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8:30AM – 9:00AM
8:30AM – 9:00AM
Breakfast
Breakfast
Location: Klarman Hall 164, Romance Studies Lounge
9:00AM – 10:30AM
9:00AM – 10:30AM
Panel I: Integrating Social justice in the Language Classroom: Case Studies
Panel I: Integrating Social justice in the Language Classroom: Case Studies
Location: Goldwin Smith Hall G76 & Online via Zoom
Moderators:
Anais Holgado-Lage and Luis Gonçalves
Princeton University
Define, Refine, Opine: Centering Language to Promote Social Justice
Define, Refine, Opine: Centering Language to Promote Social Justice
Daryl Spurlock (Indiana University Bloomington)
Towards More Inclusive Pedagogical Practices
Towards More Inclusive Pedagogical Practices
Denise Osborne (Cornell University)
The Revitalization of Gayogōhó:no' in the Homeland and Beyond: Reaching the Whole Diaspora of our People
The Revitalization of Gayogōhó:no' in the Homeland and Beyond: Reaching the Whole Diaspora of our People
Steve Henhawk (Cornell University)
The Afro-descendant Community in Latin America in a Spanish Intermediate Course
The Afro-descendant Community in Latin America in a Spanish Intermediate Course
Anais Holgado-Lage (Princeton University)
Biographies
Daryl Spurlock is a Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Literatures at Indiana University Bloomington. His research centers on Mexican-American literature and history, especially in the United States Southwest. In current projects, he contemplates expanding notions of United States citizenship in the energetic Spanish-language press of 19th-century New Mexico. Before Indiana University, Daryl lived, studied, and worked in Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. His present doctoral work, at the nexus of print culture and citizenship, is informed not only by interdisciplinary training in literature, history, and anthropology, but also by personal experience working as a Spanish/English tutor in local elementary schools and as an advocate for people seeking asylum in the United States.
Denise Osborne is Lecturer of Portuguese at Cornell University. She earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona and her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College Columbia University. Her main area of interest is second language acquisition, especially second language phonetics, both perception and production. Denise is also interested in investigating linguistic and non-linguistic factors that may affect the acquisition of and/or engagement in learning Portuguese as a foreign language, such as language attitude and ethnic identities.
Steve Henhawk is a Cayuga speaker and historian. He teaches the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' language at Cornell University with a focus on the relationship of language and culture to plants and growing.
Anais Holgado-Lage is Lecturer of Spanish in Princeton University since Fall 2015. Her research focuses on Spanish linguistics, specifically Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis, with an emphasis on Discourse Markers and the process of learning them in Spanish as a Second Language. She has also published articles on Sociolinguistics and Spanish in a virtual setting. She is currently working on individual Discourse Markers and their diatopic differences in use throughout the Spanish speaking world. Before arriving at Princeton, Anais was a professor at Wake Forest University, where she taught a variety of courses in Spanish language and literature.
Luis Gonçalves is Lecturer of Portuguese at Princeton University holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages, with a Minor in Communication Studies and a Certification in Cultural Studies, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Princeton University in Fall 2010. Before joining the department, he coordinated the Portuguese Program and taught language and Cultural Studies courses at Columbia University. His research interests include social movements, literature, popular culture and film from the Portuguese-speaking countries, their identity constructs, Diasporas, migrations and lately also the cultural articulations of the Portuguese-American communities. is the President of the American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese and the Executive Director of the annual Encontro Mundial sobre o Ensino de Português.
Denise Osborne is Lecturer of Portuguese at Cornell University. She earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona and her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College Columbia University. Her main area of interest is second language acquisition, especially second language phonetics, both perception and production. Denise is also interested in investigating linguistic and non-linguistic factors that may affect the acquisition of and/or engagement in learning Portuguese as a foreign language, such as language attitude and ethnic identities.
Steve Henhawk is a Cayuga speaker and historian. He teaches the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' language at Cornell University with a focus on the relationship of language and culture to plants and growing.
Anais Holgado-Lage is Lecturer of Spanish in Princeton University since Fall 2015. Her research focuses on Spanish linguistics, specifically Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis, with an emphasis on Discourse Markers and the process of learning them in Spanish as a Second Language. She has also published articles on Sociolinguistics and Spanish in a virtual setting. She is currently working on individual Discourse Markers and their diatopic differences in use throughout the Spanish speaking world. Before arriving at Princeton, Anais was a professor at Wake Forest University, where she taught a variety of courses in Spanish language and literature.
