Date:
Location:
Gatton Student Center, Grand Ballroom C (212C)
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Javier Muñoz-Basols
Founded in 1948, the KFLC is one of the country's longest-running literary, linguistics, pedagogy, and technology conferences. Our event takes place each April at the University of Kentucky campus, in Lexington, Kentucky. We are delighted to welcome Javier Muñoz-Basols as our keynote speaker. He is an outstanding scholar, and his keynote address, “The Accent of the Algorithm: Language, Identity, and the Humanization of AI,” will address one of the most timely and interdisciplinary topics in the humanities today.
Venue information, parking and more can be found here.
About Javier Muñoz-Basols
Javier Muñoz-Basols is currently Executive Director at the Instituto Cervantes in Los Angeles and an Honorary Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and at the University of Seville. His research interests focus on the connections between language contact and multilingualism, the integration of technology and AI in language learning, and the impact of institutional contexts on language teaching. He has delivered keynote addresses at international conferences and events in more than 20 countries and has an extensive publication portfolio that includes 19 books and edited volumes and has published in top academic journals such as Applied Linguistics, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Modern Language Journal or International Journal of Multilingualism. He is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (Routledge) and Dr. Muñoz-Basols’ societal contributions include serving as President of the Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE) (Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language), Trustee of the Instituto Cervantes, and corresponding member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) (North American Academy of the Spanish Language).