# Event Details - **Event Name**: Public Lecture: Racism, Language and Educational Materials - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 02:00 pm - **Event Description**: In this LIFELANGS Public Lecture, Professor Bassey E. Antia discusses racism, language and educational materials.About this EventAbstract: Racism continually evolves to redefine itself, morphing into less objectionable categories by swapping its biological premises for increasingly hidden, cultural ones. As an interlocking system of mutually reinforcing hierarchies motivated by constantly shifting rationales, racism has developed sophisticated mechanisms that conceal the very dynamics of its exercise. While researchers frequently draw attention to overt racialized verbal interactions inside and outside the classroom, the ‘non-standard’ forms of language racialized text personas are permitted to use in prescribed texts, and the exoticized descriptions and visual profiling of these personas, much less attention has been paid to the grammar that actively sustains an insidious politics of knowing within educational materials.This talk addresses this gap by analyzing the hidden textual grammar of who knows, who is known, and how; whose knowledge is represented as certain or uncertain; and knowledge about whom is presented as independent versus dependent on others. Drawing on an ongoing project that theorizes a text-linguistic turn to decolonizing the curriculum, I elucidate the racialized politics of knowledge in apartheid-era school textbooks in South Africa. Finally, I outline a concrete pedagogy for making racial ideology in educational texts visible and for writing against the racialized grain.Bassey E. Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. An alumnus of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he holds a PhD from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His teaching, research, and publications span several areas, including language policy and multilingualism, the cultural politics of language and knowledge production in the Global South, and terminology theory and applications. He manages a government language policy implementation initiative across South African public universities. He holds visiting professorships at Trinity College Dublin and Rhodes University, and was previously a DAAD Visiting Professor at the University of Education Heidelberg. Recent co-edited publications include The Routledge Handbook of Language andRace (2026), Multilingual Assessment: Finding the Nexus (2024), and Southernizing Sociolinguistics: Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in the Global South (2023). - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/belfast/public-lecture-racism-language-and-educational-materials/100001992811132743 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Queen's University Belfast - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Belfast - **state**: NI - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Queen's University Belfast - **lat**: 54.5844087 - **long**: -5.934049400000001 - **full address**: Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Public Lecture: Racism, Language and Educational Materials - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/ea618ab171d46380ad874db13bada4d6015eda6f8e3fb6ad322487071d219a08-rimg-w610-h455-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1782820097 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Public Lecture: Racism, Language and Educational Materials being held? - **A:** Public Lecture: Racism, Language and Educational Materials takes place on Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 02:00 pm at Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Public Lecture: Racism, Language and Educational Materials? - **A:** Public Lecture: Racism, Language and Educational Materials is organized by Centre for Language Education Research QUBelfast. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Public Lecture: Racism, Language and Educational Materials", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/ea618ab171d46380ad874db13bada4d6015eda6f8e3fb6ad322487071d219a08-rimg-w610-h455-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1782820097", "startDate": "2026-07-09", "endDate": "2026-07-09", "url": "https://allevents.in/belfast/public-lecture-racism-language-and-educational-materials/100001992811132743", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Queen's University Belfast", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "University Road", "postalCode": "BT7 1NN", "addressLocality": "Belfast", "addressRegion": "NI", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "54.5844087", "longitude": "-5.934049400000001" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "In this LIFELANGS Public Lecture, Professor Bassey E. 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