Luis Gonçalves is Lecturer of Portuguese at Princeton University holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages, with a Minor in Communication Studies and a Certification in Cultural Studies, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Princeton University in Fall 2010. Before joining the department, he coordinated the Portuguese Program and taught language and Cultural Studies courses at Columbia University. His research interests include social movements, literature, popular culture and film from the Portuguese-speaking countries, their identity constructs, Diasporas, migrations and lately also the cultural articulations of the Portuguese-American communities. is the President of the American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese and the Executive Director of the annual Encontro Mundial sobre o Ensino de Português.
10:30AM – 10:45AM
10:30AM – 10:45AM
Break
Break
10:45AM – 12:15AM
10:45AM – 12:15AM
Panel II: Pedagogical Approaches to Social Justice
Panel II: Pedagogical Approaches to Social Justice
Location: Goldwin Smith Hall G76 & Online via Zoom
Moderator:
Emilia Illana Mahiques
Cornell University
Inclusive Linguistic Content and Localized Cultural Representation of Marginalized Communities, the OER Approach
Inclusive Linguistic Content and Localized Cultural Representation of Marginalized Communities, the OER Approach
Giovanni Zimotti (The University of Iowa) / Presentation REMOTE
Profe, ¡yo esto no lo había estudiado!: Critical Pedagogies for Spanish Heritage Language Education
Profe, ¡yo esto no lo había estudiado!: Critical Pedagogies for Spanish Heritage Language Education
Lara Boyero Agudo (University of Oregon)
Teaching Portuguese with Intent: Inclusion in Virtual Public Spaces
Teaching Portuguese with Intent: Inclusion in Virtual Public Spaces
Luis Gonçalves (Princeton University)
Quechua, Ayni & Collaboration: Incorporating Indigenous Languages and Cultures into the Curricula
Quechua, Ayni & Collaboration: Incorporating Indigenous Languages and Cultures into the Curricula
Americo Mendoza-Mori (Harvard University) / Presentation REMOTE
Biographies
Giovanni Zimotti is the Director of Spanish Language Instruction at the University of Iowa. He holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from The University of Alabama. After graduating from the University Gabriele D’Annunzio of Pescara, Italy, he received an M.A. in Romance Languages, Applied Linguistics track and an M.A. in Foreign Languages for Business and International Cooperation from his Alma Mater. His research interests include second language acquisition, technology for language acquisition, pragmatics, and critical discourse analysis. “Ready, Steady, Spain! is a virtual reality training for study abroad students” is one of his most ambitious projects. He started working on this project as a dissertation project, and he is currently trying to develop a stand-alone version that could be used to acculturate students before their sojourns abroad. Dr. Zimotti is also currently designing various OER textbooks for Spanish. His first OER textbook, Salón de Clase, was released on December 3, 2021.
Lara Boyero Agudo is a Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Sociolinguistics at the University of Oregon. As a Graduate Employee there, Lara teaches courses on Spanish for L2 speakers and other specific courses offered by the Spanish Heritage Speakers Program in the Department of Romance Languages. Her interest lies in Spanish Sociolinguistics, specially, Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States. Her research incorporates critical pedagogies and feminist approaches to create critical materials and new assessments to study language and gender within classrooms of Spanish as a Heritage Language. Lara has also completed a bachelor'’ degree and two M.A.s focused on Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition.
Maya Edwards is a Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Literature at Texas Tech University. Her primary research is focused on 19th-century Spanish Peninsular literature, centering on intersections of gender, mobility, and affect. Other research interests include cultural studies, social justice, digital literacies, and study abroad. In her dissertation, she analyzes the connection between space, place, mobility, and the construction of female identity in Spain in the second half of the 19th century. Rather than a biographical approach, marking the spaces where these authors lived and traveled, her research focuses on how that consciousness of space is processed and textualized.
