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<p>Dear colleagues, </p>
<p>I have missed inserting the date before hitting the send button:</p>
<p>Tuesday, 09.06.2026 | 16:00 – 17:30 | SR 2 (1st floor),
Sensengasse 3a</p>
<p>Guest lecture by Melissa Moyer (Departament de Filologia Anglesa
i de Germanística, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) on <i>Reconstituting
Identity and Agency Recognition, Multimodality, and
Communicative Disruption after Acquired Brain Injury</i>.</p>
<p>Apologies & looking forward to seeing you there,</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Jonas Hassemer</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 01.06.2026 um 10:08 schrieb Jonas
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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>I'd like to invite you to a guest lecture by Melissa Moyer
(Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona) on <i>Reconstituting Identity and Agency
Recognition, Multimodality, and Communicative Disruption after
Acquired Brain Injury</i>. </p>
<p>The talk is hosted by the Doctoral School of Philological and
Cultural Studies and open for everyone interested.</p>
<p>It will take place at the Department of Linguistics,
Sensengasse 3a, Seminarraum 2 (1st floor) at 16:00.</p>
<p><b><span style="" lang="EN-US">Abstract</span></b> </p>
<p><span style="" lang="EN-US">This paper examines how identity
and agency are reconfigured following acquired brain </span>injury
(ABI), focusing on speakers with dysarthria. Drawing on a
two-and-a-half-year ethnographic study, it analyzes multimodal
interaction, narrative practices, and material environments to
show that identity and agency are not individual properties but
distributed across semiotic arrangements involving bodies,
artefacts, technologies, and interlocutors. However, such
distributed configurations remain fragile within social and
institutional contexts that privilege linguistic competence. The
paper advances the concept of reconstituted agency to account
for how these arrangements are stabilized and extended across
contexts, enabling identities to persist over time. It also
considers how collective identification can extend these
processes beyond interaction. In doing so, the paper develops a
theoretical account of how agency is reorganized from
distributed to reconstituted forms under conditions of
communicative disruption. </p>
<p><b><span style="" lang="EN-US">Melissa Moyer</span></b><span
style="" lang="EN-US"> is Professor of English Philology at
the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She recently held the
Mercè Rodoreda Chair at the Graduate Center, CUNY where she
taught a seminar on Sites of Multilingualism: A Critical
Ethnographic Approach on contexts of multilingualism in
Catalonia from a critical ethnographic focus. Her
contributions to the study of bilingualism and multilingualism
include work on multilingualism in Gibraltar, and London, and
communication in various institutional sites in Catalunya
dedicated to health, tourism, and job recruitment. Her
publications include Language, Migration and Social
Inequalities (2013) co-edited with Alexandre Duchêne and Celia
Roberts, a special issue on Language, Mobility and Work in the
Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication (2018),
her book on methods The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in
Bilingualism and Multilingualism (2008), co-edited with Li
Wei, and which received the 2009 book prize by the British
Association of Applied Linguistics. Her current areas of
interest include language, identity, and disability.</span></p>
<p>All info here:
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<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Jonas Hassemer</p>
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cols="72">Dr. Jonas Hassemer (he, him)
University Assistant Postdoc in Applied Linguistics
Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna
Sensengasse 3a
A-1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-41714
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