Linguistic Justice Workshops

WORKSHOP SERIES

As promised, we are back with another iteration of the Linguistic Justice Workshops, now under the theme of Multimodal Variation. This time we have the pleasure of introducing the first event of the year with Professor Claudia Elena Menéndez Fernández (University of Oviedo). This event will be followed by a roundtable in which Dr. Darío de Dios Sanz (University of Oviedo), Dr. Avelino Corral Esteban (Autonomous University of Madrid), and Miriam Villazón Valbuena (University of California, Riverside) will be discussing the topic presented on the workshop.

The event will happen on Thursday, January 26th at 9 am (Pacific Time). To join us, click here: bit.ly/linguisticjusticemenendez

 

 

New academic year, more workshops to come, WE ARE BACK!! 

Continuing with our 2022 goals, the team will continue with our workshops. For this academic year, we will emphasis in Linguistics Justice & Multimodal Variation. 

For our first workshop, we have the pleausure of starting with an international presentation from Aleksandra Miaskowska, from the Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. She will be presenting:  Julka from Twitter as an example of eponyms’ role in modern Polish culture.  To register, follow the QR that you can find in the poster. Get ready and stay tuned for more future workshops.

 

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We are back for February!!

This time, we have the pleasure of having Dr. López Ruiz from the Universidad de Córdoba (UCO). She will share with us: La traducción de la literatura infantil y juvenil (EN-FR-ES) para el aprendizaje de la segunda lengua extranjera y la transmisión de valores.

This event will take place on February 24th at 10 AM. Come on join us at: bit.ly/lopezruiz2022

 

We are happy to announce our third workshop for this series. Now we have the pleasure of having Dr. Torre from Università Degli Studi di Genova with us to talk about: ¿Gallego lengua impuesta? Narrativas sobre el bilingüismo en Galicia.

Come on join us at: bit.ly/TORRES2022

 

After our first wonderful presentation, we will continue with another excellent presentation by Dr. Agustina Carando from the University of California, Davis.
In this workshop, titled Heritage Spanish writing complexity, we will have the opportunity to learn about this matter and create a space to share ideas and continue progressing in the field.

Feel free to join us (bit.ly/carando 2021) on December 1 at 9am (PST).

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!

 

We are back!

As mentioned, we are back with our workshop series, this year focused on Linguistic Justice in Teaching Spanish with an emphasis on minoritized languages.

For our first presentation, We have had the pleasure of having a collaboration with the SANTINA conference and with its keynote speaker, Dr. Ana Cano, a specialist in the Asturian language.

 

Program organizers for the 2021-2022 Workshops

Contact: socalabworkshops@gmail.com

Spanish California Lab (SOCALab) at the University of California Riverside.

Dr. Covadonga Lamar Prieto

University of California, Riverside. Department of Hispanic Studies.

Miguel Muñoz Valtierra

University of California, Riverside. Department of Hispanic Studies.

Álvaro González Alba

University of California, Riverside. Department of Hispanic Studies.

Miriam Villazón Valbuena

University of California, Riverside. Department of Hispanic Studies.

 

 

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WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

Sadly, we have to say goodbye to this series of workshops that we had the great opportunity to organize last year, a year full of continuous changes and challenges. Even with the uncertainty of the previous academic year, we were able to create a space to share ideas  to advance efforts towards Linguistic Justice in Teaching Spanish.
We want to record here the excellent presentations that we had the pleasure of sharing.

HOWEVER … stay in touch, we are hosting this great workshop series again this year. Stay tuned, we will post more information shortly.

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We are very happy to be able to share the workshop series with Professor Rosti Vana from the University of Central Florida.
Dr. Vana comes to introduce us: Combating Linguistic Discrimination in the Mixed Class: The Case of the Heritage Speaker / Learner.

Here we have the information about this interesting workshop, that will take place this February 11th starting at 12:00pm.

Please do not hesitate to register (bit.ly/linguisticjusticeworkshops) and attend this exciting event.

 

 

We are happy to continue with our workshop series, now we have the pleasure of having Lorraine Ramos, a PhD student from the University of California, Merced here to share with us about: Heritage language speakers use of metaphoric language through genres in Spanish & English.

This workshop day will take place on March 4th starting at 12:00pm. Please come an join us in this wonderful opportunity to learn and share ideas.

Here is the poster and the registration link (bit.ly/linguisticjusticeworkshopsramos). Looking forward to this day!!

 

We are excited to continue our series of workshops. This time we are incredibly pleased to have a wonderful opportunity to learn about teaching Spanish in California from some of the UC campus Spanish language coordinators.
We have the pleasure of having the coordinators from UCR, UC-Merced, UCLA, UCSB and UC-Davis sharing the challenges, experiences and pedagogial approaches to teaching Spanish in California as a part of the UC-system.

This wonderful workshop will take place on April 8th starting at 12:00pm PST. Please come an join us in this amazing opportunity to learn and share ideas.

Here is the poster and the registration link (bit.ly/LinguisticJusticeWorkshopsUCSpanish). Looking forward to this day!!

Program organizers for the 2020-2021 workshops

Contact: socalabworkshops@gmail.com

Spanish California Lab (SOCALab) at the University of California Riverside.

Dr. Covadonga Lamar Prieto

University of California, Riverside. Department of Hispanic Studies.

Álvaro González Alba

University of California, Riverside. Department of Hispanic Studies.

Evelyn Gámez

University of California, Davis. Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

Miriam Villazón Valbuena

University of California, Riverside. Department of Hispanic Studies.

Lorraine Ramos

University of California, Merced. Interdisciplinary Humanities.

Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura

University of California, Los Ángeles. Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

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