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Event Organisation

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  • 2019 - Project seminar organisation: Rita Freire (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon: “Addressivity variations online with aggressive purposes”) and Pedro Freitas (Law School - University of Minho: "The Portuguese criminal response to discrimination and hate speech"). 2 May, 2019, 2:30pm, University of Minho.

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  • 2019 - Project seminar organisation: Minna Palander-Collin (University of Helsinki: “Compiling a Historical Sociolinguistic Corpus of English") and Orlando Grossegesse (University of Minho: “Hate Speech against Germans in the Portuguese Context”). 25 March, 2019, 2:30pm, University of Minho.

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  • 2019 - Project seminar organisation: Liisi Laineste (Tartu University, Estonia: “Ethnic slurs and other dysphemes in news sites' comments") and Jan Chovanec (Brno University - Czech Republic): “Online reader comments: the contexts of hate speech”). 26 Feb. 2019, 2pm, University of Minho.

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  • 2019 - Project seminar organisation (with Idalete Dias): 1st NetLang WORKSHOP - "Corpus Design Criteria". 5 Feb. 2019, 2pm, University of Minho.

 

  • 2018 - International seminar organisation: "The Language of Cyberbullying: Verbal Aggression in Online Communication ", in partnership with Minna Palander-Collin, from Univ. of Helsinki, at ESSE-14, 14th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, from 29 Aug to 2 Sep 2018, at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

 

  • 2017 - Seminar organisation: "Outcasting in a digital world: Cultural and linguistic constructions of exclusion in Internet discourse" (convenors Isabel Ermida, UMinho, and Iolanda Ramos, UNova), at the 38th Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anglo- American Studies (APEAA), from 27 to 29 April 2017, University of Minho.

 

  • 2017 - Seminar organisation: "Getting away with the unsaid: The pragmatics of allusion and implicature in newspaper and advertising discourse" (convenors Isabel Ermida, UMinho, and Elsa Simões, UFP), at the 38th Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA), from 27 to 29 April 2017, University of Minho.

 

  • 2016 - Lecture organisation: "Creating a language of news in the early English press", by Prof. Nicholas Brownlees, Univ. Florence, Italy.

 

  • 2015 - Organisation, as President of APEAA, of the ESSE Board Meeting, on August 27 and 28, in Largo do Paço, University of Minho.

 

  • 2015 - Lecture organisation: Prof. Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA), "Accessing and Computing Meaning", March 17. ILCH, University of Minho.

 

  • 2015 - Co-Organisation of the lecture by Prof. Julia M. Taylor (Purdue University, USA), "What can we learn from computers' (not) understanding humor." 18 March, Dept. Informatics, University of Minho.

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  • 2015 - Co-organisation of the 36th Meeting of the APEAA: "(Re) Shaping the Humanities: New Forms of Representation, New Ways of Reading." 26-27-28 March. University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro - UTAD.

 

  • 2014 - Organisation of the International Colloquium "Internet Language - Communicating in a Global World", 27 June, University of Minho.

 

  • 2014 - Co-organization of the 35th Meeting of the APEAA, at the University of Algarve.

 

  • 2014 - Co-organisation of the "International Workshop on Cross-Language Speech Perception", on 30 and 31 January, University of Minho.

 

  • 2013 - Lecture organisation: Prof. George Joffé (Univ. Cambridge), on December 10, entitled "Arab Spring or Autumn: the evolution of the Arab Awakening", University of Minho.

 

  • 2013 - Co-organisation of a seminar (with Prof. Nicholas Brownlees, University of Florence, Italy) "Humor in Press News Discourse (1700-1900)", 5th International Conference on Late Modern English, 28 - 30 August 2013. Bergamo, Italy.

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  • 2013 - Coordination of the organisation, as Director of the Department, of the 12th English Day, held on 10-11 April, entitled "The Sixties: Breaking the Rules". University of Minho.

 

  • 2013 - Lecture organisation: Prof. John Hutnik, Goldsmiths College, University of London, "Seems like the funky days, they're back again - 1960's fashion and subcontinental politics in the 21st century", on April 10, at the 12th English Day. University of Minho.

 

  • 2012 - Presidency of the Organising Committee of the International Conference "Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts" held on 29-30 June at the University of Minho.

