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Social Justice and Linguistic Practices in Italophone and Francophone Contexts

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
European Union Center, SLATE: Second Language Acquisition and TeacherEducation, Department of French & Italian, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, WGGP:Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory,Department of Linguistics
Date
Apr 8, 2022   10:00 am - 12:00 pm  
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Contact
Robin Turner
E-Mail
robinst2@illinois.edu
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Campus Humanities Calendar

How does language affect the way social change moves through a community or culture? Can ‘new’ language affect how we 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. 

Speakers

  • Vincent Mousseau, RSW, Université de Montréal
  • Julia Heim, PhD, University ofPennsylvania 
  • Julie Abbou, PhD, Laboratoire deLinguistique Formelle
  • Irene Facheris, MA, Activist, educator, writer, & podcaster 

     

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