Whamit!

The Weekly Newsletter of MIT Linguistics

DeGraff keynote talk at VocUM 2020

This Thursday, November 19, at 4PM (EDT) Michel DeGraff will deliver the keynote at the University of Montreal conference “VocUM 2020 – Language: Norm & Power.”

The title of the talk, which will be delivered in Kreyòl with French subtitles, is:

“Ann Ayiti, frankofoni se zam pou vyolans kolonyal epi se kreyolofoni ki ka sèvi kòm fondasyon pou edikasyon ak liberasyon”

(= In Haiti, Francophonie is a weapon for colonial violence while it’s Kreyòl that can be used as the linguistic foundation for education and liberation.)

https://vocum.ca/presentation/ann-ayiti-frankofoni-se-zam-pou-vyolans-kolonyal-epi-se-kreyolofoni-ki-ka-sevi-kom-fondasyon-pou-edikasyon-ak-liberasyon/

More details about the conference at:

https://vocum.ca/en/vocum-2020/program/