Resources and news

The Bilingualism Research Forum took place last October. For more information: https://bilforum.hip.uic.edu/ 

The BLR will take place again in the Fall of 2026. Stay tuned!

UIC hosts excellent labs for linguistic research. Check them out:

Multilingual Phonology Laboratory: https://hip.uic.edu/research-groups/multiphon/ Dir. Jennifer Cabrelli.

Psychology of Multilingualism: https://multipsych.lab.uic.edu/ Dir. David Miller

Cognition of Second Language Acquisition: https://hip.uic.edu/research-groups/cogsla/ Dir. Kara Morgan-Short

Language in Context Research Group: https://hip.uic.edu/research-groups/lico/ Dir. Kim Potowski

Bilingualism Research Laboratory: https://brl.lab.uic.edu/people-2/ Dir. Liliana Sánchez

And the Linguistic Society of America is what holds everything together: https://www.lsadc.org/

If you are concerned with the current proliferation of lies, misleading information, hate speech in the public sphere, please consider the following web sites (and join, and participate):

Deception Research Society: https://deceptionresearchsociety.org/

The International Panel on the Information Environment: https://www.ipie.info/ (My wonderful colleague Zizi Papacharissi is a member of the editorial board.)

On the same topic, the following extensive article tackles the problem of defamation by powerful national actors on local democracy agents (teachers, librarians, school board members), hence damaging democracy itself :

Rauch, Daniel. 2024. Defamation as democracy tort. University of Pennsylvania Law Review 172(6): 1453-1535.