Ghent University will be holding a symposium on “(Un)thinking everyday borders in sociolinguistics” in 13-16 July, 2022. To view more details, please click the following link. Call for papers-SS24-BY-EYG
Read moreAs led by Lantern Associate Eva Polymenakou, I am delighted to report the news today of the acceptance of the following abstract for an article in the IALIC 20th anniversary issue of Language and Intercultural Communication (LAIC) journal due out in spring 2022: “A praxis of ‘synclusion’: Challenging ethnocentric understandings of social inclusion” Eva Polymenakou and Richard Fay
Read moreArab Journal of Applied Linguistics extended submission date Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles Submission Date Extension Special Issue on Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics’ Special Issue on Academic Discourse in the Outer and Expanding Circles will be published in November 2021. The deadline for typescripts’ submissions is extended to September […]
Read moreAs many of you will know, for the last decade I have been teaching World Music Ensemble Performance (klezmer) – WMEP-klezmer for short – in our Music Department. I have a musical self (website) in addition to my TESOL and Intercultural Communication/Education academic roles. WMEP-klezmer is an area of my professional practice that has its conceptual underpinnings and its research […]
Read moreWe (i.e. Richard, Jane and Min) submitted an article with this abstract today – let’s see how the review process goes !! Narrowing the gap between institutional practice and aspiring praxis: Developing critical intercultural supervisory cultures in largely Anglophone UK university contexts Abstract: As contextualised by doctoral supervision in largely Anglophone Departments of Education in UK universities, this article seeks […]
Read moreIt seems that quite a few of us will be travelling to Barcelona at the end of November for the annual IALIC conference (see earlier posting with the Call for Papers). So far, I know that I will be there in two teams (one with Jane Andrews; the other with Lou Harvey, Jess Bradley and Min), and that current and […]
Read moreWhite, R. and Fay, R. (2016, April). Paradigm humility and appropriate methodology in Global Mental Health. Paper (to be) presented at The Emergence of Global Mental Health workshop, hosted by Kings College, London, April 28th, 2016. Discussion Topics: How is ‘mental health’ as an object of knowledge and global intervention construed, operationalized, and governed? What new networks of actors are emerging in […]
Read more“Es como llevar naranjas a … Sefarad” — Tales of Ladino from the Bulgarian Sephardic Community Leah Davcheva & Richard Fay Invited Guest lecture at the University of Cordoba, Spain, Friday 15th April. Abstract: In this talk, we provide an account of our multilingual, collaborative and narrative research project and also present our interculturally-framed analysis of these Tales of Ladino. […]
Read moreI am currently co-writing a book chapter with Richard, my main supervisor. The book we are contributing to “ELF for EFL Contexts” (working title) explores the possibilities of teaching English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in the contexts of English as a foreign language (EFL). The purpose of our chapter is to inform EFL teachers about the possibilities of fine-tuning […]
Read moreDear All, I am pleased to let you know that my abstract for the Dewey 2016 conference has been accepted. ABSTRACT Understanding Reflexivity in Light of Dewey’s ‘Trying’ and ‘Undergoing’ 1 Introduction Drawing on John Dewey’s Democracy and Education (1916), this paper focuses on one of the text’s central themes, namely that of ‘learning from experience’. I start by shedding […]
Read moreJane Andrews (University of the West of England, UK) + Sari Pöyhönen (Jyväskylä University, Finland) + Richard Fay (The University of Manchester, UK) + Mirja Tarnanen (Jyväskylä University, Finland) “Researching multilingually – exploring emerging linguistic practices in migrant contexts” Keywords: multilingualism, knowledge construction, linguistic practices Sociolinguistic research practice in the era of globalisation, complexity and demographic shift is bound to […]
Read moreAbstracts recently accepted for the 2nd BIBAC (Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Across Cultures) International Conference (hosted by Cambridge University, UK, 31st July-01st August, 2016): Al-Masri, N., Frimberger, K. and Attia, M. (2016). ‘Hope is our bread and butter’: towards a human ecological language pedagogy in the context of siege. Fay, R., Hawley, R. and Sherwood, E. (2016, July). ‘Klezmer returns to college’ – intercultural experience and social engagement through […]
Read moreAbstracts recently accepted for The Twelfth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (hosted by University of Illinois, USA, 18th-21st May, 2016): Halldorsdottir, T. (2016, May). Warring wor(l)ds: stories as soft weapons and resources of hope. Fay, R., Andrews, J., Frimberger, K. and Tordzro, G. (2016, May). Creative interthinking: interthinking creatively. Huang, Z. (2016, May). Through the eye of visual-creative-arts: exploring intercultural personhood.
Read moreA proposal to contribute in a book chapter by Richard and I have been accepted. The chapter will be in a volume edited by Nicos Sifakis and Natasha Tsantila (and we were informed that Professor Henry Widdowson, Professor Barbara Seidlhofer and Professor Suresh Canagarajah have agreed to contribute chapters in this volume as well!) The tentative title of the book is “ELF […]
Read moreDear all, Greetings from Edinburgh! I reckon my name might sound unfamiliar to some of you, slightly because I completed my PhD at Manchester a few years ago, and largely because I have been quiet on this forum for a long time as I was drawn to the various adventures in the early stage of my academic career in a […]
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