Fourteenth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas
October 5-7, 2023
hosted by Europa-Universität Flensburg
Meeting Location: Europa Universität Flensburg
Contact Information:
Karoline Kühl, [email protected]
Samantha M. Litty, [email protected]
Conference format: We are planning to have both face-to-face and virtual options. There is no registration fee. Registration is now closed. Links for online viewing a will be distributed to registered participants via email prior to the start of the workshop. Digital posters can be viewed here.
Information for travel: The conference will begin at 9am October 5 and end around 3pm on October 7. We are planning to offer a WILA-style excursion for those who do not have to depart immediately following close of the conference (for those interested, that would mean excursion Saturday afternoon and departing Flensburg on Sunday). The nearest airports to Flensburg are Hamburg, Germany (+ ca. 2.5 hrs train) and Copenhagen, Denmark (+ca. 4 hrs train).
Recommended hotels in Flensburg: Ramada, Hotel am Fjord, Alte Post (a bit pricier), Ibis (a bit cheaper).
Interested in learning about some sociohistorical background of the places you pass through (by train) on your way from Hamburg to Flensburg? Then this Travel Companion, created by members of the Europa-Universität Flensburg Department of Frisian Studies and Minority Research is for you!
Keynote speakers:
Here you can find the Conference Program and the Book of Abstracts.
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 in the Americas 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 WILA14 is methods in immigrant and heritage language research. We welcome papers on all of these topics mentioned above, with a particular emphasis given to the methodological approaches taken in each research project, how our methods shape research outcomes, and the challenges and opportunities that arise from working with this type of data and these groups of speakers/writers.
Selected papers from the conference will be published. There will be a separate call for papers for the publication.
Information for travel: The conference will begin at 9am October 5 and end around 3pm on October 7. We are planning to offer a WILA-style excursion for those who do not have to depart immediately following close of the conference (for those interested, that would mean excursion Saturday afternoon and departing Flensburg on Sunday). The nearest airports to Flensburg are Hamburg, Germany (+ ca. 2.5 hrs train) and Copenhagen, Denmark (+ca. 4 hrs train).
Recommended hotels in Flensburg: Ramada, Hotel am Fjord, Alte Post (a bit pricier), Ibis (a bit cheaper).
Interested in learning about some sociohistorical background of the places you pass through (by train) on your way from Hamburg to Flensburg? Then this Travel Companion, created by members of the Europa-Universität Flensburg Department of Frisian Studies and Minority Research is for you!
Keynote speakers:
- Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
- Mogens Rostgaard Nissen, Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig
Here you can find the Conference Program and the Book of Abstracts.
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 in the Americas 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 WILA14 is methods in immigrant and heritage language research. We welcome papers on all of these topics mentioned above, with a particular emphasis given to the methodological approaches taken in each research project, how our methods shape research outcomes, and the challenges and opportunities that arise from working with this type of data and these groups of speakers/writers.
Selected papers from the conference will be published. There will be a separate call for papers for the publication.
Click here for advice on writing an effective abstract for WILA.
