Conference Schedule

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First Day of Conference: Sunday, September 1, 2019
8:30- 9:00 Willard 262 Opening Welcome: Sinfree Makoni, Penn State University

  • Robert Schrauf, Head of Department, Applied Linguistics, Penn State
  • Opening Song: Betty Dlamini, Indiana University Bloomington
9:00-9:45 Willard 262 Featured Speaker: Chris Hutton, University of Hong Kong (Introduction by Sinfree Makoni)
Integrationism and Personalism
9:45-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00- 11:15 Willard 167 Panel Session #1
Session A: Languaging in Brazil

  • C. Jordáo, Federal University of Parana; CNPQ: Southern Epistemologies and English teaching in Brazil: decolonizing applied linguistics and ELT
  • A. Elterman, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina:   Language practices in Afro-Brazilian religions
10:00-11:15 Willard 169 Panel Session #1
Session B: Language in the South African Context 

  • S.C. Ndlangamandla, University of South Africa: Languaging in online multilingual educational contexts: A mismatch between global North epistemologies and evidence from a South African Institution
  •  L. Hibbert, Cape Peninsula University of Technology: Advancing border thinking through defamiliarization in uncovering the darker side of coloniality and modernity in South African higher education
  • L. Mafofo, University of Western Cape: A local discursive dimension of a specific historical slice of context: University students’ narratives about police experiences during #FeesMustFall protests
11:20-12:30 Willard 167 Panel Session #2
Session A: Language Learning and the Phenomenon of Language

  • J. Thomas, Swarthmore College: Brofolized Talk about Swahili: Ghanaian Perspectives on African Language Planning
  • E. Trentman, University of New Mexico: Monolingual ideologies and Plurilingual Realities: US Leaners of Arabic in Study Abroad and Telecollaboration 
  • U. Anya, Penn State University: The Taquito Hot Seat: Socializing monolingual bias through error correction practices in a Portuguese language classroom
11:20- 12:30 Willard 169 Panel Session #2
Session B: Integrationism and the Emergence of Text

  • C. Conrad, Penn State University: What is a text?
  • A. Cengiz, Bogazici University, Istanbul: Re-contextualization of the author and reader position in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe in the Turkish cultural environment through translation
  • S. Kwok, University of Hong Kong: The language Myth behind (Post)colonial Translation: An Integrationist Perspective
12:30- 1:40   Lunch
** Executive Meeting for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication in Willard 173
1:45- 2:30 Willard 262 Featured Speaker: Ryuko Kubota, University of British Columbia (Introduction by Mari Haneda)
Epistemological Racism and Southern Theory: Toward a Critical Approach to Language Studies
2:35-3:45 Willard 167 Panel Session #3
Session A: The Power of Naming

  • S. Bagga-Gupta, Jonkoping University: Making visible and going beyond “single academic stories” in the Language and Educational Sciences. A turn towards alternatives
  • A. Kaiper, Penn State University: Metonymic Power. Policies and Narratives of “English,” “Education,” and “Literacy” in South African Adult Education
  • S. El-Sayed: Gender Representation in Disney Animation Dubbings- A Feminist Perspective         
2:35-3:45 Willard 169 Panel Session #3
Session B: Language and “Otherization”

  • C. D. Leymarie, Georgia State University: The Construction of Context: narratives about literacy from the Somali American community of Clarkston, Georgia
  • D. Bade, University of Chicago: Edward Said, Roy Asked, and the Peasant Responded: Three Reflections on Peasants, Popular Culture and Intellectuals
  • R. K. Mammadov, Suffolk University: Vision of Eurovision: Visual Language in Profiling of Azerbaijan and Sweden as a Reflection of Eurocentric Bias
3:55- 5:15 Willard 262 Plenary Panel Discussion based on responses to the book Languaging Without languages: beyond metro-poly,pluri and translanguaging by Sabino (2018)

  • R. Sabino, Auburn University
  • D. Gramling, University of Arizona
  • E. G. Trentman, University of New Mexico
Second Day of Conference: Monday, September 2, 2019
9:00-9:45 Willard 262 Featured Speaker: Arthur Spears, City University of New York, Interrogating Linguistics, Interrogating Ourselves   (Introduction by Busi Makoni)
9:45-9:55   Coffee Break
9:55-10:35 Willard 262 Skype address: Shi-xu, Hangzhou Normal University, China, Cultural Discourse Studies (Introduction by Lera Minakova)
10:45-12:00 Willard 167 Panel Session #4
Session A: Multimodalities

  •  D. Duncker & P. Jones, Penn State University: A clash of Linguistic philosophies? The Linguistics of Charles Goodwin’s cooperative action an integrationist perspective
  • J. Valente, Penn State University: The Significance of the Mundane: Hybrid Spaces, Languaging, and Inclusion in a Bilingual Deaf Kindergarten in France
  • B. Samuelson & B. Dlamini, Indiana University Bloomington: Between Us: Conversations about the Global North and South
10:45-12:00 Willard 169 Panel Session #4
Session B: Translanguaging #1

  • M. Kafle, Penn State University: “I read in English but understand in Nepali” Students with refugee backgrounds negotiating Academic Literacy
  • J.W. Lee, University of California, Irvine: From Ius Sanguinis to Ius Agendi: Insights from a Hongkonger Ethnolanguaging as Korean
  • D. Karlander, University of Hong Kong: The question of lay thinking in anti-linguistic sociolinguistics
10:45-12:00 Willard 173 Panel Session #4
Session C:  Language and Global Spaces

  • C. Benton Monahan, Penn State University: Language Policy Among the Amazigh
  •  J. McGregor, University of Arizona: Investigating productions of structural monolingualism in study abroad
  • B. E. Antia,University of Western Cape, South Africa: Students’ marginalia and notes: analytical and theoretical perspectives from Integrationism, Translanguaging and Sociocultural Theory    
12:00- 1:30   Lunch
** Editorial Board meeting for the Journal of Language and Communication in Willard 173
1:40- 3:00 Willard 167 Panel Session #5
Session A: Outward Expansion of Integrationism

  •  A. Pable, University of Hong Kong: Is Integrationism Ethnocentric? 
  • F. Xuan, University of Hong Kong: A Harrisian investigation on the semiological foundations of abyssal thinking and Southern Perspectives       
  • K. Chirindo, Lewis and Clark College: Rhetoric and Integrationism: In search of Rapproachment     
1:40-3:00 Willard 169

 

 Panel Session #5
Session B: From the Outside Looking Inwards: Positivities of the Periphery

  • C. Juhl, University of Texas: Semantics denatured 
  • C. Keating, University of Coimbra: Polycentric or pluricentric? Exploring Portuguese in migration contexts
  • J. Martinez, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR): Towards a decolonial Applied Linguistics in the Global South: a question of contingency and hegemony
  • D. Balosa, University of Maryland: Human Dignity: The Second Language of the Common Humanity and the High Balance for Language Policy in Multilingual Societies.
3:05- 3:30 Willard 262
  • Concluding thanks: Deryn P. Verity, Penn State University
  • Closing song: Betty Dlamini, Indiana University Bloomington