Previous Seminars & Activities

Jan 23, 3-5 p.m. 

CCD Working Papers/Internal seminar series

Maria Rossall, School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden

Welcome to Maria Rossalls planning seminar in education (in Swedish) with the title "I skuggan av det kompetenta barnet".

Abstract: Det kompetenta barnet har varit en framträdande tankefigur i svensk förskola sedan 1980-90 talen, med barndomssociologins framväxt och inflytande från Reggio Emilia filosofin. Det är en tankefigur om barnet som blev viktig i samband med en förskjutning från ett perspektiv av barnet som naturvarelse till kulturvarelse, där barns biologiska egenskaper ’bakgrundas’ för att istället ’förgrunda’ idén att barnets tillblivelse är något som sker inom en social kontext. I stället för att se barn som tomma kärl som ska fyllas av vuxnas kunskap, har barns kunskaper och kompetenser blivit mer framträdande. Det har resulterat i olika synsätt på barn, å ena sidan barn med bristande kunskaper som ofta kopplas till ett utvecklingspsykologiskt perspektiv, å andra sidan att barn redan har färdiga kompetenser som ofta kopplas till ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv. Jag har själv funderat på vad denna barnsyn innebär i mötet med barn. I min yrkesroll som förskollärare upplever jag att kollegor möter barn antingen ifrån ett kompetensperspektiv eller ett bristperspektiv.

Syftet med denna avhandling är att utforska och problematisera hur barns kompetens positioneras och manifesteras inom förskolans styrning och utbildning, med fokus på förskolans förutsättningar och lärarnas undervisningspraktiker.

Min övergripande forskningsfråga är: Hur manifesteras kompetens i förskolan? Avhandlingen kommer att innehålla fyra olika studier som undersöker kompetens utifrån olika metoder och nivåer. Delstudie 1 och 2 kommer att fokusera på litteraturanalyser, den första baserat på förskolans styr- och policydokument – den gråa litteraturen med fokus på barns kompetens. Delstudie 2 är en systematisk litteraturanalys på den forskning som finns om kompetens i förskolan och var forskningen koncentreras: barnen, vuxna eller andra områden såsom exempelvis läroplanen för förskolan. Delstudie 3 kommer att vara en praktiknära observationsstudie och fokussamtal kring förskollärarnas praktiker med avstamp i teorier kring sociala praktiker. Delstudie 4 är fortfarande under utveckling.

Room: Hc213, HLK

Jan 27, 2-4.30 p.m.

CCD Working Papers/Internal seminar series

2-3 p.m. Andrea Atterström, School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden CANCELLED!

Title of article: "Methodological experiences and ethical considerations from email-based interviews with young students having severe speech and physical impairment." The seminar will be held online. Please send Andrea an e-mail (andrea.atterstrom@ju.se) to receive the text.

Zoom: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/67906290743

3.00 - 4.30 p.m. Radu Dinu & Frida Wikström, School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden Title of planned research project: "Contesting deafness: Medicalisation, Normalisation and Deaf Identity in Post-War Sweden".

Discussant: Prof. Patrick Kermit (NTNU Trondheim)
Please send Radu and email (radu.dinu@ju.se) to receive the text.

The seminar will be hybrid: Ha229 (Gruvberger), School of Eduaction and Communication, and zoom: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/67906290743

Jan 30, 12.30 p.m. to Jan 31 4.30 p.m.

CCD Retreat, Mariedal

Monday, Jan 30

12.30-1.30 p.m. Lunch & kick-off

1.30-3.00 p.m. MOUs, Research Professional with Linda Olsson (bring your computers!), and other current issues

3.00-3.30 p.m. Coffee

3.30-5.00 p.m. Current situation regarding applications and writing

18.00 Dinner at Liban Deli

Tuesday, Jan 31

8.30-9.30 a.m. Breakfast

9.30-10 a.m. Publishing strategies from an HLK/CCD perspective: Ylva Lindberg (hybrid seminar, please contact maria.backe@ju.se if you wish to attend)

10-11 a.m. Publishing strategies from a university library perspective: Stefan Carlstein (hybrid seminar, please contact maria.backe@ju.se if you wish to attend)

11 a.m.-noon Workshop on the 2023 CCD publishing strategy

Noon-1 p.m. Lunch

1-3 p.m. Applications and writing

3-3.30 p.m. Coffee

3.30-4.30 p.m. How do we continue from here?

Feb 1, 2-4 p.m.

Humanistiskt forum - Humanities forum

Röd tro: kulturhistoriska perspektiv på socialism
Stefan Arvidsson, professor i religionsvetenskap vid Linnéuniversitet, talar om kulturhistoriska perspektiv på moderna politiska ideologier, religioner och kommersiella föreställningar och presenterar sin nyutkomna bok Röd tro: socialistisk livsåskådning och religion under tvåhundra år.
Seminariet kommer att genomföras på plats i sal Ha208 på HLK med möjlighet att delta på Zoom: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/64172795332

Accessibility in qualitative research - Perspectives research with people with so-called intellectual disabilities

This lecture focuses on the question of how qualitative interview situations can be designed in such a way that it also offers people with low linguistic competence in the researching language (e.g. due to a so-called intellectual disability or other language barriers) the opportunity to open up insights into their lifeworld.

The author, Imke Niediek, University of Hannover, advocates offering a variety of methods and materials and, in the sense of qualitative methodology, engaging with the focal points of the interview partners instead of giving too much space to the interview guideline. Finally, participants will discuss the significance of the dominance of a verbally organised social world ("verbal culture") for research and for the participation or exclusion in research.

