Next week the University of Helsinki will host the 10th CEISAL conference. The even will take place 13–15 June 2022 and it features over 100 research symposia on topics relating to Latin American social and cultural studies. More than 500 researchers are coming to the conference. It will be a lot of fun!
I am participating in a panel on Linguistic Variation in Postcolonial Latin America, featuring the following interventions:
- Eeva Sippola (University of Helsinki): Introduction – Latin America and variation
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KU Leuven): Typological profiling: measuring the relatedness of languages and language varieties
- Carlos Soler Montes (University of Edinburgh): Imagined (linguistic) communities in the USA: the case of New Mexican Spanish
- Philipp Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin): Boundaries in variation: metalinguistic concepts in postcolonial contexts
- Michael Ramsammy (University of Edinburgh): Language variation and post-colonial dialectology: what articulatory imaging can tell us
- Pekka Posio, Sven Kachel and Gloria Uclés (University of Helsinki): Linguistic gender stereotypes and attitudes in Mexico and Spain
- Silvia Betti (University of Bologna): ‘Tienes que hablar ‘americano’. El rechazo público del español en los Estados Unidos durante la época de Trump
- Carmen Cazorla (Complutense University, Madrid): Spanish and English in the USA – Extended varieties and education
In addition, I will join the symposium on Brazilian borderlands organised by Ana Paulla Braga Mattos (Aarhus University) and Vinicius De Carvalho (King’s College London).
EEVA SIPPOLA 