NOTE: Event time changed to 11 am - 12 noon.
The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, along with UC Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Emphasis in Applied Linguistics, will present the talk “Transcultural Literacies: Cross-Border Connection and Self-Imagining” on January 29 from 11 am - 12 noon in the Education Room 1217 on the UC Santa Barbara campus. This event is free and open to the public. The event will feature speaker Grace M. Kim from University of California, Berkeley.
Kim will present a talk revolving around the phenomenon of transcultural literacy: using new information technology to learn, imagine, and create knowledge that traverses national borders. Kim will discuss findings from an empirical study of an online discussion forum devoted to Korean dramas, presenting qualitative data such as writing, visual images, and interactions created within the forum. This illustrative showcase engages attendees to think about their knowledge construction about the world outside of their own countries through digitally mediated practices and how these practices facilitate ethnic, racial, and national identifications and imagining.
Grace MyHyun Kim is a doctoral student in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric and Art History from Berkeley and a master’s degree in Education from Stanford University. Her current research examines informal, multilingual learning environments that ethnic and linguistic minority youth seek to help them navigate their lives.
Applied Linguistics is an optional interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasis offered at UCSB that provides empirical investigation and solutions of language-related issues, especially those of language education in teaching and learning languages. This emphasis also focuses on issues of bilingualism and biliteracy, language policy, language assessment, translation and interpretation lexicography, rhetoric, and composition.