The New Brunswick Department of Anthropology is sponsoring a series of talks that will explore the role of linguistic difference in shaping education at Rutgers and in the United States. Each talk includes a workshop led by Anthropology faculty and graduate students.
To register and get the details of the locations, contact kah382@brokenmail.rutgers.edu please replace brakenmail with scarletmail.rutgers.edu
- Sept 28: Bernard Perley, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Associate Professor of Anthropology
- 4:00 pm Lecture: Remediating New World Amnesia: The Return of Indigenous Ancestral Voices
- 1:30 pm Workshop on linguistic blindness to indigenous linguascapes at Rutgers
- Facilitators: Karelle Hall and Becky Schulthies
- Oct 19: Mara Green, Barnard College, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- 4:00 pm Lecture: Horizons of Language: Deaf Communicative Practices in Nepal
- 1:30 pm Workshop on standardness ideologies and linguistic diversity in the classroom
- Facilitators: Nan Hu and Kathleen Riley
- Dec 7: Sonia Das, New York University, Associate Professor of Anthropology
- 4:00 pm Lecture: Heritage Language or Racial Slur? The Politics of Speaking Tamil in Québec
- 1:30 pm Workshop on heritage language in the classroom
- Facilitators: Reecha Das and Becky Schulthies
- Feb 8: Amy Paugh, James Madison University, Professor of Anthropology
- 4:00 pm Lecture: Language Gap or Resource? A Language Socialization Approach to Linguistic Diversity
- 1:30 pm Workshop on language impoverishment ideologies in the classroom
- Facilitators: Marian Thorpe and Kathleen Riley
- Feb 22: Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics
- 4:00pm Lecture: Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education
- 1:30 pm Workshop on critical race educational pedagogies in the U.S.
- Facilitators: Marlaina Martin and Christien Tompkins
- April 12: Bonnie Urcuioli, Hamilton College, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
- 4:00 pm Lecture: Linguistic difference: hiding in plain sight
- 1:30 pm Workshop on diversity talk in the classroom
- Facilitators: Gabrielle Cabrera and Ariana Mangual Figueroa
