Trans(re)lating Diversity in Academic Terrains

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel explores different relational dilemmas and the (absence of) practices related to linguistic, communicative, and performative diversity in academic terrains. From our perspective, disseminating research and translating languages, practices, and knowledges are complicated and relational tasks, which call for attention to details, nuances, contexts, and relationships. Thus, this panel’s main concept and process is being referred as ‘trans(re)lating’. This necessarily diverse relational landscape generates a thinking-with language and language mastery. We address the dominance of English as the lingua franca in Academia, ethical and practical problematics of translation, forms of care beyond shared language, and neurodiverse perspectives on academic knowledge production. In addition, we use conceptual play, experimentation, and performance as ways to share our insights, propositions, and provocations.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Mirka E. Koro, Arizona State University

Papers

• Problematizing English as Master(y) Language for Qualitative Research - Mirka E. Koro, Arizona State University

• The Labor of Refusal: Creative and Ethical Possibilities for Decolonizing Linguistic Practices in Research - Marina Basu, Arizona State University; Mariia Vitrukh, Arizona State University

• Relational Invitations Through Play: Event Scores as Research Entry - Lauren Mark, Arizona State University; Teija Loytonen, Aalto University

• Body of Language: The Rhythmic In-Between of Neurodiverse Knowledge Production - Anani M Vasquez, Arizona State University; Csenge Kolozsvari