Travel Reports Archive

I attended InterSpeech 2016 in San Francisco, California, in September, with my colleague and 2nd presenter, Minsook Kim. We presented our research entitled “Hyper-articulate production of Korean glides by age group”. InterSpeech is the one of the largest conferences in the area of phonetics and we were surprised to see that there were a lot…

Thanks to a travel grant from the Berkeley Language Center, I was able to attend the 22nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Phoenix, Arizona, hosted by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. There were presentations on a variety of topics spanning the 7th to the 17th centuries investigating cultures…

Thanks to a BLC Travel Grant I was able to attend the Building Just Communities conference that took place from October 8 to 11, 2015, at Howard University in Washington D.C. The conference was organized by the Association of Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACHME), an interdisciplinary organization that brings together educators from 1,100 universities…

Thanks to the generous support by the Berkeley Language Center, I participated in the 20th American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK) Annual Workshop and Conference, which was held in Monterey, CA, June 25-27, 2015. As the largest conference for the teaching of Korean in the U.S., the AATK plays a significant role in Korean…

October 9-11, 2015 Denver, Colorado The seminar is a yearly event that usually takes place in Denver, Colorado. This year I was particularly interested in attending it, since its topic, Technology in the Hebrew classroom, was something that I felt I could benefit from. As it turned out, it was a very useful conference, since…

Hosted by the Global Association of Promoting Swahili (GAPS or CHAUKIDU), African Languages Teachers Association (ALTA), National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) The annual CHAUKIDU/ALTA/ NCOLCTL was held at the Hilton Hotel Washington Dulles Airport, on April 23-26, 2015 The National African Resource Center secretariat that is home to the executive director of…

The 105th annual meeting for SASS, indeed an old organization supporting Scandinavian Studies in North America, was held in Columbus, Ohio from May 7-10, 2015. The theme for this year’s conference was Indigenous Discourses, Methodologies, and Histories. To celebrate the theme, we heard a concert by Ulda, a Finnish-Sámi Joik Band. The Sámi, the only indigenous…

The 40th Year anniversary celebration of the Center for Philippine Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa was held on April 9 - 11, 2015. To commemorate the occasion, the center organized an international symposium titled “Philippine and Filipino Studies: Forty Years Hence”. The more than sixty Filipino and Filipino-American as well as American scholars from…

From March 26-28, I attended the annual Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conference in Chicago, made possible in part by a travel grant from the Berkeley Language Center. This was my first AAS conference as president of the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL), a position I will hold for three years. I…

I would like to thank the Berkeley Language Center for support I received through a BLC Travel Grant to attend the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) annual conference, held this year in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in January. I presented in both a poster session on teaching less commonly taught…