Author: grant.corecon@ulbsibiu.ro
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CORECON team delivered workshops for high school students
On 24 October 2024, we were invited to take part in the Alternative Education Week at Onisifor Ghibu Theoretical High School in Sibiu. The Alternative Education Week is a yearly nationwide initiative designed to help students develop their creativity and their socio-emotional abilities. The workshops were conducted with two groups of 9th-graders. By solving media…
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How we collect, manage and process our research material for CORECON
The research carried out within CORECON is based on a large database that consists of hundreds of news articles and social media entries in Romanian, Polish and English. These constitute a corpus (plural: corpora): a large set of linguistic data (e.g., collected from news outlets and social media) that can be processed with the use…
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Exploring Epistemic Rights and Truth Claims: Insightful Book Reviews from CORECON Members
This blogpost promotes two recent book reviews that were commissioned from CORECON members Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Ecaterina Ilis by the academic journal “Power of Judgement” (Władza Sądzenia). This open-access indexed academic journal published by University of Lodz, Poland, self-describes as a venue answering to the need for regular and effective exchange of reflections in the…
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CORECON Lucian Blaga University’s “Researchers’ Night”: A Report on a Workshop with High School and Secondary School Students
On 27 September 2024, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu hosted the annual event “Noaptea Cercetătorilor” (Researchers’ Night) as part of the European Researchers’ Night, a pan-European event meant, among other things, to bring research and researchers closer to the public and to show how research affects our daily lives. We explored the social responsibility future…
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What can collocations tell us about patterns of representation of Russian-Ukrainian conflict in tabloids?
The identification and analysis of collocations – statistically significant bonds and frequent pairings of words in a corpus or sample – can be used to obtain insight into conceptual relationships and terminological associations. Some of the salient collocations can be quite novel or ideologically charged, which can allow us to notice patterns that would be…
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Understanding conflict across cultures and discourses: A report from a CORECON international science dissemination event
On 18-20 September 2024 University of Opole hosted the 29th Conference of the International Association of Intercultural Communication Studies. The conference gathered over a hundred onsite and online participants from across the globe. It was designed to provide a venue for discussing interdisciplinary research related to the conference theme: “Intercultural Encounters: Global perspectives – local…
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Wars of preemption. Is Russia correct in justifying its invasion of Ukraine in terms of preventing a larger conflict?
This blogpost by Isabela Dragomir and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska is a discussion of diverse definitions of preemptive attacks vis-à-vis preventive wars, and criteria for their legality and justification. It reviews selected international legal, military and political studies to bring together the current approaches and debates and exemplifies the argument with historical examples. It is a background…
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Unveiling the Feminine Narrative: Women’s Roles in the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Romanian Media
On May 23, 2024, Denisa Bâlc and Iulia-Maria Ticărău participated in the conference “Women in Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the Experience of War,” held in Sibiu, Romania. They presented their research, titled “Unveiling the Feminine Narrative: Analyzing the Role of Women in Mediating the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict,” which is based on the corpus compiled for…
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Fostering resilience against war disinformation among the youth:CORECON joins forces with FORTHEM’s DisInfoResist to develop a research study and intervention for schools
DisInfoResist is the name of the FORTHEM student-driven pilot study and intervention project devoted to building up resilience to disinformation on Russian-Ukrainian conflict among Polish teenagers. It took place in Opole in the spring semester of 2024 and was carried out by a group of University of Opole MA students of English Philology supervised by…