Call for Papers

The fourth Postgraduate Symposium on Linguacultural Spaces: Inclusion, Extension and Identification in Discourse and Society builds on previous collaboration between academics at CeSLiC (Centre for Linguistic and Cultural Studies) at the Department of Modern Languages of the University of Bologna (LILEC), the School of Critical Studies and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow, and the Department of Culture Studies/ School of Humanities and Digital Sciences at the University of Tilburg.  The current symposium is an opportunity to enhance the collaborative ethos between the four institutions, each of which has an active research culture in the sociolinguistics of diversity and inclusion. 

The symposium invites postgraduate students at each institution to share their knowledge and to learn from and mutually support each other in a collaborative research project that is itself an ongoing process of diversity and inclusion. We welcome abstract contributions from PhD students (200-300 words plus bibliographic references), at any stage of their research, about any topics related to inclusion, extension, and identification, broadly understood, with a focus on languages and cultures. (For reference, please see our 2022 programme and speakers.)

The deadline for submissions is 15th April. Please send your submission to all three of the following organizers: Sabrina Fusari, Max Spotti and Tom Bartlett. For any questions, please send an email to these same addresses.

Three or four abstracts will be selected from each institution, and each talk will be assigned a time slot of 15 minutes, followed by discussion.