Details below about what should be a fascinating conference, organised by colleagues from DMU’s Media Discourse Centre:
 
The Global Promotion and Mediation
of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 
Monday, 16th September, 2019, the Guildhall, Leicester
 
Keynote speakers:
Dr Sara Thornton, University of Leicester
Dr Nayia Kamenou, Media Discourse Centre, De Montfort University
 
 
+++ Programme +++
8.20am to 8.50am
Registration, tea and coffee
8.50am
Welcome: Professor Rusi Jaspal, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Professor of Psychology and Sexual Health, De Montfort University
9.00am
Introduction: Professor Stuart Price, Director of the Media Discourse Centre,
and Professor of Media and Political Discourse, De Montfort University
+++ Keynote +++
9.10-9.40am (followed by questions)
In the Line of Fire: Peatlands, Sustainability
and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Dr Sara Thornton, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leicester
+++ Panel 1 +++
Modern Slavery
9.50-11.10am (followed by questions)
Chair: Karena Matthews-Donawa, Media Discourse Centre Postgraduate Student
+++ Panellists +++
Linette D’Silva, NHS Lead on Modern Slavery (Arden and GEM CSU)
Debbie Hodge, RIBI President of the Rotary’s Anti-Slavery work
Tim Nelson, Hope for Justice
Laura Pajón, VC2020 Lecturer/PhD researcher in Modern Slavery, De Montfort
+++ Paper +++
9.50-10.10am
Modern Slavery – Regional West Midlands Campaigns 
Linette D’Silva, NHS Lead on Modern Slavery (Arden and GEM CSU)
+++ Paper +++
10.10-10.30am
The Rotary’s Anti-Slavery Initiative 
Debbie Hodge, RIBI President of the Rotary’s Anti-Slavery work 
+++ Paper +++
10.30-10.50am
Can Business Change the World?
Tim Nelson, Hope for Justice
+++ Paper +++
10.50-11.10am
Multi-agency partnerships response to Modern Slavery
and Human Trafficking crimes
Laura Pajón, VC2020 Lecturer/PhD researcher in Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking studies, Coordinator for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Modern Slavery Action Group (LLRMSAG)
11.20-11.40am (tea and coffee)
+++ Panel 2 +++
Media, State and Corporate Action
11.40am-12.40pm (followed by questions)
Chair: Ruona Meyer, Media Discourse Centre and Investigative Journalism
+++ Panellists +++
Mariana S. Abreu and Bárbara C. A. Lima
Jackie Arnold and Elaine Patterson, Coach4Executives
Richard Fern, Sheffield 
+++ Paper +++
11.40-12.00pm
SDG 5 and Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies
through the analysis of speeches and legislative bills
Mariana S. Abreu and Bárbara C. A. Lima 
+++ Paper +++
12.00-12.20pm
Tomorrow’s Leaders Today: Executive Reflection and Reflective Leadership
Jackie Arnold and Elaine Patterson, Coach4Executives
+++ Paper +++
12.20-12.40pm
Corporations, Consumerism and Culpability:
Sustainability in the British Press
Richard Fern, PhD Researcher, Sheffield University
+++ Lunch +++
12.50-1.40pm
+++ Keynote +++
1.40-2.10pm (followed by questions)
Dr Nayia Kamenou, Media Discourse Centre
Feminism in Cyprus: Women’s Agency, Gender and Peace in the Shadow of Nationalism
+++ Panel 3 +++
2.20-3.20pm (followed by questions)
Narrative, Power and Expression 
+++ Panellists +++
Rhys Davies, Media Discourse Centre
Dr Ben Harbisher, Media Discourse Centre
Dr Paul R. Smith, Media Discourse Centre
+++ Paper +++
2.20-2.40pm
Rhys Davies, Media Discourse Centre
What Difference Does It Make?
The importance of Documentary to SDGs in a post-truth world
+++ Paper +++
2.40-3.00pm
Dr Ben Harbisher, Media Discourse Centre
Greenwashing Bali: Corporate Responsibility, SDGs 
and the Subversion of Indigenous Dissent
+++ Paper +++
3.00-3.20pm
Dr Paul R. Smith, Media Discourse Centre
‘Stories Only You Can Tell’ and the UNSDGs
+++ Close of Conference +++
3.40-4pm