9:15 to 9:45

Check-in and breakfast

9:45 TO 10:00 Welcome message

• Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities, Silver Professor, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English, New York University

10:00 to 12:00 Panel I

• Guillermo Severiche, New York University – “Cinema beyond the Language Classroom: Challenges, Technologies, Strategies”
• Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo, Columbia University – “Input for interaction: The Columbia Corpus of Spanish Conversations”
• Kathleen Rizy, New York University – “Three Ways to Use Memes in the Foreign Language Classroom”
• Kristen Welsh, Hobart & William Smith Colleges – “Blended Learning for Introductory Russian: A Case Study”

12:00 to 1:00

Lunch

1:00 to 3:00 Panel II

• Chen Gao, New York University – “A Learning Success Story with WeChat: The Effects of WeChat on Developing Writing Skill in Chinese as a Second Language”
• Diana Romero, Columbia University – “New York City as a Spanish for Heritage Speakers Classroom: a Linguistic Landscape Project to Validate Hispanic Heritage Language Learners’ Spanish”
• Elizabeth Augspach, New York University – “Saints and Sinners on the Way to Santiago”
• Lorena Hernández, New York University – “Our NYC: Task-based Learning Outside of the Classroom”

3:00 to 3:15

Coffee break

3:15 to 4:00 – Keynote Address

• “Toward a Geolinguistic imagination” by Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor and Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at NYU

4:00 to 5:00

Wine & Cheese Reception