Presentation at MLing research institute

On Wednesday 9 July, 2014, Kasper and Bernardino present an outline and beginning of the STAR project for colleagues of the MLing research institute in Walferdange. At this event the research blog is also officially launched.

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.

Beyond the tyranny of writing workshop in Luxembourg

From Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 May, Kasper co-hosted with Constanze Weth an international workshop on the theme of "Beyond the tyranny of writing". The workshop opened with a keynote speech by Florian Coulmas of the German Institute of Japanese Studies in Tokyo, Japan, and further included presentations by Manuela Böhm (Kassel), Ulrich Mehlem (Frankfurt), Mikko Laitinen (Växjö), Jos Swanenberg (Tilburg), David C.S. Li (Hong Kong), Collette Noyau (Paris), Friederike Lüpke (London), Daniel Buncic (Cologne), Gabriele Budach (Saarbrücken), Joop Van der Horst (Leuven) and Luxembourg colleagues Jean-Jacques Weber, Melanie Wagner, Luc Belling and Lucas Duane Bernedo. Bernardino and Jurdana also attended parts of the workshop. The workshop was an opportunity to discuss planning and progress of the STAR project with Friederike Lüpke, a scholar of language contact and multilingualism in West Africa, and one of the STAR project's advisers.

LEF training workshop in Birmingham

Bernardino participates in Linguistic Ethnography Forum training workshop "Researching language as social practice: enhancing skills in working with language data" organised at the University of Birmingham, UK, May 15-16, 2014. 

Presentation at LL6 in Cape Town

From 9-11 April 2014, Kasper attended the 6th Linguistic Landscapes workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, organised by colleagues at the University of the Western Cape with the theme of "Hope and Precarity". He presented a paper, including an outline of the STAR project, entitled "Landscapes of mobility: Tourists, vagabonds and the involuntary immobile."