Dr. Kim Potowski

University of Illinois at Chicago

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El español de Chicago: contacto dialectal extra e intrafamiliar

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Kim Potowski is Professor of linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago who specializes in U.S. Spanish. She has directed the Spanish for Heritage speakers program since 2002 and is the founding director of its summer study abroad program in Oaxaca, Mexico. As a Fulbright scholar she studied the linguistic and educational experiences of U.S.-raised Mexican youth whose families had returned to Mexico. She has authored and edited over 12 books about language, identity, and education.

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Dr. Eva Gugenberger

Universität Wien

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Desde la asimilación hasta el transnacionalismo:

dinámicas lingüístico-migratorias y cambios de paradigma para su estudio

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Eva Gugenberger has worked as a professor and investigator in the area of Iberian-Romance linguistics at different universities in Austria and Germany. She is currently an associate professor at the Institute of Roman Studies in the University of Vienna. Among her main areas of research there are: migration linguistics, multilinguism and the contact of languages, linguistic variation and transculturality. In particular, her research interest has focused on the linguistic and cultural impacts of the migration of the Quechua speakers to Peru and the Galician to Argentina.