The #ImagineFestival2026 is live! π
Join me on Thursday, 26th of March at 5:30PM to DRAW YOUR LANGUAGE PORTRAIT, a creative workshop to explore language through colours and patterns. βοΈ
The event is free - you don't need to be an artist, just bring your curiosity ;)
@imaginebelfast.bsky.social
Ah, funny.
I hope you also enjoyed learning more about Irish language rights in Northern Ireland.
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I highly highly recommend reading this brilliant piece!!
I sense that you're being polemical about something but you need to help me here, I'm really not getting it XD This piece of research was funded by ESF so we have the article in English and Esperanto, as it is their normal practice - what seems to be the issue?
Well, whoever comes across this post and can read Esperanto? That's usually what is meant by "you" used on social media (I'm not talking to anyone specific) :)
I feel like that goes without saying? XD
You can also read the article in Esperanto :)
esfconnected.org/2025/11/20/l...
Join me and Michele Gazzola tomorrow at 11am EST | 4pm UK for the ESF Connect Live organised by the Esperantic Studies Foundation where we are going to discuss the importance of language policy and its evaluation in conflict prevention.
Zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/j/8818218838...
MicheΓ‘l Hearty and I wrote a blog piece on Irish language rights in Northern Ireland and their position within the broader transitional justice process in the region.
Have a read and let us hear your thoughts!
esfconnected.org/2025/11/20/i...
I started working on this during COVID-19, when language barriers made crisis communication a matter of life and death. Since then, this idea has grown into a wider reflection on how DRR frameworks overlook linguistic justice - and why quick fixes wonβt cut it in emergencies.
π£Publication alert!!
My paper βTalking over the catastrophe: Linguistic justice in disaster risk reductionβ has been published in Language Problems and Language Planning
#linguisticjustice #DRR #languagepolicy
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
If you work on #education and #integration, you might like this article! Within the TEAMS (Teaching that Matters for Migrant Students) project, we compiled a taxonomy of European educational practices that aim at supporting migrant students!
It's open access! ;)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
One of the interesting things about being autistic is that when you describe something honestly and accurately, people will reply by saying "thank you for your critical perspective."
Deadline approaching!!
MicheΓ‘l Hearty and I presented the preliminary findings of the ESF-funded project "Piecemeal Peacebuilding and The Trajectory of Discourse: Linguistic Rights in Post-Conflict North of Ireland/Northern Ireland" at the #SLSA2025, looking at how peace agreements in NI have shaped linguistic justice.
Delighted to have presented my and Mattia Zeba's paper on new inclusive approaches to linguistic justice in the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social 2025 conference! So nice to connect with a rich community of amazing scholars!
I found this video so deeply moving - it is about the Minyak language in eastern Tibet, and one speaker's journey to losing hope that there is any chance for the language to survive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_-Z...
Boosting the signal on this fantastic event taking place next week in Stockholm, organised by @jsolerc.bsky.social and Nina Carlsson. Very much looking forward to it - the presentations, the discussions, to meeting many good friends, and hopefully making new ones, too.
www.su.se/department-o...
PANEL 1: AMPLIFYING EVERYDAY PERSPECTIVES OF IDENTITY Chair: Jess Eastland-Underwood βBEING BORN IN CHINA WASNβT MY CHOICEβ: βSEMI-ELECTIVEβ BELONGING AND NEW ATTEMPTS AT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Ms Boya Li, Western Sydney University, Australia, Postgraduate, Female @boyalii.bsky.social CONJUNCTIONS AND DISJUNCTIONS: ETHNOGRAPHIC REFLECTIONS ON WHITE LEAVERSβ RACIALISED NARRATIVES THROUGH THE LENS OF REFORM UKβS POLICIES AND BELIEFS. Prof Katharine Tyler, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, Established career, Female Dr Joshua Blamire, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Early career Male Dr Jessica Fagin, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, Early career, Female LINGUISTIC JUSTICE RELOADED: INTERSECTIONAL, FEMINIST AND VULNERABILITY APPROACHES Dr Cecilia Gialdini Independent United Kingdom ECR @cecigialdini.bsky.social Dr Mattia Zeba Eurac Research Italy ECR Male @mattiazeba.bsky.social JUST ANOTHER BLACK MAN: AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE REPRESENTATION OF BLACK MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 1979-2019 Dr. Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, ECR @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social
1st panel: Amplifying Everyday Perspectives of Identify--Mon @ 13:30 with @boyalii.bsky.social, Katharine Tyler, & @cecigialdini.bsky.social/@mattiazeba.bsky.social, @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social Themes: #ethnography, #migrantvoices, #queeradvocacy, #euroscepticism, #intersectionality, #ethnicity
With a bit of delay, I'm happy to share that MicheΓ‘l Hearty and I have obtained a small grant from #ESF for our project "Piecemeal Peacebuilding and The Trajectory of Discourse: Linguistic Rights in Post-Conflict NI"
We will present some preliminary findings at the #SLSA conference in Liverpool!
π£ If you're in Belgium on March 16, come join the next Assises de l'AfricaMuseum!
François Makanga will talk about "Guides and colonial museums, what are the issues? Decolonial mediation or the key to memorial denial"
Really looking for to this event where we will also host my dear brilliant friend @cecigialdini.bsky.social π
Join us at the University of Derby on Friday 11th April for a seminar on #migrationpolicy in #postBrexit Europe.
I will talk about the challenges in NI's labour market and Alessio D'Angelo and Marco Palillo will discuss asylum policy in the UK and Italy.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...
#Cutro #persone #migranti #strage #Italia #Memoria
#DecretoCutro #governo
Cosa abbiamo imparato dopo Cutro.
Oggi per @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social
(p.s. fonte cifre: ansa.it/sito/notizie... )
Your friendly neighborhood librarian here...buy physical copies of your favorite books, especially challenged or banned books. Preferably from small local merchants. That's all; carry on. #Read #BookSky #Resist π
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, βChalchiuhtlicueyecatlβ. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
Can't wait to read it! Looks super interesting
