The call for papers and panel proposals will be open until 15 May 2026. This international hybrid conference aims to open an interdisciplinary forum for discussing how individual and group identities are discursively construed in today’s increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse can serve as a medium for reproducing or challenging social divisions.
The conference invites international scholars at all career stages from across the transdisciplinary field of Critical Discourse Studies to explore how social divisions and identities are discursively shaped, contested and transformed.
The conference is hosted by Vilnius University (Lithuania), in collaboration with DiscourseNet (International Association for Discourse Studies) and the DARE Horizon Europe postdoctoral project, which investigates how polarisation and identities surrounding the abortion debate are constructed in European mainstream media.