See our faculty members presenting at prestigious and authoritative conferences worldwide.
| Faculty Member | Conference Title/Media recognition | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Kiyoko Toratani | Co-hosted an international virtual meeting, “Workshop on Typology of Ideophones” with a colleague in Japan. | 2022 |
| Kiyoko Toratani, Liisa Duncan, & Ahrong Lee | Kiyoko Toratani, Liisa Duncan, and Ahrong Lee co-organized and co-hosted “The 16th International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar” (online). | 2021 |
| Kiyoko Toratani | Kiyoko Toratani was interviewed by National Post reporter about the names of North American sushi rolls; the story appeared in their long-running annual series, Oh, The Humanities! | 2021 |
| Maria Figueredo | Dr. Figueredo was interviewed by Osvaldo Mesquita on OMNI Television’s CANADA LATINO show about the Uruguayan community in Toronto and Spanish speakers in the city. The interview focused on Dr. Figueredo’s community engaged research. | 2020 |
| Themis Aravossitas | Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education conference hosted by the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece. | 2015 |
| Philipp Angermeyer | Co-organizing a conference on multilingualism and interpreting in settings of globalization. The conference is part of a collaboration project with Dr. Katrijn Maryns at Ghent University which is supported by an LA&PS Seed Grant for International Collaborations. | 2015 |
| Walid El Khachab | Arab Canadian Studies conference with support from SSHRC ($20,000) and LAPS, Founders, and DLLL ($4,000). The conference brought twenty scholars and graduate students from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and London, UK, together. The funds will also help to publish a book about immigration and transnational citizenship which will be based on the papers submitted to the conference. | 2014 |
| James Walker | As part of a report on Canadian English in the National Post, James Walker was interviewed about the differences between Canadian and American varieties of English. | 2014 |
| Jana Vizmuller-Zocco and Roberta Iannacita-Provenzano | Jana Vizmuller-Zocco and Roberta Iannacita-Provenzano were interviewed by Sarah Mastroianni for an article about multicultural Toronto and speakers of Italian in the city. The article appeared in Panoramitaliano. | 2014 |
| Jessica Li | As the organizer of the research workshop on cultural translation and Chinese-Canadian Studies, Jessica Li was interviewed by several news outlets including Fair Child TV, OMNI II TV News Report and by Ming Pao Toronto Edition News. | |
| Jana Vizmuller-Zocco and Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano | The international conference “Social Media: Implications for Politics, Religion and Gender” held at York. Professor Vizmuller-Zocco and Iannacito-Provenzano also edited a volume entitled Social Media: Implications for the University. This publication is the result of the 2013 conference on social media and their consequences for higher education. | 2014 |
| James Walker | Acted as program committee chair and organized the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association at Brock University. | 2014 |
| Jessica Li | Organized a research workshop on “Cultural Translation and Chinese-Canadian Studies” at the York University Centre for Asian Research. | 2014 |
| Gabriele Mueller | Organized the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German at Brock University. | 2014 |