Spring 2020

  • The Sound of Speech on Ocracoke, NC

Spring 2019

  • Talking Black in American Screening (February)
  • Guest Lecture with John Baugh: Linguistic Profiling (February)
  • Lavender Linguistics (April)
  • Guest Lecture with Elaine Chun: Glossaries of Covertly Racist Language as Lexical Excavation (April)
  • The Deaf Advantage: A Workshop on Deaf Culture and ASL (April)

Fall 2018

  • Policy Speaks: Language Diversity in Practice (October)

Spring 2018

  • Spring Social (January)
  • Guest Lecture with Kirk Hazen: The Saga of English in Appalachia (February)
  • Cards for Kids (February)
  • Classroom Chatter: Language Diversity in the Classroom (March)
  • Guest Lecture with Ta-Nehisi Coates: Navigating Language and Identity (March)
  • Language Variation and Discrimination in the Classroom: 30-minute workshops (March)
  • Alternative Spring Break: Teaching Language Diversity in NC (March)
  • American Sign Language: Dialects & Deaf Culture (April)

Fall 2017

  • Can You Repeat That? (Not) Understanding Foreign Accents (September)
  • Dialect & Dash: Language Diversity in NC (October)
  • Talking Black in America Screening (November)
  • Spanish-English Contact in NC: Linguistic Insights into a Nascent Bilingual Community (November)

Spring 2017

  • Semester Kickoff (January)
  • On the Sociolinguistic Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Implications for Social Justice (February)
  • MLS Language Diversity Seminar (February)
  • Gendered Language: Myths & Marvels in 5 Minutes or Less! (March 22nd at 5 pm in Caldwell Lounge)
  • STS 323 Language Diversity Seminar (March)
  • Middle Grades Education – Language Diversity Seminar (March)
  • Hearing is Believing: Linguistic Discrimination and the Criminal Justice System (April 4th at 7 p.m. in Witherspoon 126)

Fall 2016

  • Damsels, Discourse, and Disney: Myths vs Realities about Women’s Speech (September)
  • Language Variation: The Forgotten Dimension of Diversity (October)
  • Political Life of Language (October)
  • Native Voices of North Carolina: An Interactive Panel (November)

Spring 2016

  • MLS 501 Language Diversity Seminar (February)
  • Alternative Service Break trip to Graham County, NC and Ocracoke, NC (March)
  • Presentation at NASPA (Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education) (March)
  • STS 323 Language Diversity Seminar (March)
  • USC 210 Language Diversity Seminar (March)
  • Language diversity workshop at UNC Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School
  • Diversity in Higher Education course Language Diversity Seminar (April)

Fall 2015

  • Packapalooza (August)
  • Language and college access: College Advising Corps training (August)
  • Linguistic diversity on campus and in the classroom, WISE Village (September)
  • Diversity Education Week (September)
  • Office of International Student Services and the Counseling Center language diversity and cross-cultural communication discussion (October)
  • STS 323 Language Diversity Seminar (November 10; 10:00am and 4:30pm)
  • USC 210 Language Diversity Seminar (November)

Spring 2015

  • Language Diversity Seminar and Workshop for the National Science Foundation Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST), broadcast to ASSIST partner institutions Pennsylvania State University, University of Virginia and Florida International University (January)
  • Language diversity in the classroom: Why it matters for educators.  Passport to success series presentation (April)
  • EAC 795 Diversity in Higher Education course workshop: Language variation: the forgotten dimension of diversity  (March)
  • STS 323 Tarheel talk: Celebrating linguistic diversity on campus and in our state (March)
  • STS 323Q Tarheel talk: Celebrating linguistic diversity on campus and in our state (March)
  • MLS 501 Seminar in Liberal Studies Tarheel talk: Celebrating linguistic diversity on campus and in our state (March)

Fall 2014

  • New Faculty Orientation (August)
  • Residence Director training (August)
  • Packapalooza (August)
  • Language and college access: College Advising Corps Training (August)
  • Linguistic diversity on campus and in the residence halls, Presentation to Residence Hall Advisor and Director Training (August)
  • Howl with an accent: language diversity and NC State, Presentation to Staff Diversity Advisory Board (September)
  • Tarheel Talk: Celebrating linguistic diversity on campus and in our state, Workshop for STS 323 World Population and Food Prospects (September)
  • Language diversity in the university backyard, Program for the North Carolina State University Conference on Leadership and Diversity (September)
  • Language variation: the forgotten dimension of diversity, Workshop for Diversity Education Week (October)
  • Language, culture, and diversity; Workshop for the International Cultural Leadership Project, GlobalTraining Initiative (October)
  • Tarheel talk: Celebrating linguistic diversity on campus and in our state, Workshop for STS 323Q World Population and Food Prospects (October)
  • Tarheel talk: Celebrating linguistic diversity on campus and in our state; Workshop for ECD 224 Student Development and Peer Mentoring (November)
  • Tarheel talk: Celebrating linguistic diversity on campus and in our state; Workshop for the Engaging Leaders Program in the College of Natural Resources (November)

Spring 2014

  • Linguistic diversity on campus and in the classroom, Workshop for AEE 426: Methods in Teaching Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (April)
  • College of Natural Resources workshop (February)
  • First Year Writing Center workshop (April)
  • AAE 426 class workshop (April)
  • Writing and Tutorial Center workshop (April)
  • Brickyard information event (April)

Fall 2013

  • New Faculty Orientation (August)
  • North Carolina State Fair (October)
  • AEE 426 class workshop (October)

Summer 2013

  • Residence Hall Director training (July)

Fall 2012

  • STS 323 class workshop (September)
  • First Year Inquiry class workshop (September)
  • ELP 795 class workshop (September)
  • ECD 296 class workshop (October)