This calendar lists events sponsored by the Language Institute.
There is a wealth of international programming on the UW-Madison campus! For more event listings, please also check out the links at the bottom of this page.
Fall 2009 |
Interdepartmental Orientation Workshop for New Language Instructors
website
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August 24-27
Lectures and lesson demonstrations in 104 Van Hise Hall
Microteaching in Van Hise rooms 599, 595, 591, 590, 587, 583, 579, 575, 499, 495, 491, 490, 487, 483, 482 (room assignments TBA) |
Language Institute
Contact: Dianna Murphy |
Strategies for Learning Foreign Languages
An interactive lecture for language students led by Sally Magnan
website
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12:00 pm, Tuesday, September 15
254 Van Hise Hall |
Language Institute
Contact: Wendy Johnson |
Strategies for Learning Foreign Languages
website
An interactive lecture for language students led by Dianna Murphy
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4:00 pm, Wednesday, September 16
254 Van Hise Hall |
Language Institute
Contact: Wendy Johnson |
Language, Literacy, and Cultural Hybridity Among Somali Teens in Minnesota
Martha Bigelow, University of Minnesota
website |
4:00 pm, Tuesday, September 22
254 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive |
Language Institute
Contact: Dianna Murphy |
The Heritage Language Learner: Identities, Language Loyalties and Challenges
Olga Kagan, University of California, Los Angeles
website |
4:00 pm, Monday, October 19
254 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive |
Language Institute
Contact: Dianna Murphy |
Language for Life:
How Language Learning and the Peace Corps Influenced My Life
Wisconsin First Lady Jessica Doyle and UW-Madison campus Peace Corps Representative John Sheffy
website
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4:00 pm, Tuesday, October 20
On Wisconsin room, Red Gym, 716 Langdon Street |
Sponsored by the Language Institute, African Studies Program, and Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies program (LACIS)
Contact: Wendy Johnson |
Teaching by the Book?: Spaces for Creativity and Personalization
Hannelore Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
4:00pm, Thursday, November 5
254 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive |
Language Institute
Contact: Dianna Murphy |
World Languages Day
website
World Languages Day is moving to the fall!
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8:30am-2:00pm, Wednesday, November 18 (please note fall date)
Memorial Union and Pyle Center |
Language Institute
Contact: Wendy Johnson |
Spring 2010 |
Home Language: Refuge, Resistance, Resource
website
Mary McGroarty, Northern Arizona University |
12:00 pm, Friday,
February 12 |
Language Institute
Contact: Dianna Murphy |
World Languages Day for the Community
website coming soon
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1:00-4:00 pm, Saturday,
March 13
Memorial Union |
Language Institute
Contact: Wendy Johnson |
"In the Name of Language": The Continuous Cost of Language Learning
website
Elana Shohamy,
Tel Aviv University
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4:00 pm, Monday,
March 22
254 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive |
Language Institute
Contact: Dianna Murphy |
SLA Graduate Student Symposium
Keynote address: "Identity, Investment and Digital Language Learning"
Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia
website |
Friday, April 16-Saturday, April 17
Memorial Union |
SLA Graduate Student Organization and FLARE, University of Iowa
Contacts: Carolina Bernales, Margaret Merrill |
"Identity, Investment and Digital Language Learning"
website
Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia |
SLA Graduate Student Symposium
Friday,
April 16th, 2010 Memorial Union
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Language Institute
Contact: Dianna Murphy |
Summer 2010 |
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TBD |
Language Institute
Contact: Wendy Johnson |
