Programme



Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Australian Cities

University of Western Australia

Crawley Campus, Arts Lecture Room 6

Monday, 24 November 2025

 

Conference programme


     

9am – 9.15am

Welcome to the Conference and to UWA

 

9.15am

Keynote 1: Jane Simpson

Speech, sign and writing; Multilingual repertoires over time in a small town

 

10am – 10.30am

Morning tea

 

10.30am – 12pm

Panel 1: Translingual Transmissions

Kyoko Kawasaki, ‘Policies and Practices at Japanese Community Language Schools in Australia: Translanguaging Amidst Two Monolingual Mindsets’

 

Arum Kim, ‘When AI Joined the Writing Class: Translingual Practices of Korean Language Learners in an Australian University’

 

Jiaji Zhang and Xiaoping Gao, ‘Family Language Policy in Australian Chinese Households: A Scoping Review’

 

12pm-1pm

Lunch (provided)

 

1pm-2pm

Keynote 2: Sender Dovchin

The Extraordinary Ordinariness of Translingual Writing in Australian Cities

 

2pm-3pm

Roundtable: Writing and Researching Multilingual and Translingual Writing

Lakshmi Kanchi, Lidya Pawestri Ayuningtyas, Amy Harris, Bingjie Fu

 

3-4.30pm

Panel 2: Languages in Public Space

Hong Cai, ‘Australia’s Linguistic Landscape: A Survey of Government Practices and Future Plans’

 

Elena Pirovano, ‘Multilingualism and Translanguaging Practices in Public Spaces: Languages Experiences in Local Libraries’

 

Maria Rosaria Francomacaro, ‘Unveiling Italian Street Names in WA’

 

4.30–5pm

Afternoon tea

 

5–6pm

Panel 3: Multilingual Narratives [online panel]

Alice Chik, ‘The Aftermath of Migration: A Linguistic Landscape Analysis of Multilingual Australian Picturebooks’

 

Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth, ‘The City and the Country: The Evolving Place of the Urban in Francophone Writing on Australia’

6-7pm

Keynote 3: Adrian Vickers: Languages in the Australian Archive

 

7pm

Conference dinner (informal)

 

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