Languaging in Times of Change, University of Stirling, 26–27 September 2019
School of Education Lecturer in Literacies Dr Jessica Bradley participated in the Languaging in Times of Change international conference at the University of Stirling on 26 and 27 September 2019. The conference theme considered communicative practices and ideologies across disciplines, and many of the papers were from outside linguistics.
At the conference, she co-convened a colloquium with James Simpson (University of Leeds) which focused on advocacy and activism in languaging- and language-based research.
This included papers by Lou Harvey (Leeds) on participatory theatre and intercultural communication, James Simpson (Leeds) and Mel Cooke (KCL) on adult ESOL, Rebecca Tipton (Manchester) on interpreter-mediated communication in contexts of domestic abuse and Sari Pöyhönen and Jussi Lehtonen on devised theatre with refugees in Finland. The discussion notes can be found here.
She participated in a reading from ‘Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography’ by Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese (Stirling), a book which reimagines research undertaken in Birmingham’s Bull Ring market for the TLANG project. This was part of the invited colloquium on translanguaging and art.
Jessica also presented a work-in-progress paper, co-authored with Juliette Taylor-Batty (Leeds Trinity University) on the modernist poet, Eugene Jolas, which considers the potential for a translanguaging lens on his multilingual poetry. A series of images from the Visual Representations of Multilingualism competition and exhibition were also shown at the conference.
Dr. Jessica Bradley — @JessMaryBradley
