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Dr. Pavadee collaborates with Arts Student Committee as guest speaker for undergraduate conference, podcast

Ratanon Jiamsundutsadee

 

During March, Dr. Pavadee Saisuwan was invited as a guest speaker for two separate events organized by the Arts Student Committee, Chulalongkorn University to provide public talks on various contemporary topics in language and linguistics. 

On Sunday, March 20, she gave an hour-long public lecture titled “Linguistic Perspectives on Language and Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic” as a part of the second day of the 6th Arts Undergraduate Humanities Symposium.

In the lecture, Pavadee covered topics integral to communicating information and public health measures across language and cultural boundaries, namely linguistic diversity, societal multilingualism, the role of the English language, literacy and language proficiency, and discourses on unity and togetherness. Closing with examples from Thai society, she asserts the importance of the right of access to information during the outbreak regardless of one’s language(s) in use. The recording of the lecture is available at https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=2247912488699470

 

 

Following the event, Pavadee also joined the “ARTS F(E)M: Understanding Women through Humanities” podcast as a guest speaker on their third episode, aired on Friday, March 25. The main theme was sexism in language, in which she discussed further about overt, direct forms of sexism, such as deliberately sexist, male-oriented terms, as well as their subtler, more indirect counterparts, such as gender stereotypes and collocations which result in negative connotations towards specific genders. The session ended with Pavadee restating that one crucial way of problematizing sexism is to make what is implicitly problematic explicit: to put sexism and its perpetrators in the limelight. This episode was published on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and Youtube, accessible via the following landing page: https://linktr.ee/artsfem

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