The majority of work into the neuroscience
behind learning a second language is based on immigrant populations in the United States, and children in the multi-lingual environment of Europe.
Artist Tania Willard and poet Natalie Diaz will have a public discussion about the motivation and struggles
behind learning to speak Secwepémcstin (Secwépemculecw / Interior Salish, British Columbia, Canada) and Mojave (Arizona, USA) respectively —
learning the
languages of their parents as a
second language and as a subject that informs their different disciplines.