IMISCOE SC EduSocial and CIES-Iscte, in collaboration with Eurac Research and CESSMIR (Ghent University), are pleased to invite you to the fifth session of the webinar series “Language, Power, and Social Boundaries: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Social Spaces.”
This series brings together researchers and professionals from around the world to discuss innovative projects on language and power dynamics.
DATE
October 5, 2026
TIME
2:00 p.m., Lisbon time (GMT) (3:00 p.m. in Brussels; 4:00 p.m. in Istanbul)
LOCATION
Online via Teams: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/61237d8c-142c-47e3-a4a2-2117a40bcf89@6230e860-bfc5-4095-a6bc-104721add6e6?source=copyLinkLegacyShareLinkDialog
REGISTRATION
https://forms.gle/Tp51poufdV3ACnBp8
Following the success of previous sessions, this fifth session will feature:
- Yasemin Erdoğan Öztürk, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karabük University, Turkey
- Gülşah Türk-Yiğitalp, researcher in the Department of English Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Yasemin Erdoğan Öztürk is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karabük University in Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. in English Language Teaching, with a specialization in Linguistic Studies, from the Middle East Technical University (METU), where she serves as co-coordinator of the METU DISCORE Research Group. Working at the intersection of sociolinguistics and critical discourse studies, her research focuses on migration, multilingualism, linguistic ideologies, identity, and gender. Her work analyzes how language mediates feelings of belonging, social differentiation, and power in transnational and digitally mediated contexts.
Gülşah Türk-Yiğitalp is an early-career researcher in the Department of English Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She holds a master’s degree in Nationalism from the Central European University and a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from Hacettepe University. Her research interests include language policy, linguistic ideologies, and forced migration. Her doctoral project critically analyzes an EU-funded language teaching program for refugee students in Turkish public schools through critical sociolinguistic ethnography, and explores how this program functions as a tool for migration governance.