Chair: Maria Bäcke

Hur slutar vi frukta data?

Linus Wallin, squad lead och dataingenjör för ett team i AI Lab på Husqvarna, lyfter fram sina iakttagelser om hur etiska och moraliska dilemman kring data hanteras.

Teologi för en postkristen tid

Vilken roll har teologin, läran eller talet om det gudomliga, i ett samhälle där allt färre bekänner sig till en tro och sekulariseringen slagit över i ett postkristet tillstånd? Vilka möjligheter för teologiskt tänkande genereras i en sådan situation och på vilket sätt kan teologin bidra med ”sitt perspektiv genom att delta i en bredare och gemensam tydning av samtiden”? Seminariet utgår från antologin Teologi för en postkristen tid som kom tidigare i år och gästas av redaktörer och bidragsförfattare till antologin.

Mårten Björk, doktor i religionsvetenskap med inrikting mot tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap (Lunds Universitet)
Peter Karlsson, universitetslektor i religionsvetenskap (Jönköping University)
Mattias Martinson, professor i systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning (Uppsala Universitet)

Introduktionskapitlet och förordet skickas ut av Peter.Carlsson@ju.se på begäran.

The social embeddedness of the human sciences

Linus Salö is Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism (Stockholm University). He works within the Vinnova-funded knowledge platform Making Universities Matter and is co-director of Humtank, a national think tank for the humanities. His talk will center on the social embeddedness of the human sciences with a view
to accounting for the impact of the humanities on society at large.

The Disability Rights Movement in Sweden

Anna Derksen is a researcher specialised in 20th century Nordic and Scandinavian history, disability and eugenics, as well as experiences of welfare and social policy interventions. During her forthcoming presentation, she will delve into her extensive research on the disability rights movement in Sweden spanning from the 1960s onwards.
Chair: Radu Dinu

Att bemöta antisemitism i svensk skolmiljö

Jennie Karlsson är doktorand vid Segerstedtinstitutet och Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande, vid Göteborgs universitet och presenterar sin avhandlingsarbete om antisemitism och hur den förstås, uttrycks och bemöts i svensk skolmiljö.
Chair: Radu Dinu

27 October, 10:15 a.m. - 12 noon

Foundations of Nexus Analysis: An Integrated Framework for Ethnographic Discourse Analysis of Complex Social Phenomena across Disciplines

Malmö University | Orkanen | Room B338

Francis M. Hult works at the crossroads of discourse studies, sociolinguistics, and education. He is known for his socially situated research on policy using nexus analysis. Professor Hult has written extensively on theoretical and methodological principles of nexus analysis and their application to investigating relationships between policy and practice. His books include Research Methods in Language Policy and Planning (with Johnson) and Language Policy and Language Acquisition Planning (with Siiner and Kupisch). He is Professor of Education and by courtesy of Language, Literature, and Culture and of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

Developed by Scollon and Scollon (2004), nexus analysis is a conceptual and methodological framework that systematically integrates interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and critical discourse analysis as a way to investigate phenomena as social systems, including relationships between individuals and those systems. It has proven ideally suited for gathering and analyzing data that are multilingual, multitemporal, and multimodal (e.g., Al Zidjaly, 2006; Pietikäinen, 2010) yet it is only beginning to gain broader application.

This talk presents nexus analysis as a meta-methodology for addressing contemporary research topics. Drawing upon his own work (e.g., Hult, 2015, 2017, 2019) as well as the work of others who have employed this approach (e.g., Compton, 2013; Lane, 2010, Pietikäinen, 2010), Professor Francis M. Hult provides an introduction to the principles of nexus analysis and demonstrate how they serve to highlight relevant factors that mediate social practices and, in turn, aid in tracing how those factors are influenced by discursive processes on multiple scales of society. In particular, he focuses on (a) key concepts of nexus analysis, (b) ways in which nexus analysis can guide critical thinking about data collection and analysis, and (c) practical benefits and challenges of applying nexus analysis.

While nexus analysis combines elements of critical discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, and interactional sociolinguistics, it is more than the sum of these parts, offering a novel and holistic empirical perspective for addressing multidimensional research questions in a range of fields and disciplines. This session will be of interest to anyone whose research seeks to understand relationships between individuals and the bigger picture of a socially situated phenomenon.

Decolonizing European Sociology

Manuela Boatcă is Professor of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Programme at the University of Freiburg, Germany. During her presentation, she will delve into the crucial topic of decolonizing European Sociology. With a keen focus on the exploration of the challenges posed by the decolonization of the discipline, this presentation promises to shed light on critical issues shaping the future of sociology.
Chair: Tobias Samuelsson

Expanding the Kodak Zone: Vernacular Photography and Imperial Encounter in the Philippine-American War

Silvan Neidermeier is senior lecturer at the University of Erfurt (Germany). In his talk he discusses the multifold uses of vernacular photography in the Philippine-American War (1899-1902). Based on private photographs created by white and Black U.S. soldiers as well as Philippine revolutionaries, it will show that vernacular photography provided a means for both reifying white imperial subject position and substantiating non-white and anti-imperial subject positions. Rather than acting as a unilateral “tool of empire” (Paul S. Landau), vernacular photography enabled historical actors to place themselves in and support narratives of white imperial conquest, Black military self-affirmation and Philippine anti-colonial nation building. A close reading of vernacular photographs of the Philippine-American War thus allows reconstructing both the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic function of photography in the age of imperialism.
Chair: Radu Dinu

