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Imagining Inclusivity: The Role of Language in an Increasingly Diverse Ireland

This workshop is designed to facilitate dialogue between academics, policymakers, practitioners, and NGOs in imagining a more inclusive Ireland, and the role that language plays in how we envisage this inclusivity. The event stems from the project Languages, Families, and Society (LaFS) at University of Galway, which uses an ethnographic approach to understand more about the everyday lived experiences families who speak Irish as a home language, Polish as a home language, and Kurdish as a home language, and how these experiences intersect with language policy and support (or lack thereof) at the wider level.

The event is organised by Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas of Roinn na Gaeilge, University of Galway and Research Fellow with LaFS. It is hosted by the project ‘Languages, Families, and Society’ (Grant no.: 794800) at University of Galway, in conjunction with the Moore Institute and the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM).

Further information and registration link here.