May 21, 2025 – May 23, 2025

Multilingualism and minority languages in a global context

Pädagogische Hochschule Graubünden

10th Conference of the International Consortium "Multilingualism as a chance"

The conference on “Multilingualism and minority languages in a global context” will take place in Davos, Grisons (Switzerland) from 21–23 May 2025. The conference is organised by the University of Teacher Education of the Grisons (PHGR) in cooperation with the University of Teacher Education Lucerne (PHLU) under the patronage of the international consortium “Multilingualism as a Chance”. Partner organisations include the Department of Education and Learning/University of Teacher Education (SUPSI/DFA, Ticino) and the University of Teacher Education Valais (HEPV-S).

The following link leads to the conference website in German, English, Italian, French and Romansh: https://phgr.ch/de/sub/forschung-und-entwicklung/veranstaltungen/tagung-minderheitensprachen-2025-en.

Here you will find all the information about the conference.

The conference aims to provide a platform for exploring and understanding the multiple dimensions of multilingualism, translanguaging and linguistic minorities, sign languages and indigenous languages in a global context.

Submissions (presentations, workshops, posters, audiovisual works/art performances) can be sent via Conftool by 31 August 2024.

Registration for the conference is also via Conftool and is possible between 2 July 2024 and 30 April 2025.

The Universities of Teacher Education of The Grisons and Lucerne, the international consortium “Multilingualism as a Chance”, the Department of Education and Learning/University of Teacher Education (SUPSI/DFA, Ticino) and the University of Teacher Education Valais (HEPV-S) look forward to a lively participation. 

Date and place:

21–23 May 2025, Davos Congress Center