Find out about upcoming and past events in the Language(s), Interculturality and Literacies Thematic Hub. The LIL Hub organises a seminar series that is hybrid and all are welcome. The LIL Hub seminar series is organised by Dr Florence Bonacina-Pugh. Upcoming events Search Event date Date from Date to Nov 19 2025 14.00 - 15.00 More than just a research method: Using Conversation Analysis in a learning and feedback resource for peer interactions Hosted by the Language(s), Interculturality and Literacies thematic hub. Language, Interculturality and Literacies Conferences, seminars and lectures Further information LIL Hub Seminars View recordings of our previous seminars:Professor Frank Giraldo: Researching Language Teachers' Assessment LiteracyOfelia García: Meanings and ConvergencesProfessor Tony Liddicoat: Incorporating critical reflection in intercultural language teaching and learningMalba Barahona: 'We are not superheroines' - Exploring preservice EFL teachers' conceptions of professional responsibilityProfessor Mario E. Lopez-Gopar: Mexican student-teachers' decolonizing praxicum in COVID TimesPeter De Costa: Bridging the researcher-practitioner divide through community-engaged action researchBonny Norton: From the African storybook to global storybooks - A decolonial identity project?Dr Ashley Simpson in conversation with Prof Zhu Hua on rethinking culture through translation and translanguagingProfessor John O'Regan in dialogue with Dr Ashley Simpson on a Marxist-Realist perspective for critical applied linguisticsLanguage planning in Scotland: Institutional plans, civil society and government engagement 2025 Inclusive language: Investigating sociolinguistic agency through critical digital ethnography Date: 27 Feb 2025Speaker: Dr Michele Saraiva Carilo, University of EdinburghThe Political Economic Ideology of Language Planning in ChinaDate: 4 Mar 2025Speaker: Dr Lin Pan, Beijing Normal UniversityNeural Correlates of Reading Performance in Bilingual and Monolingual Dyslexic Individuals: Insights from fMRI and fNIRSDate: 27 Mar 2025Speaker: Professor Aline Fay de Azevedo and Bernardo Avila, Catholic University of Rio Grande do SulStewart Alan Robertson Lecture Series: Translanguaging: What does it really mean?Date: 29 May 2025Speaker: Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller (University of Reading)This was a public lecture supported by the Robertson Endowment Fund.Developing a Comprehensive Emotion Word List and Validating a Productive Emotion Vocabulary Test for English L2 SpeakersDate: 5 June 2025Speaker: Dr Csaba Szabo, University of EdinburghDiscourse, interaction and language learnersDate: 10 June 2025 Speaker: Professor Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)This was a public lecture supported by the Robertson Endowment Fund.Teaching Modern Languages: Knowledge, Skills and MethodsDate: 15 October 2025Speaker: Dr Mike Lynch (The University of Edinburgh) 2024 Motivation and attitude variation in Chilean primary English language learners from state-run schools in Concepción, ChileDate: 25 Jan 2024Speaker: Dr Inostroza Araos, teacher educator at Universidad de ConcepciónDr Matthew Prior: The Critical Work of Emotion Labor in Language Education ResearchDate: 22 Feb 2024Speaker: Dr Matthew Prior, Associate Professor and Director of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and TESOL Programs in the Department of English at Arizona State UniversityDiscrimination on online language tutoring platforms: Challenges and responsesDate: 7 Mar 2024Speaker: Dr Nate Ming Curran, Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Communication at Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityResearching Language Teachers' Assessment Literacy: A Synthesis of Research Studies in ColombiaDate: 14 March 2024Speaker: Professor Frank GiraldoLanguage Policy and Activism beyond AcademiaDate: 2 May 2024Presentation 1: The European Language Equality Network: the campaign for Europe's minoritised and endangered languages.Speaker: Dr Davyth Hicks, Secretary-General, European Language Equality Network (ELEN)Presentation 2: Challenging monolingual perspectives in a South American multilingual border regionSpeaker: Dr. Isis Ribeiro Berger, Associate Professor at UNIOESTE (Western Paraná State University, Brazil)Presentation 3: Language Policy Confidential: Seen and Unseen Work in the Service of MultilingualismSpeaker: Professor Francis