5th SCENARIO Forum Symposium on Performative Pedagogy
On January 19-20, 2018, the World Languages and Cultures Department at UNC hosted the 5th SCENARIO Forum Symposium on Performative Pedagogy. This symposium was free and open to students and educators at all levels and from all disciplines, particularly current and future language teachers.
The keynote speaker for the 5th SCENARIO Forum Symposium on Performative Pedagogy was Dr. Susanne Even, an internationally prominent drama pedagogy scholar and a passionate teacher educator who trains and mentors the associate instructors in the department of Germanic Studies at Indiana University. She is also active in the trainer network of the Goethe Institute Chicago and has conducted teacher training workshops at universities and Goethe Institutes in Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the United States. Her keynote talk, which was also the first presentation in the 2018 Schulze Speaker Series: “Performative Pedagogy – Crossroads of the Arts, Education, and Foreign Languages” fuses together interdisciplinary fields of higher education, showing how drama enhances learning in a myriad of classroom situations.
The other symposium talks and workshops focused on specific ways performance can be used to enhance language learning with plays, music, and improv theatre activities. The 5th SCENARIO Forum Symposium on Performative Pedagogy was only the second of its kind held in the United States, and it represented the broadening readership and scope of SCENARIO journal and its goal in inspiring creativity and improvisation in the foreign language classroom.
Speakers and Workshop Leaders
Dr. Susanne Even, Clinical Associate Professor & Language Coordinator for Germanic Studies, Indiana University
Dr. Tin Wegel, Teaching Associate Professor in German & Language Program Director, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dr. Erin Noelliste, Instructor of German & Foreign Language Pedagogy, University of Northern Colorado
Joseph Noelliste, Ph.D. Candidate, Baylor University, & Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Elon University
Lane Sorensen, Ph.D. Candidate & Associate Instructor of German and Public Speaking, Indiana University
Dr. Laura Connolly, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Northern Colorado
Dr. Donald Holman, Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures, University of Northern Colorado
5th SCENARIO Forum Symposium on Performative Pedagogy Schedule
Friday, January 19, 2018
7 - 8:30 p.m.
Schulze Presentation: “Performative Pedagogy – Crossroads of the Arts, Education, and Foreign Languages”
Speaker: Susanne Even
Location: UC Columbine A
8:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Reception
Location: UC Columbine A
Saturday, January 20, 2018
8 - 8:30 a.m.
Registration, Coffee, Breakfast
Location: Candelaria 0190
8:30 - 8:45 a.m.
Welcome
Speaker: Dr. Laura Connolly, Dean of the UNC College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Location: Candelaria 1220
8:45 - 9:45 a.m.
Talk: Break a tongue! Staging Theater Plays in the FL Classroom
Speaker: Tin Wegel
Location: Candelaria 1220
9:45 - 10:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
Location: Candelaria 0190
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Workshop: Let Foreign Language Move You with Drama Pedagogy
Speaker: Lane Sorensen
Location: Candelaria 1220
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Workshop: Mnemonics in Foreign Language Pedagogy
Speakers: Erin Noelliste & Joseph Noelliste
Location: Candelaria 1220
3:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
Location: Candelaria 0190
3:15 - 4:00 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion
Speakers: All Program Speakers and Workshop Leaders
Location: Candelaria 1220
4:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Speaker: Dr. Don Holman, Chair of the UNC Department of World Languages and Cultures
Location: Candelaria 1220
The 5th SCENARIO Forum Symposium on Performative Pedagogy was sponsored by:
UNC Life of the Mind Program and the Schulze Endowment Fund Schulze Speaker Series
