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Please join Netta Avineri for a talk entitled “Pedagogies of Interdisciplinarity: Possibilities and Prospects for the Social Issues of Our Time.”

Register for the Zoom webinar right here.

In this talk, Netta Avineri will explore how dialogue among different experiences and identities can create new avenues for hope and change. She highlights the ‘pedagogies of interdisciplinarity’ she uses in her coursework and community engagement at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). She will discuss case studies including educational/language inequities, housing insecurity, immigration, Indigenous representation, and public health. By bringing together a range of viewpoints, recognizing the conflicts involved, and ‘coalescing’ around common intentions and goals, these intercultural exchanges can foster students’ critical abilities to address the world’s most complex problems.

Dr. Netta Avineri is a Language Teacher Education and Intercultural Communication Associate Professor at MIIS. She serves as the Intercultural Competence Committee Chair, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation Graduate Education and Research Pillar Lead, CoLab Co-Director, and Social Impact Corps Faculty Director. Netta is also a Critical Service-Learning and Teacher Education Lecturer at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). She is a researcher, consultant, and trainer in the areas of language and social justice, critical interculturality, heritage language socialization, and ethical community partnerships. Her forthcoming co-authored book is entitled Language and Social Justice: An Applied Linguistic Anthropological Approach (Routledge).

Sponsored by:
Alumni & Parent Programs; Provost's Office

Contact Organizer

Daylor, Matt
mdaylor@middlebury.edu
802-443-5747