MoMM Conference 2024: Multilingualism in Individuals, Education, and Society
We are excited to announce that the programme for the upcoming online and free 'Multilingualism on My Mind' conference on March 21–22 is now available!
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With a lineup of 74 presentations across five parallel sessions, this promises to be a dynamic exploration of perspectives on multilingualism from diverse contexts.
Our confirmed plenary speakers are:
- Professor Michel DeGraff, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, USA and Djeride Jean-Baptiste, MA in Political Communications, UAB, Barcelona; MA in Bilingual studies, University of Ottawa; Communication Officer, MIT, Haiti: "MIT-Ayiti as one basis for mother-tongue-based multilingual education in Haiti / MIT-Ayiti kòm fondasyon pou edikasyon miltileng ki baze sou lang manman ann Ayiti" (the presentation will be given in two languages).
- Dr. Sabine Little, University of Sheffield, England: "Language at home, language at school – a multilingual balancing act."
- Professor Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, Universität Hamburg, Germany: "Researching individual multilingualism in language teacher education using visual methods: Lessons learnt and ways forward."
From left: Michel DeGraff, Djeride Jean-Baptiste, Sabine Little, Silvia Melo-Pfeifer.
Programme
You can download the full programme here, please check for regular updates (pdf)
Thursday 21 March
| 09:00 | Opening and Introduction with Prof. Åsta Haukås (head of MoMM), Prof. Margareth Hagen (Rector at the University of Bergen), Ass. prof. Martin Paulsen (Head of Department of Foreign Languages, UiB) |
| 09:15 | Plenary Speaker Dr. Sabine Little: "Language at home, language at school a multilingual balancing act" |
| 10:00–11.00 | Parallel sessions |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30–13.00 | Parallel sessions |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–15.30 | Parallel sessions |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00–17:00 | Plenary Speakers Professor Michel DeGraff and Djeride Jean-Baptiste: "MIT-Ayiti as one basis for mother-tongue-based multilingual education in Haiti / MIT-Ayiti kòm fondasyon pou edikasyon miltileng ki baze sou lang manman ann Ayiti" (the presentation will be given in two languages) |
Friday 22 March
| 09:00 | Opening through words and music by Åsta Haukås, head of MoMM |
| 09:10 | Plenary Speaker Professor Silvia Melo-Pfeifer: "Researching individual multilingualism in language teacher education using visual methods: Lessons learnt and ways forward." |
| 10:00–11.00 | Parallell sessions |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30–13.00 | Parallell sessions |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–15.30 | Parallel sessions |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Symposium “Multilingual teaching materials across contexts and student groups”. Chair: Professor Joke Dewilde, University of Oslo, Norway |
| 17:30 | Closing of the conference |
Book of abstracts
You can download the book of abstracts here (pdf)
Registration
Whether you are a student, a teacher, a researcher or all in combination, you are warmly welcome to join us!
Registration deadline: March 15
This is the link to register for audience members
Shortly before the conference, you will be sent Zoom links and more information about how to join the different sessions.
Welcome – we hope to see you at MoMM2024!
