Global Voices: Exploring Multilingualism in the 21st Century

Click here for registration: https://tinyurl.com/2025-Global-Voices

Click here for program: https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/sites/slaviccenters.duke.edu/files/documents/Program%20Global%20Voices%20Apr%204%20final.pdf

Note that registration will close on March 31, 2025

The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) & the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) are pleased to present:

Global Voices:
Exploring Multilingualism in the 21st Century

April 4, 2025

A conference with themes of:
• Transformer and Translation Models in Languages of the World: Current Trends and Future Directions
• Teaching Indigenous Languages
• Proficiency Standards, Testing, & Curricular Development
• Language Learning and Emotions
• Heritage Learners

Outside speakers include:
• Agnes He (Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication, Stony Brook University)
• Darcy Lear (Lecturer (Spanish); Languages for Specific Purposes Program Coordinator at the University of Chicago Language Center and the Office of Language Assessment)
• Olesya Kisselev (University of South Carolina)

Duke participants include the following units:
• Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
• Center for Slavic Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES)
• Linguistics
• Romance Studies
• Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Contact Cathy Lewis, c.lewis@duke.edu, for questions or more information.