Español en Estados Unidos & El español en contacto con otras lenguas
Spanish in the US & Spanish in contact with other languages

Congresos anteriores / Conference History 

#1 – Spanish in the U.S. Setting: Beyond the Southwest I. University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. October 10-11, 1980.
Publication: Elías-Olivares, Lucía (ed.) 1983. Spanish in the U.S. setting: Beyond the Southwest. Rosslyn, VA: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education.

#2 – Spanish in the U.S./ El español en los Estados Unidos II. University of Illinois at Chicago. October 1981.

#3 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos III.
Indiana University, 1982.
Publication: Elías-Olivares, Lucía, Elizabeth A. Leone, René Cisneros, & John R. Gutiérrez (eds.) 1985. Spanish language use and public life in the United States. Berlin: Mouton.

#4 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos IV.
Hunter College, CUNY, New York, October 6, 1983.

#6 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos VI.
University of Texas at Austin, 1985.

#7 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos VII.
University of New Mexico, October 24-25, 1986.
PublicationBergen, John J. (ed.) 1990. Spanish in the United States: Sociolinguistic issues. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

#8 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos VIII.
University of Iowa, October 15-17, 1987.
Publication: Wherritt, Irene, & Ofelia García (eds.) 1989. US Spanish: The language of Latinos. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 79.

#9 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos IX.
Florida International University, October 1988.
Publication: Roca, Ana, & John M. Lipski (eds.) 1993. Spanish in the United States: Linguistic contact and diversity. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

#10 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos X.
University of Arizona, October 4-6, 1989.

#11 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos XI.
University of Illinois at Chicago, October 11-13,1990.

#12 and #1 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos XII and 1st International Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 7-9, 1991.
Publication: Silva-Corvalán, Carmen (ed.) 1995. Spanish in Four Continents: Studies in language contact and bilingualism. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

#13 and #2 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos XIII and 2nd International Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 22-24, 1992.

#14 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos XIV. The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX,The Institute of Texan Cultures, and la Universidad Auténoma de México en San Antonio. 1993.

#15 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos XV.
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, October 28 - 29, 1994

#16 and #3 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos XVI and 3rd International conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.
Albuquerque, NM, February 12-14, 1998. 
PublicationSouthwest Journal of Linguistics, 19 (2), 20 (1 and 2). Daniel Villa, Editor. 

#17 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos XVII
Florida International University, Miami, FL, March 11-14, 1999.
Publication: Roca, Ana (ed.) 2000. Research on Spanish in the United States: Linguistic issues and challenges. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

#18 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos XVIII. University of California at Davis, Davis, CA. 2000.

#19 and #4 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos XIX, and 4th International conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 2002.
Publication: Ortiz López, L. & M. Lacorte (eds.) 2005. Contacto y contextos lingüísticos: El español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas. Madrid: Iberoamericana.

#20 and #5 – Spanish in the U.S./El español en los Estados Unidos XX, and 5th International conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 24-26, 2005. 
Publication: Potowski, K. & Cameron, R. (Eds.). 2007. Spanish in contact: Policy, social, and linguistic inquiries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

#21 and #6 – XXI Congreso del español en los Estados Unidos & VI del español en contacto con otras lenguas / XXI Conference on Spanish in the US & 6th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages 
George Mason University & University of Maryland, Arlington, VA. March 15-18, 2007.
Publication: Lacorte, M. & Leeman, J. (Eds.). 2009. Español en Estados Unidos y otros contextos de contacto: Sociolingüística, ideología y pedagogía // Spanish in the United States and other contact environments: Sociolinguistics, ideology and pedagogy. Madrid: Iberoamericana. 

#22 and #7 – Spanish in the United States and Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. Florida International University, Coral Gables / Miami, FL. February 19-21, 2009. 

#23 and #8 – Spanish in the United States and Spanish in Contact with Other Languages: Spanish in the Public Sphere. University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA. March 17-20, 2011. 

#24 and #9 – Spanish in the United States and Spanish in Contact with Other Languages: Language Contact, Language Conflict, and Language Confluence at the Edge of the Nation. University of Texas Pan American, McAllen, TX. March 6-9, 2013. 

#25 and #10 – Spanish in the United States and Spanish in Contact with Other Languages: Spanish Contact, Expansion, and Transformation. The City College of New York, NY. March 26-29, 2015. 

#26 and #11 – Spanish in the United States and Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. April 6-8, 2017. 

#27 and #12 – Spanish in the United States and Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. April 4-6, 2019.

#28 and #13– Spanish in the United States and Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. April 6-8, 2023.

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