10th English, Culture and Diversity Day
Apresentação
The English, Culture, and Diversity Day (ECDDay) is a FREE hybrid (in-person with online transmission on our YouTube Channel Letras Inglês UFU: https://www.youtube.com/@letrasinglesufu4538) conference organized by the English Language Course faculty and students. ECDDay aims to share knowledge produced in different social, educational, and research areas. This year, the event revolves around "Language and Identity in a World of Multiple Crises" and hopes to be a space to provoke critical and creative debate among participants.
Since its first edition, ECDDay has fostered an intense exchange of ideas and new ventures addressing life and academic issues:
Internationalization at home and abroad (2023)
Culture and Diversity in a World of Dis/Misinformation (2022)
Resistance and Resilience Narratives in the Face of Covid-19 (2021)
The World of Tomorrow: innovation that moves us forward (2019)
Democracy is... (2018)
World Englishes (2015)
I have a dream! The global road to equality in an age of diversity (2014)
[IN]dependence: Nation and Identity (2013)
Thanksgiving (2012)
Join us on the 25th of March 2024!Programação
8h00 – 8h30 Opening session
8h30 – 9h15 Opening conference: Re-reading Language and Identity in times of crisis
Keynote Speaker: Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza (USP)
Moderator: Flávia Benfatti (UFU)
9h15 – 9h45 Debate
9h45 - 10h Break
10h – 11h Panel: Publish or perish?: questioning language and identity within the neoliberal agenda in the academic and media arenas
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We have to be seen. Don't we? - Janaisa Viscardi (@janaviscardi)
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Out of sight, out of mind: professional accounts and the demands for overposting - Maria Luisa Nobre (UFU)
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The university is not a company (is it?) - Rogério de Castro Angelo (UFU)
Opening Panel: João Pedro Pereira (UFU)
11h00 – 11h30 Debate
19h – 20h Panel: Language and identity in times of threatened education
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High quality education regardless of the student - Juliana Santana (ICEA)
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The teaching of foreign languages in Brazilian public schools: evaluating research and language policies - Ernesto Bertoldo (UFU)
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Teacher education and subjective dismissal: what can the word do in this scenario? - Carla Tavares (UFU)
Moderator: Adriano Henriques (CEFET - Araxá)
20h – 20h30 Debate
Evening Attendance List: https://shorturl.at/dkzER
20h30 – 21h00 Closing Session
21h00 – 21h15 Celebration
Inscrições
Organização
Amanda Massuretti
Carolina Goulart
Cristiane Brito
Ediberto Rocha
Ian Biati
Ivan Ribeiro
Lara Souza
Larissa Mazuchelli
Maria Fernanda Capel
Mariana Peixoto
Nayara Rocha
Rebecca Cruz
Stella Menezes
Victoria Castão