NKRF9 Conference programme

This is a multi-language conference and we encourage everyone to move freely between parallel sessions. There is a short break in between talks to allow you to do so comfortably, ideally enabling participants to enjoy the event and attend talks in languages they know.

See the programme in Danish.

Wednesday 9 October

South Campus

Time
Activity
Speaker
Place

12:00-13:30

Registration

By room 4A.0.69

13:30-14:00

Welcome and conference introduction

Lisa Villadsen, The NKRF9 Organization Committee

Søren Overgaard, Deputy head of department for research, COMM

Room 4A.0.69

14:00-15:00

KEYNOTE I

Learning in Transition: Ethos and Text to Image AI Technologies

Johanna Hartelius / University of Texas, Austin, USA

Introduction by Mette Bengtsson

Room 4A.0.69

15:00-15:15

Coffee/tea

By room 4A.0.69

15:15-17:15 

 Parallel sessions

See drop down menu below

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.0.68 (KUA3)
Chair: Frida Buhre

Time Talk Speaker

15:15-15:40

Dashes, Dots, and Lines: “Ground Truth” and the Construction of Borders in Networked Mapping

Jeremy Johnson

15:45-16:10

Digital Rhetoric and the Question of Shifting Paradigms

Caddie Alford

16:15-16:40

Facebook Poetics

Jeffrey Rice

16:45-17:10

Political visions? Exploring a mixed method approach

Erik Bengtson, Jon Viklund, Fredrik Wahlberg

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.0.56 (KUA3)
Chair: Iben Brinch

Time Talk Speaker

15:15-15:40

The creation of artificial ethos: The character of AI-debaters and the bodyless and situationless argumentation from a point of nowhere

Jens Kjeldsen

15:45-16:10

Towards Rhetorical AI Literacy

Markus Gottschling, Salina Weber

16:15-16:40

The Rhetorical Construction of Fact-checking as a Democratic Practice

Johan Farkas

16:45-17:10

Fact-Checkers vs. Truthers: Implied Audience Constructions and Conceptions of Truth

Mette Bengtsson, Mridula Mascarenhas

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.60 (KUA3)
Chair: Ida Vikøren Andersen

Time Talk Speaker

15:15-15:40

Gifted Performances: Posthuman Relationality in Non-Playable Character (NPC) Livestreams on TikTok

Ashley Hay

15:45-16:10

Environment memes and counter-memes: tracing the rhetorical and argumentative potential of multimodal circulating texts

Assimakis Tseronis

16:15-16:40

 “Put a finger down (autism edition)”: Community performance of epistemic legitimacy in autism self-diagnosis videos on TikTok

Noah Roderick

16:45-17:10

Critical mental health literacy on social media: a rhetorical analysis of meaning-making in the digital public sphere

Johanna Couvée

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.68 (KUA3)
Chair: Stefan Rimm

Time Talk Speaker

15:15-15:40

Eksemplet ChatGPT: Hvad kan retorisk didaktik lære os om skrivning og stemme?

Anne Dehlie Glædesdahl

15:45-16:10

Writing Paradigms: On the Murky Rhetorical Affordances of Generative AI

Jacob Greene

16:15-16:40

Modeling Writing and Editing Practices through Horizontal Mentoring

Valerie Renegar, Kirsti K. Cole, Stacey K. Sowards

16:45-17:10

Från marginalia till digitala anteckningar. Retoriska och historiska perspektiv på anteckningspraktiker i skola och utbildning

Stefan Rimm

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.46 (KUA3)
Chair: Pamela Pietrucci

Time Talk Speaker

15:15-15:40

Performativitet i krigsretorik

Mats Landqvist

15:45-16:10

“The Motorist is a Great Person. A Humanitarian Hero.”Snarky Post Fascism as a Rhetoric of Violent Sentiment Towards Climate Protesters in Social Media Replies and Comments

Frederik Appel Olsen

16:15-16:40

Attunements to the Strange: The Sound Rhetoric of Climate Art

Mathias Schønberg Jørgensen

16:45-17:10

#RageForGaza: Affective Deflation and the Rhetorical Stagnation of Danish pro-Palestinian Protests

Frida Hviid Broberg

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.15 (KUA3)
Chair: Stefan Iversen

Time Talk Speaker

15:15-15:40

Tekstlig medborgerskap og digitalisering

Eirik  Vatnøy

15:45-16:10

Veje til digitalt medborgerskab: demokratiser den digitale offentlige debat

Mikkeline Thomsen

16:15-16:40

Forvaltningsretorikken i den norske statens satsning på digitalisering av offentlig sektor

Kjell Lars Berge

16:45-17:10

Topoi, modellesere og retorisk medborgerskap på nav.no

Johan L. Tønnesson

 

 

