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Updates from the University of Washington Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. Events: https://slavic.washington.edu/calendar
Note that the post on UN Sustainable Development Goals OER Lessons (posted 5/7/2024) has been updated with a link to lessons in Romanian now:
Lessons 1-6 in other languages: Russian | Romanian | Spanish | Ukrainian.
Russian Flagship Open House
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 7:00 pm EDT | 6:00 pm CDT | 5:00 pm MDT | 4:00 pm PDT
During this one-hour interactive webinar, high school students, teachers, and parents will learn about the unique features of the Russian Flagship Program that is offered at four universities in the United States. The session will include perspectives from current students, faculty members, and alumni.
REGISTER for the Zoom Session: Russian Flagship Open House
This is a collaborative session featuring all four of the U.S. universities that currently host Russian Flagship Programs (see the list below). Flagship Programs are made possible through the public-private partnership between US higher education, the American Councils for International Education, the Institute of International Education (IIE), and the National Security Education Program in the U.S. Department of Defense.
Questions about the session can be directed to any of the four participating universities.
Indiana University: Maria Shardakova, maalshar@indiana.edu
Portland State University: William J. Comer, wcomer@pdx.edu
University of Georgia: Sofia Ivanova, sivanova@uga.edu
University of Wisconsin – Madison: Jacob Aehl, aehl@wisc.edu
Please share this with students and colleagues who are interested in options for internationalizing their undergraduate experiences.
Best wishes, William Comer
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William J. Comer (he/him)
Director, Russian Flagship Program
Professor of Russian
Department of World Languages and Literatures
FMH Room 315G
Street address: 1855 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
Portland State University
Office Phone: 503-725-3539
11th Annual Heritage Language Schools Conference
The Coalition of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools is excited to invite you to participate in its 11th annual conference! This event will be hybrid, held both on site at American University in Washington, DC and online on October 4-5, 2024. Please explore the conference website, learn about the plenary speakers, and register here! Feel free to share the conference Facebook event as well as LinkedIn event widely and invite your colleagues! If you would like to receive announcements about future events and conferences from the Coalition, sign up for their newsletter.
For more information about SEETAW…. Welcome to the SEETAW Blog (posted 5/6/2024)