 

  • 2012 - Lecture organisation: "Celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Dickens", by Prof. Anthony H. Clark, Univ. Birmingham. 18 June. University of Minho.

 

  • 2012 - Coordination of the organisation, as Director of Department, of the 11th English Day, to be held on April 17, with the title "Talking about English Talk". University of Minho.

 

  • 2011 - Coordination of the organisation, as Director of Department, of the 10th English Day, held on April 11, with the title "CyberEnglish". University of Minho.

 

  • 2010 - Participation in the organisation of a roundtable, in partnership with Prof. Aldina Marques (ILCH, DEPL), entitled "Diversity of voices in political discourse", held at the Autumn Colloquium of CEHUM in November 2010. University of Minho.

 

  • 2010 - Organisation, in partnership with Prof. Jan Chovanec, from Masarik University, Brno, Czech Republic, of the "Humour in the Media" Seminar, at the 10th ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) International Conference, 25-26 August 2010, University of Turin, Italy.

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  • 2008 - Lecture organisation: Prof. John McRae, Conference on Laughter, Satire and Irony, organized in partnership with Prof. Dr. Ana Gabriela Macedo, held on December 12. University of Minho.

 

  • 2008 - Lecture organisation: Dr. Jan Chovanec, from Masarik University, Brno, Czech Republic, entitled "Constructing the Other: Representing Western Opposites to the Iraq War in the Media", on 12 November.​ University of Minho.

 

  • 2008 - Integration of the organising team and the scientific committee of the 1st International Conference on Crosscultural Humor, 'Humour that Divides, Humor that Unites', , from January 10 to 12, at the University of Madeira.

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  • 2006 - Organisation of the 2nd English Language Pragmatics Conference, on 12 April, with an inaugural lecture given by Professor Angeliki Tzanne of the University of Athens (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), followed by panels of communications presented by Master's students in the discipline of Linguistic Pragmatics, of the 6th Edition of the Master's Degree in English Language, Literature and Culture of the University of Minho. 

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  • 2005 - Part of the organising team and the scientific committee of the 3rd International Meeting of Linguistic Analysis of the Speech, under the theme "Modification and Discourse", November 10-11, University of Minho.

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  • 2005 - Organisation of the Plenary Conference by Professor Jean Aitchison, Rupert Murdoch Emeritus Professor of the University of Oxford, entitled "Metaphors and the Media: Traveling on", at the 26th Meeting of the APEAA, April 23, University of Minho.

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  • 2005 - Part of the organising team and the scientific committee of the 26th Meeting of the APEAA on the theme "Intertextual Dialogues: Travels and Routes", 20-23 April, University of Minho.

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  • 2004 - Organisation of the English Language Pragmatics Days, with an inaugural lecture given by Profs. Nikolas Coupland and Justine Coupland (Cardiff University), entitled "Discourse, Identity and Aging", followed by two panels of communications, presented by students of Linguistic Pragmatics of the 5th Edition of the Master's Degree in English Language, Literature and Culture, on 19 May, at the University of Minho.

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  • 2003 - Lecture organisation: Professor Jef Verschueren (University of Antwerp) on 16 October, entitled "Discourse, Pragmatics, and the Methodology of Ideology Research", at the 2nd International Meeting on Language Analysis of the Discourse, University of Minho.

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  • 2003 - Part of the organising team and the scientific committee of the 2nd International Meeting of Linguistic Analysis of Speech, held on 16-17 October at the University of Minho.

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  • 2002 - Organisation of the Lecture given by Professor Victor Raskin (Purdue University - Indiana, USA), on December 11, at the University of Minho, entitled "Stagnation in Linguistic Theory", University of Minho.

 

  • 2001/2003 - Coordination, in partnership with Prof. Marina Vigário, of the ILCH Linguistics Conferences Cycle (Institute of Art and Humanities), entitled "Linguistic Cycle of Braga" during the academic year 2001/2002, with ten lectures, and in the academic year 2002/2003 with thirteen, grouped according to different thematic areas. University of Minho.

 

  • 2000 - Lecture organisation: Professor Victor Raskin of Purdue University, Indiana, USA, entitled "How Humor Is Studied Seriously: An Example of Multidisciplinary Cooperation", 18 May, sponsored jointly with FLAD (Luso-American Foundation for Development), University of Minho.

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