Author: grant.corecon@ulbsibiu.ro
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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…
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Tracking false narratives about Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A workshop with students on addressing fake news challenges in both research and practice
On 8th April 2024 Ecaterina Ilis (ULBS) delivered a guest lecture “Researching fake news: Understanding the challenges” and a workshop to University of Opole MA students majoring in Language and Communication in the English Philology study program. Given her long-standing interest in critical discourse analysis of mediated fake news in the context of COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Why do we need to study the coverage and reception of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in Polish, Romanian and English-language media?
Ion Surdu, a journalist at Turnul Sfatului, a local online newspaper in Sibiu is interviewing Prof. Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, the director of a recently initiated research project at University of Lucian Blaga in Sibiu. The version of the interview in Romanian can be found here. Ion Surdu: Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska is a professor of linguistics and communication…