Thursday 15 April - Histories and Ways of Worldmaking
All times in BST (UTC+1/GMT+1)
10.50am Welcome
Catherine Boyle, Language Acts and Worldmaking team
11.15am Roundtable: Language acts and worldmaking: multilingualism, colonialism, and postcolonialism
Yuval Evri, Monolingual ideologies in multilingual realities: mapping and dividing linguistic entities in Israel/Palestine
David Landau, Fluidity and fixed rubrics: colonial language mapping and the postcolonial nation-state
Javed Majeed, Multilingualism, colonialism, and postcolonialism in India
Convenor: Catherine Boyle
12.30pm Break
1.25pm Welcome back
1.30pm Panel: Multilingual poetry writing: strategies of translation, disruption and resistance
Zoë Skoulding, Worlds of the multilingual poem
Maria Jastrzębska, Which język is this music in?
David Caddy, Multilingual presence in Shakespeare's tavern scenes
Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Reveries about language: challenges and opportunities of performing multilingual poetry
Convenor: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani
2.45pm Break
3pm Invited talk: The Future of Englishes
David Crystal
Chair: Christopher Pountain
4.15pm Language Acts project announcements
Language Acts and Worldmaking team
5.15pm End
Friday 16 April - Histories and Ways of Worldmaking/Languages Learning and Teaching
All times in BST (UTC+1/GMT+1)
9.20am Welcome
Ana de Medeiros, Language Acts and Worldmaking
9.30am Panel: Ways of worldmaking
Olivia McCannon, (Re)making language, (re)making world: future French in the poetry of Louky Bersianik
Joseph Prestwich, Staging the institution: Büchner, borders and the converging of ‘crowds’ in Jack Thorne’s Woyzeck (2017)
Jessica Bradley and Juliette Taylor-Batty, Beyond Babel: multilingual literature and not knowing languages
Jim Anderson, Vicky Macleroy and Lucy Rogers, Our stories: a multilingual community film-making project in Deptford
Convenor: Ana de Medeiros
10.45am Break
11.15am Panel: Language Acts and Worldmaking PhD researchers: active in our own work
Mary Ann Vargas, Mediating re-enactments of belonging away from home
Isabel Cobo Palacios, Shaping identities from practitioner to researcher and vice versa
Donata Puntil, Whose narrative is it?
Ella Dunne, My position as translator of Quechua and Spanish texts
Convenor: Ignacio Rivera
12.15pm Break
1.25pm Welcome back
1.30pm Roundtable: The role of the language teacher in society: how the present will shape the future
Silvia Bastow, Mark Critchley, Xavière Hassan, Christina Richardson, Julien Wecxsteen
Convenor: Matilde Gallardo and Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez
2.45pm Break
3pm Panel: Storytelling as worldmaking: word, text, image
Rachel Scott, Understanding the world through storytelling: Kalila wa-Dimna in contemporary London
Jean Morris, The boat: an untethered archive
Sonia Tuttiett, Weaving stories: textile work and fables in East London
Convenor: Julian Weiss
4.15pm End
Wednesday 21 April Languages Learning and Teaching/New Horizons
All times in BST (UTC+1/GMT+1)
9.20am Welcome
Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez, Language Acts and Worldmaking
9.30am Panel: Language actions: innovative pedagogy
Lekh Baral and Terry Lamb, The place of pluri/multilingualism in the Norwegian School curriculum
Rocío Díaz Bravo and Leyre Martín Aizpuru, Students as protagonists in the Spanish language class
Carlos Soler Montes, Adding linguistics to Modern Languages degrees: the case of Spanish at the University of Edinburgh
Convenor: Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez
10.45am Break
11.15am Roundtable: Modern Languages and re-centring the marginalised
Claire Taylor, Lucia Brandi and John McInally
Convenor: Angela Becher
12.30pm Break
1.25pm Welcome back
1.30pm Panel: Language actions: innovative pedagogy II
Arlene Holmes-Henderson, What if we taught classical languages in place of modern languages in primary schools?
