<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div> <div> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr">From: cal-faculty <cal-faculty-bounces@egr.msu.edu> on behalf of Dalimonte, Leann <dalimon8@msu.edu> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2020 1:17 PM To: cal-faculty@egr.msu.edu <cal-faculty@egr.msu.edu> Subject: FW: Language Diversity Speaker Milu on Feb 20th <div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="WordSection1"> Please mark your calendars and share widely. The next guest in The Writing Center’s Language Diversity Speaker Series will be here Feb 20th. Dr. Esther Milu, Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida, will be talking on “Transnational and Immigrant African Students’ Language Identities: Complicating the Image of Black Students in U.S. Composition.” Talk: 6:30 pm Opening Reception: 6:00 pm Location: Snyder C20, RCAH Theater In this talk, Milu will bring attention to transnational and immigrant African students’ language repertoires and identities. Using stories of three transnational African students from Angola and Rwanda and the stories of two second generation immigrant students, she will demonstrate the diversity and complexity embedded in the category “African students,” challenging the category “black students” and arguing for the need to pay attention to transnational and immigrant African students’ particular and peculiar literacy needs and their complex colonial histories with racialization and marginalization. Dr. Trixie G. Smith Director, The Writing Center Director, Red Cedar Writing Project Assistant Director, Graduate Studies, MA in CSLP Associate Professor, Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures Faculty, Center for Gender in Global Contexts Pronouns: she/her/hers Michigan State University 434 Farm Lane, 300 Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: 517-432-3610 Fax: 517-432-3828 Email: <a href="mailto:smit1254@msu.edu">smit1254@msu.edu</a> Web: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/smit1254.msu.domains__;!!HXCxUKc!j4c0QvHGykg6QvdxmB197HTrJPmEsZ_30n1VrL8tjfgJL4kbo39ljUrHj3gu7pSk7Q$">http://smit1254.msu.domains</a> <a href="http://writing.msu.edu">http://writing.msu.edu</a> We acknowledge that MSU occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg—the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. The University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. We recognize that settler and Indigenous signatories understood the terms of the treaties in starkly different term. </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>