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MLLI RESEARCH DAY

& INCC Alumni Lunch Hour

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 18, 2022, 10:00 am1:00 pm

Description

Dear MLLI community,

Our 2022 MLLI Research Day will take place online on Friday, November 18th from 10:00 am-1:00pm.

Graduate students and Faculty will share their research with a wide range of topics and languages covered in 15 min presentations or 5 min microtalks. Please see program below and join us for our two panels. 

You are also welcome to join Dr. Elisabeth Arévalo-Guerrero for the INCC Alumni Lunch Hour from 12pm to 1pm. Use the following link to connect to our Lunch Hour panel: https://umbc.webex.com/meet/eliarev1


Hope to see you there! 

First Panel 


10:10- 10:25 Presentation- Eleanor Brasfield (Graduate Student) “Remembering Super-Minorities: Including Native American Students in Inclusion.”


10:25-10:30- Microtalk - Elisabeth Arevalo-Guerrero (MLLI Faculty) “Advancing Intercultural Competence for Global Learners.”


10:30-10:45 - Presentation - Talke Macfarland  and Susanne Sutton (MLLI faculty) “Intercultural Competence - Gains from a Multi-Semester Student Tandem Project: Development, Assessment and Dissemination of Findings/Knowledge.”


10:45-10:50 - Microtalk - Milvia Hernández (MLLI Faculty)“For a Need of a Spanish 201-Placement Test: A Pilot Study (Preliminary Results).”


10:50 - 11:00 - Q&A


Second Panel 


11:00- 11:15 Presentation -  David Beard (MLLI Faculty). “Spanish Majors Can’t Read Don Quixote or Apply Their Major in the 21st Century: Is it Time to Rethink Traditional World Language Programs?.”


11:15- 11:30  Presentation - Landry Digeon (MLLI Faculty) , “The Möbius Trip meets Perfect Strangers: An AI toolkit for Cross-cultural Movie Remakes Analysis.”


11:30- 11:35  MicroTalk -  Mirea Toda Cosi (Graduate Student) - “What goes into aptitude for Foreign Language Learning?”


11:35 - 11:45 - Presentation - Dr. Elizabeth Hernández, (INCC alumni) Fostering intercultural competence in a pre-graduate course at a Global South University.”


11:45-11:50am - Microtalk - Caleb Ruck, (Graduate Student) Examining the Emergent Intranational Transgender Refugee Crisis in the United States"


11:50 - 12:00 pm Q&A


Alumni Hour - 12:00 - 1:00 pm - Elisabeth Arevalo-Guerrero