Time
Activity
Speaker
Place

17:15-19:00

Reception

Cafeteria Balcony, South Campus, Building 23 (KUA1)

Thursday 10 October

South Campus

Time
Activity
Speaker
Place

09:00-11:00

Parallel sessions

See drop down menu below

Place: South Campus, room 4A.0.68 (KUA3)
Chair: Mika Hietanen

Time Talk Speaker

9:00-9:25

Tillid som topos i dansk politisk debat i anden halvdel af det 19. århundrede med udgangspunkt i Sally B. Salomons satiriske tale 

Hanne Roer

9:30-9:55

A Symptom of a Flawed System; the Demagogic Figure in the Federalist Papers

Theodor Lalér

10:00-10:25

Når bestemor går til strid: Astrid Lindgrens «Pomperipossa i Monismanien», Topoi og kvinnelig retorikk

David Erland Isaksen

10:30-10:55

The Rhetoric of Holocaust Archives

Joni Wallin Lämsä

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.0.56 (KUA3)
Chair: Turið Nolsøe

Time Talk Speaker

9:00-9:25

​​Geocaching as Conspiracy: Discovery, Abstract Geographies, and the Settler Persona

Michael Lechuga, Attila Hallsby

9:30-9:55

Historiepolitik og forsoningsprocesser: Nutidige konfrontationer med den europæiske koloniale ar

Louise Schou Therkildsen

10:00-10:25

Rhetoric of Hope and AG(I)ency

Prins Marcus Valiant Lantz

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.60 (KUA3)
Chair:
 Noah Roderick

Time Talk Speaker

9:00-9:25

Artificial Intelligence and Rhetorical Invention

John Jones

9:30-9:55

On Training: Large Language Models, Rhetors, and Democratic Participation

Matthew Salzano

10:00-10:25

What if we don’t use digital tools and expertise to answer pre-formulated questions, but rather to find the questions we didn’t know we should ask?

Erik Bengtson, Jon Viklund, Fredrik Wahlberg

10:30-10:55

Tolkande retorik

Lennart Hellspong, Lisa Källström

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.68 (KUA3)
Chair: Mette Bengtsson

Time Talk Speaker

9:00-9:25

Reasonable accusations in the digital sphere: The case of Rammstein

Michael Hoppman

9:30-9:55

When standpoints and premises are not enough: breaking down the structure of multimodal arguments in digital environments

Maciej Grzenkowicz

10:00-10:25

How and why do we change our minds in everyday life? Evidence and persuasion – or events and experiences?

Jens Kjeldsen

10:30-10:55

Corpus rhetoric as a means of quantitative analysis of persuasive discourses. The case study of competitive debates

Kinga Rogowska, Marcin Bedkowski

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.46 (KUA3)
Chair: Lisa Villadsen

Time Talk Speaker

9:00-9:25

Populism som social handling: En retorisk undersökning av 4 oktober-rörelsens politiska strategi

Martin Sundby

9:30-9:55

Er problemet med demokratiet at det optar for mange kvelder?

Kristian Bjørkdahl

10:00-10:25

Lyttingens rolle i demokratiske deliberasjoner

Janne Krogh-Bjørnerud

10:30-10:55

A Copenhagen School of Argumentation Studies—and How It Might Be Defined

Christian Kock

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.15 (KUA3)
Chair: Esben Bjerggaard Nielsen

Time Talk Speaker

9:00-9:25

“Translated with AI”: how does DeepL influence the translation of rhetorical phenomena?

Daria Evangelista

9:30-9:55

Actio ur ett digitalt perspektiv

Linda Söderlindh, Waldemar Petermann

10:00-10:25

“An easy-to-understand overview of a topic – how  the infographic argues

 

Ewa Modrzejewska

 

 

Time
Activity
Speaker
Place

11:00-11:30

Coffee/tea

By room 4A.0.69

11:30-12:30

KEYNOTE II

Rethinking Digitality, Refashioning Ethos: Technics, Ecology, and Rhetoric after Ubiquitous Computation

Damien Pfister, University of Maryland, USA

Introduction by Pamela Pietrucci

Room 4A.0.69

12:30-13:30

Lunch

Wicked Rabbit, room 6A.0. (KUA 3)

13:30-15:00

Parallel sessions

See drop down menu below

 

Time: 13:30-15:00
Place:
South Campus, room 4A.0.68 (KUA3)
Chair: Stefan Iversen

Talk Speaker

Højreekstreme terrormanifester: forlængelse og fornyelse af manifesttraditionen

Daniel Nikolaj Madsen

Manifestskrivning som holdningsskabende proces

Kira Skovbo Moser

Aktuel dansk manifestpolitik mellem intersektionalitet og kunstig intelligens

Stefan Iversen

 

 

Time: 13:30-15:00
Place:
South Campus, room 4A.0.56 (KUA3)

