call for discussion: AILA2024 symposium
Catalina Neculai
Hello everyone,
Cindy and I are now starting to work on the call for papers for the AILA2024 symposium in Kuala Lumpur. Cindy is leading on it. We are on a fairly tight turnaround time as the deadline is May 31 and we would like to launch the call after the PRISEAL5 3 March deadline, with a time for submissions until the end of April so that we could process the individual submissions and prepare a solid proposal before the end of May. We are still refining these dates.
In terms of format, we would like to propose a half-day symposium (initially, depending on the number of submissions) and combine presentations (with Q&A) and a round table at the end. We think that the conference will be in person but we have enquired about whether it might, in fact, be hybrid (awaiting a response).
The theme of the conference is Linguistic Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability (DIS) and we would very much like to tap into the network’s resourcefulness for directions of thinking and points of focus for the symposium. Cindy and I are thinking on this ourselves and we will do the distilling for sure before we launch the call for proposals. Meanwhile, we would like to open up the theme for discussion (this will count towards our network activities as well! 😊).
Here are two questions that may help focus contributions:
- What kind of directions do DIS take in our research, pedagogies and writing for research & publication/publishing practices?
- Within the DIS framework, what would be the most pressing issues for our network that the symposium could (should?) tackle?
More details about the call and the various topics under DIS proposed by the organisers can be found here: https://aila2024.com/call-for-proposals/ .
We look forward to your thoughts between now and Friday 24 February when we close the discussion and work on the CfP.
thank you,
cat. and Cindy
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David Hanauer
Hello Cat and Cindy,
Do you want ideas/proposals sent directly to you or over this group email.
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Hello David,
To the group email, please, as we are hoping this will also elicit some good discussion. I will be leading on moderating/responding to the discussion so I will be on standby.
This was a quick call but of course, we will also contribute to the discussion. I will try and crystallise, then launch my own thoughts on it in the next couple of days.
thanks very much,
cat.
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Okay, thanks Cat,
So a few quick thoughts on this issue from my perspective.
There is an issue that I have been working on that neatly interacts with the current proposal (while it still comes out of left field from a disciplinary perspective). So the discussion of diversity (linguistic or otherwise) assumes that we have a handle on what diversity actually means. I have been looking at the different ways diversity is measured in science education and professional settings and of course different definitions provide different answers. True to my work on literacy instruction and in particular meaningful literacy approaches, I have proposed and tested ways in which individual voice can be used to explore individual perceptions of diversity. One of the outcomes of this, which I would like to present at AILA is I have data on the actual underpinning structure of intersectional identities. The work is statistical as well as verbal and qualitative. The outcome worth presenting can be on the level of how these analyses can be done (the methodology) or more interestingly, I think, the discussion of the structure of intersectional identity itself.
In relation to the session itself, it would be really nice to have a proper discussion of what diversity means when you try to study it and the ways in which this changes the actual outcomes and conclusions. There is a lot of ‘moralizing’ about diversity based on fixed demographic categories and assumptions concerning allowed and disallowed terminology. All of this is important and undoubtably a moral imperative. But if we can’t see the diversity (or lack of it) at scale and at the same time not create endless stereotypical assumptions about different groupings and individuals, I worry more harm than good is being done to the initiatives for inclusivity.
Anyway those are my thoughts on this at the moment. I share so that they can be discussed and not because they should be accepted as is……😊.
One final point, my participation would have to be hybrid. I have some health issues which make travel and being with large groups impossible.
Thanks for coordinating this session. It is a great topic.
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yongyan li
Dear Cat, thank you for coordinating this. And David, thank you for sharing your idea--and pls stay well--as nothing is more important than everyone in our community staying well and healthy.
Cat, I'd like to propose the topic of ERPP/EAP teachers' training and professional development. I had a quick chat with Margaret Cargill about this and she's very supportive. We both think this topic fits well into the framework of DIS. There's apparently some urgency in researching issues in training ERPP teachers and exploring opportunies for their professional development -- with ourselves included, as ERPP teachers. It's an issue that's highlighted in particular in Chapters 9 and 10 in the following book:
John Flowerdew and Pejman Habibie.
Introducing
English for Research Publication Purposes,
Abingdon
UK: Routledge, 2022. 150pp.
Margaret has just written a review of the book for JERPP (to come out in the Apr 2023 issue).
The Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) (Faculty of Arts) of The University of Hong Kong is launching a new certificate programme (intensive f2f mode) on 'Teacher Professional Development Programme in Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP)' (29 May-2 Jun 2023) (flyer attached, in case colleagues are interested). This would be a valuable move in the direction. But I assume the programme focuses less on ERPP specifically.
Thank you very much,
Yongyan Li
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Cheryl Sheridan
Catalina Neculai
Hello everyone.
This is such a great thread! I am really pleased we opened up the discussion. finding a bit of time now to respond. thanks very much, Cheryl, Yongyan, David for your insights. Great points to start from. Cindy and I are taking notes. 😊
Just like you all, I have also thought first about pinning down what diversity, inclusion and sustainability entail in practice (the practices of writing and publishing across all kinds of borders, identities and conditions), in research (method and theorising/positioning), in pedagogy (development, training), in our community (representation, voice). They are at the crux of what we do (sustainability less so?, Chery, I had similar thoughts about it!) and David, you are on point there, we need to explore how much these terms pertain already to our lexicon and researcher/practitioner consciousness and in what ways, at which levels, how do we research them. They are heavily ideological terms but also, as we know, all academic institutional agendas are imbued with them, whether EDI, SDG, or decolonisation, we are now governed by them, which maybe also begs the question: at which point they become institutionally tokenistic without actual structural changes? And if we were to think of structural changes what would these look like in Academic Publishing and Presenting in a Global Context?
Given the theme of the conference and its location, my position and vision (which I shared with Cindy, too) would be to make this AILA symposium an opportunity to present (only?) work from the Global South/non-anglophone/BIPOC spaces and/or led by Global South/non-anglophone/BIPOC scholars, and to have discussants in the round table from those spaces, including from Malaysia! It kind of aligns with an argument I saw recently in the urban studies community about “limiting the output of the ‘West’ [Global North] if we want to achieve equitable global urban studies” (Bas van Heur on twitter) [lots to discuss here…😊]
Also, as part of our organising PRISEAL, Sally, Birna, Ron, James and I have talked a lot about the blind spots in our network of research and practice, the emerging voices, which spaces are not represented and need mapping (and who does the mapping?). of course, James, Karen and Laura already started doing that with their 2019 Pedagogies and Policies book! We even considered (still do!) creating an actual mappable, multimodal resource on research/practice in ERPP/publishing coming out of all transnational and regional geographies of the AILA/PRISEAL network and beyond. This could be an amazing transnational networking project that we could maybe get funding for! and something we will most likely talk about at PRISEAL but which can also be envisioned in the call for AILA2024.
I like as much the idea of professional development and training in the field of Academic Publishing/ERPP, Yongyan and Margaret, as the idea of clusters or strands, Cheryl. Cindy and I thought of starting small (half a day – about 5 presentations and a round table) and then go big (two halves of a day) depending on submissions. I am not sure if it would be good to have a more contained, restricted topic or a more open or broad one that just reproduces the theme of the conference and allows for all that diversity of the field/network to emerge naturally. like you Cheryl, instinctively, I would probably prefer the latter but open to consider either!
Hope these thoughts make sense. And we are welcoming more…
all best,
cat.
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Hello Kyria,
Many thanks for your thoughts on this. my own are also quite incipient and untested, exploratory.
I guess the idea of “limiting” comes up in a context where research/knowledge coming out of the global north is by far exceeding that of the global south and we know there are lots of metrics to show that (in fields like urban geography, it seems that 3 out of 4 papers are from the GN). Levelling the playing field then becomes a concern and may elicit propositions like that one I saw in the public discussion on twitter. But of course, the global north (just like the global south) is a construct of embedded differences: multi/plurilingual, racial, ethnic, indigenous, gendered and other modes of writing and knowledge production (this takes us back to your point, David, about intersectionality). And the symposium can showcase the work that colleagues in our network have been doing along these lines of researching (and inhabiting) “diversity” and its corollaries: inclusion, sustainability, access, equity in publishing and presenting in a global context. And since “global” features in the very name of our network, the geographies of this work (breaking down the “global”) then also become significant.
As for tokenism, top-down institutional agendas tend to be prone to that so we can indeed ask important questions about how these terms underlie, in earnest, our practices from our curriculum designs and pedagogies in teaching research writing to writing brokering to research production.
