Talks
Media
Conference and Invited Papers and Seminars (2017-present)
(NB Listed in reverse chronological order)
Upcoming
2023
Date: 28 July 2023
Location: University of Macao, Macau
Event: Invited plenary, 6th Global English Education China Assembly
Title: Emergent STEM lecturer identities: The shaping effects of EMI in action
Date: 27 April 2023
Location: Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona
Event: Invited talk
Title: La interseccionalidad: un viaje crítico por raíces y rutas
Date: 21 March 2023
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Event: Jornades Interunversitàries de Recerca en Didàctica de la Lengua i Literatura
Title: Las entrevistas de investigación examinadas críticamente: un viaje autobiográfico
2022 (11)
Date: 25/10/22
Location: Difusión (online)
Event: Invited talk
Title: La identidad y la enseñanza y el aprendizaje del español
Date: 18/11/22
Location: Beijing Normal University (online)
Event: Invited talk
Title: Identity in the 21st century: The same old and new challenges and opportunities?
Date: 15/07/22
Location: Gent, Belgium
Event: Sociolinguistics Symposium 24
Title: Discussion of panel: Sociolinguistics and the political economy: Ways forward
Date: 13&14/07/22
Location: Palau Macaya, Barcelona
Event: ¿Tendría que ser directa la democracia?, Escola Europea d’Humantiats
Title: La manipulación en las sociedades
Date: 17/06/22
Location: Warwick University, UK
Event: Association for the teaching of Spanish in higher education in the UK, Annual conference
Title: La identidad en el siglo 20, la identidad en el siglo 21 y el aprendizaje del Español como L2
Date: 14/06/22
Location: University College London, Institute of Education, UK
Event: Invited talk
Title: The dark side of EMI?: a telling case for questioning assumptions about EMI in HE
Date: 26/05/22
Location: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Event: Roundtable, Language and neoliberal governmentality: Language in Society
Title: On the neoliberalisation of HE and its consequences
Date: 22/05/22
Location: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
Event: Seminaris: Plà d’Igualtat de Gènere
Title: Feminisms: Erasures, tensions and possibilities (with John Gray)
Date: 16/05/22
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Event: Invited talk, Infolex, Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge
Title: Chasing meaning through the comparison and contrast of theoretical and day-to-day uses of keywords: Lexicography by other means?
Date: 08/03/22
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Event: Invited talk, Departament d’Humanitats
Title: Doing diaspora, class and identity: Some general thoughts and British and Spanish examples
Date: 28/01/22
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Event: Invited talk for research students (Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge)
Title: Interrogating interviews
2021 (14)
Date: 16/09/21
Location: Sheffield Hallam University
Event: Invited plenary, 30th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference
Title: Toxic life: Understanding and dealing with crises and the permanent state of exception in hyper-mediatized times
Date: 16/09/21
Location: Sheffield Hallam University
Event: Paper on panel ‘Language, critique, and social justice in contemporary capitalism’, 30th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference
Title: Marxist political economy in CDS: The past, present and future
Date: 09/09/21
Location: Northumbria University, Nottingham (UK)
Event: Invited Plenary, British Association of Applied Linguistics
Title: Identity in the 21st century: The same old and new challenges and opportunities.
