*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series organized by the CIRCE https://www.circe-project.eu/ project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en, H2IOSC https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/ project and CNR-ILC https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/.
*Prof. Clara Molina* /Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain/ */Unlearning Accentism: Action Research and Critical Pedagogies /* 📅 *June 30, 2025* 🕓 *4:40 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)*
*Venue*: Online
*Attendees*: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors
*Summary: *This talk explores how to counteract language ideologies that damage speakers' subjectivities and prevent their equal participation in society. To this end, it analyzes the impact (i) of a participatory action research project for sociolinguistic justice and (ii) of critical pedagogies (among students, focusing on the analysis of life trajectories linked to biographies and linguistic repertoires; and among future teachers, focusing on the integration of language ideologies in the training curriculum).
*Bio*: Clara Molina is an Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Her teaching and research interests are in the overlapping fields of language variation and change, language education, and language in society (with a focus on identity and language ideologies). Over the years, she has participated in funded research projects (at present, on language and social inequality; formerly, on language learning, multilingualism, and education), and she has also carried out research stays in the United Kingdom and the United States. She holds postgraduate diplomas in Teaching and Learning Methodology, and Academic Mentoring, and has led numerous educational innovation projects (at present, a Challenge Based Learning initiative to foster multilingual access to health provision among migrants). She is the Director of the program for Mentoring among higher education lecturers at her university, and a board member of the MIRCo research center for Multilingualism, Discourse and Communication. Her academic responsibilities over the years (director of bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, vice-dean for Quality Assurance, rector’s delegate for Quality Assurance, vice-rector for Undergraduate Studies) have allowed her to acquire experience in academic governance, curriculum design, and evaluation of study programs.
Upcoming webinars:
- Sender Dovchin (Monday, July 7, 2025)
- Christian Ilbury (Monday, September 22, 2025)
- Onur Ozkaynak (Monday, October 13, 2025)
The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed.
The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment. For any inquiry, write to contact@circe-project.eu.