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Panel: Social Justice and Linguistic Practices in Italophone and Francophone Contexts

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
The European Union Center, SLATE: Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, Department of French and Italian, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, WGGP: Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Unit for Critism and Interpretive Theory, Department of Linguistics
Date
Apr 8, 2022   10:00 am - 12:00 pm  
Registration
Registration
Contact
Robin Turner
E-Mail
robinst2@illinois.edu
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Linguistics Event Calendar

How does language affect the way social change moves through a community or culture? Can ‘new’ language affect howwe interact with each other and our ideas about social justice? Join us on Zoom along with scholars and activists from Italophone and Francophone communities to talk aboutthese important questions about language and social justice.

Panelists:

Vincent Mousseau, RSW, Université de Montréal

Julie Abbou, PhD, Laboratoire deLinguistique Formelle

Julia Heim, PhD, University ofPennsylvania

Irene Facheris, MA, Activist, educator,writer, & podcaster

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