English Linguistics Heidelberg

Plakat Heidelber Gender Lectures, weiß und blau, mit Details Heidelberg Gender Lectures 29. Oktober, Alte Aula: Sabine_ Hark: Gefährliche Erbschaften. Sex/Gender: Biologische Fundierung und das Begehren nach Kategorien Eröffnung & Auftakt Gender Studies CAS (anschließend Empfang) 05. November Miriam Neuhausen & Corinna Assmann: Out-rageous bodies: Unfolding the closet 19. November Ute Hüsken: Nuns and women in contemporary transcultural Buddhism 03. Dezember Renata Motta & Yaatsil Guevara Gonzalez: Geschmack der Grenze: Essen, Gender und Zugehörigkeit auf der Flucht 17. Dezember Brigitte Sölch: Kunstgeschichte und Feminismus 07. Januar Philipp-Thomas Wehage: Games & Gender – Implizites und explizites Spiel mit Geschlecht 21. Januar Karen Nolte: „WahnsinnsFrauen“ – Aneignungen von Hysterie in der Neuen Frauenbewegung 04. Februar Carolin Müller-Spitzer: Gender & Sprache im Deutschen unter empirisch-linguistischer Perspektive

Vorankündigung:

Im Wintersemester 2025/2026 finden erstmalig die Heidelberg Gender Lectures statt. Mit Gastvorträgen von Sabine_ Hark (TU Berlin) und Carolin Müller-Spitzer (IDS Mannheim), sowie Beiträgen der Heidelberger Gender & Queer Studies.

Mark your calendars, das wird wundervoll!

✨English Linguistics will be actively represented there, too! For example with a session on language and gender in the intro lecture (Theresa Heyd and Miriam Neuhausen) and a seminar on Queer Linguistics (Miriam Neuhausen).

🔎Info and application: www.heiskills.uni-heidelberg.de/de/zertifika...

CAS Gender and Queer Studies ad, with registration details, rainbow optics

Heidelberg's new interdsciplinary Certificate of Advanced Studies 🌈Gender & Queer Studies🌈 is now online!

💡Master's and PhD students are very welcome to apply to participate in the programme for the upcoming winter semester.

Call for Papers: Workshop on Queer Linguistics, Klagenfurt/Austria, December 2025, co-organized by Vroni Zieglmeier (Heidelberg)
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Lecture poster with date and place: Experiential Authority as stance marking, Dr. Susan Reichelt, Universität Konstanz

Final guest lecture of the summer term: we are happy to welcome @susanreichelt.bsky.social, Research Associate in Digital Humanities at Konstanz University, to Heidelberg! Susan will speak about Experiential Authority as Stance Marking.

🗓 July 22, 2.15 PM

📍Room 110

✨ Listeners are warmly invited!

group picture of the event

From July 4–7, 14 participants took part in the Interdisciplinary Summer School “Approaching Theatre Performance from Literary Studies and Linguistics”, co-organised by @heidilulie.bsky.social and @dlandert.bsky.social in a dynamic blend of analysis and performance. Thank you to everybody involved!

shots of the conference, with Daniela giving a talk

impressions of Vilnius, including the conference boat tour

Throwback to June: our Department was represented at ICAME46 in Vilnius with three talks by Oriana Yim, Lea Kryveli Chrysanthopoulou and @dlandert.bsky.social on Early Modern English, health communication, and improv theater. Thanks to the #ICAME46 team for a wonderful conference!

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Today at 1.15pm: Lunch Lecture with Dr. Anna Islentyeva!
Anna will present her new book “American National Identity: Language Patterns & Myths Across the Centuries”. Introduction by Theresa Heyd. 


🗓 15.07., 1.15 PM

📍Room 110

🥨 Snacks will be provided

✨ Everybody welcome!

First conference day: beginning at 1.45pm German time, we will have a wonderful afternoon program: talks by Sebastian Haselbeck, Ana Deumert and Yaiza Otero on mediatized cringe; the keynote by Teresa Pratt on Language and affect in interaction and performance at 6pm tonight.

UEBER CRINGE: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust 1751886000  days  hours  minutes  secondsuntilTagung 07. – 09. Juli *** English Version below *** WISSENSCHAFTLICHE LEITUNG: Theresa Heyd (Heidelberg), Heide Volkening (Gr…

Interested but can't be in Heidelberg? Follow the talks via Zoom:
uni-greifswald-de.zoom.us/j/8852412941...

Meeting-ID: 885 2412 9418
Kenncode: 077194

Program and schedule:
uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber...

conference poster with details, see https://uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber-cringe/

Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics:
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance

program in pink, stylized hands

program in pink, stylized hands

The two-day program will be packed with talks from linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, and everything we do at their intersections.

