Michel DeGraff will give a live lecture as part of the Brazilian Linguistics Association online conference series “Abralin ao Vivo – Linguist Online”.
The lecture is titled:
Black lives will not matter until our languages also matter:
The politics of linguistics and education in post-colonies
The politics of linguistics and education in post-colonies
(The abstract is in the description box of YouTube link)
During the lecture, people will be able to send comments and ask questions in a chat at YouTube link to the live transmission: https://youtu.be/-M91rn4Tr_Q.
In light of this difficult quarantine period, the “Abralin ao Vivo” series is designed to give students and researchers free access to state-of-the-art discussions on the most diverse topics related to the study of human language.
Abralin ao Vivo is a joint project of the Brazilian Linguistics Association (abralin.org) in collaboration with the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (ciplnet.com), the Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (mundoalfal.org), Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Lingüísticos (sael.com.ar), the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (aila.info), the Societas Linguistica Europaea (societaslinguistica.eu), the Linguistic Society of America (linguisticsociety.org), the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (lagb.org.uk), the Australian Linguistic Society (als.asn.au/) and the British Association for Applied Linguistics (baal.org.uk).
For more information about Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online, please visit: aovivo.abralin.org. For updates on the event’s programme, follow Abralin at instagram.com/abralin_oficial. All the lectures are also available on Abrali’n YouTube channel: youtube.com/abralin.