‘Part of Prophecy’: Christian Zionism, Dispensationalism, Time

Aron Engberg is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the School of Education and Communication: He holds a PhD in Global Christianity and Interreligious Relations. In his talk, he will discuss the affinity of pro-Zionist evangelical Christianity for the land and state of Israel, considering Protestant Christianity's historical ambivalence towards materiality and sacred locality. To these evangelical Christians, Israel is both a place of biblically inflected memory—the “land of the Bible” where Jesus historically walked—and the prime locus of a premillennial eschatological imaginary, the place Jesus will return to in the (near) future. This chapter draws on ethnographic research among Evangelical Christians in Jerusalem to explore how Christian Zionism structures Evangelical temporality. I argue first that the Evangelical “cosmology of land” significantly shapes their phenomenological experience of time and place in Israel, and secondly, that Evangelical Zionist temporality is more elastic and flexible than previously recognized, despites its premillennial leanings. This suggests that the scholarly focus on a “punctuated” dispensationalist time and a simple ‘prophecy-as-prediction’ formula needs to give way to a broader exploration of the Christian Zionist time-scape, and the ways in which it interacts with place and divine presence.

All seminar participants are required to read the paper in advance of the event. Please reach out to Aron Engberg at aron.engberg@ju.se for a copy of the paper.
Chair: Peter Karlsson

Transformativt lärande och kulturellt möjliggörande litteraturundervisning på gymnasiet

Björn Bradling, doktorand i pedagogik, presenterar sin avhandling som fokuserar möjliga vägar att i undervisning konkretisera gymnasieskolans styrdokuments utpekande av skönlitteratur som bärare av möjligheter till lärande som fokuserar personlig utveckling och omvärldskunskap. Med teoretiskt stöd i den pedagogiska idéen om transformativt lärande, vilken fokuserar synliggörande och eventuell omformning av (o)uttalade föreställningar, bygger projektet på studier om skönlitterär läsning och lärande genomförda med lärare, bibliotekarier och elever i gymnasieskolan. Resultatmässiga mönster i vardande pekar i riktning mot att den valda texten sätter yttre ramar för vad som är möjligt i undervisningssituationen, men att kontextualisering och begreppsanvändning är av central betydelse för att lärandet ska kunna bli transformativt och kulturellt möjliggörande.
Chair: Anette Svensson

Neurodiversity in the Classroom: Universal Design for Learning

Summary
This talk will look at one type of diversity that can be found in every classroom: Neurodiversity, i.e. the diversity in cognitive processing.
Using the neurodiversity paradigm, we start from a perspective that values this diversity, and that acknowledges the challenges that arise when people of a minority neurotype have to deal with environments and activities that were tailored to the needs of neurotypical people.

I will discuss how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can help make classrooms and classroom tasks more accessible for learners of different neurotypes, focusing especially on providing options for sustaining effort and persistence, for self-regulation and for executive function.

Throughout, I will draw on the voices of neurodivergent learners, former learners, and educational experts, including interviews from the ELLeN project, to illustrate the points made and also to show the breadth of experiences and opinions within the neurodiversity community.

Dr. Jules Buedgens-Kosten is a teacher educator and researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) and a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at UMBC. Their primary research focuses on inclusive education in the EFL context, including with a focus on technology, and on computer-assisted language learning, especially from a multilingual lens. They are part of the ELLeN project, which uses inquiry-based learning in teacher education focusing on neurodiversity. and language learning.

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The French Revolution and religious change through the lens of social emergence theory

Manuel Stadler is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Religious Studies, Leipzig University (Germany). During his presentation, he will delve into the French Revolution through the lens of social emergence theory. The French Revolution is often interpreted as the founding event of the modern secular nation-state, built up upon the guiding principle of laïcité, a strict form of separation between the church and the state, which is generally misunderstood as a categoric split between religion and politics. The religious politics during the French Revolution had a significant impact on the perception of history as the unfolding of reason and rationality, leading to the construction of a perfect society based on natural laws. In this talk Stadler wants to challenge the classical narrative of the French Revolution as a process of secularization and instead use a Durkheimian emergence theory approach to interpret the empirical sources. Emergence theory presupposes that society is more than the sum of rational acting individuals but can be described through concepts of collective psychology. To operationalize emergence theory, he will focus on empirical sources stemming from the period of the French Revolution, uncovering changes in power relations and social structures. The aim of his presentation is to use religion as a heuristic concept to explain how the change of power relations is connected to the emergence of new forms of collective memory.
Discussant: Peter Karlsson

Högstadielevers upplevelser av att öva muntlig språkfärdighet på målspråket med konversationsagenter

Elin Ericsson, fil. doktor i tillämpad informationsteknologi med inriktning mot utbildningsvetenskap, presenterar sin nyligen försvarade avhandling. Den handlar om AI-baserade dialogsystem som möjliggör muntliga konversationsövningar i verklighetsnära situationer för elever att öva på det språk de studerar. De genomförda praktiknära studierna har en utgångspunkt i etablerade andraspråkinlärningsprinciper såsom att lärande sker i social interaktion med möjlighet till att använda språket i en trygg miljö och att få feedback. Resultaten visar att elevernas självrapporterade upplevelser varierade mycket kring hur de socialt relaterade till konversationsagenterna, med allt från ingen relation alls till att uppleva dem som mänskliga och aktivt deltagande i social interaktion. Denna sociala dimensionen visade sig vara viktig för den sammanlagda utbildningsupplevelsen. Lärare behöver därför ha kännedom om de olika faktorerna bakom de stora individuella skillnaderna i elevernas upplevelser som påverkar den sammanlagda utbildningsupplevelsen i dialogsystemet med konversationsagenterna. Överlag upplevdes lärandeaktiviteten som lätt, rolig och trygg för att på ett meningsfullt sätt öva på att hålla igång en dialog och öva uttal på målspråket, som komplement till andra metoder.
Chair: Ylva Lindberg

