develop an analytical approach, and to validate it.
The workshop provides (prospective) discourse researchers with an orientation in the field of discourse research. In addition, participants develop strategies for relating the object of analysis to the discourse-theoretical perspective and for developing a concrete analytical approach for their own project.
Based on the participants' prior knowledge, we will first develop an overview of the sometimes rather confusing field of discourse research and examine our own positioning in this field. Participants will then learn about the approach developed by the workshop leader in her dissertation for analyzing the mechanisms of reproduction and transformation of orders of un_speakability. This approach is particularly suitable for examining current discursive shifts, processes of de-democratization, and normalization of (extreme) right-wing positions.
The second part of the workshop focuses on the participants' discourse analysis projects. Together, we will analyze the material brought along and discuss which analytical approach is suitable for the respective object of analysis and how it can be related to which theoretical perspectives.
The workshop will take place on-site. The first part is more input-based, but is consistently oriented toward the interests and questions of the participants and thus remains interactive. The second part is designed as a research workshop, focusing on the joint analysis of different materials.
Conditions of participation
Advanced master's students, doctoral candidates, and postdocs in gender studies and education who are (or want to be) conducting discourse analysis research themselves or who are interested in learning more about this research perspective are welcome to participate.
A basic understanding of poststructuralist and discourse-theoretical perspectives is required.
If you would like to take advantage of the opportunity to analyze data from your own project together in the workshop, please send a short exposé (max. 1 page) and the selected data to juno.grenz (at) uni-flensburg.de by January 5, 2025.
Juno Grenz is a research assistant in the Gender Studies Department of the Institute of Education and in the junior research group “Gender 3.0 in Schools” at the European University of Flensburg. Her research focuses on queer theory, education and subjectification theory, anti-feminism, right-wing extremism, discourse analysis, and intersectionality. In her dissertation “Bildung in Zeiten von Antifeminismus,” she examines the connection between education, gender, and sexuality from a discourse-theoretical perspective and, in her analysis of the debate surrounding the “2015 Education Plan” triggered by anti-feminist attacks, traces mechanisms of reproduction and transformation of orders of un_speakability. The work will be published in autumn 2025 as open access by Verlag Barbara Budrich.
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Registration will be possible from July 25, 2025, using the form that will be activated on this page, until December 19, 2025. A number of places are reserved for members of the GRADE Center.