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) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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!

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!

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!

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.

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...

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

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! 🤗✨

(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! ⬇️

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.

🖍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!

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!

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! 👋🏻

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