World Languages Graduate Organization - University of Iowa

Come support and enjoy this wonderful and inspiring film !!

Our First Social event is coming up, save the date: Friday the 22nd, at 5:00pm., on the North Linn Street outdoors area,
Located between Market and Bloomington streets, We hope to see you there. Let's enjoy the last few days of great weather!

Thank you to everyone who came to our Cultural Event this year! We hope you enjoyed the global game night.

Until the next one!

Thanks to everyone who turned up for our September social! We had a blast connecting and chatting with you all.

Join us at our October Social on October 21 (5:30pm) at the Umimpaired Dry bar, located at 125 E Burlington St. We hope to see you there!

The World Languages Graduate Student Organization (WLGO) invites you to submit abstracts for academic papers or creative writing pieces that explore the topics on change, adaptation, and perseverance within and between disciplines including, but not limited to, linguistics, language acquisition, education, anthropology, history, cognitive and behavioral sciences, computer science and information technology, literature, literary translation, cinema studies, cultural studies, gender, women, and sexuality studies, performance studies, the fine arts.

Please submit abstracts of 250 words to [email protected] by 5:00 pm on Sunday, March 20, 2022. We prefer abstracts and presentations in English, but we will consider submissions in other languages. Final presentations for the conference should be in English. In your abstract, please specify if your presentation will be an academic paper or a creative writing piece. We welcome both individual presentations and panel proposals of 3-4 presenters. (Please note we may consider individual presentations for inclusion on a panel.) Presentations will be 15 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions.

In addition to your abstract, please provide:
• Your name
• Your university affiliation
• The title of your presentation
• Whether you are proposing an individual presentation or a panel discussion
• A short academic biography

Keywords: change, adaptation, perseverance, pandemic, precarity, virtual learning, virtual reality, resistance, nonconformism, protest, social change, transgression, stigma, stereotype, otherness, diversity, inclusion, equity, marginalized groups, displacement, position, communication, translation, (multi-)media, text, discourse, negotiation, competition, sexuality, gender, identity, culture, language, reality, memory, fiction, humor, politics, history, rhetoric, intersectionality

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are an individual with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this event, please contact WLGO at [email protected].

Hi DWLLC Graduate Students,

WLGO is excited to invite you to our annual cultural event! The theme for this year’s cultural event is Arts and Crafts, in which we get to celebrate art and creativity from around the world (and even do some hands-on crafting in the process!).

We invite you to post a picture or video about a craft, art, other forms of creative activity from your culture on our collaborative Padlet: https://bit.ly/3CYsW2I

Sign in with your university email and indicate where on the map your craft/creative activity originates from; include any images and background info. You may post as often as you wish and be sure to check out others' posts and vote on your favorites! The posts with the most likes will receive a prize in the form of graduate student care packages, and winners will be announced during the event.

To close it off, we will have a Cultural Social on Thursday, November 18th at 6:30 p.m on Zoom (link will be sent through University email). Come chill with your fellow graduate students and enjoy some end-of-day multicultural fun!

Those interested in joining the Cultural Social on November 18th, please RSVP to the Google Form with your name and email, to receive a crafting kit in your PH mailbox for some live crafting during the event. The deadline for RSVPs is November 14th. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUzQjkHXrsFcDnCjeZ5qIHTYz52VJp0dhqyVPVKdUNT9KiMw/viewform

This week, WLGO will host its second graduate roundtable for this semester titled "What About the Job Market?".

As we know, the job market is pretty daunting and is something that causes anxiety for many of us. So, we wanted to start a conversation about this theme and have invited two special guests who will be speaking at the roundtable:

Dr. Cynthia Vanessa Helene Laborde, recent graduate of the Department of French and Italian, and Alejandro Pérez Belda, A.B.D, from the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Iowa.

During the roundtable, we will have the opportunity to listen to their experiences with the job market as well as the opportunity to ask them questions.

The event will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, April 21, at 12 PM. Check your UIowa email for the link. We hope to see you there!

We know that being a graduate student is stressful, so we have decided to work with Student Wellness and conduct a Self-Care and Mindfulness Workshop on Friday, April 9th, at noon. Join us through the link sent to your UIowa email!

WLGO is thrilled to share with you the program for "Alterity, Margins, and Resistance," our 2021 graduate conference! The conference will take place on Saturday, April 10 from 9:00 a.m.-5:15 p.m. and will feature an exciting array of presentations from graduate students in the DWLLC and other departments and universities. We are also pleased to announce that our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Saba Khan Vlach, Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Iowa. We hope you will join us for an engaging day!

Check your UIowa email for the registration link.

The World Languages Graduate Organization (WLGO) invites you to a virtual social on Friday April 9 at 5:00pm. Take a break from schoolwork and join us for some cultural activities related to spring around the world. Bring and share your favorite poem, story, or tradition about Spring. Check your UIowa email for the Zoom link!

Join us on February 15th at 5:00pm for our Palentine's Day social!

For our social, we have set up a Palentine's Day Affirmation Exchange, through which you can send a note to one of your peers telling them what you think makes them so great.

How to participate in the WLGO Palentine’s Day Affirmation Exchange:

1. RSVP on Elfster by Friday, February 13th. We will draw names on that date. To help your pal-entine, take time to answer some of Ice Breaker questions.
2. Check back to see who your “pal-entine” is and write them an affirmation on the Palentine’s Day Affirmation Exchange padlet by February 15th.

Link to Elfster: https://www.elfster.com/gift-exchanges/d4ad5c66-7dfb-4c37-b07c-781b4d5a3a74/?join=zdrh
Link to Padlet: https://padlet.com/wlgoiaconf/jqarp34v9ehwxkgz

We hope to see you there!

Hi everyone! There is one more day left to post on the padlet for WLGO's cultural event! We'll be celebrating this tomorrow at our November social, at 5 p.m. over Zoom. Watch your university email for the link!

Just a reminder that WLGO is hosting a virtual Cultural Event for DWLLC grad students this year, in lieu of our regular in-person event. The event will be happening November 2-19, with the theme "Eat, Drink and Be Merry!" It will "take place" on our Padlet map, "WLGO Cultural Collaboration." We are asking people to post a poster, video, or a picture relating to any of the three categories: eat, drink or be merry, on a relevant place on the map. You can contribute as many times as you like, "❤️" other's posts, and comment.

It is simple to participate and we'll be having a contest with prizes for the crowd favorites in each category. They will be announced on November 19. There are already several examples of posts up on the Padlet!

Check your UIowa email for the link!