Language, Power and Politics in the Global Knowledge Economy

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Date & Time

Thu, 14 May 2026

19:00

Venue

Tanner room, Linacre College

St. Cross Road, Oxford OX1 3JA

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Explore the intersection of language, power, and politics in today's global economy.

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• Hear Professor Hultgren discuss the impact of universities being run like businesses.

• Learn about the linguistic consequences of universities being recast as competitive actors.

•Lecture explores the linguistic consequences of universities being recast as competitive, financialised actors.
•Discusses the impact of New Public Management reforms on English as a language of teaching and knowledge production.
•Examines how performance indicators and funding formulae have reshaped linguistic hierarchies.
•Invites conversation on how universities can serve knowledge, truth, democracy, equity and social justice.

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Professor at The Open University

Organized by: Linacre College

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