I am excited to share a recent panel discussion I hosted at the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) in London, now available to watch on YouTube. Titled ‘In Conversation With Syed Farid Alatas: Re-Thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and the Decolonisation of Academia’, the event brought together […]
I am excited to announce a Call for Papers for a forthcoming special issue in the Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, which I will co-edit with Othman Barnawi and Rizwan Ahmad. The special issue theme is ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’ and […]
I am excited to announce a new podcast series for our journal, Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The series is called ‘Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Conversations’ and features authors who have contributed to the journal, offering deeper insights into their work, and engaging in broader conversations […]
Please note: This is an updated post with the link to the recording below On Monday 2 December 2024, during the online segment of the 2024 SRHE annual conference, Professor Farid Alatas delivered a thought-provoking keynote address in which he emphasised an urgent need for the decolonisation of […]
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new article, co-authored with Zhen Li [李蓁], titled “Towards Understanding Heritage Literacy” (see link). This research provides a fresh perspective on the intersection of heritage and linguistics, introducing and defining the concept of heritage literacy through an ethnographic study […]
Last month I visited two universities in Doha, Qatar: Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Qatar University. At Hamad Bin Khalifa, I gave a talk on a linguistic concept I am currently developing, which expands on the concept of heritage literacy that I have been writing about. The talk, […]
I had a great time recording a podcast with Tazin Abdullah as part of the Language On The Move series, in collaboration with the New Books Network. You can listen to it here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-semiotics-of-muslimness-in-china Alternatively, you can also find the podcast on the Language On The Move website […]
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