On the Ethics and Politics of (not)Understanding: Going beyond Language in Multilingual and Multimodal Research Entanglements
| Dates: | 9 November 2023 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Dr Khawla Badwan |
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This talk discusses the problematics of understanding in intercultural communication research. It poses questions such as what happens when researchers do not understand? Should we always understand? What are the risks? What are the ethical dilemmas associated with understanding? It showcases examples of multilingual and multimodal research that argue for the need to go beyond language towards ethics and practices of attunement that embrace vulnerability and unknowing. The talk moves on to discuss recent calls for challenging representational thinking as part of an emerging post-qualitative paradigm in intercultural research and concludes with reflections on what might the move ‘beyond language’ mean for the future of intercultural research.
Speaker
Dr Khawla Badwan
Organisation: Manchester Metropolitan University
Biography: Khawla is Reader in Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research interests include language education, literacy debates, social justice, sociolinguistics of mobility, identity, intercultural communication, multilingualism and climate change educational discourses. Her most recent publication is a book entitled Language in a Globalised World: Social Justice Perspectives on Mobility and Contact (2021), published by Palgrave. Her recent projects included the ‘Children’s Sociolinguistics’ project, the ‘Voice of the Future’ project and the ‘Digital Voices of the Future’ project.
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