The Language, Migration, and Education Conference is set for 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Sept. 9 in 227 Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall. It is sponsored by the M3 Initiative in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education (TLTE) in the College of Education and Human Sciences, which promotes the advancement of university-community initiatives for the education of (im)migrant, multilingual, and multicultural populations. 

The interdisciplinary conference opens with a keynote address by García, followed by two 30-minute sessions of 15 individual research presentations by students and faculty from across Nebraska and the U.S. After lunch, the conference concludes with a panel featuring TLTE international graduate students from various countries around the world.  

Registration for the Language, Migration, and Education Conference is open until Aug. 31 at go.unl.edu/m3conf. Cost of attendance is $10 per individual. 

García, who will also give a public talk at 7 p.m. Sept. 8 in 227 Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall, has dedicated her career to studying bilingual education and translanguaging, a theory and pedagogy related to the teaching of multilingual learners. Her public talk will focus on translanguaging and why it is important, followed by a dialogue with the audience. 

The M3 Initiative aims to build community and increase presentation and networking opportunities among students, teachers, teacher educators, and researchers interested in the intersection of language, migration, and education. It was created to bring together the TLTE scholars whose research is focused on migration, multilingualism and multiculturalism. The M3 Initiative seeks to enrich understandings of how to improve education in schools, neighborhoods, communities, and Nebraska at large, as well as international settings, with the goal of cultivating the state’s linguistic and cultural diversity. 

Learn more about the M3 Initiative at cehs.unl.edu/tlte/m3-initiative.   

Additional sponsors of the Language, Migration and Education Conference include: 

College of Education and Human Sciences 

UNL Research Council (Office of Research and Economic Development) 

Department of Sociology 

Department of Educational Administration 

Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies 

Department of Educational Psychology 

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures 

Department of English 

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders 

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools 

Office of Diversity and Inclusion