Black Studies

Currently Accolades: Presented for October 21, 2024

by Currently October 16th 2024

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  1. Daria Aleeva, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented “Don’t Divorce Grammar from Vocabulary II: Applying the Lexico-Grammatical Approach to Create Effective Teaching Materials” on Oct. 11 at the COFLT-WAFLT Fall Conference in Portland, Oregon.
  2. Bright Alozie, Black Studies faculty and History Department affiliate faculty, presented a paper titled “‘Archival Silences, Sexual Trauma, and the Imperial Politicas of Domination: Uncovering Silenced Voices of Female Individuals in Colonial Southern Nigeria,” on Oct. 4-5 at the Journal of West African History 10th Anniversary Conference, "The State of the Field and New Directions."
  3. Bright Alozie, Black Studies faculty and History Department affiliate faculty, presented a roundtable discussion of his book, Petition Writing and Negotiations of Colonialism in Igboland, 1892-1960: African Voices in Ink, on Oct. 4-5, 2024 at the Journal of West African History 10th Anniversary Conference, "The State of the Field and New Directions."
  4. Lissa Cabrera-Song, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented “Ethical Use of AI in the Classroom” on Oct. 11 at the COFLT-WAFLT Fall Conference in Portland, Oregon.
  5. William Comer, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented “‘What Are You Going to Do With That?’ Learning Outcomes and Careers Pursued by PSU Alumni of the Language Flagship” on Oct. 11 at the COFLT-WAFLT Fall Conference in Portland, Oregon.
  6. Karen Curtin, World Languages and Literatures faculty, co-presented “Building Empathy and Visualizing Marginal Experiences in the Japanese Language Classroom” on Oct. 11 at the COFLT-WAFLT Fall Conference in Portland, Oregon.
  7. Lisa Notman and Julie Nelson, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in the Language Classroom” on Oct. 11 at the COFLT-WAFLT Fall Conference in Portland, Oregon.
  8. Ryan Petteway, Public Health and Black Studies faculty, gave a talk titled “Place, Health, & the Epidemiologic Imaginary: Theory & Methods Against Erasure // Towards ‘Radical Possibility’” in August at the 2024 Royal Geographic Society conference in London.
  9. Ryan Petteway, Public Health and Black Studies faculty, gave a talk titled "“Reimagining Public Health Training for Epistemic and Health Justice: On Power, Pedagogy, & ‘Radical Possibility’” in September at the 2024 Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science conference in St. Louis
  10. Ryan Petteway, Public Health and Black Studies faculty, was panelist for an organized session titled "Moving towards a shared analysis around power in population health: implications for research and teaching” in September at the 2024 Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science conference in St. Louis.
  11. Ryan Petteway, Public Health and Black Studies faculty, gave a talk titled "Stats & Stanzas: Poetics of a People’s Public Health" in September at the 2024 Furious Flower IV: Celebrating the Worlds of Black Poetry conference.
  12. Stéfanie Roulon, World Languages and Literatures faculty, co-presented “Innovative French Language Learning: Leveraging Social Media” at the COFLT-WAFLT Fall Conference in Portland on October 11, 2024.
  13. Jack Straton, Physics and University Studies faculty, had one of his photographs chosen to be part of Texas National 2023, Cole Art Center, April 14 through June 30, 2023, in Nacogdoches TX, a show of all fine art media.
  14. Suwako Watanabe, World Languages and Literatures faculty, co-presented a session titled, “Japanese Company Visit: High-Impact Learning Experience” on Oct. 11 at the COFLT-WAFLT Fall Conference in Portland, Oregon.
  15. Suwako Watanabe, World Languages and Literatures faculty, co-presented with Ayumi Naraoka (PSU MA in Japanese, 2024) a session, “Acquisition of Spatial and Temporal Vte-kuru by Learners of Japanese at a University in the U.S.” on Oct. 11 at the COFLT-WAFLT Fall Conference in Portland, Oregon.
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