Webinar series: 9 Months, 9 Universities

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9 Months, 9 Universities is a new series of guest lectures that focus on specific topics related to language and culture and target mainly graduate and postgraduate students as well as early-stage researchers and lecturers interested in these topics. The lectures are intended to generate awareness and appreciation for the topic of multilingualism as well as an understanding of the many areas of our lives that are influenced by language.

The 9 Months, 9 Universities series is organised within the framework of the Plurilingual and Intercultural Hub in the Arqus European University Alliance.

Check out all the webinars in the 9 Months, 9 Universities series!

The webinars are available on the Arqus YouTube channel but you can also find them below.

#01 – Teaching Academic Skills: Creativity, Critical Thinking Problem-Solving

#02 – Idioms.AI: Where AI meets the linguistic heritage of the Arqus Alliance

#03 – Drama activities for intercultural dialogue and inclusion

#04 – Collaborative assessment practices in Spanish-English translation class

#05 – What do paparajotes and the Spanish Audiencia Nacional have in common?

#06 – The perception of foreign-accented speech in multilinguals

#07 – Multilingual communication in spaces of crisis – taken for granted, secondary or essential for survival?

#8 – Languages for the future of vaccines

#9 – Generative search and biases: Challenges of a new information ecology

#10 – Discovering the richness of one language through the prism of another

#11 – AI into university education: Pedagogical rationale, examples and challenges

#12 – Intercultural perspectives on self-care: the Asian mind-body practices

#13 – Songs in foreign language classes: Learning in and about cultural context

#14: To read or not to read: building real-world skills through extensive reading

#15: Effective strategies for including highly able students in the language classroom

#16: When “two tongues touch”: Literature and language across cultures

7 Months, 7 Universities

9 Months, 9 Universities is the continuation of the series 7 Months, 7 Universities, which was offered during the first 3 years of the Alliance when Arqus included only 7 universities. At the time, the series was offered in the framework of the action line Multilingual and Multicultural University. Check out the lectures from this first series!