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MIC Response to Executive Order of March 1, 2025

"Designating English as the Official Language of the United States"

Best 2024 MIC-URECA Poster Presentation Award

In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication (MIC), we are thrilled to announce the Best 2024 MIC-URECA Poster Presentation Award open to undergraduates participating in the 2024 Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA). The selected poster presentations are expected to focus on issues within the realm of multilingual and intercultural communication and exhibiting not only remarkable quality but also the potential for intellectual and social impact.

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Resources for Language Justice in Higher Education

by Dr. Loredana Polezzi & Dr. Shyam Sharma

We proudly present this MIC Resource Page with specific recommendations, readings, references, curricular approaches, pedagogical strategies, program information from other institutions, and related policies and procedures.

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Feb 3		*MIC Distinguished Lecture Series: 'Seeing' the Literary Text through Voyant: Digital Tools in Literary Translation (Clorinda Donato, California State University)*
Oct 17		MIC Symposium: Multiple Perspectives on Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication
May 7		MIC Faculty Research Forum: Watch the recording here!
May 7		MIC Faculty Research Forum: Celebrating the 10th anniversary of MIC by showcasing research from our faculty members
Apr 11		MIC Distinguished Lecture Series: Advances, Issues, and Future Directions in Multilingual and Intercultural Communication Studies (Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia)
Nov 3		Graduate Writing Workshop Series: Writing Powerful Cover Letters and Emails (Dr.Shyam Sharma, Stony Brook University)
Apr 27		MIC Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr YouTube: multilingualism and multimodality in gender transition narratives on Polish social media (Dr. Joanna Chojnicka, Cardiff University)
Apr 20		Multilingualism, Translation, Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities (Moira Inghilleri, Jo Angouri, Loredana Polezzi)
Apr 7		MIC Distinguished Lecture Series: Learner Corpora: Construction and Explorations in Chinese and Related Languages (Prof. Hongyin Tao, UCLA)
Feb 9		MIC Distinguished Lecture Series: Brown – Blanche? Black. Weaving intersections of language, culture and race through autoethnography (Dr. Gail Prasad, York University)
Nov 17		MIC Distinguished Lecture Series: Pedagogical Grammar in Authentic Discourse: : a crosslinguistic consideration (Dr. Susan Strauss, Penn State)
Oct 24		MIC Distinguished Lecture Series: Translanguaging as a Decolonising Approach (Dr. Danping Wang, University of Auckland)
Apr 14		MIC Distinguished Lecture Series: Monolingualism, In/Justice (David Gramling, University of British Columbia)
Mar 3		MIC Distinguished Lecture Series: Assessing Intercultural Capability in Language Learning (Angela Scarino, University of South Australia)

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Campus Linguistic Diversity Survey

Project led by Professor Yi Wang image of youtube video for campus linguistic diversity survey

Stony Brook Stories of Language and Life

Project led by Professor Joy Janzen

Advances, Issues, and Future Directions in Multilingual and Intercultural Communication Studies

An interview with Dr. Patricia Duff conducted by Isabella Birbiglia, Kayo Takahashi, and Melis Tozoglu

Dr Youtube: multilingualism and multimodality in gender transition narratives on Polish social media
An Interview with Dr. Joanna Chojnicka Conducted by Gabrielle Modest, Melis Tozoglu, and Sarah Johnson