Américo Mendoza–Mori is Lecturer in Latinx Studies at Harvard University. He is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in literary, linguistic and cultural studies. His research focuses on Latin American, U.S. Latinx, and Indigenous issues. His work has appeared in a variety of academic journals, has been presented at the United Nations, and has been featured in The New York Times, a TEDx talk, NPR, Remezcla. He received his B.A. from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in Lima (Peru), and has a Ph.D. from the University of Miami, Florida. Before joining Harvard, he was founder and coordinator of the University of Pennsylvania’s Quechua program, co-founder of The Quechua Alliance, and co-founder of the Thinking Andean Studies international conference.
Lara Boyero Agudo is a Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Sociolinguistics at the University of Oregon. As a Graduate Employee there, Lara teaches courses on Spanish for L2 speakers and other specific courses offered by the Spanish Heritage Speakers Program in the Department of Romance Languages. Her interest lies in Spanish Sociolinguistics, specially, Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States. Her research incorporates critical pedagogies and feminist approaches to create critical materials and new assessments to study language and gender within classrooms of Spanish as a Heritage Language. Lara has also completed a bachelor'’ degree and two M.A.s focused on Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition.
Maya Edwards is a Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Literature at Texas Tech University. Her primary research is focused on 19th-century Spanish Peninsular literature, centering on intersections of gender, mobility, and affect. Other research interests include cultural studies, social justice, digital literacies, and study abroad. In her dissertation, she analyzes the connection between space, place, mobility, and the construction of female identity in Spain in the second half of the 19th century. Rather than a biographical approach, marking the spaces where these authors lived and traveled, her research focuses on how that consciousness of space is processed and textualized.
Américo Mendoza–Mori is Lecturer in Latinx Studies at Harvard University. He is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in literary, linguistic and cultural studies. His research focuses on Latin American, U.S. Latinx, and Indigenous issues. His work has appeared in a variety of academic journals, has been presented at the United Nations, and has been featured in The New York Times, a TEDx talk, NPR, Remezcla. He received his B.A. from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in Lima (Peru), and has a Ph.D. from the University of Miami, Florida. Before joining Harvard, he was founder and coordinator of the University of Pennsylvania’s Quechua program, co-founder of The Quechua Alliance, and co-founder of the Thinking Andean Studies international conference.
12:15PM – 1:30PM
12:15PM – 1:30PM
Lunch (catered)
Lunch (catered)
Location: Willard Straight Hall 407
1:30PM – 2:30PM
1:30PM – 2:30PM
Hands-on Breakout Session I (in-person only)
Hands-on Breakout Session I (in-person only)
Location: Willard Straight Hall 407
Title: Empathy-Building and Social Engagement in the Language Classroom
Title: Empathy-Building and Social Engagement in the Language Classroom
Adriana G. Merino (Princeton University)
Biography
Adriana G. Merino is Lecturer of Spanish at Princeton University. She holds a Ph.D. in Foreign Languages and Linguistics (UNED, Spain), and a Master’s degree in Linguistics with a specialization in Discourse Analysis (UNC, Argentina). She has taught and coordinated various Spanish courses, and developed ELT/ Spanish language programs and instructional materials. Her teaching experience also includes Applied Linguistics, Methodology, Discourse Analysis, and training courses for teachers. Her research interests involve (interlanguage) pragmatics; intercultural competence development in study abroad experiences; L2 oral interaction and comprehension; and the use of ICT resources to enhance learning. She has authored a teacher’s resource manual, and a number of articles on language teaching, discourse analysis, and pragmatics.
2:30PM – 2:45PM
2:30PM – 2:45PM
Break
Break
2:45PM – 3:45PM
2:45PM – 3:45PM
Hands-on Breakout Session II (in-person only)
Hands-on Breakout Session II (in-person only)
Location: Willard Straight Hall 407
Title: Critical Literacy, Agency, and Sociolinguistic Justice in Language Education
Title: Critical Literacy, Agency, and Sociolinguistic Justice in Language Education
Claudia Holguín Mendoza (University of California, Riverside)
Biography
Claudia Holguín Mendoza (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) is an Associate Professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of California, Riverside. She specializes in the sociolinguistics of race in the Mexican borderlands and Greater Mexico as well as critical pedagogies for the teaching of Spanish as a heritage language. She publishes in both English and Spanish and her work has appeared in journals such as International Multilingual Research Journal, Hispania, Studies in Hispanic & Lusophone Linguistics, Identities, and Frontera Norte.
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