What Do We Call This?

CLSAS

What Do We Call This? is an open and honest conversation series about different types of language: foreign languages that we studied abroad, and then the language around diversity and inclusion. Listen in as Miriam and Ashley talk with different alumni of the Critical Language Scholarship program as they all add color, richness, and depth to the important discussion of diversity, both home and abroad.

Episodes

  1. Expanding the Bounds of International Exchange

    08/04/2021

    Expanding the Bounds of International Exchange

    One aspect of identity is educational background and access. In this conversation, we talk with Jessica and Jordan, two CLS alums who work with Global Community College Transfers (GCCT) to increase more inclusion in the world of international exchange. Global Community College Transfers' (GCCT) mission is to close the knowledge barriers to global education opportunities for community college students and those at underserved public institutions while building a platform to connect current community college and transfer students with recruiters, stakeholders, and participants within the foreign affairs landscape. You can learn more about the organization and explore their upcoming programming by visiting https://www.globalcctransfers.org/. Jordan is a community college transfer student from Berkeley City College in California and a current student at Columbia University. He studied Arabic in Egypt in 2017, and then again in Morocco as a CLS 2018 cohort member. Jessica studied the Russian language in the 2018 CLS program in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She has lived abroad in 5 countries and is starting her career in U.S. government service.

    54 min
  2. Window to the World: From Chinese pen pals to partners

    04/19/2021

    Window to the World: From Chinese pen pals to partners

    Listen to how 2 Chinese language students created a pen pal program, to strengthen the ways we learn and communicate with people in China. Don't underestimate the power of penpal friendships! William Yuen Yee is a junior at Columbia University studying Political Science and East Asian Languages and Cultures. He was a 2019 CLS Chinese participant and co-founded Window to the World, a volunteer-operated organization dedicated to creating international pen pal partnerships between students in the United States and in Chinese-speaking regions. He also conducts research on US-China relations and international law for Professor Thomas Christensen and Dr. Maria Adele Carrai at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. Jessica Jue is originally from the Seattle area and participated in CLS (Changchun, China) in 2019. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2018 with a B.S. in Biological Sciences and an Additional Major in Chinese Studies.

    49 min
  3. Finding Home in the Souls of Others

    07/21/2020

    Finding Home in the Souls of Others

    CW: Abuse, Interpersonal Violence In this episode of What Do we Call This?, we sit down with Anesce Dremen, a first-generation college student who studied in four cities in China (Xi’an, Beijing, Chengdu, and Suzhou) with the support of the Critical Language Scholarship and the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship. Anesce shares her story, the challenges of reconciling painful pasts in new places, and her experiences navigating those elements of identity that are not always visible to others. Anesce graduated from Carthage College with degrees in Chinese and English literature (creative writing concentration), and her bilingual work focuses on academic literary research, poetry, and newspaper articles. When not writing, Anesce is found tea cup in hand, traveling between the U.S, China, and India while maintaining a budget travel blog and writing novels. She has been selected as a 2020 Fulbright ETA to India. Follow Anesce's work via social media @WritersDremen or through her free newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e21fc1ad2356/anesce Editor: Gabriel Carrillo Producer: Naika C. Pierre Hosts: Miriam Tinberg and Ashley Rivenbark

    54 min
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What Do We Call This? is an open and honest conversation series about different types of language: foreign languages that we studied abroad, and then the language around diversity and inclusion. Listen in as Miriam and Ashley talk with different alumni of the Critical Language Scholarship program as they all add color, richness, and depth to the important discussion of diversity, both home and abroad.

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