Thirteenth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas
November 10–12, 2022
hosted by University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contact Information:
Joe Salmons, [email protected]
Rachyl Hietpas, [email protected]
Mirva Johnson, [email protected]
Laura Moquin, [email protected]
Charlotte Vanhecke, [email protected]
Conference format: We will have both face-to-face and virtual presentations. There is no registration fee.
Keynote speakers: Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto
Catherine Stafford, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Naomi Nagy will deliver the inaugural Janne Bondi Johannessen Celebration Lecture. This lecture will be held in memory of Prof. Janne Bondi Johannessen, founder of WILA, and is intended to honor someone who embodies Janne’s values, especially collaboration, involvement with and encouragement of younger scholars, and dedicated contribution to the full spectrum of heritage language linguistics.
The Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas is an annual conference focused on heritage language research, broadly understood. WILA began in 2010 as a conference on "Investigating Immigrant Languages in America" at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Since then, host universities have alternated between the United States and Europe. Research on migrant and heritage languages includes work on bilingual grammars, social correlates of language, factors that drive language transmission and loss, and historical and political factors. Since its inception, WILA has stressed that range and worked to increase cross-linguistic comparisons of all sorts, including different languages / dialects, different contact settings and different historical periods up to the present. The theme of WILA13 is comparative research.
WILA13 is possible thanks to generous funding from the Anonymous Fund, the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, Language Sciences, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Nordic Unit of the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, the Department of English, and the Language Institute
Selected papers from the conference will be published. There will be a separate call for papers for the publication.
Joe Salmons, [email protected]
Rachyl Hietpas, [email protected]
Mirva Johnson, [email protected]
Laura Moquin, [email protected]
Charlotte Vanhecke, [email protected]
Conference format: We will have both face-to-face and virtual presentations. There is no registration fee.
Keynote speakers: Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto
Catherine Stafford, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Naomi Nagy will deliver the inaugural Janne Bondi Johannessen Celebration Lecture. This lecture will be held in memory of Prof. Janne Bondi Johannessen, founder of WILA, and is intended to honor someone who embodies Janne’s values, especially collaboration, involvement with and encouragement of younger scholars, and dedicated contribution to the full spectrum of heritage language linguistics.
The Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas is an annual conference focused on heritage language research, broadly understood. WILA began in 2010 as a conference on "Investigating Immigrant Languages in America" at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Since then, host universities have alternated between the United States and Europe. Research on migrant and heritage languages includes work on bilingual grammars, social correlates of language, factors that drive language transmission and loss, and historical and political factors. Since its inception, WILA has stressed that range and worked to increase cross-linguistic comparisons of all sorts, including different languages / dialects, different contact settings and different historical periods up to the present. The theme of WILA13 is comparative research.
WILA13 is possible thanks to generous funding from the Anonymous Fund, the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, Language Sciences, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Nordic Unit of the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, the Department of English, and the Language Institute
Selected papers from the conference will be published. There will be a separate call for papers for the publication.
The current schedule for WILA 13 can be found here.
To register and let us know if you will be attending virtually or in person, please fill out this quick form. Registration is required in order to attend the conference virtually.
Guidelines for creation of posters for the conference and how the poster sessions will run can be found here.
A few brief tips for traveling to and staying and parking in Madison can be found here.
Click here for advice on writing an effective abstract for WILA.
