Conference presentations

2025

(Guest lecture). Language contact and multilingualism in Iran. Purdue University, the United States, March 16
(with Mr. Reza Rostami) Family Language Policy in Iranian Kurdish families: A scalar analysis, presented at

The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, June 9-13.

2024

(Invited Plenary). Family, a racialized space: A phenomenological approach, presented at Exploring New

Directions in Family Language Policy: Contexts, Methods, and Perspectives, Ciudad Real, Spain, 18-19 January

(Invited talk). Family, a racialized space, presented at Sociolinguistics-Discourse Studie Series at Leiden

University, September 30, 2024

(Invited talk). Language Policy and Planning: Its genesis, development and current issues, presented at Sharif University, Iran, 8 December

2023

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi & Nawaser, Kamal. Towards conceptualizing demographic agency in language maintenance scholarship, presented at AILA 2023, Lyon, France, July 17-21, 2023.

2022

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Family language policy in Afghan families in Norway, presented at NORDAND 15, Iceland, 24-26 May, 2022.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. The politics of script(s) and writing in Iran, presented at Language in Society seminar at the Inter-University Center, IUC, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 20-24, 2022.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Sexuality on live streams: A glance at the issue of agency and structure in the online-offline nexus in Iran, presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, Ghent, July 13-16, 2022.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Family language policy from a Sothern perspective: The case of Afghan families in Norway, presented at AAAL, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 19-22, 2022.

2021

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Investigating agency and structure in family language policy scholarship, presented at 2nd Family Language Policy Symposium, Paris, France, November 27-29, 2021.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Linguistic landscapes: A window to (un)realities, invited talk presented at Department of Linguistics, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran, November 15, 2021.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi & Elahi Shirvan, Majid. Linguistic landscapes reflect and facilitate tourism: The case of medical tourism in Mashhad, Iran, presented at the political economy of language and space/place conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 1-3 September 2021.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. "In England, if you talk to a minor, you go to jail": Negotiation of age and its legal requirements across borders on online spaces, presented at 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, June 26 - July 02, 2021
Crepaldi, Yvonne Tse & Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. A tale of a transnational family in Singapore: Past experiences, present practices, future aspirations, presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 23 (SS23), 07 - 10 June 2021.

2019

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Language policy and language maintenance in Iran and Singapore: A comparative analysis, presentedatInternational Conference on Multilingual Awareness and Multilingual Practices (MAMP19), Thomas More University of Applied Sciences in Antwerp, Belgium, October 28-29, 2019.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Multilingualism in Singapore: Language management, Success, and Failure in 55 Years' Time, presented at Conference on Multilingualism 2019 (COM2019), Leiden, the Netherlands, September 1-3, 2019.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Family language policy in Singapore: A mirror of the asymmetric power relations between English and Malay, presented at Symposium - Analyzing Ideologies, Attitudes, and Power in Language Contact Settings, Stockholm, Sweden, May 16-17, 2019.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Mother tongue (in)acquisition in Singapore: The case of Malay-English bilingual children, presented at Multilingual Language Theories and Practices, Corfu, Greece, May 9-11, 2019.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Family language policies in Singapore: The case of interactions between Indian parents and children, presented at The CALA (2019), Inaugural Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, Siem Reap, Cambodia, January 23-26, 2019.

2018

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi, Jafari, Rasoul. Macro and micro language ideologies and practices: The story of English on the public and private linguistic landscapes in Iran, presented at the 23rd conference of the International Association for World Englishes (23rd IAWE), Manila, the Philippines, May 31- June 2, 2018.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Futurology of Languages in Singapore, presented at the 22nd Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS22), Auckland, New Zealand, June 27-30, 2018.

2016

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Sustainable Language Ecologies in a Multilingual World, a talk presented at a forum at International Conference on Humanities, Penang, Malaysia, December 22-23, 2016.

2013

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. To what extent do parents have control over family language policy? The case of language contact in Tabriz, Iran, paper presented at ALANZ & ALAA Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 27-29 November, 2013.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Can Discourse Be Planned? The role of a local channel and linguistic landscape in formation of ideologies in Tabriz, Iran, paper presented to the 4th New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC4), Auckland, New Zealand, 2-4 December 2013.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Policy as discourse in an educational context: The case of Azeri education in Tabriz, Iran, paper presented at the 14th NZ language and society conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 20-22 November 2013.

2012

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. The effect of a "no-policy policy" on linguistic landscape in Tabriz, Iran: A case of language attrition, paper presented at 13th New Zealand Language and Society Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 28-29 November 2012
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. Macro language policies and grass roots practices: The case of language attrition among Azeris in Tabriz, Iran, paper presented at Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference, Calgary, Canada 6-8 September 2012.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. The role of satellite channels in language shift/maintenance: The case of Tabriz, Iran paper presented at Language Endangerment in the 21st Century: Globalisation, Technology & New Media, Auckland, NZ 12 - 15 September 2012.

2011

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi. A TV channel for a minority: A critical analysis, paper presented at 19th Biennial Conference of Linguistics Society of New Zealand, Wellington, 17-18 November 2011.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi and Zandi, Hamed. Domain attrition in Zanjan: Causes and effects, paper presented at 19th Biennial Conference of Linguistics Society of New Zealand, Wellington, 17-18 November 2011.
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi and Hawes, Thomas. Language attrition and loss of identity: Azeri-Farsi code-switching in Tabriz, Iran, paper presented at the Conference of "Regional Varieties, Language Shift and Linguistic Identities," Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 7-10 July, 2011.

2010

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi and Nasjian, Nima. Is Azeri going to live or leave? A critical study of institutional supports available to Azeri in Tabriz, Iran. Paper presented at the 14th Conference of Foundation for Endangered Languages, "Reversing Language Shift: How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition," Carmarthen, Wales, 13-15 September, 2010.