In this page we are featuring all the conferences that took place abroad. International conferences hosted by Colombian organizations will appear in the "National and Local Presentations" page.

2023

2022

  • Mora, R. A. (2022, May 18-21). A reverse look at the gamification process, or when a literacy scholar learns to play Mortal Kombat. Eighteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry [Virtual].
  • Literacies in Second Languages Project. (2022, May 18-21). Looking Back, Moving Forward: A 10-year diaethnography of a research community. Eighteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry [Virtual].
  • Golovátina-Mora, P., & Mora, R. A. (2022, May 18-21). Embodied literacies: what does dance contribute to the literacy studies?. Eighteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry [Virtual].
  • Mora, R. A., Golovátina-Mora, P., & Dando, M. N. (2022, May 18-21). Multimodal magical realism and the politics of grieving and hope: a critical multimodal analysis of three media events. Eighteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry [Virtual].
  • Mora, R. A., Tobón-Gallego, A. E., Mejía-Vélez, M. C., & Agudelo, E. (2022, May 18-21). Multimodal Conscientização: The potential of criticality to construct utopian curricula through text design. Eighteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry [Virtual].
  • Mora, R. A., Cañas, C., Gutiérrez-Arismendy, G., Ramírez, N. A., & Gaviria, C. A. (2022, April 21-26). A critical literacies read in/from Colombia: Reading uncertain times. [Virtual Paper Presentation] Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA. http://aera22-aera.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx?s
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  • Golovátina-Mora, P., & Mora, R. A. (2022, April 7-8). On spoons, pots, and the rhythms of the street: Champeta as literacy practice. Online International Conference, “Decolonizing tertiary dance education: Time to act”, SKH, Sweden and Makerere University, Uganda
  • Golovátina-Mora, P., & Mora, R. A. (2022, January 24-25) Literacy as a framework for participatory society. Nettverk For Formgiving, Kunst Og Håndverk I Uh-Sektoren. Nettverkskonferanse.

2021

  • Mora, R. A., Sánchez, C. A., Mazo, J. C., Londoño-Mazo, J., Gómez-Ramírez, T., Martín, A., Sanmartín-Arango, J., & Díez-Trujillo, J. D. (2021, December 1-4). Looking at gamification from within: Gamers-as-Teachers transforming their classrooms [Paper Presentation]. Literacy Research Association’s 71st Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA. https://youtu.be/Iu5QJRyRXiE
  • Mora, R. A. (2021, October 8). Gamification and the language classroom: It’s not about the games; it’s all about the gamers [Keynote Address]. VI Seminário Formação de Professores e Ensino de Língua Inglesa, Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS). https://youtu.be/e3OdBG3XVZE
  • Mora, R. A. (2021, May 17-22). Revisiting the need (and nature) of fieldwork as an issue of equity and access in graduate-level educational research - Lessons after one year of massive recalibration efforts [Paper presentation]. Seventeenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry [Virtual] [PDF]
  • Mora, R. A., & Golovátina-Mora, P. (2021, May 17-22). Duoethnographic co-teaching: Revisiting classroom instruction as co-creation [Paper presentation]. Seventeenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry [Virtual] [PDF]
  • Mora, R. A., Sánchez, C. A., & López-Ladino, M. (2021, May 17-22). Creating virtual research communities as our next collaborative frontier, or how we moved an entire Legion to Discord [Paper presentation]. Seventeenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry [Virtual] [PDF]
  • Agudelo-Lopera, Z. Y. & Castrillón-Ángel, E. F. (2021, April 9-12). Digital literacies meet second-language instruction in Colombia: Developing language learning and digital agency. In J. Lammers (Chair), Digital literacies for global meaning making: Learning from four cases from the Global South [Symposium]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association [Virtual]. https://youtu.be/gJpJn3d1iaY
  • Mora, R. A., Agudelo, E., Jaramillo, S., Herrera. A. M., Cárdenas, Y., Correa, E., & Salazar, C. (2021, April 9-12). Second language literacies and community spaces: Decentering space and decentralizing language in our city. [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association [Virtual]. https://aera21-aera.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx?s=FE-3D-37-63-D7-AD-B5-CE-8A-4A-62-8B-71-98-8F-41