Chair:
Kristine Marie Berg
Respondent: Frederik Appel Olsen

Talk Speaker

“Kære Klimaaktivist”: Retorisk disciplinering og forhalingsstrategier

Esben Bjerggaard Nielsen

Lagens tvingande kraft: Unga klimataktivister, rättstvister om klimatet och debatten om demokratin

Frida Buhre

Ulyttende retorikk: Motstand mot deliberasjonsnormer som utøvelse av retorisk medborgerskap

Ida Vikøren Andersen

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.60 (KUA3)
Chair: 
David Erland Isaksen

Time Talk Speaker

13:30-13:55

Identification and Division through Cultural Heritage: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Pedagogical Project of the Flemish Canon

Kris Rutten

14:00-14:25

Towards a Platform-Sensitive Understanding of Trust: Immigrants’ Trust in Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Seyedeh Maryam Alavi Nia

14:30-14:55

Laksebaroner, naturverdi og fellesskap: Digital sporing av argumenter i innføringen av «lakseskatt» i Norge

Charlotte Hidle

 

 

Time: 13:30-15:00
Place:
South Campus, room 4A.1.68 (KUA3)
Chair: Jens E. Kjeldsen

Talk Speaker

Personaer der siger mere end tusind ord: Eksperimenterende jeg-fortællinger i nyere dansk journalistik

Rasmus Rønlev

Dramatis personae: Ambipersona som rollfördelning

Tommy Bruhn

Tech-bedragere og deres medborgere: Kollaborativ personakonstruktion i et digitaliseret Danmark

Christine Isager

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.46 (KUA3)

Time Talk Speaker

13:30-15:00

Roundtable: Feminist Rhetoric And Digital/Technological Transition

Rebecca Dingo, Rachel Riedner, Jennifer Nish, Sweta Baniya

 

 

 

  

Time
Activity
Speaker
Place

15:00-15:30

Coffee/tea

By room 4A.0.69

15:30-17:00

General assembly

Room 4A.0.69

18:30

Conference dinner

KLUB, Linnésgade 25, 1361 København K

Friday 11 October

South Campus

Time
Activity
Speaker
Place

09:00-11:00

Parallel sessions

See drop down menu below

Place: South Campus, room 4A.0.68 (KUA3)
Chair: 
Anders Eriksson

Time Talk Speaker

9:00-9:25

On Negative Empty Signifiers and the Formation of the Alt-Right in 2016

 Karl Ekeman

9:30-9:55

Twitter/X as a Platform for the U.S. Presidential Rhetoric

Rafał Kuś

10:00-10:25

Det politiska folket – folkbegreppet i svensk politisk retorik från 1880-tal till 2020-tal

Ellen Jonsson

10:30-10:55

Alexander Dugins digitala apokalyptik: Rysk propaganda mellan ortodox nationalism och högerextrem antiglobalism

Anders Eriksson

 

 

Time: 9:00-10:30
Place:
South Campus, room 4A.0.56 (KUA3)

Chair: Kristine Marie Berg
Respondent: Sine Nørholm Just

Talk Speaker

“Jeg prøver den lige på”: Krop/doxa-relationer som virtuelle copingstrategier på sociale medier

Thore Keitum Fisker

Den kropsløse debat i praksis: Hvem drives ud af deres gode skind i den offentlige debat på Facebook?

Mikkeline Thomsen

Är allt bara Pepe: Memes som shibboleth

Lisa Källström

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.60 (KUA3)
Chair: Maria Dahlin

Time Talk Speaker

9:00-9:25

Et retorisk perspektiv på digital dannelse i grundskolen

Sidsel Helweg-Møller Øst Hansen

9:30-9:55

”Dessa ord väcker känslor av komfort och överlägsenhet”. En explorativ studie av chatbot-svar i en retorikkurs på grundnivå

Malin Sandberg, Claes Ohlsson

10:00-10:25

What constitutes a good speaker in an online educational setting?

Zdravka Biočina, Ivona Škreblin Kirbiš

10:30-10:55

Røst, Mino Ung og Glyptoteket; et case-studie af unge taleres oplevelse af retorisk selvtillid når de holder tale fra imposante scener

Martin Fehr Therkildsen

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.68 (KUA3)
Chair: 
Jon Viklund

Time Talk Speaker

9:00-9:25

Criminal Judgments: True Crime Podcasting and Online Public Discourse

Collin Bjork

9:30-9:55

Local NGOs narratives in a digital space

Agnieszka Szurek

10:00-10:25

Reportagets regi iscensätter reporterroller med ärenden

Cecilia Aare

10:30-10:55

Navigating the Digital Abyss: Rhetorical Analysis of Teen Tech Films in the Evolving Media Landscape

Amanda Adam

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.46 (KUA3)
Chair: Tommy Bruhn

