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Latin American Short Stories Reading Group – September
September 10 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
VLACC is thrilled to host once again our prized Latin American Short Stories Reading Group in collaboration with SFU’s Department of World Languages and Literatures.
Join us for a discussion on the stories “Happy Birthday” (1960) by Clarice Lispector, “Ruth, fearless” (2020) by Aline Bei and “Natalina’s Children” (2014) by Conceição Evaristo, facilitated by SFU Visiting Faculty Camila Dilli. Come explore these intriguing stories with us!
Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Location: Conference Room (Britannia Community Services Centre) 1661 Napier St, Vancouver, BC V5L 4X4
This is a free event, but registration is required, and donations are appreciated. Please get your ticket at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/latin-american-short-stories-reading-group-september-tickets-1001571175347?aff=oddtdtcreator
The stories are available in both the original Portuguese version and English translation. Discussions will be led in English. No background in Latin American literature or culture is required.
Please click on the following links to access the stories:
English Version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C2Qpet2yzpQtCv21AkKPrI3nLit0UKf6/view?usp=drive_link
Portuguese Version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qNwxPdv5C-e2TiLRENE0KODQCq4EnqTw/view?usp=drive_link
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About the Facilitator
Camila Dilli came to Canada to launch Portuguese language courses and to develop a Portuguese language curriculum for the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where Dilli is a Visiting Faculty through the Guimarães Rosa Readership Program, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, since March.
Camila Dilli holds a BA in Portuguese and English Language and Education and an MA in Applied Linguistics, both from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, South Brazil, and is currently taking a PhD in Language Studies at the University of A Coruña, in Galicia, North Spain.
In her over 15 years as a language teacher in countries in Scandinavia, North and South America, Dilli collaborated with culturally diverse groups of colleagues and students, and her pedagogical approach is oriented by social embeddedness and intercultural dialogs. She is the proud author of language and teacher education (online) courses, including ‘Storytelling in Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages’ and ‘Reading and Writing Course at University for Indigenous Students’, both based on Project Pedagogy and engaged with broader communities outside of the academia in Brazil.
Besides her academic output in the area of Applied Linguistics – on task-based teaching and assessment, language and literacy affirmative actions, design of language and academic literacy teaching materials and curricula, online teaching and teacher education – Dilli flirts with literary writing and oral storytelling performances. Last year, she published a short story in a book organized and authored by Brazilian women around the theme of death: 42 praias, 42 beaches.
https://www.todasescrevemos.com/_files/ugd/144cc8_9583100531a64571a8ee8328e89c815e.pdf
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In Partnership with the Department of World Languages and Literatures at SFU
