2024-25 Events for Language Educators and Researchers

Second Language Acquisition lecture series on emotion research in SLA

Series on Artificial Intelligence in Language Education

Brown bag on Generative AI and Writing: A Conversation with Emily Hall, led by Emily Hall, Department of English, Friday, March 7, 2025, 12:30-1:30 pm, 1418 Van Hise Hall
Fall 2024 non-credit seminar for UW-Madison language educators, Generative AI and the Future of Language Education, facilitated by Language Institute director Dianna Murphy
Workshop for UW–Madison+ language educators, AI and Universal Design for Learning: Designing Language Learning for All, facilitated by Lauren Rosen, UW Collaborative Language Program, and Kate Grovergrys, Madison College, Friday, February 7, 2025, 2:00-4:00 pm, 1418 Van Hise Hall
Generative AI and its Applications in Language Learning: A Duolingo Perspective, Parker Henry, Duolingo, Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 4:30pm, 8417 Social Science Building (main sponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Twenty-First Century Technology and Language Education: Thinking Together About Some Existential Questions, Rick Kern, University of California, Berkeley, Friday, September 20, 2024, 2:30-3:30 pm, on Zoom. Recording HERE.

Workshops for language educators

Building Thriving Language Programs: Strategies for Enrollment Growth in Higher Education, Felix Kronenberg and Emily Heidrich Uebel, Michigan State University; Scott Sterling, Indiana State University, Friday, October 18, 12:30-4:30 pm, 1418 Van Hise Hall
Proficiency-based Instruction without Ditching the Textbook, Florencia Henshaw, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 2:30-4:00 pm, on Zoom. Recording HERE.
Interdepartmental Orientation Workshop for New UW-Madison Language Instructors, Monday, August 26, 1:30-4:00 pm, 114 Van Hise Hall; and Tuesday, August 27, 2024, 9:00-11:00 am, 3rd floor classrooms in Van Hise Hall

Other Lectures and Brown Bags

Presentation on the Seeds of Peace: Cross-Cultural Communication in the Middle East course, Adi Raz, University of Michigan, Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:00-4:00 pm, on Zoom (co-sponsored with the USC Center for Languages and Cultures) Recording HERE
Brown bag for UW–Madison language teaching assistants and instructors on Strategies for Effective Management of Language Classrooms, 12:00-1:00 pm, Friday, March 14, 2025, 1418 Van Hise Hall.
Brown bag on Innovative Models for New Instructional Materials in Less Commonly Taught Languages, Friday, February 14, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm, on Zoom. Recording HERE.
- Adeola Agoke, UW–Madison Department of African Cultural Studies (Yorùbá)
- Anna Tumarkin, UW–Madison Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+; and Shannon Donnally Quinn, Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, Michigan State University (Russian)
- Hany Noviya, UW–Madison Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (Indonesian)
- Sapta Abimanyu, Global LT (Indonesian)

Other Events

Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium: Belonging in SLA: Locating the Researcher and the Researched in a Transdisciplinary Field, Friday, April 18, 12:00-8 pm, Saturday, April 19, 2025, 8:30 am-4:00 pm, Memorial Union and on Zoom
“Okaaay Sis!”: African American Language, Multimodality, and Black Women’s Gesture, Sovoya Davis, University of Michigan, Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 4:00-5:00 pm, on Zoom. Recording HERE.
Invited lecture, Multilingualism + Humanities = Jobs: The Tactics of Contrarian Entrepreneurial Humanists, Alain-Philippe Durand, University of Arizona, Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm, 1418 Van Hise Hall (main sponsor: French and Italian; Language Institute co-sponsoring)
Fall 2024 SLA PhD Program Information Sessions, Friday, October 11, 9-10 am; and Monday, October 28, 2024, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, on Zoom
Learn a Little Language, Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 4:00-6:00 pm, Varsity Hall I at Union South (main sponsor: Wisconsin Union Directorate Global Connections Committee, with support from the Language Institute to recruit presenters)