EELC9: Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication 9 UCL Institute of Education London, UK, April 3-4, 2023

The conference was first inspired by a research training programme previously run at King’s College London and the IOE, UCL. The first event took place in 2008 at Aston University to offer further opportunities to exchange knowledge around ethnography, language and communication. 

The theme of this 9th edition of the conference in London is ‘Language, inequality and the everyday (un)making of alliances’. It follows a series of global crises epitomised by moments of spectacular disruption such as the so-called ‘2008 economic crisis’ or the ‘COVID-19 pandemic’. But far from representing isolated events, these build on long-standing processes, practices and experiences of inequality which are increasingly at the centre of more and more people’s daily lives. 

The conference aims to provide a platform to reflect on the types of alliances that ethnographic and language scholarship might be able to generate in the (un)making of such inequalities.

This event will be particularly useful for those interested in linguistic ethnography, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics.

Speakers

Confirmed keynote speakers and featured workshop organisers:

• Dr Julia Snell, University of Leeds (UK)
• Dr Daniel Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
• Dr Beatriz Lorente, University of Bern (Switzerland)
• Dr Lian Malai Madsen, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
• Dr Jackie Jia Lou, Birkbeck University of London (UK).

Conference structure

The event will include individual papers, colloquia and featured data analysis workshops.

Call for papers, posters and colloquia

We welcome participants to submit their proposals:

• Individual papers will be allocated 30 minutes, 20 for presentation and a further 10 minutes for discussion. Participants should submit abstracts (max. 300 words).
• Poster presenters will be assigned a special session for brief presentations and discussions. Participants should submit abstracts (max. 300 words).
• Colloquia will be allocated 5 slots of 30-minute each, including discussion. Panel organisers should submit an outline of the suggested topic and aims (max. 500 words), together with the titles and short abstracts (max. 300 words) of all included papers.

Please indicate which type of submission your proposal belongs to in your abstract. 

Notification of acceptance

December 2022.