Selected talks and presentations
Invited talks, international and national keynotes and invited research seminar presentations
2022
Keynote conference presentation: 'The Art of the Linguistic Landscape: Lived Experiences of the Everyday', Intermediality in Communication conference, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania, Thursday 17 November 2022.
Public talk: 'Re-Emerge? New parents, COVID19 and creativity'. ESRC Festival of Social Sciences Understanding Socirty, The Art House Wakefield and University of Sheffield, Tuesday 1 November 2022.
Invited research talk: 'Participatory arts and young people’s lived experience of multilingualism', FORTHEM Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab’s Citizen Science in Schools Workshop & Autumn Meeting, Jyväskylä University, Finland. Tuesday 11 October 2022.
Invited research seminar: 'Making the new from the everyday: the art of the linguistic landscape', Debating Ethnography Group, University of Southampton, Friday 7 October 2022.
Keynote conference presentation: 'Making the new from the everyday: The art of the linguistic landscape', IMAGE(S) AND IDENTITY: 5TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE LANGUAGES, TEXTS AND SOCIETIES (LTS) JOURNAL, University of Nottingham, Friday 15 July 2022.
Keynote conference presentation and interactive workshop: 'Engaging with language diversity in public spaces through creative practice', LOCALL Project Multiplier Event, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Thursday 7 July 2022.
Invited research talk: 'Visual Representations of Multilingualism', Liberating Language Education' book launch, Centre for Language, Culture and Learning, Goldsmiths, Wednesday 15 June 2022.
Invited research talk: Belonging and Identity in Multilingual Writing. Jyväskylä University, Finland. Monday 6 June 2022.
Invited research seminar: 'The Art of the Linguistic Landscape', Literacy and Language Research Group, ESRI Manchester Met University, 14 March 2022.
2016-2021 - selected invited talks, keynotes and research seminar presentations
2021
Invited research workshop: 'Translating and Curating the Linguistic Landscape: Opportunities for Social Justice. Language Education for Social Justice conference, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (online), June 2021 postponed from 2020 due to COVID19).
2020
Invited research presentation: ‘Visual representations of multilingualism’, On the border of art and language learning and teaching in the multilingual world conference, online (University of Aberdeen), November 2020.
Invited research talk: ‘Artistic engagements with languaging: Lessons from interdisciplinary research and practice’. Third network seminar for LILA Network Communicating the Unsayable: Learning at the Intersection of Language and the Arts’, online in partnership with the British Museum (University of Leeds/Autonomous University of Barcelona, September 2020.
Invited panel: ‘Artists working with Linguists: Visual Representations of Multilingualism’. Leeds International Festival 2020, Leeds, UK, May 2020, (postponed due to COVID19).
Invited research seminar: ‘Research at the intersections of language and the arts: Extending the translanguaging lens?’ Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Met University, UK, April 2020.
Invited research seminar for postgraduate researchers: ‘Visual Analysis’ White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership Postgraduate Training Event, University of Sheffield UK, February 2020.
Invited research talk: ‘Conversation through Art’. First network seminar for AHRC LILA network, Communicating the Unsayable: Learning at the Intersection of Language and the Arts’, Leeds Central Library, February 2020.
Invited research workshop and talk: ‘Research at the intersections of language and the arts: Extending the translanguaging lens?’ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, January 2020.
2019
Invited research talk: ‘Translating and Curating the Linguistic Landscape: Exploring Young People's Understandings of Language Diversity’. Worldwide University Network colloquium Intercultural Communication in Interaction: Multimodal Approaches. University of Sheffield, UK, December 2019.
Invited research talk: ‘Language and the Arts: Perspectives on Collaboration and Co-production. RECLAS, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, November 2019.
Invited research talk: 'Visual representations of multilingualism', ‘British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting Invited Colloquium on Multilingualism’. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, August 2019.
Invited research talk: 'Researching Multimodally', CLER Distinguished Lecture and Seminar 'Towards an Ethical Vision for Language Education Research', University of Leeds, UK, June 2019.
Invited research talk: 'TESOL and Language Learning research seminar'. School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work (SSESW), Queens University Belfast, UK, May 2019.
Invited conference presentation: 'University public engagement with urban multilingualism: a conversational conference. University of Manchester, UK, February 2019.
2018
Invited research talk: 'Migration and Settlement', EU Speak, Newcastle University, UK, July 2018.
Invited research talk: 'Migration and Settlement' On the border of art and teaching in the multilingual world, University of Glasgow, UK, June 2018.
Invited poster presentation: 'Translation and translanguaging in production and performance in community arts'. HaBilNet’: first colloquium. Harmonious Bilingualism Network. La Hulpe, Belgium, May 2018.
Invited discussant: Multilingual landscapes: planning, policy, and contact linguistic perspectives. Multilingual Manchester, University of Manchester, UK, May 2018.
Invited contributor: Introduction to Ethnographic Research: Southampton, Ethnography of a City. University of Southampton, UK, April 2018.
Invited colloquium speaker: ‘Multimodality in teaching and research with refugee-background language learners’. Invited colloquium, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, USA, March 2018.
2017
Invited research presentation: ‘Ethnography and Modern Languages workshop’. AHRC Open World Research Initiative, Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community and AHRC Translating Cultures workshop, Institute for Modern Languages Research, London, UK, November 2017.
Invited colloquium co-convenor: ‘Creative Inquiry and Applied Linguistics’. Invited colloquium co-convenor, British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting 2017, University of Leeds, UK, August 2017.
Invited research presentation: ‘Multilingual and multimodal realities: Translanguaging across space and place’. Researching Language in the City: exploring methodological and theoretical concepts, Open World Research Initiative Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals Transforming Societies, University of Southampton, UK, June 2017.
Invited research presentation: ‘How does arts practice engage with narratives of migration from refugees and asylum seekers? Lessons from ‘utopia’’. Performance and Cultural Industries postgraduate research seminar, University of Leeds, UK. (with Sam McKay), May 2017.
Invited panellist: ‘Englishes – A Conversation, Nicoline Van Harskamp’. RADAR, University of Loughborough Arts, UK, January 2017.
2016
Invited seminars (2 days): ‘Beyond Language: Co-production and collaboration in language research’. RECLAS University of Jyväskylä, Finland, December 2016.
Invited research seminar: ‘Co-production as transcreation? Mediating ecologies in visual arts and language research’. Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, University of Lancaster, UK, November 2016.
Invited research seminar: ‘Liquid Methodologies: Using a linguistic ethnographic approach to study multilingual phenomena’. seminar series, University of East Anglia, UK, October 2016.
Invited research seminar: ‘Translanguaging from studio to street: Resemiotising the narrative in production and performance’. Translation, Translanguaging and Creativity, AHRC Translating Cultures and IMLR seminar, Senate House, London, June 2016.