This Week in LANG 11/3/25
Dear colleagues,
I hope you had a good weekend.
Dates and Events this Week
Monday, November 3
- RDL and JFDA applications due see CHESS Faculty Development Awards
- Microcredentials Forum, 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM, Cone 341 (Lucas Room) (Register)
Wednesday, November 5
Looking Ahead Dates and Events Fall 2025
November 11
- Veteran’s Day, no classes
- 6 p.m., Independent Picture House, “A Mystery Memoir,” register
November 12
November 13
- Cookies with the Provost, 4:00-4:45pm, RSVP
November 17-21
- International Education Week
November 17
November 18
- 4:00-5:30, Witness in Residence, Oscar Chacon (of Alianza Americas) talks on Immigration, Fretwell 100
November 21
- 3:00-5:00, JBusiness Forum
November 26-29
- Thanksgiving Break
December 2
- Last Day of Classes
December 3
- Reading Day
December 4-10
- Exam Period
December 12
- Commencement, 3pm, CHESS
December 15
- Final Grades due
December 18
- FRG proposals due
Congratulations
Thank you to Dr. Noha Ghali, Dr. Jeff Killman, Dr. Mónica Rodríguez and Dr. Daniela Dal Pra as well as Professor Frankie González for representing the Department at the Open House on October 26. We are grateful for their efforts on behalf of all of our programs.
Congratulations to Professors Yukiko Yokono, Chikako Mori, and Kazue Shamburg who helped five Japanese Studies students participate in the W2A 2025 NC Japanese Language Student Conference.
This event was held at Western Carolina University on Saturday, November 1, 2025. The 2025 conference theme was “Be Kind to Yourself, Be Kind to the World.” This conference aims to provide students with the opportunity to reflect on themselves and gain deeper insights into the world through the study of Japanese language culture.Cory Castillero, Taha Al Wakil, John Sulzen, Kai Ruser, and Paul Chapin from the Japanese studies program at UNC Charlotte presented their work at the conference. They were well-prepared, and their presentation and speech were well-received by their audience. Their professors observed that the student participants gained confidence in their Japanese skills throughout the process, from preparing to perform their work at the conference to making new friends on site.
The Japanese Studies program faculty members appreciated the friends who came to the conference to support their peers. The W2A 2026 NC JLSC will be held at Appalachian State University.
Congratulations to Dr. Sandra Watts. Her inter-institutional collaboration “Developing the MARIT Framework: Mindful AI & Regulation in Technology for Lifelong Learning,” developed in conjunction with Drs. Tonya Amankwatia (AI2030), Juhong Christie Liu (James Madison University), and Xiaoyan Ma (Virginia Tech) was selected by the Association of Educational Communications and Technology for the 2025 Design and Development Showcase. Projects selected for this showcase meet the criteria of “outstanding innovative project to improve human performance and technology.”
Information for Faculty and Staff
FRG – NEW GUIDELINES
The new College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences (CHESS) Faculty Research Grants (FRG) Program provides internal funding to support faculty research and scholarly activities. Funding from this program is generally used to start or advance research projects that will result in new publications, creative productions, and/or proposals for external funding.
The CHESS FRG award period covers a period of 12 months aligning with the University’s fiscal year. Funds for the 2026-27 CHESS FRG Program will be available starting on July 1, 2026, and must be expended by May 31, 2027.
Proposals for funding through the 2026-27 CHESS FRG Program are due by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 18, 2025. Proposals must follow the posted guidelines and be uploaded as a single PDF file to the proposal submission form linked on the CHESS website. Applicants whose proposals are approved for funding will be notified by January 30, 2026.
For more information, including detailed guidelines and the application form, visit the website. Questions can be directed to chess-research@charlotte.edu.
Student Affairs Faculty Fellow
Student Affairs is inviting applications for the Student Affairs Faculty Fellow (2026-2027), a one-year, non-renewable position designed to strengthen the division’s research capacity and deepen its understanding of the UNC Charlotte student experience. This fellowship is a strategic investment that offers a faculty member the opportunity to design and conduct high-impact, data-driven research aligned with divisional priorities. The Fellow’s findings will translate directly into actionable strategies that inform policy and practice, ultimately enhancing student learning, engagement and success. Application submissions are due by Monday, November 17, and a final candidate selection will be made in January 2026. More information.
Save the Date Ginkgo Residential Lecture
“A Mystery Memoir”: Uncovering the Secrets of an Internment Camp in Postwar Czechoslovakia”
A typewritten booklet was discovered at an auction in Detroit many years ago. After translating and researching the recorded memoir, the research team of Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, Ph.D., Jules Geaney-Moore, M.A., and John Sullivan discovered that the booklet’s author was the head doctor of a camp for displaced ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia during the years after WWII. This presentation is about the joys of ongoing historical discovery while exploring the doctor’s distressing story, and what we can learn from it about our own historical moment. │chess.charlotte.edu
- Tuesday, Nov. 11; 6 p.m., Independent Picture House (4237 Raleigh Street, Charlotte)
- Learn more about the series and register.
Save the Date with Your Students: Witness in Residence on Immigration
The next Witness in Residence program is scheduled for Tuesday, November 18 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Fretwell 100. The speaker will be Oscar Chacón, Executive Director, Alianza Americas, who will be speaking about his experience advocating for immigrants. More details to come soon in the Events section, but please begin thinking about how this lecture might relate to your curriculum and asking students to mark the date on the calendars (particularly those in the themed courses).
Thank you for all you do.
All the best,
Anabel