28.1278, Summer Schools: Language and Migration

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Subject: 28.1278, Summer Schools: Language and Migration

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:11:53
From: Jan Patrick Zeller [jan.zeller at issl.unibe.ch]
Subject: Language and Migration

 

Language and Migration

Host Institution: Universität Bern
Website: http://www.csls.unibe.ch/studies/events/summer_school_2017/index_eng.html

Dates: 12-Jun-2017 - 16-Jun-2017
Location: Kandersteg (Swiss Alps), Switzerland

Focus: The Summer School focuses on different aspects of language and migration: language contact, multilingual interaction, language and identity, discourses about migration, and the effects of researchers’ choice of language for their research.
Minimum Education Level: MA


Description:
The Summer School is being organized by the Center for the Study of Language
and Society at the University of Bern. There will be lectures, workshops, and
small-group sessions where PhD students will have a chance to present their
research and receive feedback from experts in the field as well as from their
peers.

Confirmed speakers and workshop leaders:

William L. Allen (University of Oxford)
Penelope Gardner-Chloros (Birkbeck University of London)
Robert Gibb (University of Glasgow)
Marta Kirilova (University of Copenhagen)
Silvia Natale (University of Bern)
Thomas Niehr (University of Aachen)
Dennis Preston (Oklahoma State University/Michigan State University)
Claudio Scarvaglieri (University of Basel)
James Simpson (University of Leeds)
Constanze Vorwerg (University of Bern)

The Summer School will be held at the Hotel Alfa Soleil in Kandersteg
(Switzerland), surrounded by superb mountain scenery. It starts Monday
afternoon and ends on Friday at noon.


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                      Discourse Analysis
                      Language Acquisition
                      Sociolinguistics
                      Text/Corpus Linguistics

Tuition: 500 CHF

Tuition Explanation: The participation fee is CHF 500 per participant. This covers accommodation
(twin room; single supplement: CHF 85) and meals.


Registration: 15-Mar-2017 to 13-Apr-2017

Contact Person: Jan Patrick Zeller
                Email: jan.zeller at issl.unibe.ch

Apply by Email: jan.zeller at issl.unibe.ch

Registration Instructions:
For your application, please e-mail:

- A short abstract of your presentation (max. 400 words) in the language of
your presentation (English, German, or French);
- A short CV (1 page);
- The topic of your thesis and the name of a referee that we may contact




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