M. Hult, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyRadical Social Transformation, Translanguaging and Decolonial Language Education in Fast Changing Times: Voices from the Global SouthDate: 21 Nov 2024Speaker: Professor Claudia Hilsdorf Rocha, Unicamp, BrazilBook Launch of Interculturality and the Munchausen EffectDate: 5 Dec 2024Speaker: Dr Ashley Simpson, University of Edinburgh, MHSES 2023 A Cartography of Language Teacher Educator MotivationDate: 3 March 2023Speaker: Dario Luis Banegas, Lecturer in Education at Moray House School of Education and SportRespondents:Richard Chinn (Kings College London, UK)Takuya Kawamura (Hokuriku University, Japan) LIL Hub Seminar Series: Fiona Copland on English as a school subjectDate: 9 March 2023Speaker: Fiona Copland, Professor of TESOL at the University of WarwickPromoting inclusive multilingual classrooms through an ELF perspective (on campus event)Date: 23 March 2023Speaker: Lili CavalheiroChair: Madeleine CampbellThe experience of trauma in domestic migrant workers’ storytelling: Sociolinguistic and psychological perspectivesDate: 9 Oct 2023Speaker: Professor Hans Ladegaard, Professor of the Department of English and Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChair: Dr Ashley SimpsonEnglish for academic purposes (EAP) language teacher wellbeingDate: 2 Nov 2023Speaker: Christine Muir, Assistant Professor in Second Language Acquisition at the School of English, University of NottinghamFirst Online TILTED Conference 2023: Towards intersectionality in language teacher education: First stepsDate: 17 Nov 2023 2022 Seminar: Rethinking culture through translation and translanguagingDate: 3 March 2022Speakers:Zhu Hua, Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication at The Institute of Education, UCLDr Ashley Simpson, Lecturer in Language Education at The University of EdinburghWatch a recording of the Rethinking Culture seminarSeminar: From the African Storybook to Global Storybooks: A Decolonial Identity Project?Date: 31 March 2022Speaker: Dr. Bonny Norton (FRSC), University Killam Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, CanadaKey resources (open access):African StorybookGlobal StorybooksWatch a video recording of the Storybooks seminar (on Zoom)Seminar: Word and ImageDate: 6 April 2022Speakers:Susie Leiper, painter and calligrapherRichard Andrews, writer and academic Seminar: Ethical complexities when researching motivation in language educationDate: 5 May 2022Speaker: Ema Ushioda, Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics, University of WarwickSexual and Gender Diversity in EFL Education: Common grounds, new pathways, critical encountersDate: 9 June 2022Speaker: Thorsten Merse, Professor of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen, GermanyCo-operative Learning in the Foreign Language ClassroomDate: 21 June 2022Speaker: Andreas Bonnet, Professor of TEFL at the University of Hamburg, GermanyEMI Research: A chronological overviewDate: 23 June 2022Speaker: Joyce Kling, PhD, associate professor at the University of CopenhagenSeminar: Bridging the researcher–practitioner divideDate: 15 Sept 2022Speaker: Peter I. De Costa, Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures and the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State UniversityView a recording of the Bridging the Divide seminar (on Zoom)Seminar: Student-Teachers’ Decolonizing Praxicum in COVID TimesDate: 29 Sept 2022Speaker: Mario López-Gopar (Ph.D., OISE/University of Toronto), professor at the Facultad de Idiomas of Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, MexicoView the recording of the Decolonizing Praxicum talk'We are not superheroines': exploring preservice EFL teachers' conceptions of professional responsibilityDate: 13 Oct 2022Speaker: Malba Barahona, Associate Professor at Facultad de Educación at Universidad Católica de ChileIncorporating critical reflection in intercultural language teaching and learningDate: 1 Dec 2022Speaker: Professor Tony Liddicoat, Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick and Adjunct Professor in Justice and Society at the University of South Australia 2021 Prof Fred Dervin in conversation with Dr Ashley SimpsonDate: 16 Dec 2021Speakers: Fred Dervin, Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, FinlandAshley Simpson, Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Edinburgh This article was published on 2025-01-23