January 28, 10 a.m. - 12 noon

Tsitsi Chataika, Department of Educational Foundations, University of Zimbabwe

Title: Capitalising on Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Crisis: Increasing Access to Education to Learners with Disabilities in Africa

COVID-19 has disrupted education systems on a global scale, creating unexpected challenges. Approximately 1.6 billion children around the world have been unable to attend school due to COVID-19 lockdowns, with schools required to make rapid adjustments in the move to online teaching and learning. As African countries worked toward managing learning continuity, learners with disabilities seemed to have been further marginalised. However, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have presented a unique opportunity to re-think emergency planning for accessible and inclusive education. This presentation examines the challenges faced by learners with disabilities in accessing education during COVID-19 induced lockdown in Africa. It also proffers strategies that can be adopted to make education more disability inclusive.

Chair: Maria Bäcke, CCD, Jönköping University

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February 18, 2 - 4 p.m. (NB: NEW DATE!)

Ted Schatzki, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky

Title: The Trajectories of a Life

This presentation combines a phenomenological account of life trajectories with a practice theory approach to the social contexts in which life trajectories occur to illuminate key features of the phenomena studied by life course research. The discussion construes life trajectories, not as the events and transitions that make up the progress of life in specific life domains, but as central dimensions of a life qua continually unfolding entity. It subjects three types of trajectories so construed to analysis: space-time paths, successions of actions, and past-future arcs. It then explores the contextualization of such trajectories in constellations of social practices. The presentation concludes by situating life and its trajectories in the causal order of society and reflecting on the advantages of using theories of practices in this context.

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March 17 (2-4 p.m.)

Humanistic Forum

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Professor of Philosophy at Södertörns Högskola

Title: Att tänka i skisser (in Swedish)

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback pratar om relationen mellan filosofi och konst. Hur är begreppet och bilden förbundna med varandra och hur förhåller sig tänkandet - bildens och begreppets - till verkligheten?

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March 25 (10 a.m. - 12 noon)

Anamik Saha, Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London

Title: Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in the cultural industries
While the ‘diversity’ paradigm is shaping policy across public and public sectors in Western contexts, it is particularly pronounced in the creative and cultural industries. In the UK, such industries have long been aware of, to paraphrase former BBC Director General Greg Dyke, their hideous whiteness. As a consequence, a plethora of initiatives have been launched to improve the racial and ethnic composition of the cultural workforce. Yet such initiatives are having little impact on the representation of racially minoritised groups, whether on- or off-screen. In this paper, drawing from my research into the experiences of Black, Asian and racialised people who work in British cultural industries, I highlight the limitations of diversity policies. But rather than a case of such policies/initiatives not working, I argue that diversity as a discourse - that is, a form of power/knowledge - is the means through which existing social hierarchies (and racial inequalities) remain intact.

Chair: Maria Bäcke, CCD, Jönköping University

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March 30 (10 a.m. - 12 noon)

CCD international seminar series

Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza, Professor of Language Education at the University of São Paulo, Brazil

Title: Navigating difference in language, literature and literacy

This seminar will focus on difference as a construct of self and how a non-understanding of this can lead to a perception of difference as an external characteristic only of others. The seminar will focus on how ‘difference’ in dealing with others can be better understood as 'gaps' in one’s knowledge which need to be navigated. Examples from language, literature and literacy will be discussed.

Besides Language Education Professor Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza's research interests lie in language and educational policy and politics, literacy, literary theory and interculturality. His recent publications include ‘De-universalizing the Decolonial’ (in Gragoatá 2021) and 'Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness: The South Answers Back' (Routledge 2019). He currently co-coordinates the bi-national (Brazil-South África) research group Rethinking Multilingualism and Being Human.

References:

Cusicanqui, S. (2019) Ch'ixinakax Utxiwa: On practices and discourses of decolonization.

Jullien, F. (2021) There is no such thing as cultural identity.

Nascimento, G. & Windle, J. (2021) The Unmarked Whiteness of Brazilian Linguistics: From Black-as-Theme to Black-as-Life.

Souza, L.M.T.M (2002) A Case among Cases, A World among Worlds: The Ecology of Writing among the Kashinawa in Brazil.

April 1 (1-3 p.m.)

DoIT seminar series

Lynn Mario de Souza, Professor of Language Education at the University of São Paulo, Brazil

Title: Learning from the Anaconda: rethinking sameness, difference, and other-than-humanity

Place: Riksteatern, Hallunda, and digitally

Languages: English, Swedish sign language interpretation

Programme

13.00 Presentation of DoIT and inspirator Lynn Mario de Souza

13.15-14 This DoIT meeting looks at ways of seeing the world from non-western/non-northern/non-mainstream ie from alternative perspectives. More specifically this DoIT meeting will focus on indigenous cultures that consider diversity as the essence of life.

14-14.45 Joint reflection

14.45-15.15 Conclusion and information about the GoPar conference

Lynn Mario T.M. de Souza is full professor of English at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. His recent publications include: Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness (2019, co-edited with M. Guilherme), ‘Decolonial Pedagogies’ (2019 Multilingual Margins), ‘De-universalizing the Decolonial’ (2021 with A. Duboc, Gragoatá).

