BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12313-2426a84c39a2a40a9d20507d20b1f489@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260512T080804Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T133000 SUMMARY:African Studies Brown Bag Lecture DESCRIPTION:\nInviolata Vicky Khasandi-Telewa is an associate professor of English language teaching and applied linguistics in Laikipia Univers ity\, Kenya. She is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for African Studies and African American Studies Department in Pe nn State. She attained her doctoral degree in applied linguistics and En glish kanguage teaching\, from the University of Warwick\, United Kingdo m. She has been teaching in Laikipia University since 1997 and has just completed her term as the dean of the School of Humanities and Developme nt Studies and acting deputy vice chancellor Academics\, Research and St udent Affairs. Her research interests are in applied linguistics in Afri can contexts particularly language-in-education policies\, discourses of gender\, religion\, politics and governance\, refugees\, and ecolinguis tics. She is the editor of CORETRAIN journal. Some of her publications i nclude: Khasandi-Telewa\, Vicky\, Sinfree Makoni and David Bade (2022) P roverbial Futures: Proverbs and Political Discourse in Africa. ‘Everyone was happy when talking’: Revisiting the use of mother tongues in Kenyan Universities. In S. Makoni\, et al. Routledge (2023) “An ecolinguistic positive discourse analysis of ‘Mwambu and Sella’\, a Bukusu oral narrat ive from Western Kenya.” Language &\; Ecology.\n\nRefreshments will b e served.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-brown -bag-lecture/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Inviolata Vicky Khasandi-Telewa is an associate professor of English language teaching and applied linguistics in Laikipia University, Kenya. She is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for African Studies and African American Studies Department in Penn State. She attained her doc toral degree in applied linguistics and English kanguage teaching, from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. She has been teaching in Laik ipia University since 1997 and has just completed her term as the dean o f the School of Humanities and Development Studies and acting deputy vic e chancellor Academics, Research and Student Affairs. Her research inter ests are in applied linguistics in African contexts particularly languag e-in-education policies, discourses of gender, religion, politics and go vernance, refugees, and ecolinguistics. She is the editor of CORETRA IN journal. Some of her publications include: Khasandi-Telewa, Vick y, Sinfree Makoni and David Bade (2022) Proverbial Futures: Proverbs and Political Discourse in Africa. ‘Everyone was happy when talkin g’: Revisiting the use of mother tongues in Kenyan Universities. In S. M akoni, et al. Routledge (2023) “An ecolinguistic positive discourse anal ysis of ‘Mwambu and Sella’, a Bukusu oral narrative from Western Kenya.” Language & Ecology.

Refreshments will be served.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-brown-bag-lecture/

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