University of the West Indies Linguistics Society - UWILS

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Get ready to fast forward⏩️ to your future! 🚀 The Faculty of Humanities and Education Career Day is happening on March 20th, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM.

✅ Exclusive to Humanities & Education students
✅ Connect with employers & industry professionals
✅ Explore career opportunities & expand your network

Mark your calendar and stay tuned for more details! Your future starts here. ⏩️

Fall in love in another language this Valentine's Day!

Come with a full heart and writing materials as you discover how to charm the person of your dreams in another language! Join us on 13 February 2024 from 1:00 P.M. to 3:45 P.M. and let your heart speak another language!

Link to register:

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See you all there!

Come and join us!

Itesh Sachdev, born and raised in Kenya as a multilingual vegan, received his formal education in Kenya, the UK and Canada. Following his doctorate in social psychology, his professional academic career has been at the University of London, at Birkbeck in Applied Linguistics and as Director of the SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence in 'Languages of the Wider World'. He is now Emeritus Professor of Commumication & Language at SOAS. He has also held the Fritz Karsen Chair at Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany), served as president of the International Association for Language and Social Psychology, and president of the British Association for Canadian Studies. He has conducted research in the social psychology of language and intergroup relations with members of various ethnolinguistic groups including those in/from Bolivia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia and the UK. He has received the Robert Gardner award for his work in bilingualism and minorities, and his current research focuses on issues of urban multilingualism and multiculturalism.

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Professor Emeritus Itesh Sachdev of SOAS University of London joins us, The ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre and the UWI STA Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics - DMLL for an hour-long seminar!

Itesh Sachdev, born and raised in Kenya as a multilingual vegan, received his formal education in Kenya, the UK and Canada. Following his doctorate in social psychology, his professional academic career has been at the University of London, at Birkbeck in Applied Linguistics and as Director of the SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence in 'Languages of the Wider World'. He is now Emeritus Professor of Communication & Language at SOAS. He has also held the Fritz Karsen Chair at Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany), served as president of the International Association for Language and Social Psychology, and president of the British Association for Canadian Studies. He has conducted research in the social psychology of language and intergroup relations with members of various ethnolinguistic groups including those in/from Bolivia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia and the UK. He has received the Robert Gardner award for his work in bilingualism and minorities, and his current research focuses on issues of urban multilingualism and multiculturalism.

See Abstract below!
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Day 2 recap; the second day of Club Fest had a greater turn out and we truly appreciated the interactions we had with the students. We hope that we can keep this energy for the rest of the semester and we would get to see some familiar faces at our club activities!! STAY TUNED FOR MORE CLUB UPDATES 🤗🤗

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Here's a recap of the first day of Club Fest. We set up our booth and we had a wonderful reception with many people participating in the activities that we planned. We had a wonderful time!!