Past SEGO Graduate Student Conferences

Sego Graduate Student Language & Culture Conference

Global Perspectives in Academia: Strengthening Connections, Enriching Discourse

April 12, 2024 @ 11 AM

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On April 12, 2024, the graduate students from the University of Utah's Department of World Languages and Cultures held their conference Global Perspectives in Academia: Strengthening Connections, Enriching Discourse which was centered around the exploration of linguistics and cross-cultural perspectives within academia.

This event has concluded. Please direct any questions to sego@utah.edu.

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Sego Schedule 2024

11:15-11:30	Opening Reception	LNCO Main Hall
11:30-12:30	Keynote Speaker	Professor Darren Parry Building Cultural Competency
12:30-1:30	Luncheon	LNCO 1945
1:30-2:00	First Session	Daniela Hernández, Rosario Sorensen, Silvia Sanz A cultural competence strategy: How to implement cultural competency in an educational context using the interests of the students
2:00-2:30	Second Session	Ana Tavera and Sara Rodríguez The challenges of learning Spanish as an L2: Phonetics and the dreaded rhotics
2:30-2:45	Break	Break
2:45-3:15	Third Session	Sérgio Savage The Booty Dilemma: Exploring Sexuality and Gender Roles amidst Political, Social, and Cultural Changes in Brazil During the 1970s and 1980s
3:15-3:45	Fourth Session	Victor Coelho Addressing linguistic diversity in the Brazilian Amazon as a Fulbright Portuguese Language Teaching Assistant

 

SEGO 2024 Graduate Student Committee – Silvia Sanz, Rosario Sorensen, Daniela Hernández