The 3rd International Symposium on Social Justice in English Language Education will be held on Bahçeşehir University’s South (Beşiktaş) campus on May 30 and 31, 2025.
The concept of social justice has been gaining increasing significance in recent years and has permeated the fields of Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching, just as it has in many other social sciences. Against this backdrop, numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations have been published on social justice in these fields.
In this context, Bahçeşehir University will host the 3rd Symposium on Social Justice in English Language Education, bringing together academics, teachers, teacher educators, activists, writers, and anyone else interested in social justice studies. The symposium will be organized by an international team of scholars, including BAU faculty member Dr. Ufuk Keleş, and will take place on May 30-31.
The theme of the symposium is "Language Education in Turbulent Times", and the keynote speakers will be Dr. Peter de Costa from Michigan State University, Dr. Ryuko Kubota from the University of British Columbia, and Dr. Yasemin Tezgiden-Cakcak from Middle East Technical University.
Dr. de Costa is the co-editor of TESOL Quarterly and the current president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), while Dr. Kubota is the president-elect of AAAL. Additionally, Dr. Bedrettin Yazan, co-editor of TESOL Journal, and Dr. Deniz Ortaçtepe-Hart, the author of the book Social Justice and the Language Classroom, will participate as invited panel speakers.
The symposium will feature workshops, panels, concurrent paper presentations, and student poster sessions. For more information, please visit www.socialjusticeinelt.com.
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