ASEEES Convention 2014, San Antonio, TX On November 20 – 23, 2014, I attended the 46th annual conference ASEEES in San Antonio, TX. ASEEES stands for the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. It is the largest conference…
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My experience at MESA
My experience at the annual conference of Middle East Studies Association (MESA) this November, 2014, can be divided into three points: 1. Literature Because I have been teaching some of the literary works of Najib Mahfouz, the noble prize winner…
MESA 2014/ Washington DC
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) brings together scholars, educators and all those who are interested in studies (language, literature, culture, politics, etc.) related to that area of the world from all over the world. It holds a yearly meeting in the…
ACTFL Convention – Reaching Global Competence
I was able to attend the ACTFL convention this year, the theme of which was ‘Reaching Global Competence’. As those who have attended an ACTFL convention before will know, the number of attendees, the number of presentations and the physical…
RIFLA 2014
At the beginning of October I attended the RIFLA Fall Conference, which was held in Narragansett, RI. This was a small language conference which gave me the opportunity to speak with some high school teachers about German instruction at the high school…
MAFLA 2014
On Friday I was able to attend and present at the MAFLA Conference which was held in beautiful Sturbridge, MA. This conference was much larger than I expected and there were teachers from many different places. My presentation on using…