px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.10.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.10.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u2018The New Normal\u2019, COVID-19, and the Recontextualisation of Crisis:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Discursive Shifts in European (Right-Wing) Populist Imagination <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=&#8221;4.10.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|1px||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;3px||51px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.10.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.10.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_6_font_size=&#8221;11px&#8221; header_6_line_height=&#8221;1.1em&#8221; 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Hence, as the paper shows, the often-ambivalent imaginary of \u2018crisis\u2019 (Krzy\u017canowski 2019) \u2013deployed in relation to such recent European and global events\/processes as, inter alia, the \u2018Refugee Crisis\u2019 (Krzy\u017canowski 2018a, 2018b, 2020b; Krzy\u017canowski &amp; Ledin 2017; Krzy\u017canowski, Triandafyllidou &amp; Wodak 2018), or \u2018Brexit\u2019 (Krzy\u017canowski 2019; Zappettini &amp; Krzy\u017canowski 2019, 2021) \u2013 has remained central as well as being further \u2018recontextualised (Bernstein 1990; Krzy\u017canowski 2016) in the public argumentation of European right-wing populist actors. On the other hand, however, the article emphasises a vital, parallel \u2018discursive shift\u2019 (Krzy\u017canowski 2013, 2018a, 2018b, 2020b) in the conceptualisation of \u2018crisis\u2019 by the European far right during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper argues, namely, that the very acute and real as well as tangible character of the Coronavirus has forced the populist political actors to abandon their usual strategies of \u2018imagining\u2019, \u2018mis\/constructing\u2019 or even \u2018performing\u2019 (Moffitt 2016) crisis and instead saw them turning towards descriptions of the COVID-19 crisis in terms of various types of \u2018facts\u2019. However, those quasi-factual descriptions of crisis, have, at the same time, been very skilfully re\/packaged and \u2018used\u2019 as well as \u2018operationalised\u2019 as tools that helped the far right \u2018pre-legitimise\u2019 (Krzy\u017canowski 2014) its political strategies and policies. These, as the paper shows, have allowed the far-right political actors \u2013 and especially the European right-wing populists in power \u2013 to solidify the hegemonic position of their ideologically-driven discourse by not only symbolically but also formally gaining control over competing voices in the public spheres including, very notably, those of the media that used to be critical of far-right politics and actions (see Krzy\u017canowski, forthcoming).<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>References<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Bernstein, B. (1990). <em>The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse<\/em> (Class, Codes and Control Vol. IV). London: Routledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M. (2013). Policy, Policy Communication and Discursive Shifts: Analysing EU Policy Discourses on Climate Change. In: P. Cap &amp; U. Okulska (eds)<em> Analysing New Genres in Political Communication<\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 101-135.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M. (2014). Values, Imaginaries and Templates of Journalistic Practice: A Critical Discourse Analysis. <em>Social Semiotics <\/em>24(3). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10350330.2014.930607\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10350330.2014.930607<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M. (2016). Recontextualizations of Neoliberalism and the Increasingly Conceptual Nature of Discourse. <em>Discourse &amp; Society <\/em>27(3). <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0957926516630901\">https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0957926516630901<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M. (2018a). Discursive Shifts in Ethno-Nationalist Politics: On Politicisation and Mediatisation of the \u2018Refugee Crisis\u2019 in Poland. <em>Journal of Immigrant &amp; Refugee Studies<\/em> 16 (1-2). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15562948.2017.1317897\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15562948.2017.1317897<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M. (2018b). \u2018We Are a Small Country that Has Done Enormously Lot\u2019: The \u2018Refugee Crisis\u2019 &amp; the Hybrid Discourse of Politicising Immigration in Sweden. <em>Journal of Immigrant &amp; Refugee Studies <\/em>16 (1-2). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15562948.2017.1317895\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15562948.2017.1317895<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M. (2019). \u2018Brexit\u2019 and the Imaginary of \u2018Crisis\u2019: A Discourse-Conceptual Analysis of European News Media. <em>Critical Discourse Studies<\/em> 16(2). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17405904.2019.1592001\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17405904.2019.1592001<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M. (2020a). Normalization and the Discursive Construction of \u2018New\u2019 Norms and \u2018New\u2019 Normality: Discourse in\/and the Paradoxes of Populism and Neoliberalism. <em>Social Semiotics<\/em> 30:4, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10350330.2020.1766193\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10350330.2020.1766193<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M. (2020b). Discursive Shifts and the Normalisation of Racism: Imaginaries of Immigration, Moral Panics and the Discourse of Contemporary Right-Wing Populism. <em>Social Semiotics<\/em> 30:4, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10350330.2020.1766199\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10350330.2020.1766199<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M. (forthcoming). Narrating the \u2018New Normal\u2019? COVID-19 Pandemic and the Discursive Continuities\/Shifts in (Right-Wing) Populist Framing of \u2018Crisis\u2019. To appear in <em>Discourse &amp; Communication<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M., A. Triandafyllidou &amp; R. Wodak. (2018). The Politicisation and Mediatisation of the \u2018Refugee Crisis\u2019 in Europe. <em>Journal of Immigrant &amp; Refugee Studies<\/em> 16 (1-2). