This Week in LANG 3/10/2025

March 10, 2025
Categories: Conference, Cultural Events, General Events, General News Tags: 2025, chinese, japanese, spanish, witness in residence

Dear colleagues, 

Welcome to the second half of the semester. I hope you all had a good Spring Break.

Dates and Events this Week

March is Women’s History Month 

Friday, March 14

  • 2:30-4:00, Department Meeting
  • 4:00-6:00 First Friday at Armored Cow with the Dean

Looking Ahead Dates and Events Spring 2025

March 21

  • 2025 Faculty and Staff Achievement Recognition Reception at 4 p.m
    You are Invited! (to) 2025 CHESS Faulty and Staff Achievement Recognition Reception on Friday March 21 4 to 6PM Harris Alumni Center at Johnson Glen Reception with a Presentation at 4:30PM

March 31

  • Registration for Summer and Fall begins

April 4-5

  • Refresh Weekend, No classes 

April 4

  • Faculty-Led Program Development Workshop on April 4, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. RSVP 

April 8

April 11

  • Save the Date for possible Department Meeting

April 15

  • Witness in Residence: Ali Shaw presentation, 4 pm

May 1

  • Reading Day, Department Meeting and End of Year Potluck

Congratulations

Congratulations to Enika Banerjee, Kazue Shamburg and Yukiko Yokono for their participation in the 40th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese last weekend (Saturday, March 1st) at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Enika Banerjee gave a presentation entitled “Innovative Learning: Crafting a Student-Driven Internship Course.” Our former colleague, Shinichi Shoji, currently teaching at Mie University in Japan presented his project with Chikako Mori on the “Japanese-U.S. Conversation Practice via ZOOM: Impressions and thoughts from the participating Japanese Students.” In addition to the presentations, there were discussion tables besides the presentations, making it a very informative and engaging conference. The Japanese Program will host the conference in Spring 2026, and we hope to make it another successful event. Preparations have already begun!

Information for Faculty and Staff

Docusign Reminder
As of Sunday, March 2, you must use NinerNet@charlotte.edu for Docusign signing requests. You should also update your personal contacts to your NinerNet email.

AI Summit Proposals
Register for the 2025 Charlotte AI Summit for Smarter Learning and submit session proposals by Monday, March 10.

Global Learning and Internationalization Institute Application:

The Office of International Programs invites faculty members to apply for the Global Learning and Internationalization Institute, scheduled for May 12-16. This initiative supports faculty in developing goals for internationalizing their teaching and creating global learning experiences for students. 

Upcoming Events

Poetry Slam 

Yukko Yokono, Susana Cisneros, Don Cross, Maria Mahaffey and Xiaohong Hu Mueller invite you to the 8th Multi-Language Poetry Slam. Unfortunately, the inclement weather made us postpone the event. The new date and location will be announced soon. Please stay tuned and support this wonderful event.
Date & Time: March 24
Location: Fretwell 100
Multi Language Poetry Slam NEW DATE March 24, 2025 Fretwell 100 7-9PM, 3 Categories FREE Open to All, 6 Prizes


Save the Date for Witness in Residence: Aly Shaw on April 15 at 4 p.m.

Faculty: Please remember to invite your theme course students to block time for this spring’s  Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau Witness in Residence Initiative (and let them know we try to do it for them once per semester). This spring, the Initiative is collaborating with the Department of Global Studies, as well as the Dean’s Office. Shaw plans to share her experience of leading campaigns to address community environmental concerns and to help students understand the tools and databases available to them for their research. 

Thank you for all you do. 

All the best,

Anabel