InZentIM Working Lab: Linguistic Discrimination in Higher Education and the Work Sphere
am 9. Juli 2026 am Campus Essen
InZentIM Working Lab Linguistic Discrimination in Higher Education and the Work Sphere
This colloquium focuses on the socially and economically constructed value of languages and the consequences of such value attributions — particularly linguistic discrimination — in higher education and the labour market (professional and academic contexts).
We invite contributions that explore how language ideologies, policies, and practices affect individuals and institutions, as well as contributions that investigate how linguistic diversity is negotiated, managed, or contested in academic and professional settings.
We are very happy to have the following invited speakers with us: Prof. Stephen May (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Dr. Mi Yung Park (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and Dr. Stephen Lucek (University College Dublin, Ireland).
About the InZentIM Working Labs
The Working Labs are intended primarily to support thematic networking among researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Colleagues conducting research in one or more of the areas mentioned are warmly invited to participate. We would particularly like to encourage doctoral researchers to take part as well. The plan is for participants to briefly present their thematically relevant research projects to one another, followed by an informal exchange after the presentations."
This Working Lab is being held in cooperation between the Interdisciplinary Centre for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Educational Research (IZfB) and organized by Dr. Tobias Schroedler and Dr. Judith Purkarthofer.
Organisatorisches Zeitplan/Programm
Start 12.15
Introduction to the WorkingLab
Dr. Judith Purkarthofer & Dr. Tobias Schroedler, University Duisburg-Essen
Keynote Dr. Stephen Lucek, University College Dublin
University Staff Language Practices:
Missed Opportunities and Linguistic Discrimination
Break 13.30 to 14.00
Presentations 14.00 to 16.00
Dr. Sandra Issel-Dombert, University of Duisburg-Essen
Linguistic Discrimination in Transnational Care Work: Filipina Domestic Migrant Workers’ Lived Experiences in Madrid
İrem Karaçay, University of Mannheim
Boundaries that Matter: Changes in Ethnic and National Identification Upon Differential Linguistic Discrimination Among Minority-Origin Migrants
Alexandra Brill, University of Vienna
Language-Related Subjectivation and Institutional Non-Recognition: Legibility, Recognisability, and Multilingualism of Women from Ukraine in Germany
Kseniia Pershina, University of Duisburg-Essen
Linguistic Hierarchies in Healthcare: Migrant Nurses’ Perceptions of Multilingualism
Break 16.00 to 16.30
Keynotes 16.30 to 18.30
Keynote Dr. Stephen May & Dr. Mi Yung Park, both University of Auckland, New Zealand
Linguistic discrimination in higher education: International implications
Helena Weyland, University of Duisburg-Essen
“It didn't help my career at all." - Understanding beneficial and hindering effects of heritage language use in the workplace
Dr. Stephen Lucek
Assistant Professor in Linguistics at University College Dublin
He specialises in Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistic and he has recently completed a project on linguistic discrimination in Irish secondary schools and has been investigating language related discrimination at many different levels of society. This has extended to an investigation of language use amongst staff in an Irish University. This type of differentiation is unprotected by law, which further entrenches the insidious power of prestige through education and work. He has published in leading journals including the Journal of Language and Discrimination and Linguistics Vanguard.
Dr. Stephen May
Professor in the School of Education and Social Practice, University of Auckland, New Zealand
He is an international authority on language rights, language policy, bilingual education, the multilingual turn in language teaching, and critical multicultural approaches to education.
Stephen has published over 130 articles and book chapters in these areas, along with 27 books, including the award-winning Language and minority rights (2 nd ed., 2012) and The multilingual turn (2014). His most recent books are Critical ethnography, language, race/ism and education (2023) and Mobilizing multilingual identities: Language policy, teaching, and learning (2026). Stephen is founding co-editor of the journal Ethnicities, an AERA Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (FRSNZ).
Dr. Mi Yung Park
She is an interdisciplinary scholar in sociolinguistics, migration and diasporic studies, and a qualitative methodologist. She has published widely on language, migration, and identity, with a particular focus on the maintenance of Asian languages and linguistic discrimination
in South Korea, New Zealand, and Hawaii. Her most recent book is Mobilizing multilingual identities: Language policy, teaching, and learning (2026). She is an Associate Editor of
the Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, and an editorial board member for Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Korean Linguistics, and The Korean Wave.
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