Past event
Join us for our first SIG forum! We warmly invite you to our first Literacy and Language SIG forum where we’ll introduce our plans for the coming year and begin shaping our collective priorities. This will be an informal, discussion-focused session aimed at gathering your ideas, interests and hopes for the SIG, and we look forward to welcoming longstanding and new members.
We would love to know:
Please feel free to email us directly, or share your ideas during the session.
We’re very excited to begin this journey with you and hope to see many of you at our first forum. Thank you for being part of this community, and we can’t wait to work together to strengthen and celebrate the many dimensions of literacies and languages research and practice.
Programme
16:00Â Â Â Welcome & Introductions; Harper Styles, University of Munich; Katherine
         Davis-Wright, The King Edmund School
16:15Â Â Â Â SIG priorities and planning for 2026
16:40Â Â Â Open Discussion
17:00Â Â Â Close of meeting
Researcher at Technical University of Munich
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