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Announcing “Depictions of the Black Lives Matter Movement in the International News Media”! A new “Fake News” event that will look critically at multilingual commentary on the Black Lives Matter movement from around the world. This event will take place on Tuesday, November 1st in Languages 114 @ 5:30 PM.

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Join us Thursday, September 22 at 5:30 in Abele Quad for an exciting, multilingual goose chase! Engage in interactive language learning through a team-based scavenger hunt. Sign up is limited to 3 teams of 5 people each. Don’t miss out!

Goosechase Sign Up

Calling all foreign language instructors! Join the Duke Language Central on Tuesday, September 13th at 4:30 PM for a special presentation by Joel Crawford-Smith, Duke’s Senior Web Accessibility Administrator.

The presentation is titled “Making Class More Accessible” and will be held on Zoom.

Zoom Link

Join us Thursday, March 24 at 5:30 in Abele Quad for an exciting, multilingual goose chase! Engage in interactive language learning through a team-based scavenger hunt. Sign up is limited to 3 teams of 5 people each. Don’t miss out!

Goosechase Sign Up!

Join us on Thursday, March 17th, at 5:30 pm in Classroom Building 101 (East Campus)

Language Central is hosting a multilingual news event about the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis! Students from Italian, French, Spanish, and Hindi are welcome. Come read about current events from a multilingual perspective!

Join us on Tuesday, March 15th at 6:45 PM in Languages 114 for a screening of “Dark” S1E1. Dark is a German science fiction thriller show streamed on Netflix.

In the aftermath of a child’s disappearance, Dark follows characters from the fictional German town of Winden as they pursue the truth. They follow connections between four estranged families to unravel a sinister time travel conspiracy which spans several generations. 

Come see the German hit show!

Join us for an event in multiple languages with Spanish and French students on Tuesday, February 22nd from 5-6 PM. This event will be in-person in Languages 114. All FL students are welcome. We hope to see you there!

The event is organized in collaboration with Professor Liliana Paredes (Spanish) and Sandra Valnes Quammen (French).

Join us on Tuesday, February 15th at 6:45 PM for a screening of “Bordertown” S1E1. Bordertown (Finnish: Sorjonen) is a Finnish crime drama and Nordic noir television series.

A gifted detective that takes a job in a small town so he can spend more time with his family is soon drawn into a network of disturbing murder cases.

Come see the Finnish hit show!

Zoom Link: https://duke.zoom.us/j/8922151724 

On Thursday, February 10th, at 5:00 pm Language Central is hosting a multilingual news event titled “A Multilingual Analysis to Russian Interference in Ukraine”! Students from Italian, French, Spanish, and Hindi are welcome. Come read about current events from a multilingual perspective!

Zoom Link: https://duke.zoom.us/j/9934578071

Calling all foreign language instructors! Join the Duke Language Central on Friday, February 25th at 5:00 PM for our online Book Club. The theme is “Language Learning and Disability”.

We are going to discuss the first chapter of Disability and World Language Learning: Inclusive Teaching for Diverse Learners by Sally Scott and Wade Edwards (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018).

If you’re interested, please write an email to Laura Bilanceri (laura.bilanceri@duke.edu) or Eileen Anderson (eileen.anderson@duke.edu).

Registration Link

Scott, Sally S.; Edwards, Wade A., Disability and World Language Learning: Inclusive Teaching for Diverse Learners, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2018) LINK

First meeting: Friday, February 25, at 5 pm. We will discuss chapter one (pgs. 1-18).

Second meeting: Friday, March 25, at5pm. We will discuss chapters two and three (pgs. 19-68).

Third meeting: Friday, April 22, at 5pm. We will discuss chapters four-six (pgs. 69-113).