Argyro Kanaki, International education course: an innovative pedagogical approach to worldmaking
Prem Phyak, (Re)imagining a multilingual cityspace: community activism, new linguistic landscapes and indigenous language education
Convenor: Catherine Boyle
2.45pm Break
3pm Panel: Language actions: innovative pedagogy III
Anna Costantino and Lora Blazheva, Exploring language learning as a creative reflexive practice for a better quality of classroom life
Phil Davis and Alicia Kent, Creative writing as language activism in the primary and university classroom
Kyara Rojas-Bustos and Katie Patterson, Plurilingual imaginaries in monolingual contexts/worlds
Convenor: Donata Puntil
4.15pm Panel: New horizons
Iryna Semeniuk Zumrutdal, The future of English: current policy in Turkey and Ukraine
Mariya Bagasheva, Valentina Doneva and Bilyana Todorova, The future of languages in the time of global English language influence: the Bulgarian and Russian case
Convenor: Rocío Díaz Bravo
5.15pm End
Thursday 22 April Languages Learning and Teaching/New Horizons
All times in BST (UTC+1/GMT+1)
9.20am Welcome
Catherine Boyle, Language Acts and Worldmaking
9.30am Panel: Seeing the unseen: community languages and heritage speakers in UK schools
Jim Anderson, Decolonising the curriculum: a place for children's home languages
Katarzyna Zechenter, Connecting language teaching with mainstream education system in UK: language and identity
Maksi Kozinska, Polish heritage speakers in England - seeing the unseen
Sabine Little, Normalising multilingualism in schools
Kate Lightfoot, The place of the heritage speaker in a mainstream MFL classroom
Convenors: Kate Lightfoot and Michelle Sheehan
10.45am Break
11.15am Roundtable: Visualizing data and activism: who is made visible and how?
Renata Brandão, Sophie Stevens, Helena Suárez Val, Gaël le Cornec, Cathy McIlwaine
Convenor: Sophie Stevens
12.30pm Lunch
1.25pm Welcome back
1.30pm Panel: Tackling the languages crisis from the ground up: linguistics in schools
Alice Corr, Anna Havinga, Jonathan Kasstan, Norma Schifano, Michelle Sheehan and Sascha Stollhans, The Linguistics in MFL project: progress so far
Oliver Hopwood, Using linguistics as an MFL teacher
Anna Paradis, Linguistics in Catalonian schools
Convenor: Chris Pountain; Discussants: Anna Rosen and Janette Swainston
2.45pm Break
3pm Panel: New horizons II
Amanda Brown, Caroline Bennett, Gail A. Bulman, Stefano Giannini, Rania Habib, and María Emma Ticio Quesada, Lost in machine translation: the chasm between language teachers and students
Convenor: Sophie Stevens
3.30pm Roundtable: Language and human security: context, hierarchy, and interconnectedness
Syracuse University research team: Amanda Brown, Gail A. Bulman, Stefano Giannini, Rania Habib
Convenor: Sophie Stevens
4.45pm End
Friday 23 April Worldmaking in Action
All times in BST (UTC+1/GMT+1)
9.20am Welcome
Catherine Boyle, Language Acts and Worldmaking
9.30am Panel: New horizons III
Angela Giovanangeli, Indigenous perspectives in the language classroom: the Australian context
Diane Nelson and Thea Pitman, The Kariri-Xocõ linguistic retomada (reclamation)
Speaker TBC
Convenor: Catherine Boyle
10.45am Break
11.15am Panel: Language actions
Khawla Badwan, Reconceptualising language in worldmaking: ‘unmooring’ language for social justice
Erika Fülöp, Disrupting (foreign) languages and cultures (in) teaching: a dilemma
Donata Puntil, Teaching is knowledge, knowledge is power
Convenor: Inma Alvarez
12.30pm Break
1.25pm Welcome back
1.30pm Panel: Language actions: connecting communities
Cari Bottois, Charity Translators and Cardiff University: futures of community languages
Sue Leschen, Interpreters’ cultural interventions in legal settings – help or hindrance to asylum seekers and refugees?
Emily Butterworth, Duncan Hay and Leah Lovett, Demonstration: Memory Mapper
Convenor: Chris Pountain
2.45pm Break
3pm How will the study of languages make the world a better place? With Rutherford House School
Convenor: Debra Kelly
4pm Concluding remarks
Language Acts and Worldmaking team
4.20pm End