CULCORC members presented their work at ECREA 2026 Conference and ‘Communicating narratives, imaginaries, and epistemes of hope’ pre-conference

CULCORC members David Ongenaert, Nico Carpentier, Yaroslava Kutsai, Vaia Doudaki, Miloš Hroch, Karolína Šimková, Jeffrey Wimmer, Giulia Ferri, Lenka Marxová, and Elisabeth Wennerström gave seven presentations at the ECREA 2026 conference in Brno (8-11 September 2026) on topics ranging from discursive constructions of peace to constructions of nature in Swedish media.

All of their contributions to the fruitful CULCORC and ICSJ presence at this year’s ECREA conference can be found in the CULCORC Presentations section.

CULCORC members Nico Carpentier, Elisabeth Wennerström, Ali Minanto, Yaroslava Kutsai, David Ongenaert, Giulia Ferri, Maedbh Pierce, Vaia Doudaki and Uxía Sanchez Lorda also participated in the “Communicating narratives, imaginaries, and epistemes of hope” joint Communication, Social Justice and Democracy IAMCR Working Group conference & ECREA 2026 pre-conference (7 September 2026) held in Prague. They gave presentations on a large range of topics including bisexual identity articulations, and democratic contestation over urban space in Yogyakarta, with a keynote titled “From hope to change: Stimulating participation in the fields of media and the arts through interventionist research” delivered by Nico Carpentier.

All CULCORC contributions to the pre-conference may be browsed in the CULCORC Presentations section, while more information on the pre-conference itself is available on “From hope to change: Stimulating participation in the fields of media and the arts through interventionist research” website.