Events Calendar

The World Languages Graduate Organization along with the French & Italian Forum present the 7th Annual WLGO Conference: Exploring Interfaces.

Registration is from 8:45 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. in 114 Phillips Hall. Conference panels are from 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Keynote Address will be at 10:45 a.m. : Dr. Kim Marra, Theater Arts, University of Iowa: "Intergenre/Interspecies Exploration: The Pull of Horses in Urban Performance, 1860-1920"

The schedule will be as follows:

8:45 – 9:15    Breakfast and registration (114 PH)

9:15 – 10:30    Collisions of Ideas in Literature and Translation, Discussant: Prof. Rosemarie Scullion
9:15 – 9:40    Xiangyu Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Interconnection between Memory and Narrative: Constructing the Memory of Jing Ke through Historiography in Early and Medieval China
9:40 – 10:05    Camille Leclère-Gregory, University of Iowa
“Resistance, Alterity and Existentialism(s): Literature as a means of Rebellion for Sartre and Camus”
10:05 – 10:30    Michael Overstreet, University of Iowa
“Reading between Rilkes”

10:30 – 10:45    ~ Break ~

10:45 – 11:45    Keynote (100 PH): “Intergenre/Interspecies Exploration: The Pull of Horses in Urban Performance, 1860-1920"
Dr. Kim Marra, Professor of Theatre History & Dramatic Literature, University of Iowa

11:45 – 12:45    ~ Lunch (not provided) ~

12:45 – 2:00    Rewriting Memory, Myth and Mobility, Discussant: Prof. Anny Curtius
12:45 – 1:10    Kasif Rahman, Kansas State University
“Methodologies for Contesting Dominant Ideology in The Bluest Eye”
1:10 – 1:35    Hadley Galbraith, University of Iowa
“The Inscription of the Mother: Reine Pokou, Bodies of Water and Mami Watta”
1:35 – 2:00    Angela Pico Pinto, University of Iowa
"In Dreams and Golden Spaces: Memory and Nostalgia in Immigrant Literature in France and in the U.S.”

2:15 – 3:30    Attitudes, Perceptions, and Understanding in the Language of Pedagogy, Discussant: Molly Kelley
2:15 – 2:40    Chen Sun, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Measuring Teachers’ Attitudes Towards English Language Teaching Method (ELTs)”
2:40 – 3:05    Alejandro Perez Belda, University of Iowa
“Spanish Oral Proficiency Tests in Dual Language Education: Teacher Perceptions”
3:05 – 3:30    Yejun Bae, University of Iowa
“Filling Gaps Between Researchers and Teachers: Increasing Science Teachers’ Theoretical Understanding through Creative Translation”
 

3:45 – 5:00    Inter-Linguistic Spaces, Discussant: Prof. Pamela Weseley
3:45 – 4:10    Budimka Uskovic, Ohio State University
“Meeting the Interculturality Can-Do Competencies”
4:10 – 4:35    Kezia Walker-Cecil, University of Iowa
“Perceptual Boundaries: Bilinguals and their Phonemic Inventories”
4:35 – 5:00    Evelyn Pulkowski, University of Iowa
"Phonetic Symbolism: What Is It and Why Does it Matter?"

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
WLGO would like to give special thanks to Director Russ Ganim of the Division of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures; the University of Iowa Faculty members who have served as panel discussants; the DWLLC graduate students for their support; all of the graduate students who presented in the conference; our keynote speaker, Dr. Kim Marra, for her participation; the French and Italian Forum for their sponsorship, and all those in attendance.

WLGO Executive Council Members
Conference Directors: Hadley Galbraith and Camille Leclère-Gregory
President: Kezia Walker-Cecil
Vice President: Camille Leclère-Gregory
Treasurer: Sam Jambrovic
Executive Associate: Hadley Galbraith 
Parliamentarian: Angela Pico Pinto
Webmaster: Nathan DePuy
Cultural Event Chairs: Kevin Josephs and Nathan DePuy