Language Acts and Worldmaking: Our Words Make Worlds

Time: Nov. 6, 2018, 2 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.

Location: Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages

Sophie Stevens (King's College, London)

Stevens presents research from the UK-based humanities project, “Language Acts and Worldmaking,” using as an example the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds. Dr. Stevens shows how the project proposes a more global approach to language teaching and learning as a way to foreground language’s power to continually shape how we live and make our worlds.

Additional supporters:

• Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Centro de Estudios Hispánicos
• Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA)
• Latino/Latin American Studies (LLAS)

Gail Bulman, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics