S9E13 - Shyam Sharma - Transcending Monolingual Worldviews

In our final episode of the semester, we speak with Dr. Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. He gave a talk as part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series on Transcending Monolingual Worldviews. We dive deeper into how to magnify the impact of knowledge in academia and society, as he shares ideas for rejecting a hegemony of English (or any state-imposed language) and embracing human connection through a multilingual experience.

https://shyamsharma.net/

https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/mic/resources/language-justice-in-higher-ed.php#Description

#stillarriving

S9E12 - Cornell’s International Teaching Assistant Program

Derina Samuel, Jody Gabler, Jayasri Srinivasan, Mila Veshcherevich, and Alice Wu from Cornell’s International Teaching Assistant Program tell us about the support services they offer to our international graduate student community.

ITAP on the web: https://teaching.cornell.edu/graduate-students/ITAP

#alcachofa

#преподавательница

#tiftuf

#sisu

#chongololo

S9E11 - Emma Britton - New LRC Learning Initiatives Coordinator

We meet Emma Britton, the new Learning Initiatives Coordinator at the Cornell University Language Resource Center, and discuss the hegemony of English as well as her experience learning Azerbaijani.

#BuQarpızSancılandıranlardanımış

S9E10 - Corrine Occhino - What Everyone Should Know about ASL and American Deaf Culture

Dr. Corrine Occhino joins us to follow up on her talk, “What Everyone Should Know about American Sign Language and American Deaf Culture.” We discuss language deprivation in Deaf children, the phenomenon of Deaf Gain, and how hearing folks can help make a more inclusive world for their Deaf community members.

Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lh5TY8lUUEVrh4G8HLvCD2RA04cY1u4Dhfe37fuLrOI/edit?usp=sharing

And see two of Corrine's favorite signs in ASL here: https://youtu.be/gQgK3HeyXo8 

ASL for Free: https://www.gallaudet.edu/asl-connect/asl-for-free/
Also on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aslconnect/

SignSchool: https://www.signschool.com/

ASL at Home: https://www.aslathome.org/

The ASL App: https://www.instagram.com/theaslapp/

#ASL

#CHAMP

#DEAFBING

S9E9 - Student Perspectives on Distance Language Learning

Aliou Gambrel (a senior) and Kevin Kwong (a graduate student) have spent the last few years learning languages in multiple modalities: in person with other students, connecting individually over Zoom, and through the hybrid video-linked classrooms of Cornell, Yale, and Columbia’s Shared Course Initiative. Here’s what they had to say about their varied experiences as language students.

#elmagyaráz

#bopp

S9E8 - Morten H. Christiansen - The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

Morten Christiansen explains how language is like charades while discussing his new book, The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World. He also reassures us that we shouldn’t fear artificial intelligence taking over the world, or the field of poetry.

The Language Game:

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/morten-h-christiansen/the-language-game/9781541674981/

Cognitive Science of Language Lab:

https://csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu/

Twitter:

@mh_christiansen

#kamalåså

S9E7 - Krista Saleet - Cornell’s David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement

Krista Saleet gives us the rundown on the new David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement at Cornell and the programming and resources they offer. 

https://scl.cornell.edu/get-involved/public-service-center

#ibashoom

S9E6 - Yarden Kedar - Bilingual Community-Based Language Pedagogy

Yarden Kedar, Israel Institute Visiting Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Cornell, follows up on his talk on bilingual community-based language pedagogy, and discusses an Arab-Jewish Language Café in Jerusalem.

https://www.facebook.com/goodneighborsabutor/

Watch Yarden's talk here:

https://youtu.be/enPf1z-mEsg

#embaixada

S9E5 - Cornell’s Global Hubs

We’re going global! We will talk about Cornell’s new collaborative Global Hubs with our colleagues Wendy Wolford, Rachel Beatty Riedl, Sebnem Ozkan, and Cindy Tarter.

Partnerships exist with institutions in Australia, China, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United Kingdom, and Zambia.

https://global.cornell.edu/global-hubs

#chiunque

#Naamanala 

#Tukupamoja 

#Çemişgezeklileştirebildiklerimizdensiniz

S9E4 - Alejandra Diemecke - The Music of La Llorona

Alejandra Diemecke tells us how her Mexican-American background and her musical family influenced the songs she performs on violin and vocals as La Llorona.

#pumpernickel

https://lalloronamusic.bandcamp.com/

https://theiliumworks.bandcamp.com/

Instagram: @_lallorona_music

La Llorona on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7wPJ4oWaD1oS4GKD5CvtbXt?si=1HvsqY4ERjKYmRC_nONGwQ

This podcast includes excerpts of the songs “La Llorona” and “Wildwood” from the La Llorona EP Hedges.