Upcoming Events:
Past Events:
GLI Career Panel 2025
When: Friday, February 7th, 2025
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Where: Zoom
Registration Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/ttMFQIBMTxq-1QjpvuTiPQ
Speakers:
Carla DeSantis, PhD, Professional editor and owner of Carla DeSantis, Editing & Language Services
Tony He, lecturer at UTM, Instructor at U of T Scarborough, Certified Translator Chinese to English
Stuart Jones, Program Assistant at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center
Language and Culture Day 2025
When: Friday, January 24th, 2025
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Where: Lobby of Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Workshop: The Use of AI in the Second Language Classroom
Speaker: Marje Zschiesche-Stock
When: Friday, October 18th, 2024
Language and Culture Day 2024
The Global Languages Initiative held a Languages and Culture Day to share and promote the different language departments housed at the University of Toronto.
When: March 2024
Global Languages Initiative Workshop 1
The Elephant in the Room: Dealing with Translation Apps in the Language Classroom
Speakers: Professor Hang-Sun Kim and Owen Meunier
When: November 25th, 2022
Global Languages Initiative Symposium 2022
The Global Languages Initiative Symposium was an event focusing on language revitalisation, identity and community wellbeing. The driving question for the symposium was “Why Indigenous language revitalisation is about so much more than language.
The event included a Keynote by Dr. Lindsay Morcom, and presentations on language diversity, multilingualism, and language education. As well as an administrator roundtable, artistic intervention, and a student virtual café event.
When: January 28th, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Lindsay Morcom
Dr. Lindsay Morcom (Ardoch Algonquin First Nation) is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University. She earned her Master’s degree in Linguistics at First Nations University through the University of Regina in 2006. She then completed her doctorate in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 2010. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with experience in education, Aboriginal languages, language revitalization, linguistics, and reconciliation.
She is of Anishinaabe, German, and French heritage and embraces the distinct responsibility this ancestry brings to her research and to her contribution to reconciliation. She is an active member of the Kingston urban Indigenous community and works collaboratively with other organizers of the Kingston Indigenous Languages Nest for urban Indigenous language revitalization.