Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Orlando Garcia on July 29, 2022
Travel Report: Margot Szarke, Lecturer in French At the recent 2022 MLA convention (Washington, D.C.), I presented my research onearly vaccine literature at a panel called “Transmission in Nineteenth-Century FrenchStudies.” Although the presentations focused on separate texts, time frames, andsocial/medical issues, a common thread throughout was an attention to the ways inwhich literary form shapes…
Posted by Victoria Williams on July 27, 2021
Thanks to the generous support of a Berkeley Language Center (BLC) Travel Grant for Foreign Language Lecturers, during Spring 2021 (April 5–May 27) I was able to participate in the eight-week Online Kurdish Studies Certificate Program offered by the Zahra Institute, a Chicago-based research center and graduate school focusing on teaching and scholarship related to…
Posted by Victoria Williams on July 1, 2021
For the first time since its inaugural conference in 1978, the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) held its annual meeting virtually from March 20th to the 23rd. Scholars from around the globe attended the four-day conference, but this time from their own homes. While some events took place synchronously, the majority were asynchronous. Approximately…
Posted by Victoria Williams on September 9, 2019
Every two years, the Conference on Spanish in the US is held jointly with the Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. Scholars from fields related to the Spanish language, such as linguistics, sociology, anthropology, education, and legal studies, come together to share their research. Conference attendance and participation have continuously grown, signally high…
Posted by Victoria Williams on May 20, 2019
Last month, I participated in the annual Lilly Conference on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning, in Anaheim, CA. The theme of the conference was “Active and Engaged Learning.” I was invited to present on “Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence and Social Engagement”—a subject I have been implementing in my courses and currently researching through the BLC Fellowship.…
Posted by Victoria Williams on May 20, 2019
On May 17-18, with support from a BLC travel grant, I attended and presented at the annual conference of the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL) at the University of Washington-Seattle. I've been involved with COTSEAL since 1990, and I was President from 2014-17. The conference is usually held at the University of…
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 22, 2019
I recently attended the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s 72nd Annual Convention in Cheyenne, Wyoming. True to nature, the conference had an excellent variety of multilingual pedagogy and literature sessions. This is the one conference I make sure to attend. It is large enough to provide variety but small enough to promote a collegiate ambiance…
Posted by Victoria Williams on December 20, 2018
I recently attended the annual meeting of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, where I presented a paper entitled “Visual Economies: War Photographs in Circulation In and After Yugoslavia” and chaired a panel on the use of figurative language in Croatian literature. My paper focused on selected works by a series of…
Posted by Victoria Williams on September 12, 2018
Thanks to the travel grant from Berkeley Language Center, I attended the 21st Annual conference of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL). I try to attend this conference regularly as it is the only conference that focuses specifically on LCTLs. It is always nice to see colleagues from different universities, share our…
Posted by Victoria Williams on September 12, 2018
At the Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages at UCLA, Karen Llagas, Cynthia Aban and I presented our paper “More than Tourists: Using Critical Pedagogy to Teach Filipino Heritage Learners. Karen Llagas served as lead presenter; she wrote the final paper based on the notes given to her by Cynthia Aban and myself. It was…