UO Languages

Are you ready? 🥁 You're invited to our event!🤩 ✨Rompiendo fronteras: The Latinx Experience in Grad School ⏰📅 Wednesday, April 21st from 5:00-7:00pm on Zoom (link provided through registration) 💻Registration required (forms.gle/jVSrMgNa2HD3ZQ…) More info in the photos⬇️

Hey ungrading folks, do you know anyone who is ungrading in intro language (L2) classes? Asking for colleagues in world languages hoping to find models. #ungrading

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY – UO VIRTUAL RECRUITING VISITS Open to undergraduate and graduate students in ALL majors. Connect with CIA representatives to learn about intelligence officer careers. More info: bit.ly/3tjABUB

Join a space to validate and name the racialized nature in the surge of anti-Asian violence offered by the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence (CMAE), University Counseling Services (UCS), and Sexual Violence Prevention & Education (SVPE). calendar.uoregon.edu/event/addressi…

Join UO faculty, guests and the Global Studies Institute for their sessions on Conversations About Our World. The next event is April 28 and then May 13. Visit here for more information: gsi.uoregon.edu/conversations-…

In her Focus Topic article, Claudia Fernández shares how the #Spanish Basic Language Program at UIC (@UICnews) designed a totally new curriculum to better reflect the classroom of the 21st century. Go to bit.ly/2QNKo3w to read the latest issue of TLE! #TuesdayTLE

“MAKING A CAREER AFTER JAPANESE STUDIES AT PSU” Should be interesting for *all* Japanese Studies majors! The panel includes, Joshua Hunt, author of University of Nike. pdx.edu/japanese-studi…

Alaska Native civil rights icon Elizabeth Peratrovich is on screens everywhere as today's #GoogleDoodle. Tlingit artist @MichaelaGoade created the illustration and said she hopes it helps more people learn about Elizabeth Peratrovich's life and work. → bit.ly/2L4Xv0z

For a full schedule, workshop information and registration, check calico.org/winter-worksho… #langchat

✅$15M for the World Language Advancement and Readiness Grants Program has been included in FY21 omnibus appropriations bill! Years of advocacy from our members and leadership from @RepDavidEPrice and @DonYoungAK have resulted in this victory! languagepolicy.org/post/congress-…

Unique Summer 2021 travel/study program @GEOabroad in Italy, an exploration of the #Dolomites. Open to @uoromance @UOregon_History @UOCompLit @UOsojc @EnvsUo @UO_Geology and students in @UO_Languages and Global Studies t.ly/RW2yq

Professional development that’s always interesting, useful and research-informed, @CARLA_UMN carla.umn.edu/presentations/…

Karin Fischer’s reporting and prognostications for the fall depict a grim future for international ed.

Register now for the 2nd Russian Flagship Virtual Undergraduate Research Conference!: mailchi.mp/acc2ff1c93aa/b…

Many thanks to our friends in the Office of Global Engagement for this message of hope. #resilience, #coronavirus

The UO Language Council is meeting this Friday, Feb. 28 from 3:00-4:30 in 240A MCK. Agenda • Welcome: Dennis Galvan • Updates: Karen Ford • Introduction of Harry Wonham, Division Dean for Humanities •Core Education Council intro and visioning activity • Q & A

YLC Director Jeff Magoto will join two IALLT colleagues for a webinar (H5P and ANVILL: Looking Forward to 20/20) discussing the pros and cons of H5P and ANVILL in lesson authoring for language learning. iallt.org/webinars/12-12…

Kudos to CAS for their new tool to guide students on the path to meeting their language requirement. Check out: “How to Meet the BA Requirement at UO” languagerequirement.uoregon.edu

Dr. Julie Sykes was announced as the new Editor of the association’s quarterly scholarly journal Foreign Language Annals (FLA). She will serve a three-year term as Editor, beginning in January 2020 and ending in December 2022 with the Winter 2022 issue. actfl.org/news/press-rel…