Sofia Lampropoulou
@sofialampro.bsky.social
University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical; migration; language, power and social inequalities.
Pinned
In the central square of Patra. Proud of my hometown. And a great spot to change the year #humanitarianism& solidarity @dimitrisrf.bsky.social @stavrosling.bsky.social
Happy to have a chapter in this newly published book on gender-inclusive language. With a great team of Greek colleagues, we review the belated awakening of nonsexist language policy in Greek and its lack of uptake in public discourse.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Gender-Inclusive Language
This book provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of current research and desiderata related to the use of gender-inclusive language across 14 major European languages. It also addresses min...
www.degruyterbrill.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Happy to have a chapter in this newly published book on gender-inclusive language. With a great team of Greek colleagues, we review the belated awakening of nonsexist language policy in Greek and its lack of uptake in public discourse.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Introducing the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies
By @bforchtner.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
By @bforchtner.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
January 26, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Introducing the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies
By @bforchtner.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
By @bforchtner.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
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📣 Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities superdiversity.net/2026/01/23/%...
📣 Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities
We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Call for Papers, Panels, and Workshops for the IRIS 2026 international conference, titled Unsettling Communities: Diversity, Mobility and Displacement …
superdiversity.net
January 23, 2026 at 7:47 PM
📣 Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities superdiversity.net/2026/01/23/%...
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Desperately sad news about Deborah Cameron today. She was such a brilliant, incisive presence in the world of linguistics and particularly language and gender. Don't know what else to say but I'm sure there will be many tributes paid to her and her work in the days to come.
January 21, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Desperately sad news about Deborah Cameron today. She was such a brilliant, incisive presence in the world of linguistics and particularly language and gender. Don't know what else to say but I'm sure there will be many tributes paid to her and her work in the days to come.
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The Guardian reports far- right groups harassing people seeking safety in northern France, destroying water supplies and invading sleeping spaces. This is where the politics of division leads. We need leaders who choose hope and unity. Read the article here: https://bit.ly/4sRPMn2
‘They’re emboldened’: British far-right activists step up harassment of asylum seekers in northern France
Aid groups say rise of far-right rhetoric in politics has fed into intimidation, vandalism and hate graffiti around migrant camps
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The Guardian reports far- right groups harassing people seeking safety in northern France, destroying water supplies and invading sleeping spaces. This is where the politics of division leads. We need leaders who choose hope and unity. Read the article here: https://bit.ly/4sRPMn2
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January just got tastier. Bring friends, colleagues, or your community together to host a Potluck for refugees. Share a meal, show solidarity, and support people seeking safety. It is easy to organise and powerful to take part.
Sign up today: https://bit.ly/4a1k1jU
Sign up today: https://bit.ly/4a1k1jU
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
January just got tastier. Bring friends, colleagues, or your community together to host a Potluck for refugees. Share a meal, show solidarity, and support people seeking safety. It is easy to organise and powerful to take part.
Sign up today: https://bit.ly/4a1k1jU
Sign up today: https://bit.ly/4a1k1jU
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When & where I grew up education was a right and financial barriers had to be removed to ensure equality of access. HE was at service of the public good. In many countries in Europe this is still the case. You read this article in FT and you realise you are on a different planet.
January 20, 2026 at 8:28 AM
When & where I grew up education was a right and financial barriers had to be removed to ensure equality of access. HE was at service of the public good. In many countries in Europe this is still the case. You read this article in FT and you realise you are on a different planet.
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On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org
January 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM
On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org
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Migration story for early years.
Out Feb 26th
Out Feb 26th
January 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Migration story for early years.
Out Feb 26th
Out Feb 26th
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Happy New Year to all researchers who continue to believe that reading and thinking (and that writing is itself a process of thinking things through) are vital to critical analysis!
January 2, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Happy New Year to all researchers who continue to believe that reading and thinking (and that writing is itself a process of thinking things through) are vital to critical analysis!
In the central square of Patra. Proud of my hometown. And a great spot to change the year #humanitarianism& solidarity @dimitrisrf.bsky.social @stavrosling.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
In the central square of Patra. Proud of my hometown. And a great spot to change the year #humanitarianism& solidarity @dimitrisrf.bsky.social @stavrosling.bsky.social
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"Too often, policies are justified not by whether they work, but by whether they sound punitive enough to satisfy an increasingly volatile media ecosystem. People seeking safety are framed as a problem to be managed, rather than lives to be protected"
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...
I Met Migrant Women in Calais Hoping to Reach the UK and This Is What I Learnt
It is time to move away from a politics in which cruelty is always portrayed as “toughness” and moral abdication as “realism”, argues Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward
bylinetimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Too often, policies are justified not by whether they work, but by whether they sound punitive enough to satisfy an increasingly volatile media ecosystem. People seeking safety are framed as a problem to be managed, rather than lives to be protected"
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...
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How would #migrationstudies look like: (1) if #migrants are the 'stakeholders' and the #migrationindustry the research subject? (2) if we shift from analysing (and problematising) “migrant behaviour” to interrogating (and problematising) the vast ecosystem that governs mobility?
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
How would #migrationstudies look like: (1) if #migrants are the 'stakeholders' and the #migrationindustry the research subject? (2) if we shift from analysing (and problematising) “migrant behaviour” to interrogating (and problematising) the vast ecosystem that governs mobility?
Thanks @podmalm.bsky.social for the organisation. Looking forward to the book!
