33, no. 3 (Spring 2002): 5
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ADFL Updates
2002 ADFL Summer Seminars
Under the rubric Internationalization: Setting the Campus Agenda, this year’s seminars will focus on the leadership role language departments can play in internationalization efforts on the campus and in the curriculum. Experienced campus and department leaders, representatives of funding organizations, and recipients of grants to support internationalization will discuss their experiences and address how language departments can capitalize on the current intensification of interest in expanding students’ awareness of life beyond American borders.
ADFL Summer Seminar East will take place 6–8 June, hosted by Roberta Lavine and the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, at the University of Maryland, College Park. Seminar West will take place 20–22 June, hosted by Claire Martin and the Department of Romance, German, and Russian Languages and Literatures, at California State University, Long Beach.
The keynote speaker at Seminar East will be Phyllis Franklin, retiring in July after seventeen years as Executive Director of the Modern Language Association. Other speakers at Seminar East include Rebecca Kline (Dickinson Coll.) and Catherine Spencer (Connecticut Coll.), speaking on study abroad and intercultural competence; Christine Corey (US Dept. of Education), Robert Slater (Natl. Security Education Program), Frank Frankfurt (Fund for the Improvement of Secondary Education), and J. David Edwards (Joint Natl. Council on Languages), speaking on funding and curricular change; Patricia Chaput (Harvard Univ.), Isabelle Kaplan (Bennington Coll.), and Seiichi Makino (Princeton Univ.), speaking on the classroom as the site of intercultural understanding; April Burriss (Hampton Univ.), Norman Peterson (Univ. of Montana), and Saul Sosnowski (Univ. of Maryland), speaking on models of internationalization; and Serafina Hager (Georgetown Univ.) and Michael Metcalf (Univ. of Mississippi), speaking on taking the lead in campus internationalization.
The keynote speaker at Seminar West will be Barbara Freed (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), who will discuss her research on language acquisition and study abroad. Other speakers at Seminar West include David Macey (Middlebury Coll.) and Jennifer Ward (Gustavas Adolphus Coll.), speaking on study abroad and intercultural competence; Linda Bunney-Sarhad (California State Univ., Stanislaus), Jack Van de Water and Ray Verzasconi (Oregon State Univ.), speaking on funding and curricular change; Miriam Cooke (Duke Univ.) and Gail Robinson (San Diego State Univ.), speaking on the classroom as the site of intercultural understanding; Nancy Hessert (Univ. of Wisconsin Colls.) and Veronique Robigou (Univ. of Washington), speaking on models of internationalization; and Steve Loughrin-Sacco (San Diego State Univ.), Peter C. Patrikis (Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning), and Leo Van Cleve (California State Univ. System), speaking on taking the lead in campus internationalization.
The 2002 seminars 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 focusing on such areas as advocacy, budgeting, staffing, faculty development, time management, and curriculum. At Seminar East the workshop leaders will be Jacquelyn Green (City Coll. of San Francisco) and Geraldine Nichols (Univ. of Florida). At Seminar West the workshop will be led by Phyllis Larson (Saint Olaf Coll.) and Peter Pfeiffer (Georgetown Univ.).
Break-out discussion groups at the seminars generally expand on issues raised in presentations and roundtable plenary sessions and address topics suggested at the 2001 seminars. This year’s groups focus on service learning; preliminary grants for language and internationalization; distance learning; tactics for taking the lead in internationalization; and collaboration between foreign language and English departments.
The $225 seminar registration fee includes the preseminar workshop, most seminar meals, coffee breaks, and traditional nightcaps, but not housing. ADFL members may register online at the ADFL Web site (www.adfl.org). Registrants for Seminar East will stay at the Inn and Conference Center at the University of Maryland, College Park (301 985-7303); note that the special seminar rate of $109 plus tax may not be available after 8 May. At Seminar West, registrants will stay at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach (800 233-1234); note that the special seminar rate of $129 plus tax may not be available after 31 May. For further information, please write or call Elizabeth Welles, Director, or David Goldberg, Associate Director, ADFL, 26 Broadway, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10004-1789; 646 576-5140.
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