V International Colloquium: From Mother Tongue to Transnational Language LANGUAGE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY
Thursday, September 4th 2025
Horario:
10:00 a 13:30 horas, tiempo de la CDMX
Modalidad:
En línea
Duración:
5 horas
The Hebrew Department of the Universidad Hebraica invites.
The IV Colloquium on Second or Foreign Languages aims to reflect on and explore in greater depth the role of these languages as part of cultural heritage and the construction of identity within a specific culture.
*The event will be held in Spanish, English, and Hebrew with simultaneous translation
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PROF. FABIO REDAK
Academic Director of the Department of Hebrew as an Additional Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Professor of Hebrew at the Faculty for Students from Abroad and of Academic Writing at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Jerusalem.
Pedagogical advisor for the teaching of additional languages at various institutions in Israel and the Diaspora.
DR. RAMA MANOR
Is a senior lecturer in Hebrew language at Beit Berl Academic College and head of the research laboratory at the Center for Promoting Shared Society at the college. Dr. Manor also teaches in the Teacher Training Unit at the School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Dr. Manor, together with her colleagues, published the book “Motion Verbs in Contemporary Hebrew – I’m gonna tear up the town”, and she researches and publishes articles in the field of Modern Hebrew: the study of discourse, syntax and semantics, and in the field of teaching Hebrew as a second language in Arab society in Israel.
PROF. VARDIT RINGVALD PhD
Professor Vardit Ringvald, PhD is the leading scholar of Hebrew pedagogy. She serves as the Director of the Consortium for The Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture and as a research professor at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education.
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Dr. Ringvald is the Founding Director of the School of Hebrew at Middlebury College, where she served until 2022. At Middlebury, she implemented and expanded the master’s degree in teaching Hebrew as a Second Language, a program she developed at Brandeis University, as well as a new and innovative Doctoral program in Hebrew Pedagogy research.
Earlier in her career, Dr. Ringvald served as Brandeis University’s Hebrew program director, in addition to director of Arabic, Asian and Romance languages.
Dr. Ringvald is the primary author of Brandeis Modern Hebrew textbook, Volumes I and II. This set of textbooks is recognized as the first based on the proficiency approach developed by ACTFL. Most notably, she participated in modifying and adapting the proficiency approach to Modern Hebrew.
Dr. Ringvald’s topics of research include understanding how language educators develop their teaching skills, the connection between Hebrew learning and identity formation, and understanding the role of culture studies in teaching and learning of Hebrew as a second language.
As a consultant to many schools and educational organizations, Dr. Ringvald specializes in curriculum development, teacher preparation and teacher assessment. Her goal is to professionalize teachers and school-based Hebrew programs.
OCARINA MASID BLANCO PHD
She holds a PhD in Spanish and a Master’s Degree in Spanish as a Second Language from the Complutense University of Madrid and a BA in Hispanic Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela.
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She is the academic coordinator of the PhD in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching at Nebrija University, where she is a professor in the Department of Applied Languages. She directed the Master’s Degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE) at the same university for six years. As a member of the LAELE research group at Nebrija University, her research focuses on the emotional impact of metaphor and figurative language in Spanish as a Foreign Language (L1) and Foreign Language (FL), their relationship with other cognitive processes, the didactic applications of the cognitive theory of metaphor, and other approaches to the teaching and learning of vocabulary in Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE). She is also interested in active methodologies and ICT for teaching Spanish and their emotional impact on learning. He has participated in research and teaching innovation projects on these topics and has published scientific publications in high-impact journals, book chapters, and a monograph with the publishing house Arco/Libros.
YARON PELEG
Is a native of Israel. He has a BA in Film Studies (Emerson College, Boston) and a PhD in modern Hebrew literature (Brandeis University).
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From 2002-2012 he served as head of the George Washington University Hebrew Program. Since 2012 he has been serving as the Kennedy-Leigh Professor of modern Hebrew Studies at the University of Cambridge. In 2023 and 2024 Prof. Peleg was the academic director of the School of Hebrew at Middlebury College, Vermont. He is the author of a number of books on Israeli literature, cinema and culture, and editor of a number of scholarly collections of essays on those subjects. His most recent monograph is a cultural history of Zionism, New Hebrews, Making National Culture in Zion (CUP, 2025).
DRA. MARISELA COLÍN RODEA
She was a fellow at the Institute of Language Studies (IEL), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, and the University Institute of Applied Linguistics (IULA), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
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She has 40 years of academic experience in teaching, research, dissemination, teacher training, and academic-administrative activities. She has consolidated six lines of research: a) Teaching Portuguese and Classroom Research; b) Lexicology and Terminology; c) Sociolinguistics; d) Language and Culture; e) Discourse; and f) Study of Insults and Verbal Violence.
MTRA. DAFNA GITTLER KRUK
Head of the Hebrew Department. She holds a Master’s degree in The Art of Teaching Hebrew as a Second Language from Middlebury College (USA), as well as a Master’s degree in Education and a specialization in Human Resources from Universidad Anáhuac.
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She also completed postgraduate studies in Jewish Education at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. With extensive teaching experience, she has served as Principal of both Kindergarten and Elementary School, and as General Coordinator of Jewish Studies at schools in Mexico City.