Workshop

Bilingualism and the Brain

When: November 18th – 19th, 2021
Where: Tromsø, Norway

Title: Cancellation of the Bilingualism and the Brain Workshop

After a considerate deliberation with the committee members, we have unfortunately decided to cancel the Bilingualism and the Brain Workshop that was supposed to take place on Nov. 18-19^th, 2021.

Given the current situation with the corona pandemic and the spread of the Delta variant, its unforeseeable circumstances and the likely issues for travel, we decided that it would be best to cancel the workshop—as our aim was to host this in person where face-to-face exchanges and interactions can take place. Moving online, while possible, changes the dynamics that ones enjoys specifically of smaller workshops and creates undue stress in light of accommodating the range of time zones of the keynote speakers and the presenters.

On the bright side, UiT is hosting the 4^th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC) on June 16^th and 17^th, 2022. We hope that you will be able to submit your work to this conference and have the opportunity to visit Tromsø and enjoy the beautiful scenery in the summer. Information regarding abstract submission and programs will be posted on https://www.isbpac.org/ very shortly.

The AcqVA Aurora Centre (formerly LAVA) and the PoLaR lab (Psycholinguistics of Language Representation) at UiT the Arctic University of Norway are pleased to announce the workshop Bilingualism and the Brain, to be held in Tromsø June 1st–2nd, 2021. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers from around the world who work on bilingualism from a brain prospective. More specifically, the focus will be to what extent the amount of exposure, knowledge and the degree of active engagement with more than one language in a single mind affects brain structure, brain functions, and/or how neurophysiological measures tap into the processing of multiple languages.