2020

  • Cañas, C, Mora, R. A., López-Ladino, M, Castrillón-Ángel, E. F. & Agudelo-Lopera, Z. Y. (2020, November 30, December 5) The impact of graduate literacies education from and in the Global South [Symposium]. Literacy Research Association 70th Annual Conference [Virtual]. https://youtu.be/wyu10ASdVkQ
  • Mora, R. A., & Golovátina-Mora, P. (2020, November 26-28). Triaging learning in these remote[ly] online times [Master Class]. International Scientific Conference Communication Trends in the Post-Literacy Era: Polylingualism, Multimodality, and Multilingualism, Ural Federal University, Russian Federation [PDF]
  • Mora, R. A. (2020, May 20-23). A RetCon Longitudinal Study? How did we get here? What does this mean? [Paper presentation] Sixteen International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://icqi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/QI2020-First-Preliminary-Program.pdf (Conference canceled)
  • Mora, R. A. & Castaño, W. (2020, May 20-23). Poliangulando ando: Trascendiendo la visión tradicional del análisis, entrando a un multiverso analítico [Paper presentation]. Sixteen International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://icqi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/QI2020-First-Preliminary-Program.pdf (Conference canceled)
  • Mora, R. A. & Golovátina-Mora, P. (2020, May 20-23). Duoethnography as teaching methodology: Our journey in a doctoral seminar [Paper presentation]. Sixteen International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://icqi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/QI2020-First-Preliminary-Program.pdf (Conference canceled)
  • Mora, R. A., Cañas, C., & Salazar, N. A. (2020, April 17-21). Refocalizing second-language teacher education: Learning from rural sites to reconfigure teacher education practices [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aera20/ (Conference canceled)
  • Mora, R. A., Jaramillo, S., Agudelo, E., Herrera, A. M., Cárdenas, Y., Yepes, H., Correa, E., & Salazar, C. (2020, November 30 - December 5). Second language literacies as spaces for language appropriation and community building in the city [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association 70th Annual Conference [Virtual]. https://youtu.be/lFjiAZTliec
  • Mora, R. A., Méndez Valencia, T., & Gómez Pérez, S. (2020, October 5-9). Experiencias en la formación bilingüe. 1er Congreso de Literacidad para una Cultura Científica, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. https://youtu.be/tmEKSQk2d8Q
  • Mora, R. A., Trigos-Carrillo, L., Golovátina-Mora, P., Cañas, C., Gutiérrez-Arismendy, G., Ramírez, N., & Gaviria, C. A. (2020, April 17-21l). Critical literacies from/in/for Colombia: Reading the world and the word in uncertain times [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aera20/ (Conference canceled)
  • Mora, R. A., Yepes, H., & Herrera, A. M. (2020, April 17-21). Second language literacies and comics: Language learning and appropriation as connoisseurship [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aera20/ (Conference canceled)

2019

  • Cañas, C., Chiquito, T., Mejía-Vélez, M. C., Salazar Patiño, T., & Agudelo-Lopera, Z. (2019, December). Toward an organic praxis in literacies research: A collective ethnography of growing researchers. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association 69th Annual Conference, Tampa, FL. https://youtu.be/wyu10ASdVkQ
  • Mora, R. A. (2019, May-a). The City as Literacy: Towards a new framework for second language literacies in Latin America. Keynote presentation at V JELT - Jornada de Educação, Linguagem E Tecnologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). [PDF]
  • Mora, R. A., Cañas, C., Gutiérrez-Arismendy, G., & López-Ladino, M. (2019, December). Are we really creating a new field? And if so, what does it look like? Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association 69th Annual Conference, Tampa, FL. [PDF]
  • Mora, R. A., Castaño, W., Gaviria, C. A., Londoño-Mazo, J., Mazo, J. C., Mejía, S., & Ramírez, J. S. (2019, May). Gamifying the research design: #TeamLaV’s methodological proposal. Paper presented at the Fifteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. [PDF]
  • Mora, R. A., Castaño, W., Londoño-Mazo, J., Ramírez, J. S., Mazo, J. C., & Mejía, S. (2019, April). The translanguaging of gaming literacies: a study of second-language gamers and gaming spaces. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada. [PDF]
  • Mora, R. A., Lee, K., & Gaviria, C. A. (2019, April).  The role of second/additional languages to rethink CDL in the 21st century. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada. [PDF]

