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Raciolinguistics Conference
The Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies welcomes you to attend a two-day conference (5-6 September) on Raciolinguistics, ‘Lengua, identidad y racismo: un enfoque lingüístico/ Language, identity and racism: a linguistic approach.
Join us in UCC for our exciting conference on Raciolinguistics, the first of its kind in Ireland. Speakers from Ireland, Europe, US & Latin America. Registration open.
Full details on programme and how to register available here: https://sites.google.com/view/lenguaidentidadyracismo/home.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Sandra Soler Castillo, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá.
Sandra is a lecturer and researcher affiliated with the specialist area of Language and Education in the Inter-University Doctoral Programme. She is co-director of an inter-university research group on Discourse Studies with a focus on Discourse, Discrimination and School. With a PhD in Linguistics and Communication from the Universidad de Barcelona , her research interests focus on issues such as racism and gender discrimination, through the perspective of critical discourse analysis. Her publications include, “Discurso y género en historias de vida” (2004), “Racismo discursivo de élite en los textos escolares de ciencias sociales” (2006) y “Racismo y discurso en Colombia: cinco siglos de invisibilidad y exclusión” (2007), “¡Mira, un negro! Elementos para pensar el racismo y la resistencia” (2019) y “Andariegas y luchadoras. Narrativas de resistencia de lideresas sociales del Chocó” (2022, co-authored with María Isabel Mena).
Dr. Jose Magro, University of Maryland.
José Magro is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Maryland, College Park, where he works on antiracist curriculum development and teaches all levels of Spanish and Sociolinguistics courses. With a Ph.D. in Hispanic linguistics, a M.Ed., and a B.S. in Social Psychology, Dr. Magro specializes in Critical Applied Sociolinguistics. His research interests are Critical (Antiracist) Pedagogies, Hip-Hop Pedagogies, Second and Heritage Language Learning and Teaching, Bilingualism, Language and Identity, Language Ideologies, and Spanish in the USA. He has published book chapters and articles in journals such as Linguistics and Education and the Journal of Sociolinguistics. His book, Language and antiracism: An antiracist approach to teaching (Spanish) language in the USA, was published by Multilingual Matters in 2023.
Dr. Joan Manuel Oleaque Moreno, Universidad Internacional de Valencia.
Joan M. Oleaque is a journalist, writer and Dean of the Facultad de Artes, Humanidades y Comunicación in Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU). He has been editor of the weekly magazine, El Temps, and is a regular contributor to El País. Oleaque is the autor of two books, Desde la tiniebla. Un descenso al caso Alcàsser (Diagonal, 2002) y En éxtasis. El bakalao como contracultura en España (Barlin Libros, 2017). He holds a PhD in Communication Studies, with a doctoral thesis about the media stereotypes that characterise the Romani ethnic group, to which he belongs.
Dr. Stephen Lucek, University College Dublin.
Stephen Lucek is an Assistant Professor in Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at UCD. His research focuses on linguistic competencies and resources of language users in Ireland. This extends to multilingualism, sociolinguistic variation, and applied linguistics more generally. In the context of a rapidly diversifying population, Stephen is interested in how the research community can help with policy-making and everyday language problems in schools. He has worked with Perceptual Dialectology methods and GIS modelling to produce highly detailed maps of dialect areas in Ireland. He has also been interested in exploring Irish English from a number of different perspectives, and has published a number of papers on perceptions of Irish English, including a chapter on this topic in the Oxford Handbook of Irish English 2023) with his collaborator in Trinity College Dublin, Vicky Garnett. Recently, he was co-editor of the journal, TEANGA: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
Dr. Tarlach McGonagle, University of Amsterdam and Leiden University.
Tarlach McGonagle has held the chair in Media Law & Information Society in Universiteit Leiden since 2019. Tarlach specializes in a range of issues relating to media law and the information society: freedom of expression; the interface between information and communication technologies and human rights; international and comparative media regulation and policy; the future of news and journalism; minority rights; the safety of journalists; hate speech and media pluralism. Besides his position at Leiden Law School, Tarlach is a senior researcher/lecturer at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), Amsterdam Law School. He is a senior researcher in the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research, where he co-chairs the Working Group on human rights in the digital age. He is also a member of the Euromedia Research Group. Tarlach regularly advises and writes expert studies and policy texts for various branches of international organizations such as the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). He is a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on quality journalism in the digital age, having previously served as Rapporteur of both the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on media pluralism and transparency of media ownership (2016-17) and its Committee of Experts on protection of journalism and safety of journalists (2014-15). He was principal drafter of the Tallinn Guidelines on National Minorities and the Media in the Digital Age for the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.