At last Thursday’s Brown Bag, we talked about engaging with art as a way to expand students’ repertoire. We noted that students gain confidence when speaking about art in a public space, they gain a richer sense of the target…
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Constantine Muravnik reports on the 2013 AATSEEL Conference
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On January 3 – 5, 2013, I attended the annual AATSEEL conference in Boston. (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages http://www.aatseel.org/program/2013-aatseel-conference-program/.) I served as the chair and discussant on the panel “Nabokov’s Ethics and Aesthetics.” I…
Julia Titus reports on the ASEEES 2012 Conference
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I participated in the annual conference of Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), held on November 15-18, 2012 in New Orleans, LA. ASEEES, a nonprofit, non-political, scholarly society, is the leading private organization in the world dedicated…
Aaron Butts reports on the Society of Biblical Literature conference
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I attended the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Chicago, IL on Nov. 17-20, 2012. At this conference, I presented a paper entitled “From Manuscripts to Edition: The Case of the Syriac History of St. Cyriacus and…
Marion Gehlker reports on ACTFL 2012 and German Studies
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I attended the ACTFL conference in Philadelphia on November 16-18, 2012. In addition to a poster presentation on “Teaching Advanced German” at the AAUSC (American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators) business meeting, I gave a presentation on “Turkish for…
Ling Mu reports on ACTFL 2012 and East Asian Languages
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I attended the ACTFL conference in Philadelphia on November 16-18, 2012. My panel, “New Tools for the Chinese E-Learning Environment,” drew an audience of around 30 colleagues. My presentation, “Quickly Create and Manage Graded Multimedia Chinese Texts Online” which, introduced…
CLS Pedagogy Workshop 2012
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The CLS Pedagogy Workshop takes place on August 21-24, from 8:30 to 1:00. In the workshop, new language lectors and TFs work across languages to share teaching strategies and practical ideas for the classroom. For more information, contact Suzanne Young. For the…