Previous events

4th May - Language Education Collages - Speakers: Dr Vally Lytra & Dr Vicky Macleroy (MOSAIC Seminar)

30th March - Delinking from the Coloniality of Language in Southern educational settings with speaker Carolyn McKinney (MOSAIC Seminar)

3rd November - Gentle Activism: Decolonising the arts curriculum through translanguaging with speaker: Dr Victoria Odeniyi (MOSAIC Seminar)

3rd March - Bilingual advantage for witness memory. With speaker Luna Fillpović

17th February - Real literacies, multiliteracies and deaf literacies with speaker: Professor Uta Papen (MOSAIC Seminar)

18th February - Bilingual Peer Mentoring with speaker: Dr James Chisholm (MOSAIC Seminar)

30th October - Migration, languages and identities. With speaker Dr Ana Souza (MOSAIC Seminar)

12th June - Teachers' evaluations of creative collaboration - With speakers Jane Andrews and Maryam Almohammad (MOSAIC Seminar)

22nd May - EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction): Taking stock of an accelerating field of research. With speaker Anna Kristina Hultgren (MOSAIC Seminar)

1st May - Sign languages as 'super languages? Evidence from the use of space in British Sign Language. With speaker Adam Schembri (MOSAIC Seminar)

27th February - Multimodal, multidimensional, multilingual: an approach to product packaging - with speaker Mark Sebba (MOSAIC Seminar)

30th January - Constraints on agency in micro-language policy and planning in schools - with speaker Anthony Liddicoat (MOSAIC Seminar)

19th June - Bilingualism in business - with speaker Elisabeth Barakos

8th May - Academics writing within contradictory systems of value - with speaker Karin Tusting

24th April - Transmodalities - with speaker Maggie Hawkins

8th March - Stanton Wortham and Deoksoon Kim

6th February - Dr Alfonso Del Percio

31st October - Dr Francis M Hult

19th June - Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language: Implications for practice and research

19th-23rd June - Researching translanguaging: key concepts, methods & issues

26th January - Newly arrived young people as writers in and outside of school – Insights from recent research in Norway

25th October - Language choice as an index of identities: Linguistic landscape in Dili, Timor-Leste

20th-21st June - Translanguaging multimodally: Insights from linguistic ethnography in a superdiverse city

13th May - Communication in the Superdiverse City

3rd May - Poetry reading by the Birmingham Poets Laureate

3rd February - Linguistic superdiversity as a "new" theoretical framework in applied linguistics: panacea or nostrum?

16th October - Translanguaging as a transformative pedagogic strategy for South African universities

23rd April - Scalar Approaches to Language, Time and Space: Further Directions

17th April - Family Language Policy in the Chinese Community in Singapore: A Question of Balance?

20th March - 'Each bilingual's story is unique' – accounts of language in the post-migration generation

27th February - Mosaic: re-imagining the monolingual classroom through theatre-in-education

2nd September - Teaching foreign languages at the university level in the age of globalization: Reflections – refractions – reconsiderations

18th July - Translation and Translanguaging research project launch

25th-26th March - Responding to contemporary multilingual realities, recasting research methodologies

12th March - '(Re)discovering' the multilingual speaker: Implications for SLA and TESOL

10th September - Researching language in education in diverse, twenty-first century classrooms

2nd-13th July - First Birmingham/Melbourne Summer/Winter School in Applied Linguistics

12th June - Applications of Nexus Analysis to Investigating Educational Policy and Practice

2nd May - Master class with Professor Monica Heller, University of Toronto, Canada

10th March - Multilingualism in faith settings: research perspectives

17th-18th November - Transcription workshop for early career researchers