Keynotes (Selected: Since 2010)

  • Language policy and the global South: Multilingualism, monolingualism, and English as a world language. International Conference on Language Metamorphosis: Implications for education in decolonial contexts. Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2024

  • Linguistic superdiversity and the multilingual turn: The dawn of a new era in applied linguistics? Congreso Paraguayo de Liguistica Aplicada. Paraguay, November 2024 (Online).

  • The multilingual turn, language policy, and English as a ‘world language’. The Education University of Hong Kong International PG Roundtable and Research Forum, July 2024 

  • Addressing sociolinguistic superdiversity and the multilingual turn: Implications for existing methods in language teaching and learning. IAKLE (International Association for Korean Language Education) Annual Conference, Seoul, June 2023

  • Language policy and minority language maintenance: The challenges of nationalism and globalization. Linguistic Forum 2021: Language policy and language preservation Moscow November 2021 (Online)

  • Language policy and minority rights: Implications for China. International Conference on Language Policy and Language Education. Shanghai, September 2021 (Online)

  • Addressing the multilingual turn: Implications for language learning and teaching. International Symposium on Bilingualism 13, Warsaw, July 2021 (Online)

  • Pacific bilingual education: Options and possibilities. Child well-being research symposium. University of Canterbury, April 2021

  • English language teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand: Key challenges and possibilities. Global English Education China Assembly, Belt and Road Forum for English Language Education, November 2020 (Online)

  • Bidirectional language policy: Promoting both international and local/indigenous languages. Sixth Language Policy and Language Planning Symposium in China, September 2020 (Online)

  • Developing a Pasifika languages policy: Implications for Aotearoa New Zealand and its Pacific partners. Lalanga Fou Languages and High Tech Fono, Auckland, November 2019. See: https://www.mpp.govt.nz/assets/Reports/Pacific-Aotearoa-The-Lalanga-Fou-Languages-and-High-Tech-Fono-Report.pdf

  • Language rights in Oceania. United Nations Workshop on Language Rights. Bangkok, September 2019

  • Superdiversity and indigenous language rights: Exploring the connections (and disjunctures). Indigeneity, Citizenship and Education Symposium. Auckland University of Technology, December 2018

  • Linguistic justice, linguistic citizenship and language rights: Charting the connections and disjunctures. Workshop on Linguistic Justice. KU University, Leuven, Belgium, April 2018

  • Cosmopolitan or multicultural? The politics of language, diversity and inclusion in a globalized world. 5th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, November 2016

  • Māori-medium education: history, challenges and possibilities. Symposium on bilingual and multilingual education in the Oceania-Pacific region, Australian National University, Canberra, October 2016

  • Language rights and multilingualism: Implications for migrants/transmigrants. Symposium on new speakers in a multilingual Europe, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, May 2016

  • Language minority rights in the age of superdiversity. International Association of Language Commissioners' Conference, Galway, Ireland, March 2016

  • The vision of a multilingual Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. Ngā Reo Maha, Ngā Reo Rere: Shaping a Multilingual Auckland, Auckland University of Technology, November 2015

  • What does superdiversity add to multilingualism? World Universities Network (WUN) Multilingualism and mobilities/Understanding globalization, University of Cape Town, October 2015

  • Strengthening ethnic education for the Karen peoples. Ethnic education in Myanmar ADRA, NORAG, KTWG Conference, Yangon, Myanmar, May 2015

  • Supporting bilingual/multilingual learners in English-medium contexts. Canterbury TESOL Association and University of Canterbury Plus Expo, May 2015

  • New Zealand’s changing demography: Implications for language (education) policy. Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ), November 2014

  • Differentiating (and articulating) language rights. Interactions between indigenous and migrant minority languages in changing multilingual environments, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, July 2013

  • Globalization, language(s), and mobility. The Economics of Language Policy. CESifo, Venice, July 2013

  • When education just isn’t enough: international lessons for language revitalization. Beyond Education: The future of language. University of Wales, Bangor, March 2013

  • Biculturalism, bilingualism and multiculturalism: lessons from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Rethinking Multiculturalism: Reassessing multicultural education international symposium. University of Western Sydney, Sydney, September 2011