Confirmed Spring 2021 events for language educators are as follows. Plans for additional events are in progress!
Upcoming Events
- Committed to Change: Promoting Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Language Education, a yearlong, non-credit seminar in 2020-21 for UW-Madison language educators. Spring 2021 meetings from 3:00-4:30 pm on Friday, January 29, February 26, March 26, and April 23
- UW-Madison’s Languages, a new initiative to raise awareness of the value of multilingualism, of the many languages spoken by members of the UW-Madison community, and of language as a key aspect of diversity.
- New inter-institutional initiative for shared language instructor professional learning, The Language Collaboratory. Spring 2021 session details coming soon.
- Spring 2021 Lecture Series: Critical Approaches to Language Studies, a series of themed Second Language Acquisition lectures by Sara P. Alvarez, Queens College, CUNY; Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University; and Mario E. López-Gopar, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, followed by a panel with all speakers
Past Spring 2021 Events
- Joint Workshop Series on Multiliteracies Pedagogy, a two-part workshop for postsecondary language educators led by Kate Paesani, University of Minnesota and Heather Willis-Allen, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Workshops from 2:00-3:30 pm on Friday, February 19 and March 5
- Second Language Acquisition Research Forum – presentations of four research studies by University of Wisconsin-Madison SLA student scholars: Ryan Goble, Eric Ho, Chen Sun, and Marina Tsylina; Wednesday, March 3, 2:00 – 3:15 pm
Fall 2020 Events
- Committed to Change: Promoting Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Language Education, a yearlong, non-credit seminar in 2020-21 for UW-Madison language educators. Fall 2020 meetings from 3:00-4:30 pm on Friday, September 25, October 16, November 13, and December 4
- UW-Madison’s Languages, a new initiative to raise awareness of the value of multilingualism, of the many languages spoken by members of the UW-Madison community, and of language as a key aspect of diversity
- A series of ten learning table sessions as a part of a new inter-institutional initiative for shared language instructor professional learning, The Language Collaboratory. Fall 2020 meetings from 3:30-4:00 pm on Mondays and Thursdays.
- Language Institute lecture: 4:00-5:00 pm, Wednesday, October 28, The Design of Transformative Learning Experiences, Julio Rodriguez, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
- Language Institute workshop: 2:00-4:00 pm, Friday, September 18, Cultural and Linguistic Competence through Social Justice, L. J. Randolph Jr., University of North Carolina, Wilmington
- SLA lecture: 3:00-4:00 pm, Friday, September 11, Undoing White Supremacy in the Language Disciplines, Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Interdepartmental Orientation Workshop for New Language Instructors, August 24-25