The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES), the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC), and the Duke Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS) are pleased to present:
Global Voices: Exploring Multilingualism in the 21st Century
April 20 - 21, 2024
A conference with themes of:
- Heritage Learners
- Language Learning and Emotions
- Proficiency Standards, Testing, & Curricular Development
- Teaching Indigenous Languages
- Transformer and Translation Models in Languages of the World:
- Current Trends and Future Directions
Outside speakers include:
- Abelardo de la Cruz (Assistant Professor, Nahua Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Eva Dessein (Senior Lecturer, Director of French language program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Kira Gor (Professor of Second Language Acquisition, University of Maryland)
- Jean-Marc Dewaele (Emeritus Professor, Birbeck, University of London)
- Beth Mackey (U.S. Department of Defense, Chief program manager for language testing (retired); specialist in second language acquisition, PhD, University of Maryland)
- Margaret Malone (Director of Assessment and Research, ACTFL; Adjunct Lecturer, Georgetown University)
- Armando Muyolema (Kichwa Scholar, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Universidad de las Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador, Amawtay Wasi)
- Per Urlab (Director of Global Languages, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Duke units participating include:
- Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
- Center for Slavic Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES)
- German Studies
- Global Education Office
- Linguistics
- Romance Studies
- Slavic and Eurasian Studies