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The Einar Haugen Lecture

The lecture is an annual event at MultiLing held to celebrate the European Day of Languages.

See also previous lectures held between 2013-2020.

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More than just hand-waving: Gestures and meaning in multilingual language use
Time and place: Sep. 26, 2022 2:15 PM–4:00 PM, Vilhelm Bjerknes hus, Auditorium 1

For the 2022 Einar Haugen Lecture, Marianne Gullberg will be giving a lecture on multilingual speakers' gestures and what they mean.

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Does multilingualism need a history?
Time and place: Sep. 24, 2021 3:15 PM–5:00 PM, Zoom

For the 2021 Einar Haugen Lecture, the eminent Aneta Pavlenko will be taking us on a journey in a linguistic time machine, from Ptolemaic Alexandria in 323 BC to the present day. 

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About the annual lecture

The renowned scholar Einar Haugen (1906 – 1994) was born into a Norwegian family in the US and grew up bilingually.  His fascination with language led him to doctoral studies in linguistics and a career in language and linguistics that extended across many decades. He served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and until his retirement as Professor of Scandinavian and Linguistics at Harvard University. Haugen’s many influential works contributed to the then emerging field of sociolinguistics for which he is credited for having had an important impact, particularly in the domain of language policy. His pioneering work The Norwegian Language in America: A Study in Bilingual Behavior (1953) is a landmark study in the field of bilingualism.

The annual Einar Haugen lecture will pay tribute to this eminent Norwegian-American scholar and celebrate linguistic diversity.