Linguist Carl Jubran, president of the Institut Americain Universitaire in Aix en Provence, France, will present “Understanding How the ‘Language of Power’ Shapes Identities” at 4 p.m. Tues., Nov. 10 in Butch’s Den of the Washington State University Compton Union Building (CUB, L-60).
Hosted by the WSU Writing Program, the event is free and open to the public, and will be videostreamed to WSU campuses in Vancouver, Everett, Tri-Cities, and Spokane.
Jubran is also featured at an afternoon workshop for instructional faculty and graduate students titled “Moving Beyond Deficit-Based Thinking Toward a More Inclusive Practice of Diversity.” It is set for Noon-1:30 p.m. on the same day in the Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE) room 518.
WSU Writing Program Speaker Series
“Dr. Jubran, who is internationally known in his field, will contribute to our knowledge of how to better teach to, and evaluate the work of, students at our university,” said Victor Villanueva, WSU Regents Professor and program director. “His presentation and workshop are part of the Writing Program Speaker Series which seeks to engage faculty and graduate students in an exploration of how to strengthen their writing instruction for multilingual and often linguistically marginalized students.”
Keynote lecture on understanding how the language of power shapes identities
In his lecture, Jubran will begin to answer some questions “in understanding the xenophobia, fanaticism, and bigotry that plagues our world today. In this talk I will propose a new and more fluid definition of identity in order to overcome these global issues.”
For more information about this and other Writing Program events, visit http://WritingProgram.wsu.edu.
