The Erasmus+ CIRCE project online seminar “Intersectionality in Translingual Spaces: Migrant Experiences from ‘Down-Under’” will be held on 12 May 2025 at 14:00 CET. Speaker: Ana Tankosić – Curtin University, Australia.
The free seminar, organised by the CIRCE project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena, H2IOSC project and Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, will be included in the H2IOSC Training Environment to enable all interested parties to access the event registration.
Speaker Bio
Dr Ana Tankosić is a research fellow and sessional academic at Curtin University, Australia. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics of globalisation, transcultural identities, and migration discourses. She is a former Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher at Penn State University. Her co-edited volume, Becoming a Linguist, is recently published with Routledge, while her collaborative monograph, Linguistic Racism, is currently in preparation.
Summary
In spaces informed and characterised by Anglo-Western ideologies and discourses, migrants are exposed to overlapping forms of marginalisation where cultural and linguistic stereotypes coincide and blend with ethnic, racial, and gender stereotypes. In this presentation, I discuss how intersectionality is reflected in different forms of social stereotypes which attempt to subordinate, inferiorise, and judge translingual migrants in Australia. This discussion serves the purpose of uncovering underlying systemic and social disparities in Australia, as they are (in)advertently perpetuated and invigorated by a more dominant counterpart.