On Monday 1st of July, 2019, Ghent University and Lancaster University host a one-day symposium to critically reflect on the notion of translanguaging.  

In this symposium, we will explore the paradoxes of translanguaging – how it is theorized, used and explained. We seek to clarify but also critically evaluate the concept and to engage participants in discussion of their own and our related research. The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers working in different disciplines, to collect a variety of perspectives on translanguaging and to stimulate discussion and participation in a day of collaborative inquiry. The symposium is a combination of traditional paper presentations and a series of keynote discussions. 

The conference will take place at Ghent University. Fore more information, please visit http://www.translanguaging.ugent.be

Deadline for submitting abstracts: 31 March 2019 (max. 300 words)

Organizing commitee: Diane Potts (Lancaster University), Kirsten Rosiers (Ghent University), Stef Slembrouck (Ghent University), Piet Van Avermaet (Ghent University)

The focus of the event was on grammar in a broad sense. We thoroughly enjoyed the variety of topics, from complementation in language acquisition and convergences between generative and construction grammar to personal pronouns in lie detection and nomination verb structures in Germanic and Romance.

We wish to thank all speakers for their outstanding talks – Renata Enghels, Torsten Leuschner and Justine Métairy from Ghent and Silke Brandt, Mathew Gillings, Willem Hollmann, Carmen Ríos García and Daniel Van Olmen from Lancaster – and all attendees for stimulating discussions, as well as the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Internationalization Fund for the financial support.

We are looking forward to the follow-up event in Ghent!

Nice souvenir from Ghent! Thanks to Greg Myers, who visited our partners at Ghent Linguistics as part of Erasmus+ teaching mobility.

We look forward to more joint initiatives next year!

And here’s the poster for the first Lancaster-Ghent symposium. We look forward to welcoming our Ghent colleagues to Lancaster very soon!

The website for the Lancaster-Ghent initiative is now online! We will use these pages to keep track of our activities over the next few years.