Programme
Symposium zoom link: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/9670979125
Introduction and Plenary
9.00-10.15BST/10.00-11.15CEST
Opening
Opening comments from Tom Bartlett, University of Glasgow
Plenary
Arcin Celikesmer, University of Kent: “Conversations with Ghosts: Hauntology of Partition and Linguistic Spectrality in the Literature and Languages of Postcolonial Cyprus.”
Break
Session 1
10.30-12.00BST/11.30-1.00CEST
Diverse and inclusive Spaces: Homes, borders and bridges
Nadia M. Arias González: “Visual Borders and Cultural Bridges: Fostering Intercultural Competence Through the Lens of Thi Bui’s Graphic Novel The Best We Could Do“
Maria Bîrlea: “(Re)Negotiating Identities: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of ‘Home’ Multimodal Patterns in Picturebooks”
Petrucci Lorenzo: “The Languages of Bologna: a Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Linguistic Landscape of the Famous Porticos of the City”
Lunch Break
Session 2
12.30-2.30BST/1.30-3.30CEST
Diversity and inclusion in institutional and legal discourse
Peter Mayeso Jiyajiya: “Agency, Initiation and Power: A Case of Participatory Development Paradox in Local Government Development Policy Framework in Malawi”
Anastasia Khustenko: “Metalinguistic Reflection on Errors as a Tool for Constructing Identity in Legal Discourse on Social Media”
Diversity and inclusion in medical discourse
Simona Maisano: “Listening In: Power, Language, and Care in Multilingual Healthcare Settings”
Daria Kaneva: “The conceptual metaphor ILLNESS IS WAR in medical discourse in English, French and Russian”
Break
Session 3
2.45-4.30BST/3.45-5.30CEST
Research methodologies for the study of diversity and inclusion
Nathan Speirs: “The Secret Diary of a Novice Researcher: Including Failure in the Complexity of Research Design”
Vincenzo Amendolara: “Social Media as Linguacultural Spaces of Inclusion, Extension, and Identification: An Ecolinguistic Analysis of the Climate Crisis as a Social Phenomenon”
Janine McNair: “Transactivity as a means of inclusion of learners through the extension of talk”
Closing