The challenge for the symposium, I guess, remains in the two kinds of design that Yongyan and Cheryl proposed. Do we channel it towards a more controlled topic or do we leave it broad and self-generating?
BIPOC – Black, Indigenous People of Colour – an acronym used across the Atlantic to avoid “minoritizing” identities. In the UK, we use BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) but I think this is coming under scrutiny. I saw proposals to avoid the umbrella categorisation and refer, instead, to people’s specific racial and ethnic identities.
cat.
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Hello Catalina and colleagues
I'd like t say that I share Cat's feeling that this thread is really an opportunity to reflect about those tokenistic terms...and in that sense, here's my two-cent contribution....
I'm still digesting it all and am not sure whether restricting the North is what we want in terms of DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, access)... that would be more like playing the same game (dance around the chairs) with the only difference that we would be altering the position of the chairs ... I think that what we need is a more radical/structural change, one that goes beyond lip service and tokenistic approaches.... that is, changing the game altogether, something that Mignolo (2009) would call changing the terms of the conversation....
Anyway, as I said, still thinking all this through.... meanwhile, I have a question for Cat, what is BIPOC?
Best,
Kyria
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David Hanauer
Hello Everyone,
First off an interesting email thread. I won’t directly enter the discussion of territorial priority, except to say, that as we all know, even without explicit decisions on blocking and prioritizing, there are always social forces which block and prioritize. For our purposes, there are contextual decisions that should be made with the aim of the collective best practices of inclusion (especially when that is the underpinning topic of the session).
As for the emerging topic, I did want to give my 5 cents here. I think I am pretty much in line with Cat’s last set of comments. But I would like to offer some possible structure. My experience has been that a lot of the discussion and initiatives in relation to DEI are very well meaning (and ethically correct), but not careful about what any of the underpinning concepts mean and even less well thought out in terms of how they are measured. It is a minefield out there in terms of what diversity and inclusivity mean; multiple definitions, fuzzy categories, overly determined categories, high levels of sensitivity over every decision and finally lots and lots of moralizing. I could see a session with two broad sections: perhaps we could have a discussion of what we actually mean when we speak of diversity, equity and inclusivity, followed by a section which deals with how this is manifest in different aspects of our work and research. This would showcase a lot of different types of work and perhaps offer at least a more complex understanding of what the DEI framework involves.
Once again, I only offer this as a discussion framework for all of us and of course there are multiple ways of constructing this sort of session.
David H.
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Hi David,
Thanks again for your thoughts on this! really valuable, in terms of structuring both the CfP and the actual symposium. And your suggested vectors of discussion, together with Cheryl’s, are very helpful in shaping the diversity of perspectives.
I must say that the more I sit with it and also read/think through everyone’s contributions so far the more I realise that we need to open up the discussion to accommodate this diversity and allow for it to emerge naturally (which could surely include the professional development perspective suggested by Yongyan and Margaret). It sounds like a great opportunity to filter through these debates in both more radically challenging terms and critically constructive ones.
As a side note, and quite ironically, my university filtering system has started throwing contributions to this thread (including mine!) into the spam box. So I may read them later than the time they actually come in as I have to “release” them.
cat.
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Hello Everyone,
First off an interesting email thread. I won’t directly enter the discussion of territorial priority, except to say, that as we all know, even without explicit decisions on blocking and prioritizing, there are always social forces which block and prioritize. For our purposes, there are contextual decisions that should be made with the aim of the collective best practices of inclusion (especially when that is the underpinning topic of the session).
As for the emerging topic, I did want to give my 5 cents here. I think I am pretty much in line with Cat’s last set of comments. But I would like to offer some possible structure. My experience has been that a lot of the discussion and initiatives in relation to DEI are very well meaning (and ethically correct), but not careful about what any of the underpinning concepts mean and even less well thought out in terms of how they are measured. It is a minefield out there in terms of what diversity and inclusivity mean; multiple definitions, fuzzy categories, overly determined categories, high levels of sensitivity over every decision and finally lots and lots of moralizing. I could see a session with two broad sections: perhaps we could have a discussion of what we actually mean when we speak of diversity, equity and inclusivity, followed by a section which deals with how this is manifest in different aspects of our work and research. This would showcase a lot of different types of work and perhaps offer at least a more complex understanding of what the DEI framework involves.
Once again, I only offer this as a discussion framework for all of us and of course there are multiple ways of constructing this sort of session.
David H.
