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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">This is to let you know that the 9<sup>th</sup><u>Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication </u><span style="margin:0px"></span>conference will be held on 3-4 April
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<b><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">‘Language, inequality and the everyday (un)making of alliances’</span></b><b><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt"> </span></b></p>
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 follows a series of global crises epitomised by moments of spectacular disruption such as the so-called ‘2008 economic crisis’ or the ‘COVID-19 pandemic’. But far from representing isolated events, these build on long-standing processes, practices and experiences
 of inequality which are increasingly at the centre of more and more people’s daily lives. The conference aims to provide a platform to reflect on the types of alliances that ethnographic and language scholarship might be able to generate in the (un)making
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:white">Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication is the biannual conference of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF), a special interest group of the
 British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). The conference was first inspired by a research training programme previously run at King’s College London and the Institute of Education. Hosted by Julia Snell, Sara Shaw and Fiona Copland, the first conference
 took place in 2008 at Aston University to offer further opportunities to exchange knowledge around ethnography, language and communication. Since then, the conference has aimed to:</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">Provide a dedicated cross-disciplinary forum for researchers who combine ethnographic and linguistic approaches;</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; background-color:white; margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">Facilitate high quality debate on contemporary issues across health, education, social policy and cultural studies;</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; background-color:white; margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">Establish a stimulating programme combining plenary lectur</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:white">es, data workshops
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">Facilitate international dialogue between linguistic ethnography and linguistic anthropology.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">The event will include individual papers, colloquia and three featured data analysis workshops. The confirmed keynote speakers and featured workshop organisers are:</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">In order to make it as affordable as possible, the organisation of this conference will be <span style="margin:0px; background-color:white">fully arranged by the local organising
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