I am excited to share a recent panel discussion I hosted at the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) in London, now available to watch on YouTube. Titled ‘In Conversation With Syed Farid Alatas: Re-Thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and the Decolonisation of Academia’, the event brought together […]
I am excited to announce a Call for Papers for a forthcoming special issue in the Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, which I will co-edit with Othman Barnawi and Rizwan Ahmad. The special issue theme is ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’ and […]
I am excited to announce a new podcast series for our journal, Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The series is called ‘Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Conversations’ and features authors who have contributed to the journal, offering deeper insights into their work, and engaging in broader conversations […]
Please note: This is an updated post with the link to the recording below On Monday 2 December 2024, during the online segment of the 2024 SRHE annual conference, Professor Farid Alatas delivered a thought-provoking keynote address in which he emphasised an urgent need for the decolonisation of […]
Last month I visited two universities in Doha, Qatar: Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Qatar University. At Hamad Bin Khalifa, I gave a talk on a linguistic concept I am currently developing, which expands on the concept of heritage literacy that I have been writing about. The talk, […]
Throughout April and May this year, I undertook an extended research visit to Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, and Mainland China, where I conducted lectures at the following institutions: My visit to Hong Kong was funded by the British Academy and focused on fieldwork for my project on heritage […]
I am pleased to be co-editing another special issue for the journal ‘Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives’. Below is Call for Papers which is taken from a post from journal blog. Why get critical about critique? In the 21st century, we believe we are living through an epochal […]
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