2023 Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Conference
Expanding Beyond the Language Classroom: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Practices in CLAC
hosted by Rutgers University
In Person
September 29-30, 2023
Keynote Speaker
Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
Associate Professor of Linguistics at Haverford College
Dr. Lillehaugen received her Ph.D. from UCLA and has been learning from Zapotec speakers since 1999. Lillehaugen’s research profile includes technical grammatical description as well as collaborative language documentation and revitalization projects. She has found combining linguistic fieldwork with tools from the digital humanities to be a productive way to collaborate with both Zapotec speaking communities and undergraduate students. She is co-director of Ticha, a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec texts and leads several teams in developing online Talking Dictionaries for Zapotec languages. Her work has been supported by the NSF, NEH, and ACLS and she was awarded the Ernest A. Lynton Faculty Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. Her current projects include considering the role that Linguistics and Languages can have in activating undergraduate engagement with the Humanities across the curriculum.
Professional Websites
Dr. Lillehaugen (http://brooklillehaugen.weebly.com)
Ticha (https://ticha.haverford.edu)
Zapotec Talking Dictionaries (https://talkingdictionaries.swarthmore.edu/zapotecs)
Cali Chiu: a Course in Valley Zapotec (https://oer.haverford.edu/cali-chiu)
Keynote Topic
Centering Language(s) and Linguistics in a
Social-Justice Oriented Humanities
Justice-seeking scholarship and pedagogy are not monolingual endeavors. Training students to activate humanistic methodologies in socially engaged careers must include training them to recognize their own linguistic strengths as well as to identify (and resist) harmful linguistic ideologies. Centering language– and the power of language– in classrooms allows us to engage students and ourselves in deeper understanding of local and transnational diasporic identities, histories, languages, and cultures– and the power relations created, re-created, and contested within these. Based on my own experience of over 10 years of classroom-community collaboration with Zapotec language activists, I explore the potential of bringing language(s) to non-language classrooms, reflecting on both practical considerations as an instructor, impact on students, and potential for long-term community engagement.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The Conference Organizing Committee is composed of individuals from Rutgers Language Engagement Project, Rutgers language faculty, and members of the CLAC Consortium.
Get In Touch
- language.engagment@rutgers.edu
Rutgers
Language Engagment PRoject
Rutgers University’s Language Engagement Project (LEP) takes an innovative approach to language learning. Housed in the Language Center, the project spearheads a series of curricular initiatives that fosters the creation of 1-credit interdisciplinary Language Modules, Courses and Activities that integrates cultures and languages across the curriculum.
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