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Invited Speakers
Daniel Schreier
Daniel Schreier is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich. He worked and researched at institutions such as North Carolina State University and the University of Regensburg, and was Erskine Fellow at the University Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His research interests include varieties of English around the world, language variation and change, contact linguistics and sociolinguistics. He has served as (Co-)Editor of English World-Wide (2013-2019) and is Co-Editor of the Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes.
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Rebekka Studler
Rebekka Studler is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Basel and the FHNW School of Education. She had research appointments at CUNY and UC Berkeley and is currently working on her habilitation thesis on the emergence of attitudes towards Standard German and Swiss German in German-speaking Switzerland. Her research in the field of variational and cognitive sociolinguistics focuses on the interaction between language socialization and language as a social practice, lay metalanguage, cognitive models of varieties, and methods in language attitude research.
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Jakob Leimgruber
Jakob Leimgruber is Lecturer at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research focusses on world Englishes and on English in multilingual contexts. He is the author of Singapore English: Variation, Structure, and Use (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Language Planning and Policy in Quebec: A Comparative Perspective (Narr, 2019). His talk will be focusing on language planning and language policies in practice.
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SOFT SKILLS WORKSHOP:
LATEX Over the course of the summer school, Tobias Hodel and Sonja Gasser are offering a workshop on the document preparation software LaTeX. We will be using the online LaTeX editor 'overleaf'. Participants are thus kindly asked to register (free) in advance on www.overleaf.com. |
Tobias Hodel
Tobias Hodel is Assistant Professor for Digital Humanities at the University of Bern. He worked in Project READ (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents) for the Zurich State Archive and led the digital editing project "Königsfelden" at the University of Zurich. In 2018, he was responsible for the relaunch of "Ad fontes: Eine Einführung in den Umgang mit Quellen".
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Sonja Gasser
Sonja Gasser is a doctoral researcher in Digital Humanities at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg (University of Bern). She works on her dissertation on "Strategies for the Visualization and Communication of Digitized Collections of Art".
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