Symposium on: Diversity and Power at Work

This half-day symposium focuses on diversity and power in the workplace and in everyday life.  The three speakers explore different aspects of the connection between diversity and power, including looking at how macro level discourses about language and culture interact with workplace practice in a culturally and linguistically diverse setting; investigating how linguistic choices in the public sphere is connected with discomfort and discrimination; and focusing on how gender stereotypes correspond to workplaces practices. As such, the symposium brings together research from sociolinguistics, diversity studies and immigration studies to explore how linguistic, cultural and gender diversity is intrinsically linked with power structures and power struggles.

Programme

10:00:

• Meredith Marra, Victoria University of Wellington: Winning an unrecognised battle: The impact of the 'culture order' on workplace discourse
• Elizabeth Benedict Christensen, Copenhagen Business School: When language causes discomfort in everyday life: The case of 1.5 generation undocumented youth in the US

11:20:

• Coffee break

11:50:

• Hans Jørgen Ladegaard, Hong Kong Polytechnic University : Gender, power and control: Stereotypes and facts about male and female leaders in the workplace

Participation is free of charge. Everyone is welcome, but please register here.

For more information, please contact Dorte Lønsmann