Succesful workshop today for the edited volume “The Issue of Immigration in Western Europe: Challenges, Contradictions and Opportunities”, edp 26/27 with @edinburghup.bsky.social.
“Happy Academics” below as per AI (ping @dafnoukos.bsky.social @sbvanoosten.bsky.social @sofialampro.bsky.social
“Happy Academics” below as per AI (ping @dafnoukos.bsky.social @sbvanoosten.bsky.social @sofialampro.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Thanks @podmalm.bsky.social for the organisation. Looking forward to the book!
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Seminar: From Micro Aggression to Micro Inclusion: A Linguistic Approach to Decolonising the Everyday
With Dr Zozan Balci
@livunienglish.bsky.social
📅Wednesday 3rd December, 2-3:30pm
📍Sherrington Building, SR 4
🎟️or join us on Zoom: tinyurl.com/3z9y3pz6
With Dr Zozan Balci
@livunienglish.bsky.social
📅Wednesday 3rd December, 2-3:30pm
📍Sherrington Building, SR 4
🎟️or join us on Zoom: tinyurl.com/3z9y3pz6
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November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Seminar: From Micro Aggression to Micro Inclusion: A Linguistic Approach to Decolonising the Everyday
With Dr Zozan Balci
@livunienglish.bsky.social
📅Wednesday 3rd December, 2-3:30pm
📍Sherrington Building, SR 4
🎟️or join us on Zoom: tinyurl.com/3z9y3pz6
With Dr Zozan Balci
@livunienglish.bsky.social
📅Wednesday 3rd December, 2-3:30pm
📍Sherrington Building, SR 4
🎟️or join us on Zoom: tinyurl.com/3z9y3pz6
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Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
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Mahmood here is moving dangerously towards a Priti Patel/Suella Braverman field: pushing forward her own racial profile to justify mistreating migrants on the basis of 'race relations' claims from the 1960s. She hurts migrants as well as other politicians of colour by playing this game.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mahmood here is moving dangerously towards a Priti Patel/Suella Braverman field: pushing forward her own racial profile to justify mistreating migrants on the basis of 'race relations' claims from the 1960s. She hurts migrants as well as other politicians of colour by playing this game.
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Interested in master's study in the department of English? Have a look at these four new Liverpool scholarships for September 2026 starts, available for University of Liverpool courses www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a... More details ⬇️
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Interested in master's study in the department of English? Have a look at these four new Liverpool scholarships for September 2026 starts, available for University of Liverpool courses www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a... More details ⬇️
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What if the very policies designed to prevent irregularity are the ones that keep producing it?
I try to answer these questions in this piece for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on this recently published @iclaimeu.bsky.social concept paper i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...
I try to answer these questions in this piece for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on this recently published @iclaimeu.bsky.social concept paper i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...
Irregular migration as an assemblage - I-CLAIM
Rethinking irregular migration: a new I-CLAIM paper questions the categories, narratives, and policies that sustain ‘irregularity’.
i-claim.eu
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
What if the very policies designed to prevent irregularity are the ones that keep producing it?
I try to answer these questions in this piece for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on this recently published @iclaimeu.bsky.social concept paper i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...
I try to answer these questions in this piece for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on this recently published @iclaimeu.bsky.social concept paper i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...
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Across Europe, politicians promise to “stop illegal migration” as if it were a problem that comes from the outside.
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
How Europe’s Migration Rules Keep Creating the “Irregular Migrants” They Claim to Catch
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
politicalquarterly.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Across Europe, politicians promise to “stop illegal migration” as if it were a problem that comes from the outside.
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
November 17th is one of the events proudly commemorated in Greece - and a platform to protest&express current political sentiment.
At 3AM, November 17, 1973, "The Colonels" sent a tank crashing through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic. It had been occupied by students protesting the fascist junta. Dozens died, mostly teens, 20s and one boy of 5. Over 2,000 were injured.
The protests it sparked brought down the dictatorship.
The protests it sparked brought down the dictatorship.
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
November 17th is one of the events proudly commemorated in Greece - and a platform to protest&express current political sentiment.
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Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.
See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.
The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social
Project Areas 2026 | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.
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More utterly predictable news of Labour's utterly pointless "one in one out* policy.
At this rate it's going to increase channel crossings. All it does is create a never ending cycle of people relying on gangs. It doesn't address the need for safe routes at all.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
At this rate it's going to increase channel crossings. All it does is create a never ending cycle of people relying on gangs. It doesn't address the need for safe routes at all.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
More utterly predictable news of Labour's utterly pointless "one in one out* policy.
At this rate it's going to increase channel crossings. All it does is create a never ending cycle of people relying on gangs. It doesn't address the need for safe routes at all.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
At this rate it's going to increase channel crossings. All it does is create a never ending cycle of people relying on gangs. It doesn't address the need for safe routes at all.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Each story in The Other Side of Hope, Volume 5 is a journey 🕯️📝✨
Join us in supporting the voices that matter
#theothersideofhope #journey #refugeejourney #migration #editorial #peace #stories #artwork #fiction #nonfiction
Join us in supporting the voices that matter
#theothersideofhope #journey #refugeejourney #migration #editorial #peace #stories #artwork #fiction #nonfiction
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Each story in The Other Side of Hope, Volume 5 is a journey 🕯️📝✨
Join us in supporting the voices that matter
#theothersideofhope #journey #refugeejourney #migration #editorial #peace #stories #artwork #fiction #nonfiction
Join us in supporting the voices that matter
#theothersideofhope #journey #refugeejourney #migration #editorial #peace #stories #artwork #fiction #nonfiction