InterGedi 2026 International Conference

Last week, from the 18th to the 20th of March, our InterGedi 2026 International Conference took place at the Faculty of Arts (University of Zaragoza). It was themed around “Digital recontextualization practices in expert knowledge communication” and constituted one of the milestones to mark the end of our SciDis project: “Processes of recontextualisation in the transfer of knowledge: A pragmatic, linguistic and multimodal study of digital scientific discourse for dissemination purposes (SciDis)” (PID2021-122303NB-100).

Dr Rosa Lorés, Dr Silvia Murillo-Ornat and Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz put in a lot of effort and hard work as members of the organizing committee. We had the collaboration of: Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza, Institución Fernando el Católico, Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Empleo, Sociedad Digital y Sostenibilidad (IEDIS), Universidad de Zaragoza, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades).

On the first day, Wednesday 18th, March 2026, we began the conference with one of our keynote speakers, Dr Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds), who delivered a speech that made us reflect on “The power of showing: Signs of knowledge in social media videos”. Her abstract is fully available on our conference webpage. Later on this day, one of our InterGedi participants, Luis Martínez-Kleiser presented his paper titled “Dialogicity in the recontextualization of digital science dissemination for adolescents: Analyzing the role of directives and reader references”. You can find his presentation here.

On the second day, Thursday 19th, March 2026, some team members also delivered their papers. First, one of our PhD students, Lucía Lasheras, presented her work on “The use of Instagram for didactic purposes in English and Spanish: Recontextualizing English phraseology with a multimodal approach”. To read more about it, click here. Later on, Dr María Fanlo-Piniés, delivered her paper targeting “Multimodal resources in TED talk videos”, on which you can read here. Lastly, Dr Daniel Pascual gave a talk centred on “Experts producing and consuming science online: A netnographic approach to attitudes and patterns of use towards scientific knowledge”; more information about it here.

On the last day, Friday 19th, March 2026, we wrapped up this conference with our keynote speaker Dr Kate Scott (Kingston University), who examined “Digital recontextualization and audience construction: A cognitive pragmatic perspective”. Find here her abstract.

If you are interested, you may have a look at the e-version of our Book of Abstracts.

We are extremely grateful to all participants, who shared really insightful pieces of work, those who took part in the discussion and the round tables, peer and student attendees. We would also like to thank all InterGedi members, who helped run this conference and chaired the panels.

We hope you enjoyed InterGedi 2026 as much as we did. To future knowledge exchange opportunities and collaborations!