Recent Developments in Bilingualism and Multilingualism Research. A one-day symposium 17/6

On the Occasion of 40 Years of Organized Bilingualism Research at Stockholm University (1981–2021): Recent Developments in Bilingualism and Multilingualism Research. A one-day symposium. The symposium has been postponed to 17 June, 2022 (from 17 December, 2021).

Registration

Signing up is free but binding! Please email:
marta.quevedo@biling.su.se

Location

Campus Frescati.

 

The programme has been updated in April (version 4).

Programme Symposium Bilingualism 17 June, 2022 (version 5) pdf, 342 kB. (342 Kb)

Poster Biling 40 years symposium 17 June 2022 pdf, 509.7 kB. (509 Kb)

08.15–09.00Registration
09.00–09.15Introduction:
Niclas Abrahamsson (Centre Director)
09.15–09.45Is Stockholm’s Multiethnic Argot More “Multi” than Ever? A Longitudinal Analysis of Foreign Lexical Material from 1994 to 2020
Nathan Young
09.45–10.15Understanding Speech Perception: Modeling Adaptation to Foreign Accents.
Maryann Su Lin Tan
10.15–10.45Causal Intentionality in Monolingual and Bilingual Witness Memory.
Marta Quevedo Rodriguez
10.45–11.15COFFEE and POSTER EXHIBITION
11.15–11.45

Does Bilingualism Really Come with Cognitive Advantages and Linguistic Costs?
Niclas Abrahamsson

11.45–12.15L1 Retention and L2 Acquisition in International Adoptees.
Gunnar Norrman
12.15–13.15Ethnographic Explorations of Language in a Contested Crimea.
Natalia Volvach
12.45–13.45LUNCH BREAK
13.45–15.15

Panel discussion: Making Bi/Multilingualism Research Matter.
Introduction and moderator:
Linus Salö

Panelists:
Kenneth Hyltenstam

Carla Jonsson

Tommaso Milani

Natalia Ganuza

David Karlander

Susan Sayehli

15.15–15.45

COFFEE and POSTER EXHIBITION

15.45–16.15A Multilingual Approach to Internationalisation in Swedish University Life.
Luke Holmes
16.15–16.30A WEIRD Bias in SLA Research? A Bibliometric Approach.
Emanuel Bylund
16.45–17.15Towards Epistemic Justice: Language, Identity, and Relations of Knowing in Multilingual Schools.
Caroline Kerfoot
17.15POST-SYMPOSIUM MINGLE

The symposium was made possible by grants from The Swedish Academy and the Board of Human Science, Stockholm University.

Last updated: 2025-10-31

Source: Centre for Resarch on Bilingualism