Lynn Mario is a member of the editorial committees of the International journals Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education and Visual Communication. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Multilingualism, Oslo University, Norway and CCD’s third national research school CuEEd-LL at Jönköping University, Sweden. He is Co-Coordinator of the International Project: Think Tank: Rethinking Multilingualism and being Human, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.

April 27-29, 2022

Conference

The 2022 GoPar Conference

Going beyond binary thinking: Dialogues for participation, communication and equity in contemporary societies

Between 27-29 April 2022 Jönköping University in Sweden will host the GoPar conference, an international event that aims to bring together academics and professional actors across sectors from across the world and Sweden to dialogue on issues of participation, communication and equity in contemporary societies. The Communication, Culture and Diversity (CCD) research environment (www.ju.se/ccd) and the Participation and Inclusion Think-Tank DoIT (www.ju.se/ccd/doit) are the organizers of the GoPar conference. The event will take place online, and will consist of workshops, panel discussions and keynote presentations.

More information can be found here: GoPar Conference website

May 3, 11 - 12 p.m.

11 a.m.-12 noon. Karin Ingeson, HLK

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May 5, 13 -14 p.m.

1-2 p.m. Stina-Karin Skillermark, HLK

Artikelutkastet Äldre litterära verk som litteraturserier. Om att skapa och omskapa mening med utgångspunkt i Lysistrate och En herrgårdssägensom skickas ut av susanne.smithberger@ju.se på begäran.

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May 5-6

Workshop

1st Exploratory Workshop on Ethics and Values in Educational Data-Driven Practices

Venue: VIA University College, Århus, Denmark

The project “Ethics and Values in educational data-driven practices: Conceptual, Methodological and Pragmatic Explorations” funded by the Swedish Vetenskapsrådet aims to explore useful concepts, methods, and interventions for researching ethics and values in data-driven education. It will consist of a blend of keynote presentations, paper presentations, and discussions among participants.

We have singled out a range of concepts that will be central for exploring ethics and values in educational data-driven practices. These are – but are not limited to: practices, care, imaginaries/imagination, aesthetics, and Bildung. The overall research question guiding the workshop is: Which concepts and notions support nuanced discussions about values reflected in emerging educational sociotechnical imaginaries?

More information: https://sites.google.com/view/1stexploratoryworkshop/home?authuser=0

May 20, 1 - 3 p.m. 

Peter De Costa, Department of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, Michigan State University (MSU)

Title: Unpacking Profit and Pride in EMI Higher Education: How Universities Manage this Precarious Balancing Act

In a neoliberal era marked by a global expansion of higher education, many Western based universities aggressively opened EMI satellite campuses in Asia and the Middle East. Inspired by profit and the need to chase the foreign tuition dollar, such expansionary efforts have met with different degrees of success. However, as world economic growth starts to recede and nationalist sentiments rise, we have witnessed a curtailing, and in some cases withdrawal, of these transnational endeavours. Adopting an ecological approach (Han, De Costa & Cui, 2019) to better understand this educational phenomenon, I investigate how English monolingual biases and an emergent interest and pride in local languages within several countries that have hosted joint venture foreign campuses have been negotiated. Specifically, I explore the ways in which different social actors – students, faculty and administrators – engage in complex identity work that often results in individuals being sorted and sieved according to the various levels of capital that they possess. These actors’ strategic policy and pedagogical decisions will also be unpacked against mounting internal pressures by governments to raise the standards of local universities in the face of stiff global university ranking competition.

Biography: Peter I. De Costa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages & Cultures and the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. His research areas include emotions, identity, ideology and ethics in educational linguistics. He also studies social (in)justice issues. He is the co-editor of TESOL Quarterly and the First Vice-President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL).

Please contact Susannne Smithberger (susanne.smithberger@ju.se) for reading.

Chair: Maria Bäcke, CCD, Jönköping University

May 30, 2 - 5 p.m.

Title: Short Presentations and Invitation to Dialogue

This internal seminar series event is aimed at all CCD members – new and old – to come and talk about research interests and listen to what other members are doing. The hybrid event will be both in English and in Swedish.

Autumn 2022

Sep 23, 10 a.m.-12 noon

Sylvi Vigmo, Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Title: Erasmus+ applications

A introduction to Erasmus+ and what to think about when applying for funding.

Sylvi Vigmo's presentation: Erasmus+ pptx.pptx

The 2022 Erasmus+ Programme Guide: 2022-erasmusplus-programme-guide-v2_en.pdf

Sep 26-27

Sep 26, 9.05-10.35 a.m.: Lourdes Ortega, Faculty Director of GU’s Initiative for Multilingual Studies, Georgetown University, U.S.

Title: Southern and Decolonial Turns in Applied Linguistics

(Lecture 9.05-10.05 a.m. + discussion 10.05-10.35 a.m.)