Date: 09/07/21
Location: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Vilanova I la Geltru, Spain
Event: Invited plenary, AELFE/TAPP European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes/Trans-Atlantic and Pacific Project
Title: English-medium instruction in (neoliberalized) higher education: Questioning some assumptions
Date: 02/07/21
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Event: Invited plenary, KATE 2021 International Conference
Title: English-medium instruction in higher education as a multi-layered phenomenon
Date: 16/04/21
Location: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Event: Invited talk
Title: Identity in SLA
Date: 19/03/21
Location: City University of New York (CUNY), USA
Event: Invited talk, Sociolinguistics Lunch series, CUNY Graduate Center
Title: Class, race and critical language policy and planning in 21st century Catalonia
Date: 17/03/21
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Event: Invited talk, Departament d’Humanitats
Title: Dealing with crises and the permanent state of exception in a toxic social media environment: The way we live today
Date: 04/03/21
Location: Universitat de Vic, Spain
Event: Symposium Internationalisation & Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: Quality & Innovation
Title: NOT English teachers, except when they are: The curious case of oral presentation evaluation rubrics in an EMI-in-HE context. (with Guzman Mancho)
Date: 02/03/21
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Event: Diàlegs Humanístics series
Title: Les xarxes socials i la comunicació avui dia: la vida en temps tòxics (with Frederic Guerrero)
Date: 11/02/21
Location: Michigan State University, USA
Event: Invited talk
Title: On intersectionality
Date: 10/02/21
Location: Southampton University, UK
Event: Invited talk
Title: A critical look at English-medium education in and out of context
Date: 05/02/21
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Event: Invited talk for research students (Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge)
Title: Interrogating interviews
Date: 27/01/21
Location: University College London, Institute of Education, UK
Event: Invited talk
Title: Intersectionality: A critical journey through roots and routes
2020 (5)
Date: 10/12/20
Location: National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
Event: Invited keynote, Communication in Multicultural Society (CMSC 2020)
Title: Dealing with crisis in a toxic social media environment: The way we live today
Date: 17/11/20
Location: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain
Event: Diàlegs sociolingüístics, Societat Catalana de Sociolingüístic,
Title: El racism i les micro-agressions racials (with Victor Corona)
Date: 05/11/20
Location: Universitat de Lleida, Spain
Event: Invited keynote, ICLHE Spain, Regional Group Symposium
Title: A critical look at emergent HE STEM lecturer identities in English-medium education: Food for thought
Date: 28/10/20
Location: University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Event: Invited talk
Title: Racial and raciolinguistic micro-aggressions in the counterstories of immigrants in Barcelona: A challenge to the notion of Spanish exceptionalism
Date: 02/10/20
Location: Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
Event: Invited talk
Title: Thoughts on intersectionality as a thinking tool for applied linguists
2019 (13)
Date: 12/12/19
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Event: Seminar, When the clown becomes king: the politics of humour and emotions in the age of populism
Title: Ciudadanos: A portrait in ridiculousness
Date: 26/11/19
Location: Uuniversità degli studi di Padova, Italy
Event: Invited talk
Title: The shaping effects of EMI in action: emergent STEM lecturer identities
Date: 25/11/19
Location: Uuniversità degli studi di Padova, Italy
Event: Invited talk
Title: Critical LPP and the intersection of class, race and language policy and practice in twenty first century Catalonia
Date: 11/11/19
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Event: Invited talk
Title: ‘Post-truth', fake news, agnotology and other related phenomena
Date: 12/09/19
Location: Cambridge University, UK
Event: Invited keynote, Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspective
Title: Emergent STEM lecturer identities: the shaping effects of EMI in action in an internationalised and Englishised HE context
Date: 17/06/19
Location: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Event: Migration, Language, and Practices. Challenges in the 21st Century
Title: A spanner in the works: Micro-racism and challenges to discourses of exceptionality with regard to the integration of immigrants in Spain (with Victor Corona)
Date: 05/06/19
Location: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Event: V Simposio Internacional EDiSo
Title: Comments on the theme: ‘Para que sirve y por qué enseñar Análisis de Discurso’
Date: 21/05/19
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Event: Invited talk
Title: What can we believe? On post truth, agnotology, lying, misleadingness and other related phenomena
Date: 27/04/19
Location: EMI lecturers and English language teacher type activity: Conflicting self-positionings Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Event: ELT research in action
Title: EMI lecturers and English language teacher type activity: Conflicting self-positionings
Date: 11/04/19
Location: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Event: Niu de support per a treballs de grau de la Societat Catalana de Sociolingüística
Title: I què puc dir jo?: primeres passes en la recerca
Date: 23/01/19
Location: University of Cologne, Germany
Event: Invited talk
Title: The political economy of language education research (or the lack thereof): Nancy Fraser and the case of translanguaging
Date: 11/01/19
Location: University of Stockholm, Sweden
Event: Workshop for the ‘Widening participation research and practice network’, University of Stockholm
Title: Issues in research on widening participation and the children of immigrants in higher education in European contexts
Date: 09/01/19
Location: University of Stockholm, Sweden
Event: Keynote, for the symposium, The role of English at a multilingual university
Title: The shaping effects of EMI in action: emergent STEM lecturer identities
2018 (19)
Date: 11/12/18
Location: University College London, Institute of Education, UK
Event: Invited talk
Title: Some thoughts on CDS and its Marxist political economy bases
Date: 10/12/18
Location: Southampton University, UK
Event: Invited talk
Title: The political economy of language education research (or the lack thereof): Nancy Fraser and the case of translanguaging
Date: 09/11/18
Location: University of Bern, Switzerland
Event: Dynamics of (im)mobilities and discursive practices in the 21st century
Title: Comment on the panel: ‘Voces emergentes de la diaspora’
Date: 08/11/18
Location: University of Bern, Switzerland
Event: Dynamics of (im)mobilities and discursive practices in the 21st century
Title: Reflecting on intersectionality in the dynamics of (im)mobility and discursive practices in the 21st century
Date: 07/11/18
Location: University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Event: Invited talk
Title: Some thoughts on the political economy of scientific publications
Date: 06/11/18
Location: Université de Genève, Switzerland
Event: Invited talk
Title: The social, political and economic background and implications of multilingualism in society
Date: 26/10/18
Location: Universitat de València, Spain
Event: Invited talk, Marx bicentennial series
Title: Una perspectiva Marxista sobre el Análisis Crítico del Discurso
Date: 29/08/18
Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Event: Invited keynote, Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe Project, Interdisciplinarity and the future of multilingualism research
Title: About interdisciplinarity and the future of multilingualism research
Date: 22/06/18
Location: Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Event: New discourses of populism and nationalism
Title: ¡Viva España! redux: The Catalan independence movement and the rise of the right-wing Spanish nationalist party Ciudadanos
Date: 13/06/18
Location: L’Ateneu, Barcelona
Event: La construcció lingüística de la realitat: reptes per a entendre el món a l'era de “la postveritat".
