Department of Applied Linguistics

Currently Accolades: Presented for April 3, 2023

by Currently March 30th 2023

Spring presented
  1. Jola Ajibade, Geography faculty, gave a talk, “Can Managed Retreat be Successful and Just? Global Evidence from Post-Resettlement Programs” on March 17 at the Climate Mobilities Working Group Speakers Series at Princeton University. 
  2. Jola Ajibade, Geography faculty, gave a talk “Just Relocations and Migrations: Understanding Trade-offs and Success” on March 20 at a University of Toronto Department of Geography and Planning graduate seminar.
  3. Kimberley Brown, International and Global Studies and Applied Lingusitics faculty, and Rosadene David, graduate student, presented “Disability, Inclusion, ELT, and Global South: The Colombian Context” at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages International 2023 Conference.
  4. Kate Comer, English faculty, presented on “Community Building for Curricular Development in Composition Programs” at the Writing Research Across Borders conference in Trondheim, Norway.
  5. Óscar Fernández, University Studies faculty co-chair, presented “Summarizing PSU-HSI (Hispanic Serving Institution) Exploratory Committee’s On-Campus Work (2020-present): A Conversation with Portland Community College’s HSI Task Force,” on March 17 at Portland Community College's HSI Task Force.
  6. Brenda Glascott, Director of and faculty in the University Honors College, presented on “Core Assignments and Academic Discourses” at the Writing Research Across Borders conference in Trondheim, Norway. 
  7. Brenda Glascott, Director of and faculty in the University Honors College, Kate Comer,  English faculty, and Eric Rodriguez, University Honors College faculty, were on a panel, “Toward Antiracist Writing Assessment: Faculty Development in Writing Programs Across the Curriculum” at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages International 2023 Conference.
  8. Susan Kirtley, English faculty, gave two presentations at the Comic Arts Conference in Anaheim, California: “Comics in K-12 Education” and “Rhetoric, Resistance, and Bodies in ‘Bitch Planet.’”
  9. Kacy McKinney, Urban Studies and Planning, presented on her research project, “Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability,” in a session called “Drawing as Critical Method” on March 25 at the annual American Association of Geographers Conference in Denver. 
  10. Pronoy Rai, International and Global Studies faculty, presented “Labor Geographies of Climate Adaptation and Climate Justice in Rural Western India” at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting March 23 in Denver.
  11. Tetyana Sydorenko, Applied Linguistics faculty, co-presented “Teachers' Voices on Multimodal Input for Language Learning” at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages International 2023 Conference.
  12. Dilafruz Williams, Education Faculty, moderated a panel, “Environmental Literacy Across Schools and Programs in Santa Clara County,” at the Environmental Literacy Summit organized in March by the Santa Clara County, California Office of Education.
  13. Chia Yin Hsu, History faculty, presented “‘Promiscuous’ Credit and Monetary Liquidity: Everyday Money and Global Capital in Russian Manchuria, 1920s” at the International Workshop on Shared Histories and Imperial Encounters in North-East Asia on March 11 at Amherst College.
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