The Place of Translation in Higher Education by Mairi McLaughlin, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley The Observer’s Robert McCrum declared 2011 a “boom year” for translation. It saw the anniversary of the King James’ Bible, the flourishing of literature in translation (Stieg Larsson, Haruki Murakami) and a new English version of the Roman […]
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Lecture by Mark Kaiser & Rossella Carbotti, February 17, 2012
Language in Film and the Language of Film: Two Semiotic Systems Engaged by Mark Kaiser and Rossella Carbotti, University of California, Berkeley This presentation addresses the use of film clips in the foreign language classroom. Our main focus will be on film as text and how language use in film works in tandem with cinematic […]
Lectures by BLC Fellows (L. Allais, S. Tuomainen, M. Smith, R. Carbotti), December 2, 2011
Fall 2011 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Third Place in the French Classroom: A Separate Space for a New Beginning? Letizia Allais, GSR, Graduate School of Education From Cultural Studies, to Linguistics, to Education, the notion of Third Place has often confused those ideas revolving around identity, language, and people’s sense of belonging. […]
Lecture by Laura Welcher, November 9, 2011
The Rosetta Project: Building a 10,000 Year Archive of All Human Languages by Laura Welcher, Director of Operations and The Rosetta Project 3:00 – 5:00 pm, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 in B-4 Dwinelle Hall The Rosetta Project at The Long Now Foundation is working to build an open public digital collection of all human language […]
Lecture by Douglas Kibbee, October 21, 2011
Rethinking Prescriptivism by Douglas Kibbee, Professor, Department of French, and Director, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3:00 – 5:00 pm, Friday, October 21, 2011 in B-4 Dwinelle Hall At a meeting held as part of a national dialogue across France to determine what it means to be French, a […]
Colloquium: Moving Between Languages: Research Perspectives (E. Boner, D. Malinowski, T. Wolcott), October 7, 2011
Friday, October 7, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, B-4 Dwinelle Hall Opening remarks by Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley Elizabeth Boner, San Francisco State University Negotiating relationship through translation: How American development practitioners and Tanzanian beneficiaries exploit the gap between languages This paper examines the practice of translation within meetings between American development practitioners and Tanzanian […]
Lecture by Barbara Johnstone, September 23, 2011
Identifying with Language by Barbara Johnstone, Professor of English and Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University. For the last decade or two, identity has been a hot topic throughout linguistics. Sociolinguists use the concept of identity to help explain why particular styles of speech get taken up in particular speech communities, and how and why people shift […]
Symposium: History and Memory in Foreign Language Study, September 10, 2011
**** Videos now available – please use Safari or Firefox ***** Saturday, Sept.10, 2011 9-5:30 pm 370 Dwinelle INTRODUCTION The MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages (2007) has advocated teaching, together with functional language abilities, ‘critical language awareness’ and ‘historical and political consciousness’. Indeed, the many commemorative events in the cultures we teach as […]
Lectures by BLC Fellows (M. Jacobsen, L. Stratton, W. Kambara), April 29, 2011
Instructional Development Research Projects Language and Culture in Documentaries by Italian Women Filmmakers Mara Mauri Jacobsen, Lecturer, Italian Studies The documentaries I have chosen for my Advanced Italian course present the Italian feminist movement, and/or the lives of Italian women, according to different aspects of the female condition, within the context of Italian culture and […]
Lecture by Eva Lam, April 15, 2011
New Media and Literacy in Transnational Environments by Eva Lam, Associate Professor, Learning Sciences, Asian American Studies, Northwestern University. This paper discusses recent developments in sociolinguistic research that theorizes the nature of language and communicative practices in globalized and transnationalized spaces. We consider how this work proposes some new ways to think about language and […]