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ADFL Update Spring 2000
2000 ADFL Summer Seminars
Under the rubric Looking to the Future, this year's seminars will focus on the role languages might play in the new century in an educational framework undergoing broad transformation. The seminars will address how language departments can capitalize on their present and future opportunities and responsibilities in the light of the ongoing reorganization of communication, departmental and disciplinary borders, and knowledge. ADFL seminars have for thirty years been the department leaders' antidote to isolation, in the face of old issues that won't go away and new issues that are emerging.
The keynote speaker at Seminar West will be Ofelia Zepeda (Univ. of Arizona), recipient of a 1999 MacArthur award for her work with the American Indian Language Development Institute, a program she cofounded twenty years ago to teach Native Americans strategies for preserving their vanishing languages. Other speakers at Seminar West will include John Edwards (Saint Xavier Univ., Nova Scotia) and Christine Uber Grosse (Thunderbird, American Graduate School of International Management) on Languages and Research: Frontiers of the Future; Catherine Porter (New York State Univ. Coll., Cortland), Walter Sanders (Mansfield Univ.), and Delita Martin-Ogunsola (Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham) on New Looks for Language Departments, New Challenges for Chairs; June Phillips (Weber State Univ.) and Claire Emilie Martin (California State Univ., Long Beach) on Teaching Tomorrow's Children; Geraldine Nichols (Univ. of Florida) and Reed Anderson (Miami Univ., Oxford) on Spreading the Wealth: The Dynamics of Spanish and Other Languages; and Lynn Sandstedt (Univ. of Northern Colorado) and Frank Miller (Columbia Univ.) on Written and Visual Texts: Materials for Teaching Language and Culture.
The keynote speaker at Seminar East will be Andrew Debicki (Univ. of Kansas), recipient of the 1999 ADFL Award for Distinguished Service in the Profession. Other speakers will include Humphrey Tonkin (Univ. of Hartford, Emeritus) and Roberta Golinkoff (Univ. of Delaware) on Languages and Research: Frontiers of the Future; Charles Stivale (Wayne State Univ.) and Maxine Colm (Univ. of Delaware) on New Looks for Language Departments, New Challenges for Chairs; Carrine Feyton (Univ. of South Florida) and Phyllis Franklin (MLA) on Teaching Tomorrow's Children; Raymond Tourville (North Illinois Univ.) and Saul Sosnowski (Univ. of Maryland) on Spreading the Wealth: The Dynamics of Spanish and Other Languages; and Richard Jurasek (Augustana Coll.) and Shigeru Miyagawa (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.) on Written and Visual Texts: Materials for Teaching Language and Culture.
Seminar West will be hosted by David Foster and the Department of Languages and Literatures at Arizona State University, Tempe, 1-4 June. Seminar East will be hosted by Richard Zipser and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware, 29 June-2 July.
The 2000 seminars will again feature preseminar workshops for new and recently appointed chairs. Workshops are led by members of the ADFL Executive Committee, who direct discussions and activities that focus on such areas as advocacy, budgeting, staffing, faculty development, time management, and curriculum. At Seminar West, the workshop leaders will be Joseph Chrzanowski (California State Univ., Los Angeles) and Patricia Ward (Vanderbilt Univ.). At Seminar East, the workshop will be led by Arthur Mosher (Dayton Univ.) and Phyllis Larson (Saint Olaf Coll.).
The $225 seminar registration fee includes the preseminar workshop, most seminar meals, coffee breaks, and traditional nightcaps, but not housing. ADFL members may register as soon as they receive registration materials or online at the ADFL Web site (www.adfl.org). Registrants will stay at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel (480 894-1400) at Seminar West; note that the special seminar rate of $100 per night (plus tax) may not be available after 30 April. At Seminar East, registrants will stay at the Hotel Du Pont (800 441-9019) in Wilmington; note that the special seminar rate of $139 will not be available after 28 May. For more information, please write or call Elizabeth Welles, Director, or David Goldberg, Associate Director, ADFL, 10 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003-6981; 212 614-6323.
© 2000 by the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. All Rights Reserved.
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