Time Talk Speaker

9:00-9:25

Mennesket i maskinen – kreativitet som etosdimensjon

Iben Brinch

9:30-9:55

Debatt, argumentation och progymnasmata

Anders Sigrell

10:00-10:25

Tillitsbegrepet og politiske skandaler

Truls Strand Offerdal

10:30-10:55

Offentlige anklager på tværs af medier og platforme

Rebekka Lykke Ringgaard

 

 

 

 

Time
Activity
Speaker
Place

11:00-11:30

Coffee/tea

By room 4A.0.69

11:30-12:30

KEYNOTE III

Controversial Encounters in the Age of Algorithms: How Digitalization Shapes Public Debate

Sine Nørholm Just, Roskilde University, Denmark

Introduction by Kristine Marie Berg

Room 4A.0.69

12:30-13:30

Lunch

Wicked Rabbit, room 6A.0. (KUA 3)

13:30-15:30

Parallel sessions

See drop down menu below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.0.68 (KUA3)
Chair: 
Johan Tønnesson

Time Talk Speaker

13:30-13:55

Giving you sex advice as a big sister: rhetoric of empowerment and sisterhood in relationship influencers

Wenting Zhao

14:00-14:25

The constitution of individual rhetorical agency in a health risk situation: How a single influencer is putting AMR on the agenda in Norway

Dorthea Roe, Jens E. Kjeldsen, Ragnhild Mølster

14:30-14:55

Tracing a Rhetoric of Silence: Unpacking rhetorical communication of Older Non-Heterosexual Adults with Health Care and Social Service Needs

Jon Martin Larsen, Janne Bromseth

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.0.56 (KUA3)
Chair: 
Mette Bengtsson

Time Talk Speaker

13:30-13:55

Forbindelser mellem logos og sag. Den analoge retoriks “kontinuistiske fordom”

Carsten Madsen

14:00-14:25

Övertygande som ett hot mot demokratin?

Alexander Stagnell

14:30-14:55

Dominating the Stage: Kamala Harris' Strategic Use of Debate Format and Non-verbal Techniques to Overcome Donald Trump in the Presidential Debate

Fredrik Söderquist

15:00-15:30

Digital evidence in the rhetorical apparatus: on the complementarity relationship between technical and atechnical pisteis

Silvia Corradi

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.60 (KUA3)
Chair: Louise Schou Therkildsen

Time Talk Speaker

13:30-13:55

Against Nordic Rhetoric: A Critical Response to Claims about Scandinavian Exceptionality

Turið Nolsøe, Frida Hviid Broberg, Frederik Appel Olsen

14:00-14:25

Exploring the impact of digital topographical representations on the relationship to a physical place

Klara Härgestam

14:30-14:55

The Medium is the Memory: Digital Transformations in the Rhetoric of Grief, Loss, and Memorialization

Christine Ochs-Naderer

15:00-15:30

Cameras in the classroom: New modes of accountability and appeals to jurisdiction in school board conflicts over Critical Race Theory

 

Brooke Hubsch

 

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.68 (KUA3)
Chair: 
Eirik Vatnøy

Time Talk Speaker

13:30-13:55

Med «the Mars Messiah» til den røde planet: Romretorikken til Elon Musk og organisasjonskulturen ved SpaceX

David Erland Isaksen

14:00-14:25

Samordna, inspirera och följa regler: kommunala och regionala tjänstepersoners agens i klimatomställningen

Maria Dahlin

14:30-14:55

Tillitsreform i offentlige virksomheter – oxymoron eller økt retorisk handlekraft?

Merete Pettersen

15:00-15:30

The use of dissociation in an organizational change – a case study of an office in transition to become activity-based

Jonatan Mathiasson

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.46 (KUA3)
Chair: Rasmus Rønlev

Time Talk Speaker

13:30-13:55

An Echoic Approach to Visual and Multimodal Irony

Jaime Salvador-Grande

14:00-14:25

Computer games and rhetoric – designed agency and social meaning-making

Andreas Rovio

 

Place: South Campus, room 4A.1.15 (KUA3)
Chair: 
Anders Sigrell

Time Talk Speaker

13:30-13:55

The rhetoric and enactment of a teacher education reform

Eigil Hole Lønning

14:00-14:25

Rhetorical function of exordium in EU educational policy documents about digitalisation

Janja Žmavc

14:30-14:55

Retorikkurs för juridikstudenter – En presentation av upplägg, genomförande, resultat och studentsynpunkter

Linus Roos

15:00-15:30

A Century of Neo-Aristotelian Rhetorical Criticism – Dried-Out Bones or Forever Young?

Mika Hietanen

 

  

Time
Activity
Speaker
Place

15:30-16:00

Closing remarks and goodbye drinks

By room 4A.0.69