Workshop on Linguistic Equity and Justice

Thanks for visiting the site for our upcoming workshop on linguistic equity and justice!

While language functions as both a means and target of oppression, linguists have, until only recently, rarely critically engaged with historical and contemporary inequities and injustices (cf. Charity Hudley, Mallinson, and Bucholtz 2020). That said, we recognize that many scholars are currently working toward language-based anti-oppression goals. Although these researchers are diverse, we see among them a shared goal of advocacy through critical engagement with language and racism, ableism, transphobia, sexism, colonialism, and classism. We are so excited to bring together like-minded researchers for a two-day workshop of knowledge sharing and community building to be held virtually on April 29th and 30th, 2022. The full schedule is available on this site.

The workshop will be structured around five keynote talks and two panel discussions, all of which you can read about in the Abstracts section. You can also get to know our presenters a bit better via their Bios. Please note that there will be ASL interpretation provided by MCIS Language Solutions and auto-generated captions for all sessions.

We would love for you to attend/participate in this workshop so our community can share and gain knowledge. On this site there is a link for (free!) registration so we can keep you up to date. We hope to hear from you.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact samantha.jackson@utoronto.ca

Talk soon,

Derek Denis & Samantha Jackson, organizers