Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Hosted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Leiden University
April – May 2021
The Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN), as sponsored by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) as part of its Historical Sociolinguistics Research and Training Program, is proud to announce the fourth edition of the Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum (HSYRF) as a series of online keynotes and workshops!
The event is aimed at early career researchers – MA and PhD students, postdocs, and other young (at heart) researchers –, offering a (now digital) mix of keynote lectures and hands-on workshops on various topics relevant to anyone interested in historical sociolinguistics or language history more generally.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 edition will be held as a series of online events, spread out over six Tuesdays and Fridays in April and May 2021.
Platform: Zoom. Link will be sent after registration.
Organizers:
Rik Vosters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Gijsbert Rutten (Universiteit Leiden)
Sponsors:
Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN)
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Center for Linguistics (CLIN) – Historical Sociolinguistics Research Program
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Keynote
Tuesday 20 April 2021
4:15-5:30 PM CEST
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Andreas H. Jucker
Universität Zürich
Historical (im)politeness: The eighteenth century in England
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Workshop
Friday 23 April 2021
4:15-6:00 PM CEST
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Mike Kestemont
Universiteit Antwerpen
Stylometry with R: a high-level introduction, with case studies in historic text analysis
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Keynote
Tuesday 27 April 2021
4:15-5:30 PM CEST
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France Martineau
University of Ottawa
Mobility, social trajectories and linguistic practices
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Workshop
Friday 30 April 2021
4:15-6:00 PM CEST
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Günter Mühlberger
UNIVERSITÄT INNSBRUCK & READ COOp Transkribus Team
Transkribus: Recognizing handwritten documents with deep learning
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Keynote
Tuesday 4 May 2021
4:15-5:30 PM CEST
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Esther-Miriam Wagner
University of Cambridge
‘The latter had an interesting personality, which cannot be said of the former’: Sociolinguistic analyses of scribal networks in the Cairo Genizah
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Keynote
Friday 7 May 2021
5:00-6:15 PM CEST
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Kathryn A. Woolard
University of California, San Diego
Analytic temptations and strategies in the historical study of language ideologies: A 17th century Spanish example
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