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Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies MLCS; Promoting multilingual proficiency &intercultural understanding.

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Join the departments of History, Classics, and Region and Modern Languages and Cultural Studies on Friday, November 20 a...
10/21/2026

Join the departments of History, Classics, and Region and Modern Languages and Cultural Studies on Friday, November 20 at 3 p.m. in Tory 2-99 for the 2026-27 Tompkins Lecture.

“In Crimea… was the true Eretz-Isroel”: The agricultural settlements and the projects of the Jewish autonomous Republic in Crimea, 1920s-1940s" by Dr. Kostiantyn Moharychev, Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor.

This lecture will discuss the origins and development of the proposal within Jewish political thought and Soviet Nationalities policy, why many considered it as a major rival for Zionism and how it contributed to the development of the modern conspiracy theories in Eastern Europe. Professor Kostiantyn (Kostia) Moharychev will introduce his old-new book project Our New Soviet Zion: Projects and Creation Attempts of the Jewish National Territorial Unit, 1920s-1940s.

Register here: https://ow.ly/1giR50ZZPLn

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Open House on Saturday! Didn't make it to Open House? Learn more about MLCS on o...
10/19/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Open House on Saturday! Didn't make it to Open House? Learn more about MLCS on our website at uab.ca/mlcs.

10/14/2026

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚: 𝗔 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿-𝗔𝘂𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

🗓 October 23, 2026
🕙 12 | NOON (MST)
📍 Henderson Hall, Rutherford Library
💳 Free admission (please register!)

The Kule Folklore Centre, in partnership with the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, invites you to join a talk by Professor Astrid Ensslin, Vice President for AI, Digitalisation and Outreach at the University of Regensburg and Founding Director of DAS|LAB (Digital Area Studies Lab), whose research and teaching lie at the intersections of digital media and game studies, cultural studies, literary studies, and applied linguistics.

In this talk, Professor Ensslin will introduce 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦, a DFG/AHRC-funded digital platform developed by scholars in Germany and the UK to preserve, explore, and provide greater access to folklore traditions. She will discuss 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 as a site for exploring “algorithmic folklore”—creative vernacular practices that emerge through interactions between human storytellers and automated systems. The talk will explore how algorithms participate in the production, transformation, and circulation of folklore across diverse cultural traditions.

Follow the link to register: https://shorturl.at/newwT

We are delighted to celebrate Professor Alla Nedashkivska, who has received the 2026 “Hvylia / Dalğa” Award for her outs...
10/09/2026

We are delighted to celebrate Professor Alla Nedashkivska, who has received the 2026 “Hvylia / Dalğa” Award for her outstanding work promoting the Ukrainian language around the world.

Hvylia / Dalğa means “wave” in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar, respectively, and reflects the award’s recognition of the impact and reach of the work of the professionals and academics it honours. The award is highly selective, with only one or two laureates chosen each year from nominations received worldwide, in its Ukrainian- and Crimean Tatar-language categories.

Presented by the Ukrainian Institute and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the award recognizes Professor Nedashkivska in the category of "Teachers of Ukrainian as a Foreign Language at Institutions of Higher Education in Ukraine or Abroad."

Through her teaching, research, educational resources, and initiatives such as the international summer school Ukrainian Language Through Living Culture, Professor Nedashkivska has made an important contribution to Ukrainian language education and to the internationalization of Ukrainian studies.

We are also pleased to acknowledge that the Kule Folklore Centre nominated Professor Nedashkivska for this award.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/6P3850ZWqK6

Learn about Slavic gaming cultures in Winter term 2027!This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to gaming ...
10/06/2026

Learn about Slavic gaming cultures in Winter term 2027!

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to gaming cultures in East Central Europe, in both traditional and digital forms.

No prior language or gaming experience is required - only a willingness to learn through and about games. Taught in English.

Join us on Wednesday, October 7 from 2-4 p.m. in the 2-20A Visualization Lab (Digital Scholarship Centre, Cameron Librar...
10/06/2026

Join us on Wednesday, October 7 from 2-4 p.m. in the 2-20A Visualization Lab (Digital Scholarship Centre, Cameron Library) for "Writing Identity: Language Choice and Biscriptality in Belarus and Bosnia and Herzegovina: Digital Practices, Public Spaces, and the Symbolic Meaning of Script", the next lecture in our MLCS Research Conference Series which will be given by Dr. Maria Katarzyna Prenner, University of Graz (Austria).

Organized in partnership between the Department of MLCS and The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, the talk will examine how multilingualism and biscriptality interact with identity, medium, and communicative context in Belarus and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Focusing on Belarusian, Russian, Latinica, and Cyrillic, it examines how language and script choices vary across institutional, public, and digital spaces, and how they reflect different forms of cultural affiliation and belonging.

Light refreshments will follow.

Learn more and register: https://ow.ly/oaP050ZREqS

Join us on Monday, October 26 from 2-3:30 p.m. in the 2-20A Visualization Lab (Digital Scholarship Centre, Cameron Libra...
10/05/2026

Join us on Monday, October 26 from 2-3:30 p.m. in the 2-20A Visualization Lab (Digital Scholarship Centre, Cameron Library) for "A Cannibal Writes Herself: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera", the next lecture in our MLCS Research Conference Series which will be given by Dr. Ana Carolina Mesquita.

This talk explores how Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera (1987) uses writing to rethink identity and the histories that shape it. Bringing together different languages, cultures, histories, and ways of understanding the world, Anzaldúa shows how identity can emerge through encounters with difference rather than through fixed categories.

Learn more and register: https://ow.ly/9pON50ZUzQ8

09/30/2026

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day of reflection and learning to honour the children who never returned home, survivors of residential and day schools, and their families and communities.

In observance of the day, the University of Alberta is closed. We encourage everyone to learn more about the U of A’s ongoing work toward reconciliation through Braiding Past, Present and Future, the U of A Indigenous Strategic Plan.

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/indigenous/trc/index.html

09/28/2026

Join us tomorrow from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. for MLCS International Translation Day 2026. This year's topic is Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights: The Power of Being Understood.

Learn more about the schedule and programming here: https://ow.ly/FIb550ZQLuS

Save the date: Join the Departments of East Asian Studies and Modern Languages and Cultural Studies on Tuesday, November...
09/28/2026

Save the date: Join the Departments of East Asian Studies and Modern Languages and Cultural Studies on Tuesday, November 24 from 1:30-3 p.m. in Pembina 3-58 for "Principled AI: From AI Affordances to Purposeful Language Learning", a talk by Dr. Wei Cai.

While generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) offers affordances for language learning, the expanding range of possibilities can overwhelm teachers and learners without a clear sense of purpose and guiding principles. This talk connects second language acquisition theories and language teaching methodologies with GenAI affordances and presents principles for purposeful language learning with GenAI. Through concrete examples, it illustrates how these principles inform activity design, guide pedagogical decisions, and support learners in using GenAI purposefully. The talk offers a theoretically grounded, practical approach to integrating GenAI and invites participants to consider how its use can serve learning goals and engage learners in processes that facilitate language development.

Light refreshments will be served.

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