We invite you to a series of public lectures organised as part of the doctoral module Cultural History by the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU and the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies ZRC SAZU. The third lecture in the series will feature Ksenija Bogetić Pejović as a guest speaker:
Language, conceptualization and collective memory in (perma)crisis.
The talk will focus on the role of collective memory in contemporary public discourses of new crises, bringing together frameworks of linguistic metaphor study, crisis communication and memory studies. Across three small case studies, set across different types of political and citizen discourse, the talk looks at instrumentalizations of conflict memory in the (post-)2020 discourses of the ‘new normal’ in former Yugoslav states. The results are used to discuss particular linguistic patterns of a growing militarization of discourse yet paralleled by intense negotiations over collective pasts and futures.
The lecture will be held in English on Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 4:00 PM in the meeting room of the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, Trg francoske revolucije 7, 2nd floor, Ljubljana (doorbell: ZRC SAZU).
Ksenija Bogetić Pejović is a linguist dealing with interactions of language and the social world at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies ZRC SAZU. Her work draws on the traditions of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics to explore how social identities and ideologies are discursively constructed and sustained, with a particular focus on anglophone and post-Yugoslav societies. Her interests include language ideology, language and nationalism, language, gender and sexuality, youth and digital media, and metaphor.
Kindly invited!
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