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Hi Pascal,
Nice to e-meet you and thanks very much for your contribution!
I am really glad that you feel our discussion here is going in a good direction, that nuancing and pluralising the lens and questioning our assumptions is a welcome move. (albeit sometimes pushing us out of our comfort zones). I also work (try to) across paradigms, traditions, modes of representation, often from the margins, and I keep hoping and trusting there is value in the messiness of all this.
Re: my little note on the GN/GS as a construct. while not a GS/postcolonial/decolonial specialist, a lot of my thinking is driven by questions of (combined and) uneven development and scalar, territorial, emplaced and networked takes on writing and knowledge production, borrowed from geographical thinking, which I find to be more productive and more nuanced than the core-periphery paradigm as it allows for a more differential, possibly more complex understanding of situatedness, identity, etc.
very best,
cat.
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Hi Catalina, Cindy, and everyone,
Over the last few years, I have read with interest the announcements and exchanges in this group... maybe I haven't contributed as much as I should have. But today I want to add that the discussion here in this thread is probably the most nuanced and balanced I have seen anywhere. As a multilingual and multicultural scholar who also works across disciplinary and knowledge paradigms I have often felt uneasy at the (maybe necessarily) simplified representations of who/what is chosen to stand for the Global South and who/what isn't (e.g. the recent editorial by Navarro et al (2022) comes to mind here). So when Cindy says that:
"...the global north (just like the global south) is a construct of embedded differences: multi/plurilingual, racial, ethnic, indigenous, gendered and other modes of writing and knowledge production"
...I can see the beginnings of an approach that interprets the AILA brief of Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability in a fittingly wide-lens and self-concious way. For example, the more I dive into my own research here in Chile about returning multilingual STEM scholars, the more I question my own initial assumptions about what group(s) they represent, what needs they have, and what role(s) they play in relation to their local elders, peers, and students.
Just my two cents... and I look forward to seeing the eventual CfP for the symposium!
All the best,
Pascal
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On the question of bibliodiversity, Ron (Martinez) sent me this article from the Scholarly Kitchen on the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), open source software and publishing in the Global South. so with Ron’s permission, sharing this with you all. Adds to the discussion of access and/restrictions and structural shifts.
Thanks, Ron!
cat.
This is worth a read if you haven't already, though I'm sure you're already familiar with PKP. The last part in the article is provocative, and maybe relevant to the discussion:
For those who support and contribute to PKP’s global work, the scale and the achievements of the project over the past two decades are quite humbling. Since OJS was first released in 2002, it has become the most widely used scholarly publishing platform in existence. It has enabled researchers around the world to participate, engage, and enrich the bibliodiversity of a publishing system that was – to the global detriment – framed by and largely focused upon research and institutions of the Global North, where English became the lingua franca of research and heightened the barriers to participation and access to knowledge for the vast majority of the world’s population. That has begun to shift, and rapidly, beneath our feet.
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Hi Pascal,
Nice to e-meet you and thanks very much for your contribution!
I am really glad that you feel our discussion here is going in a good direction, that nuancing and pluralising the lens and questioning our assumptions is a welcome move. (albeit sometimes pushing us out of our comfort zones). I also work (try to) across paradigms, traditions, modes of representation, often from the margins, and I keep hoping and trusting there is value in the messiness of all this.
Re: my little note on the GN/GS as a construct. while not a GS/postcolonial/decolonial specialist, a lot of my thinking is driven by questions of (combined and) uneven development and scalar, territorial, emplaced and networked takes on writing and knowledge production, borrowed from geographical thinking, which I find to be more productive and more nuanced than the core-periphery paradigm as it allows for a more differential, possibly more complex understanding of situatedness, identity, etc.
very best,
cat.
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Hi Catalina, Cindy, and everyone,
Over the last few years, I have read with interest the announcements and exchanges in this group... maybe I haven't contributed as much as I should have. But today I want to add that the discussion here in this thread is probably the most nuanced and balanced I have seen anywhere. As a multilingual and multicultural scholar who also works across disciplinary and knowledge paradigms I have often felt uneasy at the (maybe necessarily) simplified representations of who/what is chosen to stand for the Global South and who/what isn't (e.g. the recent editorial by Navarro et al (2022) comes to mind here). So when Cindy says that:
"...the global north (just like the global south) is a construct of embedded differences: multi/plurilingual, racial, ethnic, indigenous, gendered and other modes of writing and knowledge production"
...I can see the beginnings of an approach that interprets the AILA brief of Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability in a fittingly wide-lens and self-concious way. For example, the more I dive into my own research here in Chile about returning multilingual STEM scholars, the more I question my own initial assumptions about what group(s) they represent, what needs they have, and what role(s) they play in relation to their local elders, peers, and students.
