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 fifth 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 previous meetings, this fifth session on "Interrogating the Role of Language Ideologies in Contexts of Refuge: A Critical Perspective from Turkey” will feature:
- Prof. Yasemin Erdoğan Öztürk, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karabük University, Turkey
- Discussant: Dr. Gülşah Türk-Yiğitalp, Researcher in the English Studies Department at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
This event will take place on October 5, 2026, at 14:00 Lisbon time-GMT (15:00 Brussels; 16:00 Istanbul), online via TEAMS.
We look forward to seeing you there and engaging in this important discussion on how language shapes our social boundaries.
Register for updated information at the link: https://forms.gle/Tp51poufdV3ACnBp8
Yasemin Erdoğan Öztürk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karabük University, Türkiye. She holds a PhD in English Language Teaching, with a specialization in Language Studies, from Middle East Technical University, where she serves as co-coordinator of METU DISCORE Research Group. Working at the intersection of sociolinguistics and critical discourse studies, her research focuses on migration, multilingualism, language ideologies, identity, and gender. Her work examines how language mediates belonging, social differentiation, and power in transnational and digitally mediated contexts.
Gülşah Türk-Yiğitalp, PhD is an early career researcher in the English Studies Department at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She holds an MA in Nationalism Studies from Central European University and a BA in English Language and Literature from Hacettepe University. Her research interests include language policy, language ideologies, and forced migration. Her PhD project critically examines an EU-funded language teaching project for refugee students in Turkish public schools through critical sociolinguistic ethnography and explores how this project operates as a tool for migration governance.