In November-December 2025 I undertook a rich and very rewarding research sojourn across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. The extended trip centred on academic exchange, public scholarship, and our ongoing work on heritage literacy. The journey began in Jeddah, where I was honoured to serve as a […]
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, […]
I recently gave the plenary lecture at the annual symposium of the ‘Professional, Academic, and Work-Based Literacies’ (PAWBL) special interest group, which sits under the aegis of BAAL. The lecture, titled “Eat. Pray. Live. How Literacies of Food Heritage, Faith and Commerce Merge in Sino-Muslim China“, was based […]
Earlier this year, I gave the closing plenary at the annual conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL). My lecture was on ‘Postdigital possibilities in Applied Linguistics’. It presented a valuable opportunity for me to bring together various ideas speculatively, and the response was quite positive. […]
The following are slides from my online talk today (11th August 2022) for the Graduate School of Universitas Negeri Jakarta (Indonesia):
I am excited to announce that our book The Epistemology of Deceit in a Postdigital Era: Dupery by Design is now out, published by Springer as part of the new Postdigital Science & Education book series. Above is my introduction to a symposium for the book held in […]
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