SALD 2022 Program
All times are in CDT (with EDT and IST/PST) Registration is free, but both, in-person and virtual participants need to register. To register please use the registration link in the menu above.
FRIDAY, Sept 30th
In-person Reception kicking off the conference and celebrating Prof. Seema Khurana on the occasion of her retirement 6:30- CDT
SATURDAY, Oct 1st
Julius Glickman Center (RLP) 1.302B
Welcome & Introduction – 9:30-9:40am CDT (10:30-10:45am EDT; 8:00-8:15pm IST/7:30-7:45pmPST)
Session 1 – 9:40-11:15am CDT (10:45am-12:15pm EDT; 8:15-9:45pm IST/7:45-9:15pmPST)
Words matter, language matters: Some principles of inclusion exclusive to language pedagogy – Gautami Shah, University of Texas at Austin, USA. (in-person) with snippets on The multilingual mind from Tej Bhatia’s HIDAC podcast , Syracuse University, USA.
Respecting linguistic identity: Teaching Urdu in Pashto – Romeena Sami Kureishy, New York University, USA . (virtual)
Selecting materials through diversity perspective – Ritu Jayakar, Penn State University, USA. (in-person)
Session 2 – 11:30am-1:00pm CDT (12:30pm-2:00pm EDT; 10:00-11:30pm IST/9:30-11:00pmPST)
From pop songs and protest memes to cellphone commercials, everything is fair game: Reexamining what constitutes teachable text in a language class – Kenneth Wong, University of California – Berkeley, USA. (virtual)
Toward a pedagogy of learning by decoding: solving language problems of signs and other minimalist texts. – Ahmed Shamim, University of Texas at Austin, USA. (in-person)
Rethinking a literature reading class – Nora Melnikova, UC Berkeley, USA. (in-person)
Lunch 1:00-2:15pm CDT (2-3:15pm EDT; 11:30pm-12:45am IST/11:00pm-12:15am)
Session 3 – 2:30pm-4:00pm CDT (3:30pm-5:00pm EDT; 1:00am-2:30am IST/12:30-2:00am)
Panel – Aged by culture or diversified personal experience: Representation of old age in the diaspora and local literature – Rajni Bhargava, Tahira Naqvi & Gabriela Nik, New York University, USA. (in-person)
Session 4 – 4:15pm-6:15pm CDT (5:15pm-6:45pm EDT; 2:45-4:15am IST/2:15-3:45am PST)
Lightning round: Topics in SA language pedagogy
Fostering compassion, connection, and community in the language classroom – Shilpa Parnami, Boston University, USA. (in-person)
Post-reading activities – Mansi Bajaj, Yale University, USA. (in-person)
Open educational resources for less commonly taught languages – Rajiv Ranjan, Michigan State University, USA. (in-person)
Digitalization of transformative pedagogical approaches to build L2 proficiency – Bhavya Singh, New York University, USA. (virtual)
A New Pedagogical Approach to Malayalam Verbs – James Kurichi, University of Pennsylvania. (virtual)
Heritage language pedagogy: Use of comics in Hindi/Urdu classroom– MJ Warsi, Aligarh Muslim University, India. presented by Mevish Mohsin (virtual)
Attrition and maintenance of the South Asian languages in the Indian diaspora – Brajesh Samarth, Emory University, USA. (virtual)
Session 5 – Networking Dinner at Chapulin Cantina- 7pm
Sunday, Oct 2nd
Julius Glickman Center (RLP) 1.302BVIRTUAL
Session 6 – 9:30am-11:00am CDT (10:30am-12:00pm EDT, 8:00-9:30pm IST/7:30-9:00pm PST)
Issues of translation : with special reference to poetry – Anand Vardhan Sharma, Banaras Hindu University, India. (virtual) Cancelled
NEW TIME SLOT : Old Age Depicted in the Telugu Stories – P.K. Jayalakshmi, St. Joseph. College, Vishakhapatnam, India. (virtual)
Who saw the peacock dancing in the jungle: A case study of Bengali to English – Pritesh Chakrabarty, Acharya Sukumar Sen Mahavidyalaya, India. (virtual)
Comparative translations in the intermediate Hindi classroom – Jason Grunebaum, University of Chicago, USA. (virtual)
Session 7 – 11:15am-12:45pm CDT (12:15pm-1:45pm EDT, 9:45-11:15pm IST/9:15-10:45pmPST)
Selecting and sequencing Hindi-Urdu texts for advanced learners: Lessons from a corpus analysis of literary genres – Peter Knapczyk, Wake Forest University, USA & Will Cocke, Augusta University, USA. (virtual)
Talim: Devising a framework for digital teaching of Asian languages for primary education in Mauritius – Kumarduth (Vinaye) Goodary, Centre for Innovative Learning and Knowledge Application, Mauritius. (virtual)
Community based efforts towards documentation, preservation and revitalisation of Raji, a disappearing South Asian language – Madri Kakoti & Prof. Kavita Rastogi, University of Lucknow, India. (virtual)