Just my two cents... and I look forward to seeing the eventual CfP for the symposium!
All the best,
Pascal
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Hi everyone,
We are now closing the discussion on the AILA symposium. thank you very much to those of you who contributed. We will be sure to include your ideas in the final CfP.
Cindy and I will launch the CfP after the PRISEAL deadline (next Friday, 3 March!) so that we don’t mix things up.
till then,
cat.
From: aila-p...@googlegroups.com <aila-p...@googlegroups.com>
On Behalf Of Catalina Neculai
Sent: 22 February 2023 09:56
To: aila-p...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL: Re: call for discussion: AILA2024 symposium
On the question of bibliodiversity, Ron (Martinez) sent me this article from the Scholarly Kitchen on the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), open source software and publishing in the Global South. so with Ron’s permission, sharing this with you all. Adds to the discussion of access and/restrictions and structural shifts.
Thanks, Ron!
cat.
This is worth a read if you haven't already, though I'm sure you're already familiar with PKP. The last part in the article is provocative, and maybe relevant to the discussion:
For those who support and contribute to PKP’s global work, the scale and the achievements of the project over the past two decades are quite humbling. Since OJS was first released in 2002, it has become the most widely used scholarly publishing platform in existence. It has enabled researchers around the world to participate, engage, and enrich the bibliodiversity of a publishing system that was – to the global detriment – framed by and largely focused upon research and institutions of the Global North, where English became the lingua franca of research and heightened the barriers to participation and access to knowledge for the vast majority of the world’s population. That has begun to shift, and rapidly, beneath our feet.
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aila-p...@googlegroups.com <aila-p...@googlegroups.com>
On Behalf Of Catalina Neculai
Sent: 20 February 2023 16:18
To: aila-p...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL: Re: call for discussion: AILA2024 symposium
Hi Pascal,
Nice to e-meet you and thanks very much for your contribution!
I am really glad that you feel our discussion here is going in a good direction, that nuancing and pluralising the lens and questioning our assumptions is a welcome move. (albeit sometimes pushing us out of our comfort zones). I also work (try to) across paradigms, traditions, modes of representation, often from the margins, and I keep hoping and trusting there is value in the messiness of all this.
Re: my little note on the GN/GS as a construct. while not a GS/postcolonial/decolonial specialist, a lot of my thinking is driven by questions of (combined and) uneven development and scalar, territorial, emplaced and networked takes on writing and knowledge production, borrowed from geographical thinking, which I find to be more productive and more nuanced than the core-periphery paradigm as it allows for a more differential, possibly more complex understanding of situatedness, identity, etc.
very best,
cat.
From: aila-p...@googlegroups.com <aila-p...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Pascal Matzler
Sent: 18 February 2023 15:23
To: AILA pub-ren <aila-p...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: call for discussion: AILA2024 symposium
Hi Catalina, Cindy, and everyone,
Over the last few years, I have read with interest the announcements and exchanges in this group... maybe I haven't contributed as much as I should have. But today I want to add that the discussion here in this thread is probably the most nuanced and balanced I have seen anywhere. As a multilingual and multicultural scholar who also works across disciplinary and knowledge paradigms I have often felt uneasy at the (maybe necessarily) simplified representations of who/what is chosen to stand for the Global South and who/what isn't (e.g. the recent editorial by Navarro et al (2022) comes to mind here). So when Cindy says that:
"...the global north (just like the global south) is a construct of embedded differences: multi/plurilingual, racial, ethnic, indigenous, gendered and other modes of writing and knowledge production"
...I can see the beginnings of an approach that interprets the AILA brief of Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability in a fittingly wide-lens and self-concious way. For example, the more I dive into my own research here in Chile about returning multilingual STEM scholars, the more I question my own initial assumptions about what group(s) they represent, what needs they have, and what role(s) they play in relation to their local elders, peers, and students.
Just my two cents... and I look forward to seeing the eventual CfP for the symposium!
All the best,
Pascal
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Pascal Patrick Matzler
Associate Professor, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
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