NEW PICT BOOK: A Cuisine of Exile 🎈 by Gun Benderli translated and introduced by Evrim Emir-Sayers & David Selim Sayers You are what you eat, the saying goes, and you become who you eat it with... #nazimhikmet #sabihasertel #history #cuisine #exile parisinstitute.org/a-cuisine-of-e…

Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA) Wendy Bennett timeshighereducation.com/opinion/cardif…

Everybody has an accent. Nobody actually speaks the “standard”. What everybody thinks is standard turns out to be the accent of where they’re from. Research linguists have shown this by providing people with blank maps and asking them to label the dialect regions in the map.

Happy International Mother Language Day! Here's a map showing the minority languages of eastern Tibet. About half of these are spoken by Tibetans, half by other ethnic groups.

📢 Do you want to learn more about #refugees and #asylum #seekers in East Asia, with a particular focus on #Taiwan? 🌏🇹🇼 🗒️ Join our next webinar with Dr Lara Momesso from UCLan on Tuesday, 18 March (⏰ 4:00-5:30pm UK) via Zoom. 💻 🎟️ Free tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/114543227175…

I am delighted to take on the role of Senior Editor of Language Education, part of Cogent Education: tandfonline.com/journals/oae... Fancy a job share? The Language Education section of Cogent Education is vibrant, so there's enough work for 2! To apply see: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruit…

[please share] University College London is advertising a Lectureship in TESOL/Applied Linguistics. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in Language Teaching and Technology. You can find more details about the role here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

🗓️ 21 may, 5 p.m. (France) Don't loose our next session online ! We will have the pleasure to welcome Will Atkinson to present his books "The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies Vols. 3 and 4" (2024) Don't hesitate to register ! cnrs.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Excited that the first study on the #languages of the Luren in Southwest China has been published in "Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale". We show that the Luren (now classified as #Manchu) formerly spoke two different languages, one #Sinitic and the other an isolate. (1/5)

Flying from Zurich to Hamburg. Looking forward to presenting in the Purity in Minoritized Languages conference in Flensburg.

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW "Heritage language recognition: The multimodal construction of language in a Tibetan-Canadian family’s literacy activities" by Shannon Ward doi.org/10.1017/S00474… #HeritageLanguages #LanguageSocialization #Literacy #MetalinguisticKnowledge #Multimodality

Reminder, in this book we look at the prospects and achievements, issues, research and quality, of mother tongue education in many Asia Pacific societies. Check it out.

This article I worked with Xing Liu and Paolo Coluzzi on language policy in China is now available for free! tandfonline.com/eprint/FMPAWVH… 50 copies only! Please share.

The Cambridge Handbook of Multilingual Education by Piotr Romanowski Bringing together a global team of scholars, this Handbook provides a full overview of the state-of-the-art in multilingual education. 📚 cup.org/3UMY9k6

Books: The Language of Othering in a Diverse Europe: Falkowska and Linde-Usiekniewicz (ed.) (2025): This book explores how language is used to create division and discrimination in diverse European societies by emphasizing differences in ethnicity, race,… dlvr.it/TMrvKP

HKHC Speaker’s Series, Panel Discussion 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬:𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟓-𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕 Hybrid event. Register: tktp.as/EVSEKK

𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰: hkhistory.net/2025/11/17/hkh…