Amy Chazkel Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center Amy Chazkel is an Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. As a historian of Latin America with a specialization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazil, her work has focused on the intersection of the study of the law and the humanities. … Continue reading "Amy Chazkel: The Nocturnal Lives of a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian City"

Luisa Martín Rojo Universidad Autónoma Luisa Martín Rojo is Professor in Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma (Madrid, Spain), and Member of the International Pragmatic Association Consultation Board (2006-2011; re-elected for the period 2012-2017). Through her research trajectory, she has conducted research in the fields of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and communication, mainly focused on immigration and … Continue reading "Luisa Martín Rojo: “Non-native” Subjectivities: Exploring the Impact of Linguistic Ideologies on Subjects’ Struggles for Legitimacy"

This paper examines the case of Carl Marzani, one of the first political victims of the Cold War. A former employee of the Office of Strategic Services (wartime precursor to the CIA), Marzani was charged with hiding his past communist affiliations to keep his government job and was sentenced to three years in jail. His … Continue reading "Marcella Bencivenni: American Anticommunism and Espionage: The Case of Carl Marzani"

Tomi Ungerer, world famous author and illustrator of children’s books, was born in Alsace in 1931. He came to New York when he was 25 and in ten years published over 80 books for children. In 1971, he left NY for Nova Scotia then later moved to Ireland where he lives today. In the eighties, … Continue reading "Christine Hélot: Children’s Literature Sans Frontières: Tomi Ungerer: Wanderer, Weltburger, and Polyglot"

Cultural contact due to factors such as migration, globalization, and travel (among others) has made cultural diversity experiences an everyday phenomenon and led to unprecedented numbers of individuals who consider themselves bicultural or multicultural. What are the psychological consequences of these acculturative and identity processes? Using a framework that integrates acculturation, social-identity theory, and individual … Continue reading "Veronica Benet-Martinez: The Psychology of Multicultural Experiences and Identities: Social, Personality, and Cultural Perspectives"

ARC Seminar: Kim Potowski: Maximizing Latino Spanish proficiency through dual language education Public school programs called dual language use Spanish between 50% to 90% of the school day with the goal of promoting bilingualism and biliteracy. In this project, I examine the Spanish speaking, reading, writing, and listening comprehension of two groups of bilingual Latino … Continue reading "Kim Potowski: Maximizing Latino Spanish proficiency through dual language education"

ARC Seminar: Patrick Simon: The Asymmetrical Integration: Ethnic Minorities and French Conformity The French model of integration claims that immigrants will become full member of the national community when they will get assimilated into the mainstream. In compensation to their loss of any ethno-cultural distinctiveness, immigrants, and more probably their children, will be granted equality … Continue reading "Patrick Simon: ‘The Asymmetrical Integration: Ethnic Minorities and French Conformity’"

ARC Seminar: Cristian Aquino-Sterling: Developing and Assessing Spanish Competencies in Bilingual Teacher Education: Current Approaches and Future Directions Bilingual Education Teachers (English-Spanish) have been identified as generally exhibiting low levels of Spanish competencies. Given the importance of teachers’ academic language skills for advancing the language competencies and academic achievement of emergent bilingual students in K-12 … Continue reading "Cristian Aquino-Sterling: Developing and Assessing Spanish Competencies in Bilingual Teacher Education: Current Approaches and Future Directions"

ARC Seminar: Janet Elise Johnson: The Gender of Informal Politics: Evidence from Russia and Iceland Social scientists must re-conceptualize power to bring both informal politics and gender to the forefront. Scholars of post-Soviet hybrid regimes are innovatively theorizing the interplay between formal and informal institutions and networks. Feminist scholars have shown how these institutions and … Continue reading "Janet Elise Johnson: The Gender of Informal Politics: Evidence from Russia and Iceland"

ARC Seminar: Juliet Hooker: Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair This presentation will explore the complex response to the current Black Lives Matter protests against police violence, which pose deeper questions about the forms of politics that black citizens—who are experiencing a defining moment of racial … Continue reading "Juliet Hooker: Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair"