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.
April 5-7, 2018
9th WSS at Queens College (CUNY)
Keynote speakers: Elvira Arnoux (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Nydia Flores (Rutgers University)
WSS9 program
April 14-16, 2016
8th WSS at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at University at Albany
Keynote speaker: Clancy Clements (Indiana University)