Category: Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
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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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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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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…