“La Fée” is a film released in 2011 written and directed by Dominique Abel. Arriving at a small hotel, a mysterious woman named Fiona informs night shift worker Dom that she is a fairy and will grant him three wishes. After she grants his first two wishes–and he falls in love with her–she disappears, and...
“Of Books and Roses: First California Symposium on Catalan Studies” “Of Books and Roses: First California Symposium on Catalan Studies” grew from the idea of offering a point of reference on the west coast of the United States for scholars and students interested in Catalan Studies or related areas. This year, we will hear presentations...
—a conference organized by Rebecca Fenning Marschall, Clark Library, UCLA, and Philip S. Palmer, Clark Library, UCLA Why do we need digitized manuscripts and how might we improve user access to them? How might collaborative infrastructure, discovery platforms, and linked data make it easier to find, view, and connect digitized manuscripts? How can special collections...
Digital approaches to Scandinavian literature UCLA – November 12-14 2017 Organized by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Kristoffer L. Nielbo, and Timothy R. Tangherlini Program Sunday 12 7pm Dinner, tbd Monday 13 – Exploration Room, Luskin Conference Center 9.00-9.15 Welcome and opening remarks, the format – Tim and Mads 9.15-9.30 The Clear Repository – Kristoffer 9.30-9.50 ...
The EPIC Program is pleased to invite you to our Inaugural Conference, Humanities Now: Transformative Teaching on April 5-6, 2018. This conference encompasses many of our programmatic investments towards innovative teaching and learning in the humanities during EPIC’s five-year span. We are excited to bring to campus panelists working within the humanities or in interdisciplinary humanities...
IMPORTANT: DUE TO THE COVID-19, THIS CONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED FOR A LATER DATE AND FORMAT. The Southwest Association for Language Learning Technology (SWALLT) is holding their bi-annual conference on April 17-18, 2020 at UCLA. They are inviting proposals that focus on developing tech-driven language teaching and assessment, and technology for intercultural understanding and intercultural...
The SWALLT 2020 Conference continues in its new, online, bi-weekly format. This session includes two 30 minute presentations, this week we'll be looking at extended reality in language adoption. Please register for the webinar here. Session 1: VR in The Language Classroom: Applications for Intercultural Competence Margherita Berti, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Arizona...
The SWALLT 2020 Conference is finishing up in its new, online, bi-weekly format. This session includes two 30 minute presentations. Please register for the webinar here. Session 1: Activity Theory In Arabic Foreign Language Classroom and Technology Effects in Teaching Amel Belguith, University of California Berkeley The effect of technology on teaching languages in...
UCLA's Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT), the Center for Education, Innovation, and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS), the Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms program (EPIC), Online Teaching and Learning (OTL), the Bruin Learn Center of Excellence (CoE), the Writing Programs, and Humanities Technology (HumTech) have collaborated to bring a series of discussions...
Hosted in conjunction with SWALLT, this one-day mini-conference will explore how literacy practices intersect with language education. Key themes include digital literacies, multimodal communication, and the role of cultural and social contexts in language learning. The agenda is now available! The Future of Language Teaching - SWALLT-UCLA 2024 Agenda We are seeking presenters to share research, strategies,...
