The keynote speakers for BHL 2017 are:
- Teresa Bajo (University of Granada): Language activation and control in Spanish/English bilinguals and L2 learners
- Ana Carvalho (University of Arizona): Assessing the permeability of cognate systems in Portuguese-Spanish bilingual communities: A variationist approach
- Luis López (University of Illinois at Chicago): Code-switching and linguistic theory
- Virginia Mueller Gathercole (Florida International University): Bilingualism, semantics, words, and assessment
- Armin Schwegler (University of California Irvine): Population genetics (DNA) in conversation with historical linguistics: Opportunities and challenges
- Gretchen Sunderman (Florida State University): Understanding bilingual lexical processing
Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world (BHL) 