Abstract: Southern and Decolonial Turns in Applied Linguistics
Applied linguists have engaged in revisionist and critical work (e.g., the social and the
multilingual “turns”) for three decades. Most critiques, however, continue to be rooted and oriented towards Eurocentric ideas, and many still remain bound to modernist and
postpositivist intellectual traditions. As of recently, we have seen a steady increase in
explorations of alternative ontologies and voices/identities, in what could be viewed as
aspirational new "turns" guided by the two central notions of Southern epistemologies and decolonial theories. Why do we need any Southern/decolonial turns in the field? Here one can think of ontological erasures and epistemic injustices that need to be disrupted. For example, in my field of second language acquisition (SLA), we researchers have become virtuosi of research methods and open science values, which on the other hand has only made us become even more proficient in methodologies devoid of any interrogation of race/racism. What strategies might we devise to de-link ourselves from Western Modernity, if that is even possible, and what strategies can make decolonizing efforts have a lasting impact? Here it is important (a) to educate oneself in the different genealogies and distinct commitments of circulating concepts (e.g., intersectionality versus assemblages; endangered languages vs. sleeping languages; etc); (b) to learn to cultivate epistemic disobedience (Mignolo), refuse abyssal thinking (de Sousa Santos), and engage in world-traveling (Lugones) and in-betweenness (Bhabha); and (c) to force ourselves to unpack the whiteness embodied in our research habitus and the coloniality wedded in our disciplinary commitments and our conceptualizations of Self, Other, authority, and truth.
I discuss dilemmas surrounding these questions, with most of my examples drawn from the field I know best, SLA. I conclude by reflecting on the rewards and challenges that await us, if we are finally willing to unlearn our settler colonial ways of relating and
understanding, and we attend to how to integrate meaningful subjectivities of difference into explanations of language learning, social practices, and systems of oppression.

Sep 26, 1-3 p.m.: Stefan Helgesson, Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden

Title: North-South and South-South Intellectual Legacies

(Lecture 1-2 p.m. + discussion 2.30-3 p.m.)

Abstract: North-South and South-South Intellectual Legacies
If, as Robert Young has argued, the global intellectual history of decolonisation should
be considered a “tricontinental” phenomenon, what does this history look like from
different localised perspectives? In response to that question, my talk will have two main points of anchorage. The first is the anticolonial discourse in Sweden that emerged in the late 1950s and 1960s, the second is the African (mainly southern African) participation in the tricontinental intellectual commons – also in the post-1945 era. These histories will then lead to a reflection on where we might locate transcontinental dialogues today, in our moment of post-globalisation.

Sep 27, 9-10.30 a.m.: Tommaso Milani, Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Title: On Angry Alliances

(Lecture 9-10 a.m. + discussion 10-10.30 a.m.)

Abstract: On Angry Alliances
While anger is often treated as a ‘dirty’ feeling or a pathology, queer anger holds the
potential for a renewed politics of (self-)discomfort. I draw upon queer theory in order to strategically highlight that anger is what constitutes queer both as a homophobic slur and as a reclaimed label of self-identification. Put differently, it is impossible to understand how ‘queer’ works pragmatically without its affective loading. Moreover, inspired by the Black feminist tradition, I argue that it is imperative to forge angry coalitions with other activist and academic projects against discrimination. Current research in Sweden and elsewhere needs to build a broader defying alliance that not only marshals together various streams of anger directed at different sides of the same Leviathan, hegemony, but also does not shy away from internal annoyances and is not afraid of constantly discomforting itself.

For more information, please go to https://ju.se/center/cueed-ll/aktuellt/2022-06-27-internat-pa-lindholmen-conference-centre.html

Please add your name to this list if you are interested in participating at one or several of the seminars: People requesting online participation at the CuEEd.docx

Oct 7, 3-4.30 p.m.

Docentföreläsning/Docent lecture

Johannes Heuman, School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden

Title: "Emotions, Memory and Social Mobilisation: Challenges in History Education in a Global Context”

The lecture is a hybrid event which takes place in room Hb116 at SEC/HLK and via Zoom. For those attending in person, there will be an after-lecture mingle on the fourth floor.

Please contact Maria Bäcke, maria.backe@ju.se, for registration, more information and a zoom link.

Okt 12, 2-4 PM

Humanistiskt forum (The Humanities Forum)

Title: Humanvetenskapliga framtidsstudier och science fiction (in Swedish)

Michael Godhe, docent i Kultur och medigestaltning vid Linköpings universitet, presenterar det tvärvetenskapliga forskningsfältet kritiska framtidsstudier (Critical Future Studies) och hur han tillämpar det på sin egen forskning, särskilt science fiction. Kommentator: Ylva Lindberg

Seminariet kommer att genomföras på plats i sal Ha208 på HLK med möjlighet att delta på Zoom.

Oct 13-14

CCD international seminar series

Retreat and seminar theme: Languaging perspectives

Oct 13, 1.30-3 p.m.: Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden

Title: “Re-centering. Many ways-of-being-with-words”

Zoom link: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/6269502044?pwd=L1pHOEdLTldmQmRkOXh3c1l6YUowQT09

Oct 13, 3.30-5 p.m.: Tommaso Milani, Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Title: “Multilingualism: Quo vadis?”

Zoom link: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/6269502044?pwd=L1pHOEdLTldmQmRkOXh3c1l6YUowQT09

Oct 14, 9-11 a.m.: Sinfree Makoni, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State University, U.S. & Paris, France

Title: “Shifting the geography of reason in language studies, weighing the relevance and limitations of decolonization and Southern Epistemologies” (Part 1)

Part 2: conversation between Sinfree and Sangeeta

Part 3: open dialogue

Zoom link: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/6269502044?pwd=L1pHOEdLTldmQmRkOXh3c1l6YUowQT09

Oct 20, 1-3 p.m.

CCD Working Papers/Internal seminar series

1-2 p.m. Asia Della Rosa, HLK, Jönköping University

2-3 p.m. Matthew Glass, HLK, Jönköping University

Room: Ha208

Zoom link: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/6269502044?pwd=L1pHOEdLTldmQmRkOXh3c1l6YUowQT09.

