Annual Graduate Student Conference
Date and time
Location
Donna E. Shalala Student Center
Activities Room 1330 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146Description
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host its annual graduate student conference, “Lands of Freedom? Oppressions, Subversions and Pursuits of Justice in a Changing World,” on February 9, 2018. We seek engagement with graduate students from all regions and at all levels of study who are interested in moments and spaces of change, resistance, and politics that confront or affirm human dignity. While recent events around the globe highlight the urgency of this dialogue, historical analysis also demonstrates that justice, oppression, and subversion manifest in various ways throughout time.
PROGRAM
9:00AM Registration & Coffee
9:30AM Welcoming Remarks
10:00AM Panel I - Oppressions
11:30AM Break
12:00PM Keynote Speaker JAVIER SICILIA
Introduction by President Julio Frenk
Q&A Moderated by Dr. Felicia Knaul, Director,
University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas
1:30PM Lunch Break (on site)
2:30PM Panel II - Subversions
4:00PM Panel III - Pursuits of Justice
5:30PM Closing Remarks & Reception
This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures' Joseph Carter Memorial Fund and the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas.
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We are located in Coral Gables, just south of Miami, in one of the most culturally diverse areas in the United States. Not only Spanish-with its many inflections-but Creole, French, Portuguese, and Italian are increasingly heard along the streets, in shops, restaurants, and offices, and on the university campuses of greater Miami. With students from around the world, the University of Miami is truly an international learning institution and South Florida an ideal location to gain a broader perspective of the interconnectedness of world cultures.
Through its courses dedicated to the study of languages, literatures, and cultures, our department offers you an exciting opportunity to engage in a learning experience aimed at developing global literacy. Global literacy (GL) is the ability to participate in sociocultural practices by both interacting with others in different languages and by creating, presenting, and interpreting ideas through oral and written texts in more than one language. You cannot be global if you live in only one language. GL includes written and oral communication, critical thinking and social responsibility, and appreciation of cultural artifacts, artistic products, and new technologies in more than one language. Whether you opt for a career in education, or in business, economics, law, medicine, politics, the arts, and the social sciences, our courses will enrich your life beyond your expectations as you acquire a deeper understanding of your own and of others' linguistic and cultural heritage. If you would like to know more about our doctoral programs in French and Spanish, our majors and minors in French, German, and Spanish, and our minors in Arabic Studies, Italian and Portuguese, or if you wish to begin studies of Haitian Kreyòl, Hebrew, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese, you are welcome to browse our website and to come visit us!