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...
On 26 September 2023, the UNISI and CNR-ILC teams will present the CIRCE project during the event organized by the Department of Philology and Literary Criticism of the University of Siena to celebrate the European Day of Languages. Event page ...
CIRCE has released the first version of its Code of Conduct. The Code provides general ethical principles on how CIRCE members should operate during the life cycle of the project, and in particular regarding students and schools. Code of Conduct ...
General Info: The CIRCE Project members will meet in person on 18 and 19 September 2023, in Arezzo, Italy. The meeting will be hosted by Università di Siena, Dipartimento di Filologia e Critica delle Letterature Antiche e Moderne/Department of Philology and Literary Criticism (DFCLAM: https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/it) Agenda Meeting place: Campus del...