UALC 2024 Schedule – UA Languages Conference

Panel 1: Feminine Voices in African Literature

Topics: African Literature, Feminism

Language: French Room: 3107 Moderator: Dr. Cheryl Toman

Presenters:
1. Carole Mafotsing Kougang: “L’afro-occident et l’univers des possibilites dans l’ecriture feminine africaine”
2. Zabahi Arthur: “L’évolution de la femme africaine dans l’œuvre celle qui attendent de fatou diome
3. Deborah Ariyo: “Women and money: Analysis of the financial situation of the african woman through the lens of justine mintsa in awu’s story”
4. Yekeen Ajewumi: ”Écho de résilience: dévoiler la force des femmes burkinabés à travers les pages du Carrefour des veuves de Monique Ilboudo”

Panel 2: Perspectives on Don Quijote: Narrative Structures and Hermeneutics

Topics: Spanish Literature, Siglo de Oro, Cervantes

Language: Spanish Room: 3108 Moderator: Dr. Bill Worden

Presenters:
1. José Albarrán “Epístolas y caballería andante: el rol de las cartas en Don Quijote de la Mancha y su influencia en la estructura narrativa”
2. Russell Galloway “Reclamando una lectura católica del Quijote”

Panel 3: Special Topics in Applied Linguistics

Topics: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Etymology, Morphology

Language: English Room: 3107 Moderator: Dr. Alicia Cipria

Presenters:
1. Lincoln Auvil: “The ABCs of English Etymology: Creating a Machine-Readable Etymological Dictionary (MRED) for English”
2. Damilola Ademola: “Are Nigerians Title-Drunk? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Stances and Ideological Strategies on Honorifics in a Nigerian Twitter Discussion”
3. Horeb Anthony: “Derivational Morphology and Compounding: a descriptive study towards enhancing the learning and teaching of Gungbe”

Panel 4: Special Topics in World Literatures

Topics: German Poetry, Archival Research, Contemporary African Literature

Language: English Room: 3108 Moderator: Dr. Rodeño

Presenters:
1. Berni Beringer: “A Tale of Two Birds: A Comparative Analysis of Harbaugh’s “Der Pewee” and Hebel’s “Der Storch”
2. Diweng Mercy Dafong: “Corporal Necropolitics in Monique Ilboudo’s Carrefour des Veuves and Aida Mary Diallo’s Kouty, Memoire de Sang”

Panel 6: Activismo, género y poder en América Latina

Topics: Activism, power dynamics, gender

Language: Spanish Room: 3107 Moderator: Dr. Yunuen Gómez-Ocampo

Presenters:
1. Ethan Henry: “La CIA en Latinoamérica: una historia de terror”
2. Sophie Thaete-Corbalán: “Femicidios en México: Ni una más”
3. Sean Atchinson: “‘Una declaración política’: Cantantes queer latinoamericanos y la comunidad LGBT+ en su música”

Panel 7: Special Topics in French Linguistics: Special Topics in French Linguistics: Language Contact, Discourse, and Processing

Topics: French Language and Linguistics

Language: French/English Room: 3108 Moderator: Dr. David Tezil

Presenters:
1. Nikita Kamblé-Bagal: “L’écriture inclusive dans les médias québécois à l’ère de la pandémie”
2. Adamu Danjuma Abubakar: “Le français en contact des langues ou politique linguistique en République centrafricaine et aux Seychelles”
3. Olabayo Awodirepo: “Le lexique informatique francise : tendances et procedes de formation des mots en français”
4. Chioma Jeremiah: “The Use of Instagram as a tool for French language learning at The University of Alabama”

Keynote Address: Dr. Monique Ilboudo Room: 3700

Panel 9: Literary Devices in Francophone African Writing

Topics: African Literature, Psychoanalysis, hauntology, Literary analysis

Laguage: French Room: 3700 Moderator: Dr. Stamm

Presenters:
1. Jamike Okoroji: “Hauntologie de la détresse des femmes: Le cas de chola dans Je n’étais qu’un enfant (JNEQUE) de Safiatou Ba”
2. Samuel Oluyemi: “L’Afro-optimisme et L’Afro-pessimisme à travers “Je n’étais qu’un enfant” de Safiatou BA.”
3. Raphael Oyedele: “La théorie de la psychanalyse de Justine Mintsa dans l’histoire d’Awu”
4. Patience Odeh: “Emergence: Confiscating the sensible in the Contemporary African Novel”

Panel 11: Critical Approaches to Language Proficiency Assessment

Topics: English language teaching, foreign/second language teaching

Language: English Room: 3108 Moderator: Dr. Corrine Crane

Presenters:
1. Yukiko Eads: “A Critical Review of the EIKEN English Proficiency Test in Japan”
2. Emre Keser & Beyza Kucuk: “Language Family Dynamics: A Comparative Analysis of TOEFL iBT Scores and Their Relationship with Test-Takers’ First Languages”
3. Qudus Adebayo: “…expected to take all of their courses alongside native English speakers”: Framings of U.S. Higher Institutions’ English Language Proficiency Requirements
4. Victor Olaleye: “(“Native”) English Proficiency Test: A Critical Evaluation of TOEFL and IELTS

Panel 12: Voices from Latin America and the Caribbean: Special Topics in Literature

Topics: Identity, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Literature

Language: Spanish/English Room: 3107 Moderator: Dr. Sarah Moody

Presenters:
1. Douanla Kembou G. “La identidad de Esmeralda Santiago en Cuando era puertorriqueña: entre la ambigüedad y la contradicción.”
2. Keturah Nichols: “Black Beyond the Borders: Black Women’s Solidarity in Elizabeth Acevedo’s Clap When You Land and Ibi Zoboi’s American Street”
3. Erin Gilbert: “The fantastic as a narrative device for exploring women’s marginality in Antes by Carmen Boullosa”
4. Javier Soler: “The “Relación” by Pero Hernández. Foundational Writing of Asunción, Paraguay.”

Lunch: 12:15-1:15pm

Keynote Address: Dr. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio Room: 3700

Panel 14: Language Pedagogy, Technology, and Power Dynamics

Topics: TESOL, cultural education, technology, language revitalization

Language: English Room: 3107 Moderator: Dr. Erin O’Rourke

Presenters:
1. Jenna Reynolds: Teaching without a Textbook: Proficiency-Based Conversation through Cross-Cultural Controversies
2. Reliance Chekwubechukwu Enwerem: Glocalization: The Dynamics of Power and Technology in the Spread of New Englishes”
3. Pinar Tasci: “The Navajo Language: Embracing Technology for Language Revitalization in the Digital Age”

Panel 15: Languages and Cultures in Contact

Topics: Code switching, language borrowing

Language: English Room: 3108 Moderator: Dr. Bryan Koronkiewicz

Presenters:
1. Emmanuel Amackson: Language contact and borrowing; A case of Fante and Portuguese
2. Mark Matthews & Lincoln Auvil: “Codeswitching in L2 French”
3. Jordyn Battistelli: “The Role of Code-switching Exposure in the Spanish-English Code-switching Acceptability Judgments of Late Bilinguals”