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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

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
Podcast 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
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)
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