Finished Events
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International Workshop on Sociolinguistic Variation in Historical Legal Texts from Britain [held in Lausanne on 6-7 October 2023]
Historical English Word-Formation [held in Munich on 17-18 February 2023]
Variation, Contact, and Modal Constructions in English [held at at the University of Paris on 8 July 2022]
Once and Future English [held at at the University of Notre Dame London Global Gateway in Trafalgar Square, on 10-12 March 2022]
New Perspectives on Language Change and Variation in the History of English [a one-day workshop in Paris, France, on 4 October 2019]
English Historical Lexicography in the Digital Age: Focus on Social and Geographical Variation [an international symposium held in Bergamo, Italy, on 11-13 April 2019]
Gradience and Constructional Change: Santiago-Leuven-Edinburgh Workshop on Change in English [a three-day workshop held in Edinburgh (UK) on 17-19 November 2017]
Workshop on Medieval Northern English [a two-day workshop held in Seville (Spain) on 6-7 November 2017]
First International Symposium on Approaches to Dialects in English Literature (1500-1950) (LADEL) [held at the University of Salamanca, Spain, on 26-27 October 2017]
SHELL2017 [organised in a session at Leeds IMC on 3-4 July 2017]
Workshop on the Old English Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels [a two-day workshop held in Arizona (USA) on 26-27 May 2017; a sequel to the 2012 workshop in Westminster]
The Emergence of Standard English in Multilingual Britain [a two-day workshop (20-21 April 2017) organised at the University of Cambridge (UK) as part of the AHRC-funded project Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies]
Grammatical Variation and Change in English [a two-day seminar (4-5 April 2017) organised at KU Leuven (Belgium), intended specifically for PhD students]
Kyoto Postgraduate Conference on English Historical Linguistics [held at Kyoto University (Japan) on 6-7 August 2016]
First AMC Symposium [the first of a biennial series organised by Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics (University of Edinburgh, UK) on 9-10 June 2016, with a focus on historical dialectology.]
Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change [an international conference which took place on 8-9 April 2016 at the University of Nottingham, UK]
From Data to Evidence: Big Data, Rich Data, Uncharted Data (d2e) [a conference organised at the University of Helsinki (VARIENG), on 19-22 October 2015]
Grammaticalization meets construction grammar [an international workshop which took place on 8-9 October 2015 at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden]
Lexicography and Lexicology: Historiographical Approaches [the annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, which took place at the Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano del Garda (Italy) on 16-19 September 2015 (info thanks to Dr Massimo Sturiale)]
Changing English: Integrating cognitive, social & typological perspectives (ChangE 2015) [a conference organised on 8-10 June 2015 in Helsinki, Finland]
Old and Middle English Studies: Texts and Sources [an international conference in London, jointly hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and Keio University, which took place on 3-5 September 2014]
Historical Code-switching: The Next Step [a symposium organised on 11-13 June 2014 in Tampere, Finland]
Margin(s) and Norm(s) in English Language(s) [organised on 10-12 April 2014 in Aix en Provence, France]
HiSoN 2014: Historical Discourses on Language and Power [organised on 6-8 February 2014 at the University of Sheffield]
Historical perspectives on English urban vernaculars [a symposium held at Utrecht University on 16 November 2013]
Third Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on The Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations (NP3) [organised by KU Leuven on 14-15 November 2013]
Englishes Today: Theoretical and Methodological Issues (Englishes2013) [held on 18-19 October 2013 at the University of Vigo]
Changing English: Contacts & Variation (ChangE 2013) [organised by the University of Helsinki on 10-12 June 2013]
The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: Literature and Language [organised by the University of Bern on 7-8 June 2013]
English Across Space and Time (EAST 2013) [hosted by the University of Lodz on 20-21 March 2013]
Journée Parole 4: Walker and the English of his Time (18th c - 19th c) [a meeting which focuses on '18th century English pronunciation as described in John Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary (1791)' (Poitiers, 16-17 November 2012)]
Norm and usage in bilingual lexicography: 16th-21st century [held in Ragusa, Italy, on 18-20 October 2012]
History of the English Normative Tradition [a session organised as part of ESSE 2012 (Istanbul, 4-8 September 2012)]
New Reflections on Grammaticalisation 5 [held on 16-19 July 2012 at the University of Edinburgh]
Third International Conference on Historical New Discourse (CHINED III) [held on 18-19 May 2012 at the University of Rostock]
Engage with Old English [a range of interactive workshops on Old English and Anglo-Saxon culture, held on 15 May 2012 at the University of Sheffield]
International Conference on Grammaticalization Theory and Data [held on 10-11 May 2012 at the University of Rouen]
