We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our Critical Conversation Series, a platform for dialogue and critical engagement with issues related to language education. This series aims to bring together voices from across the globe—including scholars and researchers at various stages of their career trajectories and whose work focuses on anti-oppressive practices in language learning, teaching, and beyond.
While the first few sessions are currently exclusive to UBC’s Faculty of Education members, we plan to expand access for broader audiences in future sessions. We also plan to share recordings of the online sessions on our upcoming YouTube channel.
Stay tuned for the updates!
- Third Session
The third session of the Critical Conversation Series will feature Dr. Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart as our esteemed speaker. Dr. Ortaçtepe Hart’s work focuses on language learner and teacher identities, intersectionality, and social justice in language education, among other areas.
- Second Session
The second session of the Critical Conversation Series featured Dr. Gerald Roche as our esteemed speaker. Dr. Roche’s work focuses on the ongoing destruction of global linguistic diversity, and how language is used to dominate, coerce, and harm people, among other areas.
- First Session
The first session of the Critical Conversation Series featured Dr. Muzna Awayed-Bishara. Dr. Awayed-Bishara is an esteemed scholar whose work focuses on multilingualism, minority education, and how power imbalances are (re)produced and/or contested through semiotic means.