Superdiversity conference in Birmingham

On 23 and 24 June, 2014, Kasper attends the international conference on superdiversity at the University of Birmingham.

MODE summer school on multimodal methods, London

Bernardino participates in the MODE Summer School organised at London Knowledge Lab with the theme of "Multimodal Methods for Analysing Communication and Learning with Digital Technologies", Institute of Education, University of London, UK, June 16-20, 2014.

Masterclass symposium in Luxembourg

On 12 and 13 June, 2014, Kasper and Bernardino participated in the masterclass symposium organised for and by the master students of the learning and communication in multilingual and multicultural contexts master programme. 2nd-year students presented their completed (or ongoing) research projects in parallel presentations and 1st-year students presented their research plans in a poster session. Invited plenary speakers were Beatriz Lorente of the University of Basel, Switzerland, and Tommaso Milani of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Both talks related to themes of the STAR project. Beatriz' talk, "Scripts of servitude: language and the transnational domestic worker" thematised social, racial and linguistic inequalities in labour market relations and described the situation of Filipina domestic workers in Singapore which many students found described as shocking and as the modern-day equivalent of slavery. On the second day, Tommaso's talk, "Sexed signs: queering the scenery" presented an argument for considering the body, and gender and sexuality more specifically, in studies of linguistic landscape.