LILD members work with different campus units to organize events such as invited research talks, workshops and presentations for a broad campus audience. Sponsors include Language Sciences, the Language Institute, and the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition, among others.
2024-25 events (planned to date):
- LILD 3rd group meeting, 3:00 pm, Friday, December 6, 2024. Zoom.
- LILD 2nd group meeting, 3:00 pm, Friday, November 8, 2024. Zoom.
- Workshop on Language Ideologies and Linguistic Discrimination for colleagues at SuccessWorks, 1:30-2:15 pm, Monday, October 28, 2024, University Bookstore 3rd floor.
- Workshop on linguistic empowerment for incoming UW-Madison students with the Center for Educational Opportunity, POSSE Program, and First Wave, 9:15-10:15 am, Wednesday, August 28, 2024. For the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement.
- LILD get-together, 3:00 pm, Friday, September 13, 2024, 1418 Van Hise Hall (RSVP to Greyson Xiao)
- Invited lecture, Okaaay Sis!”: African American Language, Multimodality, and Black Women’s Gesture, Sovoya Davis, University of Michigan, online on Zoom, 4:00 pm, Tuesday, September 24, 2024, co-sponsored by the Language Insitute, Language Sciences Program, and LILD
- Invited lecture, An Emotional Lens on Heritage Language Education: The Positive, the Negative, and the… Complicated for Heritage Students and Educators, Meagan Driver, Michigan State University, 4:00 pm, Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- Invited lecture, Censoring the Self, Kelly Elizabeth Wright, Language Sciences Program, 3:30 pm, Thursday, October 3, 2024, 7191 Helen C. White Hall
Recent past events include:
- Verticalization and African American Sociolinguistic Labor, Kelly Wright, Virginia Polytechnic University, 3:00 pm, Friday, September 8, 2023, Zoom, sponsored by Language Sciences and the Language Institute
- Exploring the Local Enregisterment of Dearborn English in Southeastern Michigan, Iman Sheydaei, UW-Madison, 3:00pm, Friday, October 13, 2023, Van Hise Hall 201, sponsored by Language Sciences
- Understanding and Addressing Linguistic Bias and Discrimination, Dianna Murphy, Martiniano Etchart, Fernando Tejedo, Dragan Mikulin, 2023 UW-Madison Diversity Forum, 1:00-2:15 pm, Wednesday, November 15
- Lessons to Learn: Looking through the Intersectional Lens on the Study of Black ASL in Sign Language Studies, Joseph Hill, Rochester Institute of Technology, 12:00 pm, Friday, March 8, 2024, Zoom, sponsored by the Language Institute
- Disrupting Linguistic Bias through Experiential Learning in an Introductory Linguistics Class, Veronika Drake, Saginaw Valley State University, April 7, 2023, sponsored by Language Sciences
- Educating the Educated: Raising Language Awareness on Campus, Jeffrey Reaser, North Carolina State University, February 24, 2023, sponsored by Language Sciences
- An Educational Model for Black Linguistic and Cultural Reparations, Anne Charity Hudley, Stanford University, February 2, 2023, sponsored by the Language Institute, with the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Language Sciences
- Addressing Linguistic Bias to Support All Learners, UW-Madison Teaching Academy Fall Retreat, September 30, 2022, sponsored by the Teaching Academy, with support from the Language Institute
- Just Linguistics, John Baugh, Washington University in Saint Louis, March 2, 2022, sponsored by the Language Institute, Language Sciences, Department of English, and the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition,
- Second Language Speakers and Social Justice: A Case Study in Theoretical and Practical Complexities, Aneta Pavlenko, University of Oslo, April 29, 2022, sponsored by the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition, Language Institute, and Language Sciences
- Lecture series on Critical Approaches to Language Studies, sponsored by the Language Institute and Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition. Invited lectures were:
- Decolonizing Literacy and English Practices in Mexico, Mario E. López-Gopar, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Tuesday, April 27, 2021
- Unsettling Language Barriers: Redefining Communicative “Problems” and Reimagining Decolonial Possibilities, Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University, Tuesday, April 6, 2021
- Our Multilingual Writing Reality: Complicating Immigration, Racialization, and “Academic Writing,”
Sara P. Alvarez, Queens College, CUNY, March 10, 2021 - Critical Approaches to Language Studies Forum. A panel discussion with all speakers moderated by Margaret Hawkins, Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition, May 4, 2021