Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication
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The 9th Explorations Ethnography, Language and Communication conference #EELC9- takes place at The Institute of Education, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, 3rd-4th April 2023. ‘Language, inequality and the everyday (un)making of alliances’
The ninth EELC conference follows a series of global crises epitomised by moments of spectacular disruption such as the so-called ‘2008 economic crisis
’ or the ‘COVID-19 pandemic’. But far from representing isolated events, these build on long-standing processes, practices and experiences of inequality which are increasingly at the centre of more and more people’s daily lives. The conference aims to provide a platform to reflect on the types of alliances that ethnographic and language scholarship might be able to generate in the (un)making of such inequalities. Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication is the biannual conference of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF), a special interest group of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). The conference was first inspired by a research training programme previously run at King’s College London and the Institute of Education. Hosted by Julia Snell, Sara Shaw and Fiona Copland, the first conference took place in 2008 at Aston University to offer further opportunities to exchange knowledge around ethnography, language and communication. Since then, the conference has aimed to:
- Provide a dedicated cross-disciplinary forum for researchers who combine ethnographic and linguistic approaches;
- Facilitate high quality debate on contemporary issues across health, education, social policy and cultural studies;
- Establish a stimulating programme combining plenary lectures, data workshops and presentations;
- Facilitate international dialogue between linguistic ethnography and linguistic anthropology. The confirmed keynote speakers and featured workshop organisers are:
Dr Julia Snell, University of Leeds (UK)
Dr Daniel Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Dr Beatriz Lorente, University of Bern (Switzerland)
Dr Lian Malai Madsen, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Dr Jackie Jia Lou, Birkbeck University of London (UK)
In order to make it as affordable as possible, the organisation of this conference will be fully arranged by the local organising committee with no outsourcing to third parties other than catering services. This means that we will need to keep it small in size in accordance with previous EELC conferences. More information on the event will be announced shortly.
14/10/2022