Workshop: Filmic LanguageThe Grammar of Film: A Primer for World Language Teachers Mark Kaiser – Retired BLC Associate DirectorMaya Sidhu – Continuing Lecturer, French Department Monday, January 30, 3-5pm, B-4 Dwinelle Mixed-Heritage Individuals: Rewriting Narratives of Racial, Linguistic and Cultural Deficiency Aurora Tsai, Project Assistant Professor, Center for Global Communication Strategies, University of Tokyo Wednesday, […]
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Fall Fellows Forum, December 2, 2022
Fall 2022 BLC Fellows ForumInstructional Development Research Projects North African Arabic Language CourseAmel Belguith, Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages & CulturesThis presentation outlines a course designed to teach North African Arabic, with an emphasis on Moroccan Arabic, for students who know Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and are interested in pursuing further study in Arabic or a […]
Panel on Supporting Study & Work Abroad, November 17, 2022
Supporting Language/Culture Study and Work Abroad through Fellowships Studying and/or working abroad can be a transformative experience as one engages with other ways of thinking and being in the world. For students of language, studying abroad can also provide opportunities to further develop their understanding of the language. For those who have finished their classroom […]
Talk by Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza, November 7, 2022
Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza – Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside From Research on Sociocultural Linguistics to Critical Literacy for Language Education In this presentation, Dr. Holguín Mendoza describes the design and implementation of a comprehensive Critical Sociocultural Linguistics Literacy curriculum that deconstructs and questions sociopolitical hierarchies, challenges the subordination of heritage language students’ linguistic […]
Panel on the Berkeley Language Center, November 3, 2022
Panel: The Berkeley Language Center:Taking Stock, Remembering the Past, and Envisioning the Future Participants: Claire Kramsch (BLC Director Emerita), David Szanton (IAS Executive Director Emeritus), Alan Timberlake (Professor of Slavic, Emeritus), Richard Kern (Former BLC Director), Mark Kaiser (Former BLC Associate Director), Kimberly Vinall (BLC Executive Director), Emily Hellmich (BLC Associate Director) Founded in 1994, […]
Undergraduate Colloquium, October 24 & 28, 2022
Why Study Languages/Cultures at UC Berkeley? Cal students choose to study languages and cultures for many different reasons–curiosity, getting a job, family. In this two-part colloquium, participants will hear from current and former Cal students who have pursued language and culture studies. Part I: Undergraduate Panel In Part I, participants will hear a panel of current […]
Talk by Jonathan Rosa, October 21, 2022
Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics Conceptualizations of competence, which permeate applied linguistics, systematically fail to account for the role of racialization in language learning. Building on collaborative work with Nelson Flores to conceptualize the framework of raciolinguistic ideologies as a project of undoing appropriateness, this presentation seeks to […]
FIT Talk: María Labarta Postigo, September 26, 2022
The Berkeley Language CenterCordially Invites You to the Upcoming Meeting of ItsFound in Translation (FIT) Working Group “Machine Translation vs. Human Translation: The challenge of translating sports metaphors” MARÍA LABARTA POSTIGOProfessor, Faculty of Philology, Translation and CommunicationUniversity of Valencia, Spain Monday September 26, 2022, 12-1pm PST Join Zoom Meeting HereMeeting ID: 910 9914 4690Passcode: 765880 […]
Roundtable by Summer Film Fellows, September 23, 2022
Film in the Language / Culture Curriculum Introduction by Mark Kaiser Amir Effat (Spanish), Cristina Farronato (Italian), Nataliia Goshylyk (Ukrainian), Nora Melnikova (Hindi), Giuliana Perco (Italian), Karen Llagas (Filipino), Minsook Kim (Korean) Led by Mark Kaiser, BLC Associate Director Emeritus, this past summer the seven speakers listed designed a lesson plan for classroom use based […]
BLC Fall 2022 Lecture Series
BLC Roundtable: Summer 2022 FellowsFilm in the Language / Culture Curriculum Introduction by Mark KaiserPresenters: Cristina Farronato & Giuliana Perco (Italian), Karen Llagas (Filipino), Minsook Kim (Korean), Amir Effat (Spanish), Nataliia Goshylyk (Ukrainian), Nora Melnikova (Hindi)Friday, September 23, 3-5pm, B-4 Dwinelle & Zoom Undoing Competence:Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics Jonathan […]