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, […]
Below is the link to the full recording of our presentation at the Manchester China Institute. Just before the event, we formally donated Sino-Muslim artwork to the Institute and arranged for two pieces to be exhibited on loan at the Manchester Museum nearby. These artworks, paper cuts by […]
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. […]
On Sunday 15th October, Heng Wang and I presented on our Sino-Muslim Heritage Literacies project to an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars as part of a seminar series at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. The seminar was titled ‘A Semiotics of Sino-Muslim Heritage Literacy in China’ […]
Earlier this year I undertook an extended research visit to China and conducted some lectures for both Jilin University, fruitfully following on from last year’s stint with them, and Changchun University of Science & Technology. Both sets of talks were well attended and allowed me to continue themes […]
I am excited to be the guest of Jilin University (China) for two weeks delivering a lecture series covering issues around sociolinguistics and literacy research. I was supposed to be in China this year as part of my Levehulme Research Fellowship but unfortunately this trip is not possible […]
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