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15562948.2017.1353189\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15562948.2017.1353189<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Krzy\u017canowski, M. &amp; P. Ledin. (2017). Uncivility on the Web: Populism in\/and the Borderline Discourses of Exclusion. <em>Journal of Language &amp; Politics<\/em> 16(4). <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamins.com\/catalog\/jlp.17028.krz\">https:\/\/benjamins.com\/catalog\/jlp.17028.krz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Moffitt, B. (2016). <em>The Global Rise of Populism<\/em>. Stanford: Stanford University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Wodak, R. &amp; M. Krzy\u017canowski. (eds.). (2017). <em>Right-Wing Populism in Europe &amp; USA: Contesting Politics &amp; Discourse beyond \u2018Orbanism\u2019 and \u2018Trumpism\u2019<\/em>. (Special issue of Journal of Language &amp; Politics 16:4). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamins.com\/catalog\/jlp.16.4\">https:\/\/benjamins.com\/catalog\/jlp.16.4<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Zappettini, F &amp; M. Krzyzanowski. (2019). The critical juncture of Brexit in media &amp; political discourses: from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis. Critical Discourse Studies 16:4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17405904.2019.1592767\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17405904.2019.1592767<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Zappettini, F &amp; M. Krzyzanowski. (Eds.)(2021). Brexit as a Social and Political Crisis: Discourses in Media and Politics. London: Routledge. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Brexit-as-a-Social-and-Political-Crisis-Discourses-in-Media-and-Politics\/Zappettini-Krzyzanowski\/p\/book\/9780367764111\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Brexit-as-a-Social-and-Political-Crisis-Discourses-in-Media-and-Politics\/Zappettini-Krzyzanowski\/p\/book\/9780367764111<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.10.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|39px||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Biographical note<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Professor Micha\u0142 Krzy\u017canowski holds the Chair in Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden, where he is currently also Deputy Head and Associate Head (Research) at the Uppsala University School\/Department of Informatics and Media.         <div class=\"rmwr-wrapper\" \n             data-id=\"rmwr-6a043ffd9f696\"\n             data-mode=\"normal\"\n             data-animation=\"fade\"\n             data-duration=\"300\"\n             data-smooth-scroll=\"true\"\n             data-scroll-offset=\"0\">\n            <button \n                type=\"button\"\n                class=\"read-link\" \n                id=\"readlinkrmwr-6a043ffd9f696\"\n                data-open-text=\"Read More\"\n                data-close-text=\"Read Less\"\n                aria-expanded=\"false\"\n                aria-controls=\"readrmwr-6a043ffd9f696\"\n                aria-label=\"Read More\"\n            >\n                <span class=\"rmwr-text\">Read More<\/span>\n            <\/button>\n            <div \n                class=\"read_div\" \n                id=\"readrmwr-6a043ffd9f696\"\n                aria-hidden=\"true\"\n                data-animation=\"fade\"\n                data-duration=\"300\"\n                style=\"display: none;\"\n            >\n                \u00a0He joined Uppsala University after a distinguished international career and after holding a number of academic and leadership positions at the Universities in the UK, Sweden, Poland and Austria. He has also held a number of prestigious visiting and honorary posts, most recently as Albert Bonnier Jr. Guest Professor in Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden, or as Affiliate Research Chair in Communications &amp; Media at the University of Liverpool, UK. Micha\u0142 is one of the leading international scholars working on critical discourse studies of normalisation of politics of exclusion in the context of communication, media and social change, with special focus on Europe. His main research areas include political discourse, digital media and journalism &#8211; which he analyses with focus on anti-immigration rhetoric, racism, social inequality and other challenges to democracy in the context of global rise of right-wing populism and neoliberalism. He is also, inter alia, the Editor-in-Chief of the international <em>Journal of Language and Politics<\/em> and a co-editor of the <em>Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies<\/em> book series as well as sitting on a number of boards in various journals in critical discourse studies and wider qualitative social research. He is also widely known for his teaching of qualitative methods and critical discourse studies to students across social and political sciences and humanities across Europe, USA, China and Australia. He is also a recurrent convenor of widely attended classes in Critical Discourse Studies organised within Summer Schools in Methods and Techniques and Virtual Methods Schools of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/katalog.uu.se\/profile\/?id=N20-1042\">https:\/\/katalog.uu.se\/profile\/?id=N20-1042\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keynote SpeakerProf. Michal Krzyzanowski Uppsala University\u2018The New Normal\u2019, COVID-19, and the Recontextualisation of Crisis:\u00a0Discursive Shifts in European (Right-Wing) Populist Imagination Abstract This presentation connects the recently prevalent discourse of \u2018the new normal\u2019 &#8211; initiated and widely used in Europe and elsewhere the context of the COVID-19 pandemic &#8211; with long term pre-existent national and transnational imaginaries deployed across European public spheres by (right-wing) populist \u2013 or far right \u2013 political actors.  On the one hand, the interest here is in deconstructing the seemingly novel logic of the \u2018new normal\u2019 narrative by showing that, as such, it is largely based on well-established tendencies of production of a new \u2018normality\u2019 (Krzy\u017canowski 2020a) and wider normalisation of exclusion in\/via mediated and political discourse. Hence, as the paper shows, the often-ambivalent imaginary of \u2018crisis\u2019 (Krzy\u017canowski 2019) \u2013deployed in relation to such recent European and global events\/processes as, inter alia, the \u2018Refugee Crisis\u2019 (Krzy\u017canowski 2018a, 2018b, 2020b; Krzy\u017canowski &amp; Ledin 2017; Krzy\u017canowski, Triandafyllidou &amp; Wodak 2018), or \u2018Brexit\u2019 (Krzy\u017canowski 2019; Zappettini &amp; Krzy\u017canowski 2019, 2021) \u2013 has remained central as well as being further \u2018recontextualised (Bernstein 1990; Krzy\u017canowski 2016) in the public argumentation of European right-wing populist actors. 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