Ph.D. candidate Vanessa Quintana Sarria, from the Department of Applied Linguistics, gave a presentation at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) on October 6th 2023 and share preliminary results of my dissertation. The talk is called: Translanguaging in the English Mainstream Classroom: Discovering the Academic Power of Multilingualism. The talk was presented to the Foreign languages and Education Departments. The audience consisted of professors, undergraduate and graduate students of two universities in Colombia. Also, she presented the same topic at the International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education at University of Malta, Old Valletta Campus, 12-13 October 2023.

Another presentation took place on October 13 at the RESET reading seminar held at Tampere University and CRADLE at University of Helsinki. This group of CHAT scholars bring together researchers who use and develop cultural-historical activity theory and formative intervention methods to address acute societal challenges requiring transformations. My talk covers the adaptation of CHAT as a way to expand the knowledge and challenges of the subject in a multilingual teaching activity system.