HiSoN
The Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN)
founded at the University of Bristol in 2005. To travel directly to our main webpage in Augsburg, click here.
This network is an informal gathering of scholars with a common interest in historical sociolinguistics. It consists of a mailing list with some 240 academics from across the world (to subscribe, click here), a dedicated webpage hosted by the University of Augsburg (Germany), and regular activities such as conferences, workshops, and summer schools. It has received external funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) as a Scientific Network and repeated support from the University of Bristol (UK), the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), the University of Agder (Norway) and the University of Augsburg (Germany). For further information, contact Nils Langer (nils.langer@bris.ac.uk).
Major Activities so far:
2011 5th HiSoN Summer School in Metochi, Lesbos, Greece (August 20-27)
2011 Conference: Touching the Past: (Ego) documents in a Linguistic and Historical Perspective, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands. Call for Papers here.
2010 4th HiSoN Summer School in Bruges/Brugge in Belgium (August 9-16)
2009 3rd HiSoN Summer School in Metochi, Lesbos, Greece (August 20-27)
2009 Conference on Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography, University of Bristol, UK; proceedings to be published by N. Langer, S. Davies & W. Vandenbussche in 2011.2008 Exploratory workshop on the Interdisciplinarity of Language Studies and Historical Studies, University of Bristol, UK
2008 2nd HiSoN Summer School at the University of Bristol, UK
2007 1st HiSoN Summer School in Metochi, Lesbos, Greece
2006 Conference on The Future of Historical Sociolinguistics, Brugge, Belgium
2005 Conference on Language Histories from Below, University of Bristol, edited by S. Elspass, N. Langer, J. Scharloth, and W. Vandenbussche and published by Walter de Gruyter in 2007.