A Scottish postman was not racially discriminated against by an English colleague who repeatedly told him he couldn’t understand what he was saying, an employment tribunal has ruled. Go to news ...
“My accent does not diminish my intelligence, nor does it give anyone permission to treat me like a caricature for their personal entertainment.” Go to news ...
A testimonial of the intricate relationship between accent and identity. Go to testimonial ...
On the last 29 November 2023, Rosalba Nodari and Claudia Soria introduced accent discrimination and the CIRCE project to one class of the Liceo Scientifico “U. Dini” in Pisa, while Silvia Calamai gave a presentation at a secondary school (ITIS Galileo) in Arezzo on 30/11/2023. ...
A policeman has been convicted of gross misconduct in the UK for mimicking the Indian accent of a woman who had called to report a hate crime incident in November 2022 Go to news ...
Read a testimonial about the impact that comments on accent can have on personal life. Go to testimonial ...
On 24/11/2023, Giorgio Carella (UniSi) presented CIRCE at the Circolo Linguistico Fiorentino with the talk “Linguistic discrimination in Italian schools. UniSi and the CIRCE Project”. See the event page on Facebook. ...
Rob Drummond, one of CIRCE's advisors, is the author of the new book You're All Talk: Why You Are What You Speak. Read an interview here and listen to Dr. Drummond talk about accent and accentism in this episode of the Because Language podcast. ...
Il 10 ottobre 2023, presso l’Auditorium dell’Area della Ricerca del CNR di Pisa, i membri del progetto CIRCE incontreranno gli studenti delle scuole superiori per spiegare cos’è la discriminazione linguistica. L’evento fa parte del Programma Scuole di Areaperta dedicato a combattere stereotipi e pregiudizi. Quando:...
BRIGHT-NIGHT is the European Researchers' Night: the event designed by the European Commission with the aim of spreading scientific culture and showing the social impact of research. During BrightNight 2023 on 29 September, the CIRCE Italian teams will present the project on two occasions: in...