Speaking of Language

Julia de Aragón is a board member of the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County (where Cornell University sits). She sits down with Sam and Angelika to describe the programs and resources this volunteer organization offers our local community.

#batata

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

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

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

[email protected]

@ADDverse+poesia

https://www.instagram.com/addversepoesia

Download "Brazilian Women Poets in Translation," including Luana's work:

#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