Nov 10-11

Exploratory workshop days at HLK: Ethics and Values in Educational Data-driven Practices

This is an invitation to participate in the Second Workshop within the project “Ethics and Values in educational data-driven practices: Conceptual, Methodological and Pragmatic Explorations”, funded by the Swedish Research Council - Education Sciences program (Links to an external site.). The project aims to explore concepts, methods, and interventions for researching ethics and values in data-driven education.

The team behind the project, Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University, Ylva Lindberg, Jönköping University, and Anders Buch, VIA University College, invite you to participate in this second workshop.

Participation in the workshop is free, and our project grant will cover your expenses for travel and accommodation. There will be served lunches, and the project will cover expenses for an arranged dinner in Jönköping city on Thursday evening.

The venue for the workshop is Jönköping University, Sweden. We will provide you with more practical information if you choose to accept our invitation.

Please, contact Ylva Lindberg, ylva.lindberg@ju.se if you are interested in participating in these days.

Nov 25, 12 noon-12.50 p.m.

CCD Lunch seminar

DoIT (Delaktighet och Inkluderingstankesmedja) lunch with Petra Weckström, Riksteatern, Stockholm, Sweden

Petra Weckström will talk about DoIT's origin and highlight the importance of meetings between people and between organisations. Experience the driving forces and contribute to future foci in the think tank DoIT, which started in April 2016!

Please contact Ulrika Stjerndahl (ulrika.stjerndahl@ju.se) to sign up and receive a zoom link.

Dec 1, 6.30-7.30 p.m.

JU Public Lectures

Staffan Bengtsson, associate professor in Disability research & Radu Dinu, senior lecturer in History. Jönköping University, Sweden

Title: Disability and labour – historical and comparative perspectives (lecture in Swedish)

This lecture offers fresh perspectives on the history of disability and labour in the twentieth century and highlights the need to address the topic beyond regional boundaries. How has the central role of labour influenced disabled people in the twentieth century? What differences can be found between state socialist and liberal-democratic societies? These types of questions will be at the core of Staffan Bengtsson’s and Radu Dinu’s lecture.

Room: Hc113, Jönköping university. The lecture is live streamed via YouTube.

Dec 8-9

CCD international seminar series

Dec 8, 1:10-2:30 p.m
Adnan Mahmutović, Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden
Title: “To the Word-woods and Back: On Language and Speechlessness”
Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/62373605165

Dec 8, 2:45-3:45 p.m
Stefan Helgesson, Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden 
Title: “The Global South and Reading Practices in Sweden”
Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/62373605165

Dec 9, I-2:30 p.m
Tommaso Milani, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Title: “The Politics of Collective Remembering”
Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/62373605165

Dec 8, 1-2.30 p.m.

Digital Futures for Education: Digital transformation in education: paradoxes, hopes, and realities

Conversation 3: Digital transformation in education: paradoxes, hopes, and realities

Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus OR via Zoom

Digital Futures for Education is a new series of conversations and events that bring together key actors from academia, civil society, and the private and public sectors. Its mission is to provide a colloquial space for discussion and reflection on the digital transformation in education and the role of universities in today’s complex societies. The goal is also to build a community with key national and international educational actors.

Moderator:

Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Professor, Stockholm University and Associate Director Outreach, Digital Futures

Panellists:

Jannie Jeppesen, CEO, Swedish Edtech

Ylva Lindberg, Professor, School of Education and Communication at Jönköping University

Stefan Hrastinski, Professor, Division of Digital Learning, KTH

More information: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/event/digital-futures-for-education-digital-transformation-in-education-paradoxes-hopes-and-realities/

Dec 15, 2-3.30 p.m.

CCD Working Papers/Internal seminar series

Doctoral Planning Seminar (in Swedish). Margareta Lindström, planeringsseminarium i sal A521, Högskolan i Borås.

Zoom: https://hb-se.zoom.us/j/65441885522

Senior läsare är Susanne Klaar, universitetslektor vid Högskolan i Borås Susanne Klaar - Högskolan i Borås (hb.se)

Dec 16, 12.30-4 p.m.

DoIT seminar series

Hybrid seminar (in Swedish)

Delaktighets- och Inkluderingstankesmedjan, DoIT

DoIT-träff 16 december 2022, kl. 12.30-16, hybridformat

Tema: Är vi kulturellt hållbara? Att kunna och våga undersöka människans drivkrafter.

När: 16 december kl. 12.30-16.00 (tolkar mellan svenskt teckenspråk och talad svenska finns)

Plats: Örebro läns museum, Kaserngården 6 (OBS! inte länsmuseibyggnaden som är stängd för renovering) och digitalt via Zoom

Anmäl dig via DoIT:s webbsida senast den 13 december. Ange om du behöver teckenspråkstolk.

OBS! Begränsat antal platser på Kaserngården 6.

Program

12.30 Introduktion till DoIT och dagens tema av Sangeeta Bagga Gupta, Jönköping University och Petra Weckström, Riksteatern.

12.45 Kulturell hållbarhet är ett begrepp som funnits med i hållbarhetsdiskursen, i alla fall sedan Brundtlandrapporten 1987. Men utan att få fäste. Nu är läget akut, ända tvekar mänskligheten. Lösningarna är tekniska och naturvetenskapliga. Kultur i allmänhet, och humanistisk men även sociologisk forskning, ses inte som del av klimat- och miljöarbetet. Trots att den moderna människan orsakat problemen är hon inte en del av lösningen. Vad ett gott liv är och nödvändigheten av gränser för våra begär diskuteras knappt. Vi ska fortsätta som tidigare, utvecklings- och tillväxtparadigmen gäller. Inte ens kulturinstitutionerna själva ser vilka deras unika bidrag skulle kunna vara. De fokuserar på saker som miljöledning (i sig bra) och på att berätta om det som håller på att hända, och vad som kan görs åt det men inom andra områden än kultur. Är det inte dags att kasta ljus över denna blinda fläck?