Workshop on the Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels [held on 17-18 April 2012 at the University of Westminster, UK]
The Pragmatics of Aspect in Varieties of English [a symposium held in 16-17 April 2012 at Universität Innsbruck]
Synchrony and Diachrony: Variation and Change in Language History [a workshop for PhD students and early-career researchers, organised by the Philological Society, which took place in Oxford on 16-17 March 2012]
Popular News Discourse: Anglo-American Newspapers, 1833-1988 [a special workshop held at the University of Zurich on 18 January 2012]
Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics [a two-day conference organised by the School of English, Academy of Management in Poland, held on 10-11 December 2011]
Helsinki Corpus Festival: The Past, Present, and Future of English Historical Corpora [held between 28 September and 2 October 2011, organised by VARIENG (Research Unit for Variation, Contacts, and Change in English) at the University of Helsinki]
Second Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English --- Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations (NP2) [a special workshop held at the Newcastle University on 15-16 September 2011; details of the previous workshop (Vigo, 2-3 October 2009) can be found here]
English and European Historical Dialectology [took place in Ontario on 3 August 2011 as one of the sessions for Methods in Dialectology conference; see also 2 ICEHD (2007, Bergamo) and 1 ICEHD (2003, Bergamo)]
Teaching Old English at a Distance: Online Resources - A Round Table Discussion [held on 12 July 2011 in Leeds, UK, as part of the annual International Medieval Congress (IMC 2011)]
Historical semantics, etymology and lexicography: a symposium marking the publication of the Historical Thesaurus of the OED [a special half-day event organised by the Philological Society, which took place on 18 June 2011 at the University of Glasgow; the programme is available here]
International workshop on gradualness in change and its relation to synchronic variation and use [held on 30-31 May 2011 at the University of Pavia]
III Ciclo de Conferencias de Lingüística Histórica Inglesa [held on 15-16 May 2011 at the University of Jaén]
Corpus-Based Studies in Early Germanic Linguistics 800-1350 [held on 12-15 May 2011 in Kalamazoo as part of the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies]
Conference on New Methods in Historical Corpora [held on 29-30 April 2011 at the University of Manchester]
Scribes as agents of language change [held on 4-6 April 2011 at the University of Cambridge]
Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices [a major exhibition and events programme that took place between 12 November 2010 and 3 April 2011 at the British Library, in connection with David Crystal's book of the same title; see here for a Guardian article on this topic (with thanks to Dr Nuria Yáñez-Bouza). The British Library hosted a number of sessions on HEL: David Crystal's lecture 'The stories of English' (29 November 2010) (available on podcast); Robert McCrum and Nicholas Ostler's talk 'English: The world's language' (6 December 2010) (available on podcast); Steven Pinker's lecture 'How the minds of English speakers shaped the English language' (10 January 2011) (available on podcast); Laura Wright's lecture 'Shopping and language in eighteenth-century London' (18 January 2011); Lynda Mugglestone's lecture 'Evolving English and the dictionary' (31 January 2011); David Crystal's lecture 'Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language' (22 February 2011) (available on podcast); Ben Crystal's talk 'Shakespeare: language and the Elizabethan Mind' (25 February 2011)]
Robert Lowth Symposium [took place on 17-18 December 2010 at the University of Leiden in commemoration of the 300th birthday of Lowth]
Perceptions of Place: English place-name study and regional variety [held between 23-27 June 2010, organised by the Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham]
English Dictionaries in Global and Historical Context [held between 3-5 June 2010, hosted by the Strathy Language Unit and the Department of English, Queen's University]
Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century [held between 20-22 May 2010, organised by the Early English Text Society]
Writing England: Books 1000-1400 [held at the University of Leicester, UK, between 28-30 April 2010]
Foreign Influences on Medieval English [an international conference held in Warsaw, Poland, on 12-13 December 2009]
Corpus-based advances in historical linguistics [a workshop sponsored by The Philological Society and held at the University of York on 14 November 2009]
Manchester Middle English Manuscripts Conference [a two-day conference held at the John Rylands Library in Deansgate, Manchester on 17-18 September 2009]
Johnson at 300 [a four-day international conference to celebrate the 300th birthday of Samuel Johnson, hosted at Pembroke College, Oxford on 14-18 September 2009]
Teaching the history of the English language: methods and materials [a one-day workshop organised by the English Subject Centre on 11 September 2009]
International Forum: Historical Linguistics [a follow-up session of SHELL 2009, held at Chiba University on 2 September 2009]
Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics [held in Innsbruck on 7-9 July 2009; the second conference, MMECL 2011, took place in Osaka in 2011]