Dear colleagues, 

We are pleased to unveil below the programme for the international conference Identity Construction and English(es) from the Margins, which will take place on 28/29 May at the Université de Lorraine (Metz campus, Île du Saulcy, UFR ALL Metz, building B, room B110). 

Registration for the conference is now open. You can register here: https://engmargins.sciencesconf.org/registration?lang=en  

A live stream of the conference will be provided so that you can follow the event online. To receive the streaming link, please register via the link above by selecting the “Free of charge – online attendance” option from the drop-down menu. The streaming link will be sent to you a few days before the event. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact camille.ternisien@univ-lorraine.fr and/or adam.wilson@univ-lorraine.fr 

We look forward to seeing you at this event. 

Kind regards,

Camille Ternisien and Adam Wilson (on behalf of the organising committee) 

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Identity Construction and English(es) from the Margins

28–29 mai 2026 / 28-29 May 2026 – Université de Lorraine (Metz, France)

jeudi 28 mai / Thursday 28 May

9.15-9.45      Accueil et inscriptions / Welcome and Registration

9.45-10.00    Mots de bienvenue / Welcome Address

10.00-11.00  Conférence plénière 1 / Keynote 1

Navigating marginalisation through talk: Intersectional identity construction among LGBTQ+ youth

Lucy Jones

(University of Nottingham, Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom)

11.00-11.30  Pause / Coffee Break

11.30-12.30  Panel 1

11.30-12.00  English at the Algorithmic Margins: Queer Discursive Resistance in AI-Mediated Intimacy

                    Johanathan Woodworth, Andrea Fraser, Phillip Joy & Conor Barker

                    (Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada)

12.00-12.30  Nommer pour mieux (se) haïr. Pratiques de nomination et agentivité dans les discours incels

                    Johann Tournebize

                    (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France)     

12.30-14.00  Pause déjeuner / Lunch Break

13.30-14.30  Séance de posters / Poster Session

14.30-16.00  Panel 2

14.30-15.00  Marginalisation from Within: evaluating (ye) ken among Scottish listeners

                    Alexis Bruynooghe¹, Laure Lansari² & Sophie Herment¹

                    (¹Aix-Marseille Université, ²Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France)

15.00-15.30  Laughing at the Margins: Welsh English, Humor, and Identity Construction

                    Gaëlle Le Corre

                    (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)

15.30-16.00 The reclaiming of the English language by non-native speakers and marginalisation of native ones: focus on conversations at the front desk

                    Clarisse Thouvenot

                    (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France)

16.00-16.30  Pause / Coffee Break

16.30-17.30  Panel 3

16.30-17.00  African-American Vernacular English as staged by the author and ethnographer Zora Neale Hurston: the rural town of Eatonville as a performative locus of identity construction

                    Johanna Galis

                    (Université Paris 8, France)

17.00-17.30 Linguistic Key Patterns and Identity Construction in Translation: Comparing Kourouma's Postcolonial Texts and Diome's Diasporic Novel

                    Kossi Adzalo

                    (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France)

20.00  Dîner de gala / Conference Dinner

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vendredi 29 mai / Friday 29 May

09.00-9.30    Accueil et inscriptions / Welcome and Registration

9.30-10.30    Conférence plénière 2 / Keynote 2

Marginalising language, building consensus: The precarious trajectories of “gender” in Europe

Erez Levon

(Université de Berne, Suisse)

10.30-11.00  Pause / Coffee Break

11.00-12.00  Panel 4

11.00-11.30  Constructing a Nigerian Identity Through Englishes and Pidgins—Endonormativist Discourse

                    Laura Goudet

                    (IUF, Université de Rouen Normandie, France)

11.30-12.00  Different standards for different identities: English borrowings in French ludolects

                    Heather Burnett

                    (LLF, CNRS, France)

12.00-14.00  Pause déjeuner (+ séance de posters) / Lunch Break (+ Poster Session)

14.00-15.00  Panel 5

14.00-14.30  A Critical Discourse Analysis of Immigrant metaphors in the speeches of American presidents

                    Peter Teo

                    (Nanyang Technological University, Singapour / Singapore)

14.30-15.00  English as Dominant or Minority Language?Ethnographic Insights into The Dynamics of Linguistic Identities in Bilingual Workplaces in Canada

                    Manon Bouyé

                    (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France)

15.00-15.30  Pause / Coffee Break

15.30-16.30  Panel 6

15.30-16.00 Doing Crip Scholarship Online: Discursive Strategies,Crip Time, and Public Intellectualism

                    Rachael Gabriel

                    (University of Connecticut, USA)

16.00-16.30  Multilingualism and handwritten signature: the case of Palestinian Arab higher education students in Israel

                    Deia Ganayim

                    (ACMBB, Israël)

16.30            Conclusions et clôture / Closing Remarks

17.00            Cocktail de clôture / Closing Drinks Reception