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Announcement

The 25th Conference of the International Association of World Englishes

Our next conference will be held in 2021. Updates will be posted here as more information becomes available.

Braj B. Kachru Student Award

The Braj B. Kachru Student Award is given for the best paper presented by a student at the Association’s international conference. The award is named in honor of Prof. Braj B. Kachru, whose influential scholarship helped establish the field of world Englishes, and is in recognition in particular of his exceptional commitment to student scholarship throughout his career. 

Our next conference will be held in 2021. Information about applying for the Braj B. Kachru Student Award will be posted here as it becomes available.

Past Recipients of the Braj B. Kachru Award:
2019
Katy Highet
Institute of Education, University College London
“Socioeconomic factors and their impact on perceptions of English in India"

2018
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
National University fo Singapore
“The Chinese Filipinos and English: Evidence of differentiation within Philippine English”

2017
Xie Wenhan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“A Force to Reckoned With: Grandparents and English in Singapore”

2015
Helene Steigertahl
University of Bayreuth, Germany
“Spoken English in Namibia – Preliminary Findings of a New Variety?”
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2014
Stephanie Horch
University of Freiburg, Germany
"Conversion in Asian Englishes: Substratum versus institutionalization"     

2013
Danae Maria Perez Inofuentes
University of Zurich, Switzerland
"The Fate of English in Paraguay"

2012
Ronel Wasserman (nee Rossouw)
North-West University, South Africe
"You must try, my dear Sarie, to have faith in men."  Afrikaans influence on South African English must since the 19th century.

Larry E. Smith Scholarship

The East-West Center in Honolulu has announced the establishment of a scholarship in memory of Larry E. Smith. The scholarship will provide awards for Degree Fellows and Asia Pacific Leadership Program Fellows at the East-West Center with an interest in World Englishes, language learning and culture, linguistics and related fields. Please click here if you  are interested in contributing.

Past Conferences

​24th Conference, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
23rd Conference, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
22nd Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Larry E. Smith
21st Conference, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. 
20th Conference, Amity University, Noida, NCR Delhi, India 
19th Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
18th Conference, City University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
17th Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
16th Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
15th Conference, Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Cebu, Philippines
14th Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
13th Conference, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany
12th Conference, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan
11th Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
10th Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
9th Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
8th Conference, University of Potchefstroom, South Africa
7th Conference, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
6th Conference, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
5th Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
4th Conference, National University of Singapore
3rd Conference, East West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
2nd Conference, International Center, Nagoya, Japan
1st Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign

​IAWE 2021 Conference

Our next conference will be held in 2021. Updates will be posted here as more information becomes available.
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