Melanie Kerschner was awarded the GAL-Förderpreis 2016 for her dissertation project titled “One story – three languages – a hundred opinions: Culturally induced style differences in the opinion discourse of British, Italian and German quality papers”. The award was presented by the Society for Applied Linguistics (GAL e.V.) at this year’s GAL Congress in Koblenz.

The rapid enforcement of the Paris agreement, which limits the global temperature from 1.5 ° C to a maximum of 2 ° C (compared to pre-industrial temperature), shows that the international community has embarked on a new, collaborative way of dealing with climate change after many years of delay.

From 09:00 am to 17:00: Workshop with lectures and discussion (with Robert Matthias Erdbeer, Per Leo, Linda Simonis, Jenny Willner). 19:00: Guest lecture with Thomas Macho (IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften | Kunstuniversität Linz in Wien), Atelier in the Kunstquartier (Bergstraße 12a, 1st floor). Information: www.w-k.sbg.ac.at/kunstpolemik-polemikkunst/aktuelles