26-28 June, 2013 Hof van Liere, University of Antwerp Prinsstraat 13 - 2000 Antwerpen With the financial support of FWO Vlaanderen With the participation of Kazerne Dossin   The conference aims to bring together scholars who work on linguistic aspects of Jewish languages with the focus on domains such as linguistic structure, language variation, language change (dialectology and diachrony), bilingualism and comparison of written and spoken uses. The conference will also stimulate research in to date enriched areas in the domain of Jewish language studies; for example, language acquisition and development (in communities of native speakers), learning of Jewish languages as second language, language loss, etc. In addition, the conference is expected to produce publications that will cover the best of contemporary research on Jewish languages as domain of linguistic inquiry. The conference language will be English. Confirmed keynote speakers: Moshe Bar-Asher (Hebrew University) Sarah Benor (Hebrew Union College) Frank Alvarez-Pereyre (French National Center for Scientific Research) Aharon Maman (Hebrew University) Invited symposia: Hebrew - Dorit Ravid (Tel Aviv University) Yiddish - Steffen Krogh (Aarhus University) Ladino - Ora Schwarzwald (Bar-Ilan University) Judeo-Arabic - Yehudit Henshke (Haifa University) Israeli Multilingualism - Joel Walters and Sharon Armon-Lotem (Bar-Ilan University) Linguistic Advisory Committee:  Dorit Ravid (Tel Aviv University) Johan Van der Auwera (Antwerp University) Steffen Krogh (Aarhus University) Ora Schwarzwald (Bar-Ilan University) Benjamin Hary (Emory University) Steven Gillis (Antwerp University) Yehudit Henshke (Haifa University) Klaas Smelik (Ghent University) Netta Abugov (Antwerp University) Organizing Committee: Netta Abugov (Antwerp University) Vivian Liska (Antwerp University) Steven Gillis (Antwerp University) Jean-Christophe Verstraete (KU Leuven)