CLCG Agenda: Upcoming events in September

Upcoming Events

4 October , 16.00 - 17.00 hrs
Acquisition lab
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20 October, 16.15  - 17.30 hrs, Collaboratory A
LANSPAN colloquium
Speaker: Edith Kaan (University of Florida)
Title: TBA

27 October, 16.15  - 17.30 hrs, Collaboratory A
LANSPAN colloquium
Speaker: Kyria Finardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo)
Title: 'Global English and the Global South'   
Abstract below

4 November, 9.00 - 17.00 hrs, Geertsemazaal Academy Building
Groningen Symposium on Language and social Interaction (GSLI) Symposium (hybrid)
See the website for more information about the programme
Link for online participation: TBA

Abstracts

LANSPAN colloquium: Global English and the Global South
Kyria Finardi (Federal University of Espirito Santo)

Abstract :
This presentation discusses the production, evaluation, and circulation of knowledge in the Global South, focusing on the role of internationalization of higher education and languages in these processes. I open the discussion by bringing bibliometric evidence to illustrate and discuss these processes from the perspective of southern epistemologies, arguing in favor of an ecology of knowledges and languages. Bibliometric evidence of the production on internationalization in the last decade is brought to show an increase in publications, although the impact of this production does not correspond to its growth. Academic production on internationalization constitutes an interdisciplinary area that is still expanding and whose recognition is still incipient and strongly influenced by the Global North, as can be seen in the number of citations of authors from that region. The constitution of an epistemology of the South, evidenced in the citations of articles produced by authors from the region, seems to be hampered since intra-regional cooperation is smaller than cooperation between authors from the Global South with those from the Global North, a situation that it reinforces and perpetuates the status quo and the reverberation of theories and epistemologies alien to the ecosystem of the South. The discussion concludes that so as to allow the constitution of epistemologies of the South in an ecology of knowledge and languages, it is necessary to review the strategies of production, evaluation and circulation of knowledge.