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Upcoming Events
1-3 September 2026: LEF will be at the BAAL 2026 conference at Aston University in Birmingham. Click here for more information.​​​​
24-25 May 2027: The 11th Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication conference will be hosted by Helsinki University. Click here for more information.
Past Events:
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PhD School at the University of Copenhagen
Linguistic ethnographic perspectives on contemporary challenges in education
PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Copenhagen
8th -9th of June 2026
Educational contexts are increasingly complexified by intersecting socio-cultural differences and inequalities as well as technological developments of digital resources and GAI. Hence, contemporary socializing factors include not only school and family, but also social media and digital communities that may shape ideologies and alignments related to life prospects and education. Linguistic ethnography has proven a fruitful approach in capturing the complexities of contemporary social life, and it is both assumed and shown that language holds an important practical, educational, economic, and symbolic position which is connected to wider historical processes. In this course we explored some of the contemporary challenges in education as well as linguistic ethnography as a framework for uncovering these.​
Two-Part E-Seminar
This e-seminar centred on the Special Issue of Multilingua, guest edited by our Lian Malai Madsen, Anne Larsen and Janus Spindler Møller:
“Critical reflections on criticality in the study of language, culture and society”. ​
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Here’s how it worked:
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April 1, 2026: Special Issue’s editorial sent out to LEF members.
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April 10, 2026: Mi-Cha Flubacher and David Karlander launched a discussion of the article on the mailing list.
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April 10–30, 2026: LEF members shared thoughts and joined the discussion on the list.​
The second part of the e‑seminar took place as a webinar‑style event on May 5, during which the Special Issue contributors presented their papers and responded to themes from the email discussion.
4-6 September 2025: LEF was at the BAAL 2025 conference in Glasgow.
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18-19 August 2025: The 10th Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication conference was hosted by Copenhagen University.
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5-7 September 2024: LEF Strand was well represented at BAAL 2024 (University of Essex).
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3-4 April 2023: The 9th Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication conference was hosted by the Institute of Education, UCL. ​​​