Event Category Archives: Arts Languages

Keynote: Multilingualism as a Gift: Changing Mindsets, Changing Worlds

Despite the presence of multiple languages in many homes, schools, and workplaces, monolingualism still persists as a normative educational and everyday practice in Canada and many places around the world. In this talk, based on stories of language maintenance and loss from my research studies, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Guofang Li shares how such […]

Workshop on Protactile Communication: DeafBlind Culture

Ryan Ollis with UBC Extended Learning gives a workshop on DeafBlind culture. Have you ever wondered how to interact with DeafBlind person? Are you hesitant about how to approach a DeafBlind person? In this workshop, you will learn about how DeafBlind people communicate, how to approach them and how a DeafBlind person navigates in the […]

Multilingualism and Migration: MOSAIC & Worn Words

1pm: Worn Words by Erin Goheen Glanville Interview footage interrupts the animation, drawing on expertise about asylum discourse across various sectors. 2pm: Multilingualism: Integration, Challenges, and Successes This panel of MOSAIC team members will explore the role of multilingualism in their work helping immigrants and refugees settle and start a new life in Canada. As one of Canada’s […]

Graduate Student Roundtable: Wondering Words: Confronting Multilingualisms, Ancient and Modern

In this multilingual roundtable, we interrogate the interplay of ancient and modern languages in scholarship on the ancient Mediterranean world. We consider the challenges of crossing between ancient and modern from a variety of viewpoints:  the challenges of studying ancient languages through the lenses of their modern counterparts, the transitions between Anglophone and non-Anglophone worlds […]

Keynote: “Materializing Multilingualism in Comics from Haida Gwaii to Beirut” via Zoom

How might the visual grammar of comics be drawn upon to highlight the labour, theory, and practice of translation? At the intersection between the world republic of letters and the domain of images, comics necessitate techniques and physical spaces for reading that challenge assumptions of linguistic–and cultural–equivalence. Examining Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ A Tale […]