Online meeting
Lana St Leger shared some of her work in Wales, focusing on a White Paper produced for the “Wellbeing of Future Generations Commissioner” in Wales, highlighting how climate change is threatening Welsh heritage and how language plays a central role in this regard.
Franz-Benjamin Mocnik presented his work on place representations as part of the Space & Place LAB at the University of Salzburg, Austria, pointing out how our understandings of places change with climate (and other) changes.
Vincenzo Amendolara shared his ongoing PhD work on social media discourse across languages/countries about the climate, demonstrating patterns of negative and positive discourse associated with diverse groupings and suggesting that contributing in a positive way to this discourse can make a real difference.
Three relevant conferences were briefly introduced, unfortunately all happening at the same time (!) in mid September: ILANSCO conference on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscapes in Language, Society, and Cognition in Prague; PLATIAL’26: International Symposium on Platial Information Science in Salzburg, and a Geographers’ Congress in Vilnius with a conference themed ‘Development of Resilient Cities and Regions’.