2018

  • Forber-Pratt, A. J. & Mora, R. A. (2018, May). Advising upstream: Reflections, experiences & (re)visions. Paper presented at the Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A., Cañas, C., Rodríguez, A. K. & Gutiérrez, G. (2018, May). A multivocal approach to qualitative research methods course design: Bringing experts and novices together as curriculum builders. Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. https://youtu.be/UnIFbqAg7-Y
  • Mora, R. A., Golovátina-Mora, P., Orrego, T. S., Agudelo, E., Herrera, A. M. & Quintero. H. (2018, May). Qualitative inquiry as a multiverse: What would this mean for research design? Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. https://youtu.be/0qTkXC14Gd8?t=85
  • Mora, R. A., Yepes, H., Cardona-Uribe, C., Gaviria, C. A., Ramírez, J. S., & Eusse. E. (2018, May). Soundscaping as second language literacies: Using sounds and voices to revisit urban and gaming spaces. Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. https://youtu.be/jm7pT8592Tg
  • Mora, R. A., O’Byrne, I., Kist, W., & Semingson, P. (2018, November). New models of open, scholarly work pursued by obnoxious academics. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association 68th Annual Conference, Indian Wells, CA. [PDF]
  • Mora, R. A., Urrego-Zapata, A. M., Agudelo, E., Yepes, H., Cárdenas, Y., Arredondo, J., & Herrera, A. M. (2018, November). Poly/translanguaging as literacy continuum: A critical view of multilingual literacies in the city. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association 68th Annual Conference, Indian Wells, CA. [PDF]
  • Mora, R. A., Yepes, H., Cardona-Uribe, C., Gaviria, C. A., Ramírez, J. S., & Eusse. E. (2018, May). Soundscaping as second language literacies: Using sounds and voices to revisit urban and gaming spaces.  Paper presented at the Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai gn, USA. [PDF]
  • O’Byrne, I., Mora, R. A., Hagerman, M., & Wu, G. (2018, November). The Digitally Literate Research Project: Assessing how global educators teach literacies with technology. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association 68th Annual Conference, Indian Wells, CA. [PDF]

2017

  • Golovátina-Mora, P. & Mora, R. A. (2017, May). Who chooses whom? A transmedial analysis of attributes and materiality. Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Literacies in Second Languages Project (2017, May). What do we mean by research? A reflexivity and a manifesto. Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A. (2017, May). When data analysis makes you cry: An autoethnographic cautionary tale. Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Mora, R. A. (2017, April). Literacy and postmemory in the city: An autoethnographic analysis of urban literacies in Medellín, Colombia. Paper presented at the International Interdisciplinary Conference "Postmemory and Contemporary World", Medellín, Colombia.
  • Mora, R. A. & Golovátina-Mora, P. (2017, December). Graffiti as a social expression of memory and (re)construction of the city: A cross-case analysis. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Mora, R. A. & Golovátina-Mora, P. (2017, May). Research and marriage: A contemplative duoethnography of growth. Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Mora, R. A. & Kist, W. (2017, May). Compound Qualitative Inquiry: A “Frankenstein’s Monster” with invisible stitches in QI approach integration. Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A. & Semingson, P. (2017, May). A digital autoethnography of co-authoring. Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A. & Trigos-Carrillo, L. (2017, November). Rethinking the writer’s workshop in L2: A cross-case transnational analysis. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association 67th Annual Conference, Tampa, FL.
  • Mora, R. A., Cañas, C., Ocampo, A. P., Rodríguez, A. K., & López-Ladino, M. (2017, November). Early literacies in second languages in Colombia: Multimodal critical consciousness in K-5 English education. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association 67th Annual Conference, Tampa, FL.
  • Mora, R. A, Chiquito, T., Giraldo, M., Mejía-Vélez, M. C., & Salazar Patiño, T. (2017, May). Geosemiotic Analysis: Analyzing data in and around the city. Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A., Kist, W., Hart, L., Gutiérrez-Arismendy, G., Walsh-Moorman, B., Toney, J. L., López-Ladino, M., Rodríguez, A. K., & McGhee, A. (2017, April). Exploring museums as learning sites for researchers: A comparative, international analysis of two experiences. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

