The cluster of Humanities chose Multilingualism as a focal theme to unite different departments.
After a research proposal on urban multilingualism, the topic was explored at an annual workshop for established researchers and PhD students in Göttingen in 2014 on "Creating multilingual spaces" and on "Multilingualism across the lifespan" at the University of Ghent in September 2015.
The workshops investigate the dynamically-evolving processes of (urban) Multilingualism as involving contact between individuals and between groups, Multilingualism as raising issues of (mediated) participation in contexts oriented to socio-economic and transnational mobility, and Multilingualism as involving different stages and forms of formal/informal language learning in institutional and other contexts. The workshops are currently taking place with the aim of establishing a H2020 project.
Contact
Ghent
Godelieve Laureys: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
(Linguistics –Nordic Studies)
Piet Van Avermaet: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
(Linguistics)
Mieke van Herreweghe: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
(Linguistics Dept. – Germanic Languages)
Stef Slembrouck: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
(Applied Linguistics)
Göttingen
Andrea Bogner: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
(Dept. Head – Intercultural German Studies)
Groningen
Merel Keyzer: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
(Applied Linguistics)
Uppsala
Ute Bohnacker: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
(Dept. of Linguistics & Philology)
Ulla Börestam: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
(Dept. of Scandinavian Languages)
