At MultiLing, we look back at a busy year filled with great research, interesting and thought-provoking seminars, workshops, PhD courses, guest lecturers, and collaborations. After two years of online academic events and interactions, society finally opened up. This spring we could once again attend in-person conferences and many of our research fellows could go on long-planned research stays. As we write this editorial greeting, a big group of MultiLingers are attending a PhD summer school and final conference of our INTPART collaboration with four top South African universities and Georgetown University, organized by Ana Deumert and her team at the University of Cape Town. This past year was the first year with the new leadership team at MultiLing. As we enter 2023, which will be the final year of MultiLing as a Center of Excellence, we look forward to showcasing MultiLing´s accomplishments the past decade. We will continue to organize our annual lectures, colloquia, and workshops, and of course produce innovative research on multilingualism. We are excited for the year to come and wish our friends and partners a joyous festive season, and a healthy and prosperous New Year.
Happy reading! With our best regards, Unn Røyneland, Ingebjørg Tonne, and Anne Charlotte Lindblom
MultiLing Leadership Team |
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INTPART 2.0
INTPART 2.0 Summer School and closing conference 2022
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From December 5-9, a big group from MultiLing participated and gave presentations at INTPART 2.0 Summer School and closing conference in Cape Town. A huge thanks to Ana Deumert and her amazing team from the University of Cape Town for organizing an exceptionally inspiring and thought-provoking event focusing on «Reflecting on Authenticity / Authentication / Legitimacy / Legitimization». The network project INTPART 2.0 (International Partnership for Excellent Education and Research) involves partnership between Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Western Cape, and Georgetown University with MulitLing at the University of Oslo. It is financed by The Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (DIKU).
Read more about INTPART 2.0 here → |
The recipients of the MultiLing MA Grant 2022 is Arlinda Gashi, Lillian Vikmoen and Jon-Magne Wik. Congratulations!
Read more here (Norwegian) → |
This year, the eye-tracking and pupillometry network, EyeHub, held its first annual EyeHub Lecture. For the 2022 EyeHub Lecture, Dale Barr (University of Glasgow) gave a talk on the insights eyetracking can provide for theories of language use and perspective taking.
Read the abstract → |
From November 10-11, MultiLing organized a successful Colloquium B workshop where researchers were invited to reflect on challenges related to researcher positionality and research ethics. The two keynote speakers, Professor Sari Pietikäinen (University of Jyväskylä) and Professor Emeritus Charles Ess (Media Department, University of Oslo), presented and shed light on specific aspects of research ethics. In addition, the workshop included short talks and presentations from various researchers from MultiLing, as well as three external presenters. The workshop ended with a plenary discussion and a summary of the event.
Program and speakers (in English) → |
Together with PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order and The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, MultiLing organized a workshop titled "Diversity in Academia: Next Steps". The workshop focused on the achievements, milestones and especially the challenges for Norwegian universities to be more inclusive. During the workshop, our Center Director, Unn Røyneland, gave a talk about where MultiLing succeeds and where it could improve in terms of diversity. This full day event included presentations from researchers from across various fields, panel discussion and Q&A, as well as conversations in thematic groups which were in parts moderated by MultiLing researchers Haley De Korne and Rafael Lomeu Gomes.
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The 2023 Winter School focuses on bi/multilingual families as a complex and dynamic space whose norms are informed both by family-internal factors and home-external affordances, including technological developments supporting digital communication, and constraints.
Application, program and speakers (in English) → |
To commemorate the International Mother Language Day 2023, MultiLing will host a seminar on the topic of communication between Polish and Norwegian speakers in Norway.
Event page (Program coming soon) → |
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Elisabet García González: MULTILINGÚISMO; MODULACIÓN DE LA ACTIVIDAD CEREBRAL (Investigadores por el mundo)
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| Ordforråd, Ordbruk og Ordforrådslæring – i et andrespråksperspektiv Anne Golden |
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| Foreign-local teacher-learners in the digital classroom: Everyday translanguaging and pedagogical translanguaging in Norwegian higher education. Rafael Lomeu Gomes and Haley De Korne |
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