View some of our and others' previous events.
Past Events
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February 13, 2019International Indigenous Speaker Series: Land, Language, & Learning: Living in Good Relations
Please RSVP here. This speaker series recognizes the inter-related themes of land, language, and learning as central to Indigenous people’s worldview and well-being. Leading international Indigenous scholars will share their education and research approaches concerned with these themes,…
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February 13, 2019Indigenous Language Revitalization: Raising Awareness and Taking Action
Please RSVP here. The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2019 the International Year for Indigenous Languages. Please join the Faculty of Education for a symposium that responds to the declaration to raise awareness of the crucial role languages play in the lives of Indigenous…
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February 12, 2019POSTPONED - Language Sciences Member Event
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO MARCH 12TH, DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER. This will be Language Sciences first member event of 2019, postponed from February 12th. Attendees can expect an update on Language Sciences activities, including from Associate Professor Lorienne …
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February 8 - February 9, 2019Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference
UBC’s Speech and Linguistics Student Association (SALSA), partnered with the UBC Language Sciences Initiative, is organizing the third annual undergraduate conference for language and communication studies! The Language Sciences Undergraduate Research…
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February 7, 2019Language Sciences Writing Group
Set aside some focused writing time in community with other grad students and postdocs! Join fellow LangSci grad students and postdoctoral fellows every other Thursday from 2 to 4 pm in Kenny Room 2563 for the LangSci Writing Group. Each session will include some brief discussion of writing…
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February 1, 2019Statistical Analysis with R workshop
Please RSVP here. This workshop for Language Sciences graduate student and postdoctoral members will be focused on intro R programming and data management with R{dplyr } package. The presenter is Xuejun (Ryan) Ji, PhD, Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology, Dept. of…
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January 28, 2019Indigenous Language Revitalization and Language Documentation workshop
Please RSVP here. This is the first workshop in a new series looking at the connection between linguistic documentation and language pedagogy in the context of Indigenous language revitalization. In communities where language revitalization is a priority, linguists and linguistic…
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January 24, 2019Language Sciences Writing Group
Set aside some focused writing time in community with other grad students and postdocs! Join fellow LangSci grad students and postdoctoral fellows every other Thursday from 2 to 4 pm in Kenny Room 2563 for the LangSci Writing Group. Each session will include some brief discussion of writing…
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January 18, 2019Education, Technology and Development: Perspectives from Nepal
An afternoon of engaging panel presentations and discussions with guest speaker Rabi Karmacharya, Founder & CEO of the Open Learning Exchange, Nepal. Technological innovations have revolutionized the ways we communicate, exchange knowledge and ideas, and deliver goods and services. However,…
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January 17, 2019Quality Education and the Role of Digital Technology in Nepal
Please join us for Quality Education and the Role of Digital Technology in Nepal, a talk by Rabi Karmacharya, a social entrepreneur who helped launch OLE Nepal with the vision to use technology to improve the quality of primary education in Nepal’s public schools, and to…