Monday March 25, 2019
6:30 - 8 p.m.
Greenbriar Theater, Plemmons Student Union
and
Tuesday, March 26, 2019,
8:45 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Belk Library, Room 421
The program begins on Monday evening with a screening of a film by German professor Kevin Kennedy, followed on Tuesday with a variety of presentations by Appalachian State University faculty and graduate students on their language and culture related research, creative works and pedagogy. This event is hosted by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (DLLC).
Monday, March 25, 2019 - Greenbriar Theater
6:30-8 p.m. / Documentary: Baron Maximilian von Ketelhodt
Kevin Kennedy (DLLC) - Screening followed by Questions & Answers
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - Belk Library, Room 421
8:45-9 a.m.: Coffee & Cookies
9:-10:15 a.m. / Enriching our pedagogy - moderated by Kevin Kennedy
Catherine Fountain (DLLC) - "Tech, texts and textbooks in the language classroom"
Brent James (DLLC) - "'Pod·a·go·gy': Creating and collecting podcasts and incorporating both into your teaching"
Beverly Moser (DLLC) - “Wait, What? All world language students are developing intercultural communicative competence, right?”
Questions & Answers
10:15-10:30 a.m. : Coffee Break
10:30-11:45 a.m. / Poetry in Translation - Moderated by TBA
Benito del Pliego (DLLC) - “Language Barriers and the Multicultural Canon: U.S. Poetry in Spanish”
Andres Fisher (DLLC) - “Critical approaches on the (un)translatability of poetry: from Gertrude Stein to the Beats under the scope of Haroldo de Campos”
Leon Lewis (Department of English) - “Mi alegría y mi persona: The Source of Soledad Montoya’s “sorrow” in Federico Garcia Lorca’s Romance de la pena negra”
Questions & Answers
11:45-1 p.m.: Lunch Recess
1-2:30 p.m. / Reading Fiction - Moderated by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
Darci Gardner (DLLC) - “Criminals and Collaborators: Georges Simenon, Cognitive Bias and the Task of Assigning Guilt”
Adrienne Erazo (DLLC) - “Nasty Women: The Politics of Female Identity in Antonio Ortuño’s La fila india”
Wendy Xie (DLLC) - “Serialized Storytelling, Melodrama of Affliction and Politics of Tears”
Don Presnell (Associate Director of Advising) - “Iconographic Intertextuality of Don Quijote”
Questions & Answers
2:30-3 p.m. Coffee Break
3-4:30 p.m. / Linguistics - Moderated by Benji Souza
Jacob Sherwin (DLLC) - “Instead of Renouncing it, Pronounce it: French L2 Learners' Self-assessment of Pronunciation”
Paul Sebastian (DLLC) - “Asynchronously Layered Linguistic Landscapes”
Alyssa Kermad, Lexie All, Sammi Desotelle and Kiersten Nipper (DLLC) - “Building Service Learning into a Linguistics Course for Pre-Service Translators, Interpreters and TESL Instructors”
Questions & Answers
4:30-4:45 p.m.: Coffee Break
4:45-5:15 p.m. / Creative Writing - Moderated by Patricia Ortiz
Martial Frindethie (DLLC) - "Liquid Poetics"
Questions & Answers
5:30-7 p.m. / Happy Hour at the Boone Saloon in downtown Boone
For more information about this event or the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures visit: https://dllc.appstate.edu/news/posts.
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About the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures offers courses that enhance students’ understanding of other cultures and languages as well as their own, making them prepared for lifelong learning in a multicultural world. Learn more at https://dllc.appstate.edu.
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