On 27th April 2024, seeFField Project Leader Ger Duijzings and Project Coordinator Aleksandra Salamurović head to Niš for Language, Literature, Intersectionality 2024!

The conference will host panels exploring the discourses on intersectional identities, gender and gender equality (and equity), gender sensitive language, oppression and privilege, disability and language, disability and class, language and class, dialect, regional literatures and class, nationality, race, as well other theoretical discussions pertaining to intersectionality.

Aleksandra will be chairing the panel Multilingualism through an Intersectional Lens and presenting on the topic of Multilingualism and Intersectionality in Academic Voices from Southeastern Europe, exploring the multi-faceted relationship between these phenomena within the academic writing of female scholars from the region.

Ger will be presenting on Social Sorting and Spacial Segregation: The Emergence of the So-Called ‘Roma Ghettos’ in Southeastern Europe, which proposes and examines this key concept and its role in the ‘ghettoisation’ of vulnerable groups such as the Roma.