The aim of the colloquium is to bring together scholars working with constructivist and post-structuralist discursive approaches, broadly defined. The colloquium is open to scholars working on a wide range of themes across disciplines, with work on the following themes especially welcomed:
- Environment and climate
- Media and journalism
- Political communication and propaganda
- Health and care
- The discursive and the material
- Discourse, class, and political economy
- The past, present and future of progressive politics
- Nationalism, racism, and the (populist) far right
- Sex and gender
- International relations, conflict and war
- Discourse theory, critique and practice