Language, Power, and Social Boundaries: Dynamics of Inclusion - Exclusion Across Social Spaces
IMISCOE SC EduSocial & CIES-Iscte, in collaboration with Eurac Research & CESSMIR (Ghent University), are pleased to invite you to the second session of the Webinar Series “Language, Power, and Social Boundaries: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion Across Social Spaces.”
This series brings together researchers and professionals from around the world to discuss innovative projects on language and power dynamics.
Following the success of our first meeting with Prof. Jonathan Rosa (Stanford University) on race, language, and pedagogies of accountability, this second session will feature:
- Prof. Kamran Khan (University of Birmingham, UK) on “Re-configuring language testing research for citizenship and settlement”
- Reflection: Shaila Shams (PhD candidate, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
This event will take place on 25 March 2026, at 15:30 (Lisbon/UK time, GMT), online via Microsoft Teams.
We look forward to seeing you there and engaging in this important discussion on how language shapes our social boundaries.
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Kamran Khan is the director of the Mosaic research group on multilingualism at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of ‘Becoming a Citizen: Linguistic Trials and Negotiations’ (Bloomsbury, 2019). He was previously Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow. He has worked across various European contexts on issues of security, citizenship testing in relation to language and race.
Shaila Shams is a PhD candidate in the Languages, Cultures, and Literacies program in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her doctoral research explores the intersectionality of race and religion in the language learning and the settlement experience of adult Bangladeshi migrants in Canada. She is current in the writing stage of her PhD thesis.