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
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