ELF14 2024 Conference Programme

Locations

● City Centre Campus (Hybernská 1009/24, Prague 1)
● Faculty of Arts (nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague 1)
● TBA
● TBA

Wednesday September 11

17:00—19:00 ●
Pre-registration and Welcome Drinks

Thursday September 12

08:30—09:15 ● Registration and Coffee Pitstop
09:15—09:30 ● Symbolic Handover from ELF13 (Wenli Tsou) / Conference Opening (Veronika Quinn Novotná and Jiřina Dunková + hosting institutions: Peter Howe and Jakub Rákosník)
09:30—10:20 ● Where Are We? Where Are We Going? The Past, Present, and Future of English(es) and ELF Research joint plenary with a summary — convened by B. Seidlhofer with M. Dewey, M.–L. Pitzl
10:30—11:30 ● AI Technologies and Present-day English joint plenary with a summary — A. Gruber with AI experts F. Doušek and J. Šlerka
11:30—12:00 ● → ● Transfer to Prague City University
Room 101 (meeting room)	Room 102 (PhD session)	Room 103 (colloquium)	Room 105	Room 106	Room 108	Room 109
		12:00—13:30 ● Colloquium — ELF and AI & English (LF/GL) convened by A. Gruber	12:00—13:30 ● Colloquium — ELF and Trans/Intercultural Communication convened by W. Baker
13:30—14:30 ● Lunch Break
		14:30—15:00 ● ELF and ELF Communication from a Psycholinguistic Speaker Perspectives plenary — K. Kohn
		Colloquium — Professional Identities of ELF-aware Teachers15:00—16:30 ● convened by N. Sifakis \| panelists: E. Llurda and I. Pineda
16:45—17:15 ● Coffee Break
	17:15—18:15 ● Poster Session	17:15—18:15 ● Colloquium — Professional Identities of ELF-aware teachers (continued) convened by N. Sifakis \| panelists: E. Llurda and I. Pineda		17:15—18:15 ● PhD Projects & Discussion: Sociolinguistics / CA moderated by ELF experts	17:15—18:15 ● PhD Projects & Discussion: Corpora moderated by ELF experts	17:15—18:15 ● PhD Projects & Discussion: Teaching moderated by ELF experts
19:30—20:30 ● Concert — Talks — Drinks

Friday September 13

09:00—09:45 ● Plenary and Short Discussion
09:50—10:20 ● “Polarity thinking, liminal spaces, and ELF: Moving from ‘either; or’ to ‘both; and’” E. Crisfield
10:30—11:00 ● “Resistance, awareness, and change: What does it take for ELF to become part of mainstream ELT?” N. Sifakis
11:00—11:30 ● → ● Transfer to Prague City University
Room 101 (meeting room)	Room 102 (PhD session)	Room 103 (colloquium)	Room 105	Room 106	Room 108	Room 109
		11:30—12:30 ● Colloquium — Virtual English as a Lingua Franca (VELF) convened by I. Pineda and R. Bosso	11:30—12:30 ● ELF and ELT: Facing the Challenges Ahead convened by E. Grazzi \| panelists: M. Dwey, Y. Bayyurt, L. Cavalheiro, S. Siqueira and A. Blair		11:30—12:30 ● Workshop VI: ELF through the Lens of the Language Management Framework facilitator: T. Sherman	11:30—12:10 ● Workshop I: Implementing ELF in TT facilitator:

						12:10—12:50 ● Workshop II: ELF & Literature facilitator: J. Quinn
		12:30—13:30 ● Colloquium — Translanguaging convened by E. Crisfield \| panelists: M. Saraceni, S. Moran Panero and R. Tupas			12:30—13:30 ● Workshop III: Implementing ELF at a Secondary Level facilitator: Š. Císařová
						12:50—13:30 ● Workshop V: facilitator:

13:30—15:00 Lunch Break
		15:00—16:00 ● Colloquium — Language (In)equalities and Multilingual Identities convened by M. Saraceni and C. Belanger			15:00—16:00 ● Workshop IV: Implementing ELF at Secondary Level facilitator: M. Hovorka	15:00—16:00 ● Plenary — Workshop VI: ELF-aware Pedagogy for English Language Teachers facilitator:
		16:00—17:00 ● Colloquium — ELF, Language and Race: Voices and Perspectives from the Global South convened by S. Rudwick			16:00—17:00 ● Workshop V: Implementing Findings from ELF Corpora in ELT facilitator: M. Duruttya	16:00—17:00 ● Workshop VII: ELF-aware Teacher Education for English Language Teacher Trainers facilitator: E. Kemaloglu-Er
17:00—17:30 ● Coffee Break
		17:30—18:30 ● Colloquium — “ELF and Decoloniality” or “ELF and Latin America” convened by S. Moran Panero	17:30—18:30 ● Session — “Exchange of Views” with H. Widdowson
20:00—02:00 ● Gala Dinner

Saturday September 14

09:00—09:40 ● Plenary — Y. Bayyurt
09:45—11:00 ● Poster Session	09:45—11:00 ● Colloquium — ELF and Trans/Intercultural Communication convened by W. Baker	Sponsored Sessions	Sponsored Sessions
11:00—11:30 ● Coffee Break
11:30—12:30 ● “Paradigms at a crossroads” — Fireside Chat 1 — 1×1 or 1×2 members (TBA)
12:30—13:15 ● Q&A
13:15—13:30 ● Closing Remarks and ELF15 2026 Announcement