Speaking of Language

Dr. Peidong Sun of Cornell's history department discusses her course titled Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China. She also shares details of her time studying in China and France, as well as her numerous upcoming book projects. #béton

We are joined by Alexander Adrogué, Isabela Perez, and Frida Herrera, students from Cornell's Spanish for Heritage Speakers courses, as well as course coordinator and instructor Mary K Redmond. We'll hear about the students' experience and what they gained in terms of language and cultural skills and awareness.  #choripan #espantapájaro #caca #macanudo

Isabel Choinowski and Dennis Wegner, Ph.D. candidates in German Studies at Cornell, discuss avant-garde puppetry, gender-inclusive pronouns, Sprachcafé, and more. https://german.cornell.edu/isabel-choinowski  ​​https://german.cornell.edu/dennis-wegner  #Kakerlake #ZackZack

Bruno Shirley, a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies here at Cornell, discusses his research into Buddhist intellectual histories of political thought and his accompanying study of Sinhala, Tamil, and other less commonly taught languages. #अम्बा #අඹ

We meet with Thamora Fishel, Chencong Zhu, Irfan Asgani, and Maks Tkachuk, members of the team from FLIP, Cornell’s Foreign Language Introduction Program. They share the background of the organization and their plans for community outreach. https://einaudi.cornell.edu/ #စားပြီးပြီလား #Їжа #SudahMakanBelum? #你吃了吗？

Dr. Stacey Johnson follows up on her talk (part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series) about problem-based models for language and culture instruction and describes the transformative power of the language classroom. https://problembasedculture.wordpress.com/blog/ #bra

Amalia Skilton, a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University, discusses her research in the Ticuna language in Peru and what it can tell us about the nature of human communication. #[wa̰tɨmɨ̃]

Luana Reis unpacks her recent talk for the monthly LRC Speaker Series, Black Feminist Poetics and Language Teaching. Luana discusses bringing poetry and social justice into the language classroom, and even shares some original poetry with us. @luanamoreirareis lreis@pitt.edu @ADDverse+poesia https://www.instagram.com/addversepoesia Download "Brazilian Women Poets in Translation," including Luana's work: https://editoravenas.minhalojanouol.com.br/raizes---brazilian-women-poets-in-translation/p   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jOsquKC9iPruDO7ZtZUiCNuz1LEWzNmH/view   #piquenique

Sam and Angelika return from another summer break, ready to tackle burning questions about language classes and the students who take them – and even love them!   #schmetterling

In our final episode of the semester, we speak with Dr. Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. He gave a talk as part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series on Transcending Monolingual Worldviews. We dive deeper into how to magnify the impact of knowledge in academia and society, as he shares ideas for rejecting a hegemony of English (or any state-imposed language) and embracing human connection through a multilingual experience. https://shyamsharma.net/ https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/mic/resources/language-justice-in-higher-ed.php#Description #stillarriving