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X-WR-CALNAME:Language Resource Center Speaker Series - Edvan Brito
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DESCRIPTION:"Using Social and Cultural Issues to Promote Language Learning 
 and Cultural Awareness: Language Variation\, Race\, and Migration"\nEdvan 
 Brito\nAssistant Professor\, University of Arkansas\n\nLanguage is one of 
 the main sites where individual and group identities are constructed and n
 egotiated. In teaching culture and language\, I challenge mainstream repre
 sentations of marginalized groups in Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking 
 countries. This talk explores some of the main sociocultural aspects of Br
 azilian favelas (roughly slums or shantytowns)\, including the positive an
 d negative orientations that people have about these places and their resi
 dents. In doing so\, I focus on issues of race and migration as constituti
 ve elements of these communities in urban areas of Brazil. This discussion
  is contextualized with a sociolinguistic variation analysis of postvocali
 c /s/ in City of God\, a predominantly black neighborhood in Rio de Janeir
 o. My goal is to engage (language) instructors in thinking of alternative 
 ways of using the discussion of social and cultural issues in the target l
 anguage countries to promote language learning and cultural awareness amon
 g U.S. students.\n\nBio: Edvan Brito is Assistant Professor and Director o
 f the Portuguese Program at the University of Arkansas\, Fayetteville. He 
 received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University\, a
 n M.A. in Mass Communication and Media Studies from Howard University\, an
 d also holds a B.A. in Portuguese and Linguistics from the University de S
 ão Paulo (USP). His research interests include Portuguese as a foreign la
 nguage\, language\, identity and power\, language variation and change\, l
 anguage and race\, and comparative race relations in Brazil and the United
  States.\n\nCo-sponsored by the Language Resource Center and Latin America
 n Studies Program.\nThis event is funded in part by an Undergraduate Inter
 national Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) grant to the Cornell Latin A
 merican Studies Program from the U.S. Department of Education and with add
 itional funding provided through the Vice Provost for International Studie
 s.\n\nJoin us live on Zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/721802314
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LOCATION:Stimson Hall\, G25
SUMMARY:Language Resource Center Speaker Series - Edvan Brito
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CATEGORIES:Lecture
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