Event type:

Hybrid

Date & time:

04 Feb 2025, 17:00 – 18:30

Linguistic discrimination in higher education

Speakers will present the initial findings of a research project exploring the language backgrounds and attitudes of staff and students, as well as everyday experiences of linguistic discrimination.

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Linguistic discrimination in higher education

Dr Stephen May

Professor in Te Puna Wānanga (School of Māori and Indigenous Education)

University of Auckland

He is an international authority on language rights, language policy, bilingual education, and the multilingual turn in language teaching. His key books include Language and minority rights (2012), The multilingual turn (2014) and, most recently, Critical ethnography, language, race/ism and education (2023). Stephen is Series Editor of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education (2017), and editor of Ethnicities. He is an AERA Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (FRSNZ).

Dr Mi Yung Park

Chair of Asian Studies and Associate Professor of Korean Studies

University of Auckland

She is an interdisciplinary scholar in sociolinguistics, migration and diasporic studies, and a qualitative methodologist. She has researched language, migration, and identity, with a particular focus on the maintenance of Asian languages and linguistic discrimination in South Korea, New Zealand, and Hawaii. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices and an editorial board member for Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.

Further information

Ticketing

Pre-booking essential

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Jim McKinley

j.mckinley@ucl.ac.uk

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