Upcoming Events
[Cancelled due to COVID-19) “Assembling environmental care in Hawaiʻi and Corsica" | American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), March 28-31 2020, Denver, CO | Co-presentation with Alexander Mendes on a comparative study of our linguistic ethnographies of island environmental conservation.
[Cancelled due to COVID-19] “The discursive production of interculturality at a sea turtle ecotourism destination in Hawai‘i" | Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, June 16-19 2020, Hong Kong | Part of the panel “Tourism and Intercultural Communication: Critical Perspectives” organized by Shuang Gao and Bal Krishna Sharma, with discussant Crispin Thurlow.
MultiLing PhD Summer School 2022
From 12-16 September, I co-organized, with Unn Røynland and Toril Opsahl, the 2022 MultiLing Ph.D. Summer School on the topic of 'Communication and Environmental Justice: Sociocultural Linguistic Approaches.' The course brought together lecturers and Ph.D. students from around the world to explore how sociocultural linguists working in diverse areas are contributing a better understanding of how language and communication research can promote healthier and more just living and working environments in time of climate change. Over the course of an idea-packed week, participants and invited lecturers shared and discussed their research together to examine the connections between language, environment and social justice. Invited lecturers included Alastair Pennycook (MultiLing), Leonie Cornips (Maastricht University, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) and Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town).
Academic Presentations 2022
“Political discourses and democratic practices of multispecies communities” 6th International Conference on Ecolinguistics (ICE-6). University of Graz, Austria. (September)
“The gap between your actions and your words is becoming harder to ignore”: A multi-disciplinary analysis of discourses around Greta Thunberg. Co-presented with Eszter Szenez and Robert Lawson. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD), University of Bergamo, Italy. (July)
“Towards a green applied linguistics”: Linguistics & sustainability workshop: Interdisciplinary understandings of sustainability in and for linguistics. Roskilde, Denmark May 22–24 2022.
Public Events 2022
Academic Affiliations and Service
HI-SKILLS: Volunteer for Hawai‘i School Kids Investigating Language and Life in Society. University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