Hur kan kulturen bidra? Örebro läns museum ger exempel på hur vi arbetar i teori och praktik.

13.45 Paus med fika för dem som är på plats

14.00 Samtal i grupper på plats och digitalt – vad kan kulturinstitutioner – och verksamheter göra för den kulturella hållbarheten, om den är viktig?

14.45 Samtal i nya grupper – vilka är dina drivkrafter till personlig förändring? Det första steget mot kulturell hållbarhet?

15.45 Avslutning och blick mot nästa möte

Värd: Birgitta Johansson, DoIT och Örebro Länsmuseum, Örebro

Dec 20, 1-3 p.m.

Lina Rahm: AI Bildung and the Genealogy of Educational Imaginaries

Lina Rahm is Assistant Professor in the History of Media and Environment with specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden and presents her research on technological change and the education of citizens.

More information:

https://center.hj.se/center/encell/nyheter/nyheter/2022-11-15-ai-bildung-and-the-genealogy-of-educational-imaginaries.html

The seminar will be held on-campus in room Hc229 with the possibility to participate on Zoom: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/68749314350

Dorte Kousholt, Associate professor, Denmark,

Title: “Conflictual collaboration in research practice and analysis – reflections about transmethodology".

Chair: Giulia Messina Dahlberg, Assistant professor, CCD, University of Gothenburg

Readings: Højholt, C., & Kousholt, D. (2020). Contradictions and conflicts: Researching school as conflictual social practice. Theory & Psychology, 30(1), 36-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319884129

Please contact giulia.messina.dahlberg@gu.se for the article.

ZOOM link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/63435125521

Feb 12, 10 am12 noon

Lars Almén, Doctoral student, Jönköping University

Title: Languaging in digital educational spaces: Studies of participation, agency and digitalization processes inside and outside classroom settings.

Discussant: Professor Neil Selwyn, Monash University, Australia.
Reader 1: Docent Marco Nilsson, Jönköping University.
Reader 2: Dr. Sylvi Vigmo, Göteborgs University & Jönköping University.
Reader 3: Doktorand Johan Bäcklund, Jönköping University.

Further information, please contact asa.lundgren@ju.se

Host: School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University.

Feb 26 1-3 pm

Anders Buch, Centre for Quality of Education, Profession Policy, and Practice, VIA University College

Title: Socio(-)Materiality and Modes of Inquiry. When does the owl of Minerva take flight?

Locality: The interplay of the social and the material realm has preoccupied discussions within Science and Technology Studies for quite some time. Taking departure in these discussions, the lecture explores the ontological commitments needed to advance theories of practice.

ZOOM link: ju-se.zoom.us/J/7262330985

Mar 26, 1-5.30 pm

DoIT-träffen, https://ju.se/ccd/doit

Theme: What are roles of leaders and which paradoxes appear in the expectations regarding questions of participation and inclusiveness? What might a “third position” of participation and inclusiveness entail and how to we reach this together? (The seminar will held in Swedish and in Swedish Sign Language)

DoIT think tank initiators Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, professor, Jönköping University, and Petra Weckström, CEO, Örebro Teater, discuss with Dritëro Kasapi, head of Riksteatern, Susanna Dahlberg, CEO, Regionteater Väst, Elisabet Nilhfors, professor emerita, Uppsala University, and Ylva Winther, head of education, Sunne kommun.

Host: Örebro Teater och CCD, Jönköping University

Apr 9, 1-3 pm

Lillian Buus, VIA University College, research leader of the environment Learning & IT.

Title: What Happens to Learning Design Processes in the Digital Transformation to Online Teaching and Learning (during Covid-19)?

Apr 16, 1-3 pm

Quentin Williams, Associate professor, South Africa, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FOn5eqsAAAAJ&hl=en

Title: "Towards a Public Sociolinguistics: Inventing Language at the Margins of South Africa".

Chair: Ylva Lindberg, Professor, CCD, Jönköping University

Readings: Williams, Q. (2018). Multilingual activism in South African Hip Hop. Journal of World Popular Music. 5(1), 31-49. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.36672

Please contact ylva.lindberg@ju.se for the article.

May 6, 3-5 pm

Carolina Lúgaro, Doctoral student, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Title: Deafness and Multiliteracies: Paths towards Inclusion in a Plurilingual and Multimodal World

Chair: Maria Bäcke, CCD, Jönköping University

Discussant: Ingela Holmström

ZOOM link:

Please contact susanne.smithberger@ju.se for the article.

May 21, 1-3 pm

Nina Bonderup

Title: Designing for situated knowledge in a world of change

ZOOM link: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/7262330985

Jun 4, 10 am-12-noon

Clemens Wieser, Associate professor, Denmark, http://au.dk/en/wie@edu

Title: "Video diaries as a resource for self-narrations in ethnographic research".

Chair: Elisabet Sandblom, Assistant professor, CCD, Jönköping University

ZOOM link: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/67363462677?pwd=dmgwTEdEeHJlWHk4d3dlS3NqVEovQT09 External link, opens in new window.

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