Transcultural Communication Workshops 2021
MIC workshop Series on Language and Social Justice
Transcultural Communication–Student Workshop
Wednesday 10/13/2021 @1:00pm–2:20pm
Location: Humanities Building 1003 (HUM 1003)
(In-Person Event Capacity: 30 students––subject to change based on pandemic safety status)
This workshop introduces students to core concepts and approaches in transcultural communication, starting with an understanding of notions of language and culture, followed by ways of addressing cultural differences through practices of linguistic and cultural translation, and eventually learning how to negotiate productive transcultural communications to best serve the needs of minority, underrepresented and underprivileged groups. Through a range of practical activities, participants will be invited to draw on their personal experience and their chosen area of specialization to reflect on practices of transcultural communication and their connection with language and social justice in professional domains such as health, law, international cooperation, diplomacy, migration, the service industry, and the media.
Transcultural Communication–Educator Workshop
Friday 10/15/2021 @2:00pm–3:30pm (Zoom)
This workshop introduces educators to core concepts and approaches in transcultural communication, starting with an understanding of notions of language and culture, followed by ways of addressing cultural differences through practices of linguistic and cultural translation, and eventually learning how to negotiate productive transcultural communications to best serve the needs of minority, underrepresented and underprivileged groups. Through a range of practical activities, participants will be invited to draw on their personal experience to reflect on practices of transcultural communication and their connection with language and social justice in the classroom in order to navigate a range of productive practices to facilitate exchange and communication among a diverse student body.
Facilitators:
Dr. Loredana Polezzi
Loredana Polezzi is Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair in the Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Stony Brook University (USA) and Honorary Chair in the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University (UK). Her research interests combine translation and transnational Italian studies. She has written extensively on Italian travel writing, colonial and postcolonial literature, translingualism, self-translation and migration. Her current work focuses on memory, mobility and translation in transatlantic Italian cultures.
Dr. E.K. Tan
E.K. Tan is Associate Professor in the English Department and Chair of Asian and Asian American Studies. He specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature, inter-Asia cultural studies, cultural translations, postcolonial and diaspora theory. He is the author of Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identity in the Nanyang Literary World.