News & Papers

Interdisciplinary Language & Trauma Workshop: 2027 in Siena/Italy! Call is closed, read more here

Purkarthofer, J. 2026 Language Minority (LM) Learners: Part of the Reference Collection Social Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01238-2

 

Book cover

Judith Purkarthofer. 2025. Who’s there? In/Exclusively addressing the Other in disseminating linguistic results. In Artemis Alexiadou, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Christoph Schroeder & Heike Wiese (eds.), The construction of multilinguals as Others: Do we practice what we preach?, 179–197. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10 . 5281/zenodo.17132455

LIVE-RECORDING (select the second video, starting with 'short break') : 7.-8.11.2024 Panel zu Families, schools and speakers Past and potentially traumatic as well as imagines lived experiences as influenced by and responding to language policy  an der Mercator Konferenz Shaping Policies in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert / NL

JSLX Conversations Podcast logoPodcast des Journal of Sociolinguistics: Birgül Yilmaz meets Judith Purkarthofer and Mi-Cha Flubacher: A conversation about biographical approaches

 

 

Book: Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research: Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches edited with Mi-Cha Flubacher

Mauer mit einer kleinen Pflanze, Titeltext in grĂ¼n und pink: Sprachenrechte Demokratie Menschenrechte. Eine kooperative Veranstaltungsreihe zum Thema Sprache und Teilhabe

Meetings & Conferences

Upcoming:

9. June 2026: Tag der Integrations- und Migrationsforschung 2026 - 10 Jahre InZentIM

20. June 2026: We are part of the Essener Wissenschaftssommer - join us in the city center

9. Juli 2026: InZentIM Working Lab Linguistic Discrimination - Call is closed, register here and join us in Essen!

Series: 24.9., 8.10. and 15.10. Sprachenrechte - Demokratie - Menschenrechte / Language rights - human rights - democracy - Flyer

Past events:

Symposium des Netzwerks Familiensprachenpolitiken an der Universität Paderborn: 24.-26.2.2026

23.-24.9.2025 International Workshop on Language and Trauma (Wilamovice, Poland)

3.-5.9.2025 Linguistic Landscapes Conference in Essen/Germany

9.-13.6.2025 ISB15 in Donostia / San Sebastian

22.-23.10.2024 Family Language Policy Conference in Galway / Irland - Panel zu FLP at the crossroads? South and/or North, scales and/or times and private and/or public spaces

LIVE-RECORDING (select the second video, starting with 'short break') : 7.-8.11.2024 Panel zu Families, schools and speakers Past and potentially traumatic as well as imagines lived experiences as influenced by and responding to language policy  an der Mercator Konferenz Shaping Policies in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert / NL- Gallery)

 

Scientific Research Network Family Language Policy (FLPde)

Our network is funded through DFG from October 2024 to September 2027. 18 members, 16 places, 1 book to map and promote family language policy research in Austria, Germany and Switzerland - with regular meetings, joint publications and lots of ideas.

Speakers: Judith Purkarthofer (UDE) and Sandra Ballweg (Uni Paderborn)

(in German)

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