Hybrid Forum and Exhibition: About

 

Forum and Exhibition on Multimodality in Multilingual and Intercultural Education

多语跨文化教育中的多模态主题论坛暨学生作品展

Nov. 1st, 2024

Online and In-Person at Duke Kunshan University

The one-day event will consist of invited talks, workshop(s), lightning talks, and student work exhibition, with the aim to foster collaboration, share best teaching practices, generate new research ideas, and build a scholarly community among researcher-practitioners of multilingual and intercultural education at Duke Kunshan University (DKU), Duke University, Wuhan University (WHU), The Ohio State University (OSU), and University of Sydney.

The theme of this hybrid forum and exhibition centers around multimodality as an approach to reconceptualize multilingual and intercultural education, and to investigate the translingual and intercultural experiences and diverse identities of human subjects in globalized higher education contexts.

Exhibition

Based on a longitudinal study on visual narratives of international students’ multilingual identity transformation, the exhibition showcases (international) student-created self-portraits and other visual representations (e.g., drawings, collage, paintings) collected throughout their first 14-week experience at DKU and in China, along with their own commentaries on the symbolism behind their artwork and creative choices.

Invited Speakers and Workshop Leaders (in alphabetical order)

  • Francis Troyan, Associate Professor of World Language Education (OSU)
  • Dr Hongzhi (Veronica) Yang, Senior lecturer (U of Sydney)
  • Mari Noda, Professor of Emeratus (OSU)
  • Peiru Tong, Associate Professor-Research Fellow (WHU)
  • Xin Zhang, Assistant Professor of Chinese and Intercultural Communication (DKU)
  • Yan Liu, Associate Professor of Practice (Duke)
  • Zhenjie Weng, Assistant Professor of English Language (DKU)

 

Submission for Lightning Talk: Due Oct. 21, 2024

Call for participants in the Lightning talk: We welcome submission for Lightning Talk (5-8 mins) from faculty to showcase their various teaching and research projects. This is also intended to be a venue to foster collaboration with colleagues from other institutions especially WHU and Duke. Please send a brief title and short description of your project to Xin Zhang (xin.zhang583@dukekunshan.edu.cn).