Program (as of Feb. 18th, 2025)

 

 

DAY 1 - MONDAY, FEB 24th

arrivals in Bremen

18:00 - 21:00 Conference warming (Schüttinger Brauhaus; Hinter dem Schütting 12-13, D-28195 Bremen)

 

 

DAY 2 - TUESDAY, FEB 25th

09.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-9.45 Opening

9.45-10.45 Keynote by Hans-Georg Wolf (University of Potsdam): Cultural conceptualizations in colonial texts and images

10.45-11.00 Coffee/tea break

11.00-12.30 Paper presentations

  • Marta Degani & Alexander Onysko (University of Klagenfurt): The contribution of conceptual metaphors to cultural conceptualizations in Aotearoa English
  • Dania Bonness (Western Norwegian University of Applied Sciences): Nineteenth-century etic evaluations of social behaviour in Inuit communities
  • Franziska Kleine (University of Bremen): “Surrender to the extreme tactics”: Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Metaphors in Political Discourse on Climate Activism

12.30-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15.30 Paper presentations

  • Mx Gaul (University of Bremen):“Fighting ideology with common sense”? – Conceptualisations of (Gender) Ideology in UK Newspapers
  • Sadia Belkhir(Mouloud Mammeri University): Conceptualisations of ANGER in British and American proverbs: Similarity and variation
  • Sarannaya Bose (University of Bremen): Why Love is Religion and Lover is God: A corpus-based study of Conceptual Metaphors in romantic Bollywood songs
  • Linnea Garlepow (Philipps University of Marburg) & Barbara-Ann Güldenring (Justus Liebig University Giessen): Sensory Metaphors in South Asian English Newspapers: A Multifactorial Source Domain Approach

15.30-16.00 Coffee/tea break

16.00-17.00 Crossroads lecture by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen (University of Copenhagen): Metaphors and corpus methodology

19:00-22:00 Conference dinner (Ratskeller Bremen; Am Markt, D-28195 Bremen)

 

 

DAY 3 - WEDNESDAY, FEB 26th

10.00-11.00 Keynote by Judit Baranyiné Kóczy (University of Pannonia): Exploring Metaphors in World Englishes. Perspectives on Stability and Dynamicity

11.00-12.00 University of Bremen Student Research Posters (gallery walk with coffee/tea)

  • Leia Hofmann & Kelat Kileyl: Metaphors in Inuit Placenames
  • Sarannaya Bose & Abed Falsafi: Metaphors in Inuit Myths
  • Mahla Mavali: Conceptualisations of transportation vessels in Nunavut and Greenland
  • Sondes Ismail & Sara Jafari: Investigating metaphorical uses of the food-related adjectives sour and bitter Singlish: a corpus-based study

12.00-13.00 Paper presentations

  • Frank Polzenhagen & Monika Reif (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau): The conceptualisation of luxury across time
  • Kateryna Pilyarchuk (European University Viadrina): “The ways we consume food and fashion aren’t so different”: WOMAN/FASHION IS FOOD metaphors in Vogue (U.S.)

13.00-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.00 Paper presentations

  • Denisa Latic (University of Potsdam): The principle of chaining as a tool to measure conceptual salience
  • Sophia Hercher (Philipps University of Marburg): What is ChatGPT doing? – The metaphors of generative AI

15.00-15.15 Coffee break

15.15-16.15 Crossroads lecture by Carsten Levisen (Roskilde University): Where Metaphor Ends

16:15-17.00 Résumé, outlook, and farewell