✨ Everybody welcome

You can find the full schedule on our website: www.as.uni-heidelberg.de
We're looking forward to seeing you at the conference!

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Come and join us for the 7th annual Graduate Student Conference at the end of this week! 📣🎓👩🏻‍💻

🗓 27. — 28 June, 2025

📍English Department @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

I want to stress what a cool idea this is especially in the age of #AI and as a #teaching / learning vehicle. Get inspired, teachers!! (And unis - get inspired teachers that got ideas like this)
#didactics #Englishteachers #academia #academicsky #humanities #zines

A big big thank you to all the students who participated in the workshop yesterday! 🤗✨

Signalling the loopholes and spreading the trampoline: a relevance-theoretic perspective on ELF communication The paper examines English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication from a relevance-theoretic perspective. Communication in English as a Lingua Franca is a type of interaction in which multilingual spe...

(Fairly) Hot off the press:

A new paper by our department member Elena Salakhyan is out in the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca! It explores how Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish speakers use English, and how relevance theory sheds light on the dynamics of ELF communication.

Available in OA! ⬇️

Two pictures: the audience, seated in a bright room; and Daniela Landert delivering the opening talk. Picture credits: Urszula Kizelbach

Sixteen researchers from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, France, and the US presented new insights on the role of language in a large range of fictional artefacts such as poetry, play texts, theatre rehearsals and performances, movies and TV series. Many thanks to everybody involved!

sharepic: looking back at Pragmatics in Fiction on the Page, stage and Screen. Background: romantic Heidelberg

Conference recap:

Last month we hosted the International Symposium "The Pragmatics of Fiction on the Page, Stage, and Screen: Multimodality, performance, and audience interaction" under the direction of Daniela Landert.

info zine workshop, with details on time and place

🖍Join us for a hands-on zine-making workshop for linguists with @soltovar.bsky.social.

✂ We'll dive into zine-methodologies and then get crafty creating a collaborative linguistics-themed zine.

🗓 17.06 13:00-16:30
📍Room 114
✨ Open to all students. Just come ready to create and have fun!

info questionnaire workshop, with details regarding time and place

If you are thinking of using a questionnaire in an upcoming project, this intro session is right for you. 💁🏾‍♂️🗒️🖋️💬

We will discuss which types of research questions can be answered through a survey (and which can't), which decisions need to be made in questionnaire design, and which pitfalls to avoid.

introduction to statistics, with details regarding time and location

In this two-part workshop, we will explore how to describe and visualise data using R, based on real-life examples. 🙇🏻‍♀️💻📊
Don't worry if you are new to this — no background in statistics or linguistics is needed. We will have time to try things out, ask questions, and get passionate about R!

June 16 to 20: project week

Workshop details, see program url for full text

Next week is project week at Heidelberg's English Department. We are offering many hands-on workshops throughout the week, from stats to zine-making, from questionnaire design to data visualization.

Full program: www.as.uni-heidelberg.de/index.html. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

UEBER CRINGE Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust

🗓️ July 7–9, 2025
📍 Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg
🎟️ Free attendance | Guests welcome!

For more information about the project, the conference program, and to register as a guest, please visit:
🌐 www.uebercringe.de

conference poster, pink frame, a blutted picture of Skipper the doll cringing. Details of the conference, header: UEBER CRINGE. Ambivalent affect and everyday aesthetics

We’re excited to announce the UEBER CRINGE Conference, taking place July 7–9 in Heidelberg!

Organized by Theresa Heyd (Heidelberg) and Heide Volkening (Greifswald) and funded by the @volkswagenstiftung.de, this interdisciplinary event explores ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics.

a photo of Lauren Hall-Lew and her presentation "Sociophonetics and Mental Health", as well as parts of the audience from the back

We had the honor of hosting Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social (Edinburgh) in our Lunch Lecture series. Lauren's compelling talk on Sociophonetics and Mental Health ended with a call for Mad Linguistics as a new paradigm for theorizing language and mental health. Insightful and inspiring!

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Yeeees, we know it‘s not #FollowFriday yet. That doesn‘t keep us from letting you know that the #linguistics team of the #EnglishDepartment @uniheidelberg.bsky.social is now on Bluesky, though!

A warm welcome to @englishinhd.bsky.social! 👋🏻

signage on our building's wall: Universität Heidelberg, Anglistisches Seminar, Kettengasse 12

We are the English Linguistics team at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Located in the heart of Heidelberg, we are passionate about everything linguistics, from historical pragmatics to digital discourse analysis, from impoliteness in children's fiction to queer sociophonetics. Follow us for updates!