The 7th symposium of the EDISO Society for Discourse and Social Studies focused on the theme “Intersectionality, intersections and peripheries. Methodological approaches in the study of discourse and society in the 21st century”. This international meeting was the first to be organized in the Basque Country and was held in the Bizkaia Aretoa of the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, on July 2, 3 and 4. In this seventh edition, they wanted to offer a platform to interact with the methods currently used to study the relationships between discourse and society: mixed methods, multimodal methods, computational and experimental methods, new ethnographic and creative methods, among others.
The aim of this symposium has been to strengthen communication and collaboration between people working in discourse analysis from different perspectives and epistemic fields. As in all editions of the EDISO community symposia, the intention of this 7th edition has been to exchange knowledge and experiences on new advances in the field of discourse studies and to create synergies from the fields where discourses are worked on.
The EDiSo 2025 symposium included plenary sessions, communications, workshops and a round table. EDiSo’s language policy is multilingual, in order to promote linguistic inclusion and equality. The languages of the symposium are Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Portuguese, as well as English. Each speaker can use their preferred language, and to this end, the use of audiovisual resources (such as PPT or simultaneous interpretation) will ensure that their speech reaches the audience. This methodology has been successfully proven in several editions of the EDiSo symposium. The symposium modality was offline, and can be done via streaming for the plenary sessions and the round table.
Seven members of the NOR Research Group participated, six of whom are members of the Local Organizing Committee.
