This Week in LANG 11/10/25
In this Edition: **Veteran’s Day – No Classes, Chair Office Hours: We 11:00-12:30 in person and virtual and Th 3-5 virtual**
Dear colleagues,
We are certainly coming up to the last few weeks of the semester. I hope you are all doing well. Please note that this week on Tuesday is Veteran’s Day and there are no classes. I am changing my office hours to We 11:00-12:30 in person and virtual and Th 3-5 virtual. Wednesday afternoon at 4 pm is the International Education Award Ceremony for which Daniel Dal Pra is a finalist.
Dates and Events this Week
Tuesday, November 11
- Veteran’s Day, no classes
- 6 p.m., Independent Picture House, “A Mystery Memoir,” register
Wednesday, November 12
- Dean’s Virtual Office Hours 3:30-4:30.
- 1:00-3:00 pm, Faculty Burnout Workshop, Foundation Building, (Register)
- 4:00 -5:30 International Education Award Ceremony
Thursday, November 13
- Cookies with the Provost, 4:00-4:45pm, RSVP
Friday, November 14
- 3:00-4:45, Japanese Speech Contest
Looking Ahead Dates and Events Fall 2025
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
- 5:00-6:30, Crossing Borders, Crossing Plates: Mostly Martha, an Italian Cuisine Cultural Experience featuring the screening of 2001 film Mostly Martha. FDAY 141
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
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Mellinger for publishing the article “Stress and accent in community interpreting” with Pawel Korpal, our former visiting scholar, in the journal Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics.
Congratulations to Dr. Bobby Hobgood for being selected as #1 of the Top 10 Presenters with his session Developing Listening and Speaking with Free AI Resources at this year’s FLANC Fall Conference—an outstanding recognition among over 100 presentations. FLANC also announced that Dr. Hobgood will represent UNC Charlotte, FLANC, and the state of North Carolina at the upcoming SCOLT (Southern Conference on Language Teaching) in the spring.
Information for Faculty and Staff
This Week: 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.
Next Week: International Education Week
Interested in developing or leading a faculty-led education abroad program?
As part of International Education Week, the Office of Education Abroad invites faculty to participate in an interactive workshop focused on the development and leadership of faculty-led education abroad programs.
Workshop Details:
Date: Thursday, November 20
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: CHHS 285
The workshop will cover:
- Key program considerations like term, location, and length
- Different program models to suit your academic goals
- Building a realistic budget
- Effective recruitment strategies
- Navigating the proposal process
- Essential health and safety measures
While RSVP is not required, we kindly ask that you indicate your interest in attending to help us plan accordingly.
Next Week: International Education Week
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).
Next Week: International Education Weekk
Crossing Borders, Crossing Plates: Mostly Martha, an Italian Cuisine Cultural Experience featuring the screening of 2001 film Mostly Martha.
Coming up:
Coming up in 2026
2026 Heritage Language Learning Symposium
The 2026 Heritage Language Learning Symposium will occur on Thursday, February 19, and Friday, February 20, 2026 (10:00 am – 6:00 pm US EST each day). For 2026, the symposium will feature five prominent scholars engaged in Heritage Language Education. The presenters will share their research and practical experience with UNC Charlotte faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as K-12 educators and attendees from other institutions.
The Symposium will promote a broad understanding of literacy practices and training for heritage speakers by bringing together experts in bilingual education in Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
Please visit the website to find the program, abstracts for the research presentations, and workshops, as well as the registration form.
Thank you for all you do.
All the best,
Anabel