So: thank you #ipra2023 for having me; thank you audience members for all the wonderful feedback, and thank you all IPrA delegates for the countless parallel sessions of inspiring work.
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Storytime!🧵 This #ipra2023 Brussels trip carries a lot of significance for me. My last visit to Brussels was for an ERC interview in 2018. The panel was skeptical and I did not get the grant. I'd also been shortlisted for a Max Planck junior research group which I didn't get, so I would be out of a job that summer were it not for one more chance: a Vidi
It was a melancholy summer in which this Louis Cole song was on repeat https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RhllQAiEQlM&pp=ygURdGhpbmdzIGxvdWlzIGNvbGU%3D
♫ Things may not work out how you thought
Two plenaries this morning at #ipra2023. First up is Julia Snell on "Presumed (in)abilities and the ‘shape of interaction’ in classrooms". Schnell starts off with an intriguing definition of dialogue as "talk that discusses thinking, makes thinking public and refines thinking"
Snell's work is on dialect prejudice and what is now called #raciolinguistics; here's a relevant paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500782.2012.760584
(First of a possible thread, rest will be unlisted)