| Sunday, 29.09 | Schedule |
| 14.30 | Registration |
| 15.30-15.45 | Introduction and welcoming words from the organizing committee |
| 15.45-16.30 | Cornelia Ilie (University of Orebro) 
From totalitarian to post-totalitarian discourse: Ceausescu's and Iliescu's (semantic) agents |
| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee break |
| 17.00-17.45 | Jürgen Wilke (University of Mainz)
Press instructions as a tool to manipulate the public under the Nazi-Government. With an eye to the German Democratic Republic |
| 17.45-18.30 | Valerij Dem'jankov (Moscow State University)
Implied reference to the audience in the political writings of V. Lenin, I. Stalin and L. Trotzky |
| 19.30 | Dinner |
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| Monday, 30.09 | Schedule |
| 9.00-9.45 | Carlos Inchaurralde (University of Zaragoza)
Propaganda fights and Pinochet's case |
| 9.45-10.30 | Eddo Rigotti (University of Lugano)
Towards a classification of manipulative discourses |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-11.45 | Louis de Saussure (University of Geneva)
Manipulation, cognitive pragmatics and discourse analysis |
| 11.45-12.30 | Giovanni Bensi (CSSEO, Trento)
Journalistic language in political information (in the USSR) |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30-15.15 | Vladimir Iliescu (University of Aachen)
"Trachomanie" et "Protochronie", deux formes de manipulation idéologique du totalitarisme de Ceaucescu |
| 15.15-16.00 | Paul Danler (University of Innsbruck)
Morpho-syntactic and textual realizations as deliberate pragmatic argumentative linguistic tools? |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30-17.15 | Regina Blass (Nairobi Evangelical School of Theology)
Manipulation in the Speeches and Writings of Hitler and the NSDAP |
| 17.15-18.00 | Alexej Shmelev (Moscow State University)
Manipulation in Russian: Universal and Language-Specific |
| 19.30 | Dinner |
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| Tuesday, 01.10 | Schedule |
| 9.00-9.45 | Nicholas Allott (University College London)
The role of misused concepts in manufacturing consent: a cognitive account |
| 9.45-10.30 | Jacques Moeschler (University of Geneva)
Propositional and non-propositional effects of manipulatory discourse |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-11.45 | Paul Chilton (University of East Anglia)
Argumentation Strategies in Mein Kampf: An approach from Cognitive Linguistics |
| 11.45-12.30 | Daniel Weiss (University of Zurich)
Stalinist and National Socialist propaganda discourse: how much do they have in common? |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 14.00-14.20 | Short presentation: Tran Thi Bang Trinh (University of Lugano), The last self-presentation of the communist party in Vietnam |
| 14.20-14.40 | Short presentation: Andreea Ghita (University of Bucarest), Ironic recycling of romanian totalitarian "wooden language" (post 1989 print media texts). |
| 14.40-19.30 | Free afternoon |
| 18.45 | Business meeting (preparation of the roundtable) |
| 19.30 | Dinner |
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| Wednesday, 02.10 | Schedule |
| 9.00-9.45 | Pavel Parshin (Moscow State Institute of International Relations)
The notion of manipulation in social sciences: approaches, debates and limits |
| 9.45-10.30 | Hildegard van Zweel (University of South Africa, Pretoria)
Managing consent during the apartheid era: a linguistic perspective |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-11.45 | Manfred Kienpointner (University of Innsbuck)
Racist propaganda within German, French and Italien post-fascist traditions |
| 11.45-12.30 | Giovanni Codevilla (University of Trieste)
The military terminology in Soviet constitutions |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30-15.15 | Sara Cigada (University of Lugano)
Les émotions dans les discours de Pétain |
| 15.15-16.00 | Wolfgang Hünig (University of Duisburg)
British and German Political Cartoons as Weapons in WWI |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30-16.50 | Short presentation: Sara Greco (University of Lugano), Presupposition and manipulation |
| 16.50-17.10 | Short presentation: Rui Manuel Ramos (University of Minho, Braga), Discours vert et manipulation |
| 17.10-17.30 | Short presentation: Mihai Frumuselu (University of Orebro): Argumentation and Manipulation in Communist Romania. |
| 17.30-18.15 | Ingo Hueck (Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt)
Aggressive international law - How German international lawyers acted linguistically during the Third Reich |
| 19.30 | Dinner |
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| Thursday, 03.10 | Schedule |
| 9.00-9.45 | Andrea Rocci (University of Lugano)
Are Manipulatory Texts Coherent? |
| 9.45-10.30 | Fernando Orlandi (CSSEO, Trento)
Title to be announced |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-11.20 | Short presentation: Charley Rowe (University of Newcastle): Manipulation through suggestion: the red-white-and-blue cloak of deception. |
| 11.20-1140 | Short presentation: Patrick Suvada (University of Lugano), Victory and Defeat. An Analysis about Manipulation of War Reports in the German Newsreel 1941-1943. |
| 11.40-12.30 | Round table: towards new methodologies in manipulation analysis |
| 12.30-13.00 | Conference conclusions |