2016

  • Golovátina-Mora, P., Mora, R. A., Blandón Gómez, H., Moskvin, D., & Celinski, P. (2016, September). Art as utopia: Projecting society
  • Mora, R. A., Castaño, S., Hernandez, M., Orrego, T. S., Ramírez, D., & Castaño, W. (2016, December). Gaming literacies and second languages: When using a second language becomes the key to victory. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association 66th Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.
  • Mora, R. A., Kist, W., Gutiérrez-Arismendy, G., López-Ladino, M., Rodríguez, A. K., Toney, J. L., Walsh-Moorman, B., & Hart, L. (2016, November). Museums as sites for literacy research consciousness: A trans-national comparison of two experiences. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association 66th Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.
  • Mora, R. A., Chiquito, T., Mejía-Vélez, M. C., Uribe, S., Salazar Patiño, T., & Giraldo, M. (2016, December). Windows, walls, and tees as second language literacies in Medellín: A multimodal analysis of urban cultural spaces. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association 66th Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.
  • Mora, R. A. & Golovátina-Mora, P. (2016, May). Batman as transmedial discourse to understand anarchy, order, and today’s social dynamics in the city. Paper presented at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A., Cañas, C., Gutiérrez-Arismendy, G., Isaza, G., Ocampo, A. P., Salazar, N., & Zapata, J. (2016, May). Counter-narratives of school literacies research: A multivocal meta-analysis. Paper presented at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A., Castaño, S., Ramírez, D., & Uribe, S. (2016, May). Fan Fiction: Expanding the boundaries of gaming culture and identity. Paper presented at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A., Giraldo, M., López-Ladino, M., Pulgarín, C., Rodríguez, A. K., & Castaño, W. (2016, May). Reading our participants’ voices: Data analysis into the recordings and beyond the transcripts. Paper presented at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A., Ramírez, N., Mejía-Vélez, M. C., & Hernandez, M. (2016, May). City as Literacy: Our call for a new pedagogy of and in the city.  Paper presented at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A., Salazar Patiño, T., Chiquito, T., & Orrego, T. S. (2016, May). Polyangulation as an attempt to revisit the Interpretive Zone. Paper presented at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A., Chiquito, T., Giraldo, M. & Uribe, S. (2016, April). Exploring the narratives of tattoos and graffiti as second language literacies in the city. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC. (Academia)

2015

  • Golovátina-Mora, P. & Mora, R. A. (2015, May). Epistemology… by Harry Potter? Presentation at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A. (2015c, May). The new social imperatives for literacies in second languages research. Presentation at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A. (2015d, May). Slam Poetry – A critical discourse analysis of language appropriation. presentation at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A. (2015e, April). Literacies in second languages. Pecha Kucha presentation at the AERA Writing and Literacies SIG Business Meeting, Chicago, IL.
  • Mora, R. A., Giraldo, M., Chiquito, T., Uribe, S., & Ramírez, N. (2015a, May). A narrative ethnography of tattoos and graffiti as second language literacies. Presentation at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora. R. A., Castaño, S., Hernandez, M., & Orrego, T. S. (2015b, May). A digital ethnography of language-as-victory and second language literacies in gaming communities. Presentation at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A., Salazar Patiño, T., Gómez, M. A., & Mejía-Vélez, M. C. (2015c, May). Music and fashion as cultural expressions of second language literacies in the city. Presentation at the Eleventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora. R. A., Castaño, M., Gómez, N., Ramírez, N., Mejía-Vélez, M. C., & Pulgarín, C. (2015, April). Second language literacies in the city: New practices in urban spaces of Medellín, Colombia. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. (Academia)

2014

  • Mora, R. A. (2014e, August). New forms of English language use in Medellín, Colombia:  An analysis of two studies. Presentation at ISLE 3, University of Zurich, Switzerland. (PREZI)
  • Mora, R. A. (2014g, February). Critical literacy and English language textbooks: A meta-analysis. Presentation (via Skype) at Confluence V, India. (Academia)
  • Mora, R. A. & Golovátina-Mora, P. (2014, May). A transmedia analysis of the Matrix universe as a Bourdieusian framework. Presentation at the Tenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. (Academia)
  • Mora, R. A., Peláez, S., Jaramillo, M., Rojas-Echeverri, B. E., Castaño, S. & Zuluaga, A. (2014, May). English literacies and video game communities: A digital ethnography. Presentation at the Tenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Mora, R. A., Ramírez, N., Pulgarín, C., Mejía-Velez, M. C., Castaño, M., & Gómez, N. (2014, May). An ethnography of English literacies in the city: Discoveries and pedagogical implications. Presentation at the Tenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

2013

  • Mora, R. A. (2013a, November). Nuevas literacidades y multimodalidad: Revisando cómo leemos el mundo, la palabra (y los signos) en las ecologías del lenguaje contemporáneas. Presentation  (via Skype) at the VII UNESCO International Lectureship Congress, Córdoba, Argentina. (Academia)
  • Mora, R. A. (2013b, February). The notion of second languages: Responding to today’s linguistic ecologies. Paper presented (via Skype) at Confluence IV, India
  • Mora, R. A., Gómez, N., Castaño, M., Pulgarín, C., Ramírez, N., & Mejía-Velez, M. C. (2013, November). Urban Englishes in the (still?) Expanding Circle: An analysis of English literacy practices in urban spaces in Medellín. Presentation at the 19th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Arizona State University, USA. (PDF)

2012

  • Mora, R. A. (2012a, September). Technological mediation and digital literacies: Toward a new model to define second language in the ELT world. Paper presented at the First Teleconference on ICT in ELT in Vietnam. (Academia)