Author: Brian Orefice

2016 Critical Language Scholarship Programs

The application is now open for the 2016 Critical Language Scholarships.  Sponsored by the US State Department, 575 scholarships are awarded annually for students to participate in intensive summer language institutes abroad.   Institutes are available in varying levels of the following languages: Arabic, Persian, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Russian, and Swahili. 

 

Eligible students will be freshmen-seniors, have competitive GPAs (3.5+), and plan to continue language study and apply their critical language skills in their future careers.  The application, due November 23rd, can be accessed on the CLS website: http://clscholarship.org.

 

Information Sessions

The Undergraduate Fellowship Office will be holding information sessions at the Kuhn Honors house, 220 W. 12th Ave.:

Monday, October 12th, 4:00pm

Tuesday, October 13th, 4:00pm

At these sessions, we will discuss the CLS language programs, application process, and resources to help undergraduate students.  For more information, please contact the Undergraduate Fellowship Office, fellowships@osu.edu.

Sue Kalt on Fair Trade Fieldwork

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE ANDES AND AMAZONIA 
Humanities Institute & CLAS Andean Studies Working Group

&

Honors and Scholars

 

Present

Dr. Sue Kalt

Roxburry Community College, NEH/NSF Fellow

 

“Ayni in Linguistic Fieldwork – models for participant action”


Thursday, Oct. 1 

2:30-4:30 p.m.

Kuhn Honors and Scholars House

 Sue Kalt

The concept of fair trade is gaining popular currency in many aspects of Northern life, and has particular resonance with the Andean concept of ayni or reciprocal labor. This talk reviews models of reciprocity in the practice of linguistic fieldwork on endangered languages, with particular attention to the high Andean context. In contexts of asymmetric power relations, ‘fair trade’ may not be enough. Cyclical rebalancing of power and resources, or pachakuti, may be necessary.

Susan E. Kalt, Ph.D. is Professor of Spanish at Roxbury Community College, a historically Black institution in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the creator of Proyecto Yachay Q’ipi, a curriculum initiative in rural Bolivia and Peru begun with seed funding from the Foundation for Endangered Languages, London, and a former Documenting Endangered Languages Fellow under a joint program of the National Endowment for the Humanities/National Science Foundation.

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and CLAS Working Group “Continuity and Change in the Andes and Amazonia” and Honors and Scholars.