Welcome to the Language Acts and Worldmaking project conference Languages Future. Originally scheduled for April 2020, it is now taking place via Zoom on Thursday 15 - Friday 16, and Wednesday 21 - Friday 23 April 2021. The guiding principle of Language Acts is that language holds the key to how we understand and construct the world and ourselves. This we call worldmaking. This principle has governed our commitment to connecting research and teaching in our work attempting to regenerate and transform Modern Languages. So far, we have worked with several hundred co-researchers and practitioners from a wide range of educational, social and cultural organisations. In our 2021 conference we want to strengthen these communities who share the aim of making language-learning inclusive, socially engaged and international in scope.
Languages Future consolidates our research by considering as a community how our work in languages and worldmaking should intervene in the major debates of our time. A key question is about capacity-building for future language learners, researchers and activists. Languages Future is a call for action. How do we boldly communicate the impact of the work languages do in the world?
Conference themes include 'ways of worldmaking', 'language actions' and 'new horizons'.
Programme
The full conference programme will be announced in March on our Programme page.
Platform
Languages Future takes place online via Zoom, on Thursday 15 - Friday 16 April 2021, and Wednesday 21 - Friday 23 April 2021.
Registration and further details
The conference is free to attend but registration is essential. Tickets are available from Eventbrite. By registering, you agree to abide by the conference's Code of Conduct. Participants violating the Code of Conduct will be removed from the event and will not be able to rejoin. For further information about the conference, please see Languages Future.
For any further queries, please email languageacts@kcl.ac.uk.
Language Acts and Worldmaking is an AHRC Open World Research Initiative flagship project. Language Acts thanks the AHRC and King's College London's Arts and Humanities Research Institute for their support of this conference.