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Ethan Kutlu and Judith F. Kroll will not be attending the event. Anne L. Beatty-Martinez and Elisabeth Peña will replace them in the debate.

We truly thank all the speakers involved in the event we are hosting at ISB — those who were expected to participate but are unable to attend due to technical issues, and those who agreed at the last minute to join the panel discussion.

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Louise Shepperd, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher. Department of Language and Communication. Radboud University Nijmegen. https://www.ru.nl/en/people/shepperd-lApplied psycholinguist specializing in language and migration, additional language and literacy acquisition, orthographic influences on L2 phonology, cross-script learning, and inclusive research methods for diverse populations.

Anne L. Beatty-Martínez, PhD. Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of the Center for Research on Language at UC San Diego. https://sites.google.com/site/annebeattymartinez/ She received her Ph.D. in Spanish and Language Science at Penn State and was subsequently an NIH Ruth Kirschstein postdoctoral fellow at McGill University. Her research capitalizes on variability in language experience to understand how the mind and brain adapt to the demands of more than one language.

Ethan Kutlu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor. Department of Linguistics and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. University of Iowa. https://www.ethankutlu.com/Cognitive scientist studying developmental and experimental linguistics, with a focus on multilingualism, heritage bilingualism, and racialized bilingual communities. His research explores how social networks shape language perception and experience.

Suhail Matar, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher. Neurobiology of Language Group. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language (BCBL). Incoming Assistant Professor. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. University of Cambridge. https://www.suhailmatar.com/Cognitive neuroscientist investigating language comprehension using neural recording techniques (MEG, fMRI) and experimental designs based on the grammatical properties of understudied languages such as Arabic. His work focuses on multilingual and diglossic populations.

MariCarmen Parafita- Couto, Ph.D. University Lecturer. Faculty of Humanities. Leiden University. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/maria-del-carmen-parafita-couto#tab-1

Experimental psycholinguist examining the effects of bilingualism and language contact on syntactic structure, especially in code-switching. She employs a cross-disciplinary approach integrating corpus, behavioral, and electrophysiological methods. She contributed to founding the CeIBA center for bilingualism and education research at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.

Elizabeth Peña , PhD, CCC. Professor. School of Education at UCI. https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=6376 She is a certified Speech-Language Pathologist and is a Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Her research focuses on two lines of inquiry that address the goal of differentiating language impairment from language difference. These two interrelated areas include dynamic assessment and semantic development in bilinguals, leading to test development.

Judith F. Kroll, PhD. Distinguished Professor. School of Education. University of California, Irvine. https://bilingualismmindbrain.com/lab-members/judith-f-kroll/ Cognitive scientist whose research investigates how bilinguals manage two languages in a single mind and brain. Her work uses bilingualism to uncover the links between language and cognition. She co-founded the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and the organization Women in Cognitive Science.

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