Dear EATAW Community and Members,
We are working closely with the organizing committee to make this another memorable event. The theme of the conference is: Multilingual Academic Literacies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of AI. And we have a wonderful lineup of keynote speakers joining us: Suresh Canagarajah, Julia Molinari, and Frederico Navarro.
More details about the conference can be found below!
We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you in July.
Djuddah Leijen
On behalf of the EATAW board
Conference announcement and CFP
Dear Colleagues,
As announced in the last EATAW Newsletter (Number 18, May 2024), the 2025 EATAW Conference will be hosted by the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal, on July 2, 3, and 4.
Members, research groups, and affiliated organizations are invited to submit proposals for pre conference activities, which will be held on July 1.
Under the theme Multilingual Academic Literacies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of AI, this conference will enable the discussion of important issues such as:
- How do we understand and foster multilingual academic literacies?
- What current social, political, economic or technological phenomena challenge or facilitate the development of academic literacy, and how do we respond to these?
- How is the role of multilingualism in Europe changing, and how will this affect university writing?
- How is the growing use of large language models and other GenAI tools affecting academic literacy and/or multilingualism?
- How can GenAI tools help or hinder the teaching and learning of academic writing?
- How can writing specialists best be informed/educated/trained to deal with the challenges of multilingual academic literacy in the present time?
Keynote speakers are:
- Suresh Canagarajah -Pennsylvania State University
- Julia Molinari – Open University (OU) Graduate School
- Federico Navarro – Universidad de O’Higgin
Paper submission will start on November 1, 2024, and end on January 10, 2025.
The conference fee is €230 until May 1, 2025 (early-bird fee) and €260 afterward.
The conference venue
Braga is a historical city in the north of Portugal. It was an important place in Roman times (Bracara Augusta), the starting point for various access routes to other parts of the Iberian Peninsula. Today, Braga combines history and modernity, attracting people worldwide to live and work or enjoy everything it offers. It is 40 minutes by train from Porto’s international airport.
Founded in 1973, with campuses in the two most important cities in the area (Braga and Guimarães), the University of Minho nowadays has a central role in the region, is an important reference for the country, and is a recognized partner in the European and global scene. Academic writing support at the university – size, scale, approach, languages? Academic writing in Portugal and interest to/of the local teaching population?
Book this date in your calendar!
We look forward to meeting you in Braga in July 2025.