36.3216, FYI: Language Diversity: Foreign Accents and Multilingualism in 21st Century Britain (United Kingdom)

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Subject: 36.3216, FYI: Language Diversity: Foreign Accents and Multilingualism in 21st Century Britain (United Kingdom)

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Date: 21-Oct-2025
From: Miha Constantinescu [m.constantinescu at uel.ac.uk]
Subject: Language Diversity: Foreign Accents and Multilingualism in 21st Century Britain


You are warmly invited to join us for an engaging afternoon workshop
exploring multilingualism and ‘foreign’ accents in contemporary
Britain.
Hosted by: University of East London - School of Childhood and Social
Care
Convener: Dr Miha Constantinescu
Location: The Dome, University House, Stratford Campus
Date & Time: 5th November, 13:00 - 17:00
Free to attend – booking required due to limited capacity
Registration and full program available at:
https://tinyurl.com/MultilingualismUEL
This interdisciplinary event brings together psychologists, linguists,
philosophers, and musicians to examine how language diversity
intersects with education, AI, criminal justice, and social
environments. The workshop aims to raise awareness and foster positive
change in attitudes toward foreign accents.
Programme:
1pm: Dr Miha Constantinescu (UEL): Welcome & Presentation on ongoing
research on accents and bilingualism at UEL
1:30pm: Dr Effrosyni Argyri (UCL): Bilingualism and biliteracy in
childhood
2:00pm: Dr Virginia Lam (Roehampton): Growing up bilingual & the
Intergen project
2:30pm: Prof Silke Paulmann (Essex): The way we talk and how it
affects others
3:00pm: Comfort break
3:15pm: Dr Constantina Matlezou (Essex): Voice acoustics and perceived
speaker trustworthiness
3:45pm: Dr Cristian Constantinescu (LIS), Dr James Carney (LIS) & Dr
Miha Constantinescu (UEL): Turned down by machines? A quantitative
study of accent bias in AI-assisted hiring
4:15pm: Prof Lara Frumkin (Open), Dr Anna Stone (UEL): Accents in a
legal context
4:45pm: Prof Rachel Wicaksono (UEL): Closing address

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics




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