Grad Chat with Visitor Dr. Shannon Ward

November 21, 2024, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Join Linguistic Anthropologist, Dr. Shannon Ward, for tea and get chatting! 

We're inviting graduate students to a Tea & Chat with Dr. Shannon Ward, Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO), on Thursday, November 21, at 11:30am. This event is free and will be held on campus, UBC Point Grey. 

Registration for this event is required. Please RSVP using the button below.

RSVP: Chat & Tea

Linguistic Anthropologist, Dr. Shannon Ward is an invited guest speaker presenting her book Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau. If you are interested in attending her talk, which will take place in the Dodson room at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at 12:30pm, after the Tea & Chat, please click here for further details and RSVP! 

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Bio: 

Dr. Ward is trained as a linguistic anthropologist (Ph.D. New York University 2019), and specializes in the study of language acquisition and socialization, multilingualism, language shift, and language documentation. Her research program addresses how children acquire languages alongside cultural practices, especially in situations of social change and language shift. Over the past ten years, she has been investigating the relationships among migration, urbanization, and language shift in multilingual Tibetan families living in western China and North America.
 

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