Title: Sobre la postveritat
Date: 15/05/18
Location: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Event: Taula rodona: Perspectives crítiques sobre internacionalització, globalització i educació lingüística
Title: Textbooks and the neoliberal citizen
Date: 04/05/18
Location: Maynooth, Ireland
Event: The (re)Birth of Marxism: Haunting the future
Title: Class and the Catalan independence movement: Some interesting developments
Date: 04/04/18
Location: Universitat de Lleida, Spain
Event: Niu de support per a treballs de grau de la Societat Catalana de Sociolingüística
Title: I què puc dir jo?
Date: 16/03/18
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Event: Invited talk
Title: ‘Post-truth’: Nothing new
Date: 02/02/18
Location: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Event: Invited talk
Title: La ‘posverdad’: Algunas reflexiones sobre una palabra de moda
Date: 26/01/18
Location: Escola d’Idiomes Moderns, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Event: Invited keynote: Jornadas de formación para profesores de lenguas
Title: Els llibres de text i el ciutadà neoliberal
Date: 23/01/18
Location: University College London, Institute of Education, UK
Event: Invited talk
Title: 'Post-truth', agnotology and political discourses in Spain
Date: 22/01/18
Location: University College London, Institute of Education, UK
Event: Book launch talk: Political Economy and Sociolinguistics
Title: Talking to Political Economy and Sociolinguistics
Date: 22/01/18
Location: University College London, Institute of Education, UK
Event: Invited workshop
Title: Doing identity research: A discussion of opportunities and limitations.
2017 (11)
Date: 14/11/17
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Event: Language Policies in Spain: Multidisciplinary/Critical Approaches
Title: Critical LPP, political economy and the intersection of class and race in Catalonia
Date: 14/10/17
Location: Cali, Colombia
Event: Invited plenary, ASOCOPI, 2017
Title: Neoliberal rationalities, the co-opting of cosmopolitanism and the neoliberal citizen in English language teaching materials
Date: 02/10/17
Location: Palau Macaya, Barcelona, Spain
Event: Invited paper, l’Escola Europea d’Humanitats
Title: El món de la ‘postveritat’: Algunes reflexions sobre una paraula de moda
Date: 28/06/17
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Event: EDISO conference
Title: Neoliberal rationalities, model citizens and the co-opting of interculturalism and cosmopolitanism
Date: 28/06/17
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Event: EDISO conference
Title: Discussant paper: La institucionalització de l’anglès com a llengua franca en els sistemes universitaris
Date: 27/06/17
Location: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
Event: Invited paper, Lenguaje y profesiones seminar
Title: Post-truth and language in the professions
Date: 23/05/17
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Event: Invited paper
Title: Post-truth?: Nothing new
Date: 22/04/17
Location: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Event: VII Congrés Català de Sociologia
Title: Post-truth: Nothing new really
Date: 22/04/17
Location: Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Event: Invited plenary, ELTRIA Conference
Title: ‘All research is autobiographical’ and ‘know thyself’: Exploring teacher identities as base for teacher generated research
Date: 08/04/17
Location: Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
Event: Invited plenary, Applied Linguistics Seminar
Title: Class in and for itself in neoliberal times: A possible research agenda for language studies
Date: 31/03/17
Location: Universitat de Lleida, Spain
Event: Invited plenary, III Jornada de benvinguda als nous doctorands de la Universitat de Lleida
Title: ‘Post-truth’: Academic research, the real world and PhD study