The International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS) was started at the University at Albany in 2002. The objective of this biannual conference is to offer researchers a forum to present original sociolinguistic research analyzing Spanish data or data from contact situations between Spanish and other languages.
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April 17-19, 2024
11th WSS - State University of New York at Buffalo
Keynote speakers: Daniel Erker (Boston University), Rena Torres Cacoullos (Pennsylvania State University)
WSS11 program
April 7- 9, 2022
10th WSS online - Georgia Tech
Keynote speakers: Dr. Ana Maria Carvalho (University of Arizona), Dr. Jim Michnowicz (North Carolina State University), Dr. Ana Celia Zentella (University of California, San Diego)
WSS10 program
2020
No conference was held in 2020 due to COVID-19.
April 5-7, 2018
9th WSS - Queens College (CUNY)
Keynote speakers: Elvira Arnoux (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Nydia Flores (Rutgers University)
WSS9 program
April 14-16, 2016
8th WSS - University of Puerto Rico
Keynote speakers: Manuel Díaz-Campos (Indiana University Bloomington), Yolanda Rodríguez Cadena (El Colegio de México) and Donald Winford (Ohio State University)
WSS8 program
April 3-5, 2014
7th WSS - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Keynote speakers: Sali A. Tagliamonte (University of Toronto), Armin Schwegler (University of California-Irvine), John M. Lipski (The Pennsylvania State University)
WSS7 program
April 12-14, 2012
6th WSS - University of Arizona
Keynote speakers: Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of Arizona),
Carmen Silva-Corvalán (University of Southern California)
Invited speaker: Kathryn Woolard, University of California, San Diego
WSS6 program
April 8-10, 2010
5th WSS - North Carolina State University
Keynote speakers: Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University), Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (University of Texas-Austin), Scott Schwenter (Ohio State University)
WSS5 program
April 17-18, 2008
4th WSS - University at Albany
Keynote speaker: Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa)
Invited speakers: José Luis Blas Arroyo (Universitat Jaume I)
Gregory Guy (New York University), Jonathan Holmquist (Temple University)
April 6-7, 2006
3rd WSS - Temple University
Keynote speaker: William Labov
Plenary speakers: Richard Cameron (University of Illinois at Chicago), Carol Klee (University of Minnesota), Ricardo Otheguy (Graduate Center at CUNY)
March 25-26, 2004
2nd WSS - University at Albany
Keynote speaker: John Lipski (The University of Pennsylvania)
Plenary speaker: Jorge Guitart (State University of NY at Buffalo)
March 14-15, 2002
1st WSS - University at Albany
Keynote speaker: Clancy Clements (Indiana University)