Inter-Actions: Roundtable on Questioning the Givens
A series of informal conversations on ideas about language
1st Roundtable: Decentering language: From languages to speakers
September 17, 2021
Friday, 5:00-7:00 PM Philippine Standard Time
via Zoom and FB Live
Studies of language are often expected to focus on the language itself - its system, structure, varieties, functions and the like. In this roundtable, speakers will discuss what happens when the starting point and fundamental goal of language studies is to center how language is politically and socially consequential for people. This means asking what languages mean to whom, what using languages does for whom and with what effects or consequences.
Speakers:
Alexandre Duchêne
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Joseph Park
National University of Singapore
Aileen Salonga
University of the Philippines-Diliman
Hosted by:
Southern Luzon State University-College of Arts and Sciences
SLSU-Office of International & Alumni Affairs
Moderators:
Nicanor Guinto
Southern Luzon State University, Philippines
Beatriz Lorente
University of Bern, Switzerland
Ruanni Tupas
University College London, United Kingdom
In partnership with:
Beatriz Lorente, University of Bern
Ruanni Tupas, University College London
Inter Actions Roundtable 1_LIST OF CERTIFIED PARTICIPANTS.pdf