Month: January 2015

THE FIRST PAN-AFRICAN BARAZA: FRANTZ FANON AT 90 DISCUSSION BY PROF LEWIS GORDON

Talks organized by the Pan-African Baraza & Thought Works to mark the 90th anniversary of the birth of Frantz Fanon. A lecture by Professor Lewis Gordon, Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, and Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies, with affiliation in Judaic Studies, at the University of Connecticut, USA.

 

Mike Byram – Feb. 4th at 3:00 – 5:00 pm University of Connecticut in the Gentry Building room 144

 

Mike Byram Feb. 4th at 3:00 pm (Oak 236) at Uconn
Mike Byram
Feb. 4th at 3:00 pm (Oak 236) at Uconn

Mike Byram is an international superstar in the area of intercultural communication and language and culture acquisition. In Europe, this area has much evolved into including civic discourse, citizenship and cultural identity/affiliation.

The presenter: “In this presentation – which I hope will develop into a discussion – I shall focus on different notions of ‘critical cultural awareness’ and ‘criticality’ and their place in foreign language education. I will do so with an eye to the chronological evolution of the ideas involved, providing a sketch rather than a full chronicle of events. I shall also relate the notions to education theory beyond foreign language education, including education for citizenship, and the current research at the Council of Europe on Competences for Democratic Culture and Intercultural Dialogue. The most recent developments in language teaching and intercultural citizenship will be illustrated with an example of work from an international network of researchers and curriculum developers, including colleagues at UCONN, with the hope that this too will stimulate discussion of the relationship of this work with theory of education for ‘social justice’”.

Biography

Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at Durham University since October 2008.
His work comprised initial teacher education and being Director of Research Degrees with supervision of research students. He began his career teaching French and German at secondary school level and in adult education in an English comprehensive community school. After being appointed to a post in teacher education at the University of Durham in 1980, he carried out research into the education of linguistic minorities, foreign language education and student residence abroad.
He supervised doctoral students in intercultural studies, language teaching and comparative education.
He has published many books and articles including, most recently, Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence; Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures (with Karen Risager); From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship; and is the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning.

NEW BOOK: The Common European Framework of Reference. The globalisation of language education policy.

Grant Writing Seminars Arts & Humanities *** NIH *** NSF NIH Career Development *** NSF Career Award Registration Deadline: February 13, 2015

Grant Writing Seminars
Arts & Humanities *** NIH *** NSF
NIH Career Development *** NSF Career Award

Registration Deadline: February 13, 2015

Partnering with schools and colleges, the Office of the Vice President for Research will be sponsoring five grant writing seminars to be conducted by Grants Writers’ Seminars and Workshops, LLC.    Faculty interested in attending any of the seminar(s) must first obtain approval from the Dean of their respective school/college prior to registering.

Michael Lynch (UCHI Director), WNPR news, “Where we Live”, January 4, 2015

The success of a society depends – at least in part – on the civility of its members. Mutual respect, openness to different viewpoints…civil conversation is what we try to promote here on our show…….

Listen to the program  http://wnpr.org/post/how-important-civility-protest

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Our director Michael Lynch, WNPR news, The Colin McEnroe Show ‘Unraveling the Web of Deception’ Dec 23rd 2014

We fool people all the time. Whether with bad intent or not, deception has become a common practice in today’s society. Listen to the program http://wnpr.org/post/unraveling-web-deception#.VKw-zkMUvko.facebook

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