Events and Programming

Planning for Spring 2025 programming is in progress! We’ll keep updating this page as additional events are scheduled. All times are central time.

Upcoming Events

Series on artificial intelligence 

• 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, 2:00-4:00 pm, Friday, February 7, 2025, 1418 Van Hise Hall. More information coming soon!
• Brownbag on generative AI and writing, Emily Hall, Department of English. Date and time TBD. Details coming soon!

Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium

• Belonging in SLA: Locating the Researcher and the Researched in a Transdisciplinary Field, April 18-19, 2025, Memorial Union

Brownbags for language educators

• Brownbag on Innovative Instructional Materials in Less Commonly Taught Languages, 12:00-1:00 pm, Friday, February 14, 2025 (on zoom)
  • 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 and Sapta Abimanyu, UW–Madison Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (Indonesian)
• Brownbag for UW–Madison language TAs on strategies for effective classroom management. Date and time TBD. Details coming soon!
• Presentation on Seeds of Peace: Cross Cultural Communication in the Middle East, Adi Raz, University of Michigan, 3:00-4:00 pm, Friday, April 4, 2025, online on Zoom (co-sponsored with the USC Center for Languages and Cultures)

Other events

• Invited lecture, Multilingualism + Humanities = Jobs: The Tactics of Contrarian Entrepreneurial Humanists, Alain-Philippe Durand, University of Arizona, 12:00-1:00 pm, Friday, February 21, 2025, 1418 Van Hise Hall (main sponsor: French and Italian; Language Institute to co-sponsor)
• Heritage Language Research Institute, June 16-19, 2025, Pyle Center 313 (main sponsor: Language Sciences; Language Institute to co-sponsor)

Past 2024-25 Events

• “Okaaay Sis!”: African American Language, Multimodality, and Black Women’s Gesture, Sovoya Davis, University of Michigan, 4:00-5:00 pm, Tuesday, September 24, 2024, online on Zoom. Recording HERE.
• Revitalization of Sámi Languages: Language Nests as an Example, Brownbag with Annika Pasanen, Professor of Sámi Linguistics and Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Associate Professor of Pedagogy, Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Guovdageaidnu, Norway, 11:30 am, Monday, September 30, 1312 Van Hise Hall (main sponsor: Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+)

Second Language Acquisition lecture series on emotion research in SLA

• Complexifying Language Teacher Wellbeing: Clarifying Constructs, Advancing Theory, and Setting a Research Agenda, Sarah Mercer, University of Graz, 9:30-10:30 am central, Monday, November 25, 2024, online on Zoom. Recoding HERE.
• Towards Social Justice and Sociopolitical Well-Being in Language Education: Pedaogogies de Cariño for (Bilingual) Latine Youth, P. Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois Chicago, 12:00-1:00 pm, Thursday, October 10, 2024, 1418 Van Hise Hall
• An Emotional Lens on Heritage Language Education: The Positive, the Negative, and the… Complicated for Heritage Students and Educators, Meagan Driver, Michigan State University, 4:00-5:00 pm, Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 1418 Van Hise Hall (co-sponsored by the Language Ideologies and Linguistic Discrimination working group)

Series on Artificial Intelligence in Language Education

• 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
• Generative AI and its Applications in Language Learning: A Duolingo Perspective, Parker Henry, Duolingo, 4:30pm, Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 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, 2:30-3:30 pm, Friday, September 20, 2024. 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, 12:30-4:30 pm, Friday, October 18, 1418 Van Hise Hall
• Proficiency-based Instruction without Ditching the Textbook, Florencia Henshaw, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2:30-4:00 pm, Wednesday, September 18, 2024, online on Zoom. Recording HERE.
• Interdepartmental Orientation Workshop for New UW-Madison Language Instructors, 1:30-4:00 pm, August 26 (114 Van Hise Hall) and 9:00-11:00 am, August 27, 2024 (3rd floor classrooms in Van Hise Hall)

Other Lectures and Brownbags

• Censoring the Self, Kelly Elizabeth Wright, Language Sciences Program, 3:30 pm, Thursday, October 3, 7191 Helen C. Wright Hall (main sponsor: Center for Teaching and Research on Writing)

Other Events

• Fall 2024 SLA PhD Program Information Sessions, 9-10 am central time, Friday, October 11; and 11:00 am – 12:00 pm central time, Monday, October 28, 2024, online on Zoom
• Learn a Little Language, 4:00-6:00 pm, Wednesday, November 20, 2024, Varsity Hall I at Union South (main sponsor: Wisconsin Union Directorate Global Connections Committee, with support from the Language Institute to recruit presenters)