This Week in LANG 9/30/2024

September 30, 2024
Categories: Community Events, Conference, Cultural Events, General Events, General News Tags: 2024, chinese, french, german, japanese, spanish

In this Edition: **Chair Office Hours this week: W 12:45-2:45 (Zoom), R 12:00-2:00 (f2f & Zoom), F 12:00-2:00 (f2f & Zoom), Workload Policy, Draft Ad, Department Meeting with Dean Visit, Open Enrollment for New Health Insurance Aetna, Zwingenberg Presentation Thursday, SEACS CFP**

Dear colleagues, 

Wishing you a good morning on this Monday after the storm. I hope you have heard from family and friends who live in the mountains. The destruction of Helene is difficult to comprehend. Please practice self-care and be patient with our students, many of whom come from the mountains. Please let me know how I can support you or our students in any way.

Please see the Message from the Chancellor for words of encouragement, resources for faculty, staff and students and for ways to help our fellow system schools, Western, Asheville and App State.

Note: If you see a link at the bottom of this email which says “Read Full Message” please click that to view all content. Or view the content on our website here.

Dates and Events this Week

Monday, September 30

Tuesday, October 1

Thursday, October 3

  • Visit of Dr. Ran Zwigenberg, Presentation “Ashes of History: Holocaust Remains Between Japan and Europe,”  2:30 pm, CHHS 380

Friday, October 4

Looking Ahead Dates and Events Fall 2024

October 8

  • Headshots, Sign up for appointments here: Portrait Sessions Sign-up
  • Witness in Residence presentation by Dr. Margaret Price, Ohio State University, 1:00-2:15 pm, Storrs 110. Register

October 9

  • Engaged Faculty Lounge, 1:00 to 2:00 pm, Sycamore Hall, Room 306 

October 11

October 15

October 14-15

Student Recess, No Classes 

October 17

  • Last day to withdraw from course(s)
  • Cultural Panel, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Career Center (more details to come)

October 25

November 1

November 11

  • Veteran’s Day, no classes 

November 14

November 18

November 18-22

  • International Education Week, submit proposals: via OIP website 

November 22

  • Tentative Department Meeting

November 25

  • Nominations due for the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence (tenured faculty) and the UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence (non-tenure track faculty)  Complete the online nomination form

November 27-28

  • Thanksgiving Break

December 4

  • Last Day of classes 

December 5

  • Reading Day, Department Meeting, End of Semester Party and Retirement Celebration for Carol

December 13

  • Commencement

December 16 

  • Grades due 

Important Information for Faculty and Staff

Workload Policies

Please find here the approved CHESS Draft Workload policy. For reference, please see here the current LANG Workload Policy. 

Workload Policy Timeline

October 4  Department Meeting Discussion of Draft

October 11 2:30-3:30 pm CAPC/Chair meets with NTT Faculty Members 3:30-4:30 pm CAPC/Chair meets with TT Faculty Members

October CAPC works with feedback

November 1       Department Meeting Final Vote on Workload Policy 

Upcoming Events

THIS WEEK

Open Enrollment with New Insurance Aetna

Click here to access the information.

Presentation

Dr. Ran Zwigenberg, author of Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture, will visit UNC Charlotte to present “Ashes of History: Holocaust Remains Between Japan and Europe” on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2:30 pm, CHHS 380.

SEACS 2025

Please note the Call for Papers for the 5th annual SEACS Conference. The Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies invites faculty members, independent scholars, and students to submit paper and panel proposals for participation in the conference. SEACS welcomes submissions on any aspect of literary, cultural, media, film, communication, translation, and pedagogical studies. The SEACS conference will take place February 21-22, 2025 at UNC Charlotte. Use this form to submit a paper or panel proposal: SEACS 2025 Paper and Panel Proposal Form. For more information, visit theseacs.org or email SEACS2019@gmail.com. I encourage everyone to submit a proposal and also to work with graduate and also advanced undergraduate students to submit a proposal.

Engaged Faculty Lounge: Drop in from 1 to 2 pm, Tuesday, Oct. 9, in Sycamore Hall, Room 306, for an informal conversation with teacher-scholar Joanne Carman on the design and teaching of successful community-engaged learning projects.

International Education Week

The Office of International Programs invites students, faculty and staff to celebrate International Education Week from November 18-22. This weeklong celebration of the impact of internationalization includes events that will showcase food, music, dance, language and film from around the world. We want to highlight these events through our calendar and in printed publications. Faculty and staff can request funds to help facilitate these events. To submit your event(s) and request funds, visit our website before Friday, October 18.

Witness in Residence

This semester’s Witness in Residence will address the campus on Tuesday, October 7, 1:00-2:15 pm, Storrs 110. The program was recently integrated with the themed courses, and is designed to encourage conversations about issues pertaining to human rights and issues of social relevance  in the United States and globally. This semester’s program features Dr. Margaret Price, of The Ohio State University, who will present on  “Exploring the Politics of Time, Disability, and Collective Accountability,” as part of a collaboration between The Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau Witness in Residence Initiative and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies. Register

Cultural Panel

On Thursday, October 17, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm, Enika Banerjee, Bianca Potrykus, Maria Mahaffey and Yukiko Yokono are hosting a casual business Cultural Panel together with the Department of Engineering and the Career Center. The event is at the Career Center. 

Thank You!

Thank you  to Fang-yi Chao and Xiaohong Mueller for participating in the Parade of Nations with our Chinese Dragon and the Chinese Club. 

Thank you to Yukiko Yokono, Don Cross and Daniela Dal Pra for representing our department in the Fall Open House. Thank you to Anton Pujol for organizing our participation.

Thank you for all you do. 

All the best,

Anabel