Conferences

Conferences Organized

Oct 2007	Organizer of 13th Conference of the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE), Regensburg: "World Englishes: Problems – Properties – Prospects"
Sep 2007	Workshop "The Sociolinguistics of Transformation", Cape Town, South Africa
Jul/yAug 2001	Vice-Chair of section "English in Contact: Mixed Varieties and Creoles" (with Geneviève Escure), IAUPE Jubilee Conference, Bamberg
June 1998	Organizer of International Symposium "Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages / Degrés de restructuration dans les langues créoles", Regensburg (with I. Neumann- Holzschuh)
Sep 1996	Organizer of the Linguistic Section "Approaches to Linguistic Change"; Annual Meeting of the German Anglistentag, Dresden
Sep 1996	Organizer of 2nd Regensburg Graduate Seminar in English Linguistics with Prof. Walt Wolfram (North Carolina): "The Changing Scope of American English Dialects"
Dec 1993	Organizer of Regensburg Graduate Seminar in English Linguistics with Prof. Guy Bailey (Memphis, TN, USA): "American Sociolinguistics in the 1990s: An Approach to Sociolinguistic Dialectology"
March 1989	Co-organizer of Workshop "Computer Methods in Dialectology", Athens, GA, USA

Invited Lectures at International Conferences

Dec 2012	International Association for World Englishes, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China (invited plenary speaker)
July 2012	Second International Conference on Nondominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages, University of Salamanca, Spain (invited speaker)
May 2012	"English in Asia's Language Habitats" conference, Freie Universität Berlin (invited speaker)
Oct 2010	Free Linguistics Conference, University of Sydney, Australia (invited plenary speaker)
Sep 2010	International Conference "Pluricentric Languages", Catholic University of Portugal, Braga (invited plenary speaker)
June 2010	International Conference "Echoes of Albion: English-American Speech Relations", University of Groningen, The Netherlands (invited speaker)
June 2010	International Conference "English as a Contact Language", Zurich, Switzerland (invited speaker)
May 2010	ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) Conference, Giessen (invited plenary speaker)
May 2010	3rd International Conference on English as a Lingua Franca, Vienna, Austria (invited plenary speaker)
May 2009	Workshop "Linguistic complexity in interlanguage varieties, L2 varieties, and contact languages", FRIAS, Freiburg (invited speaker)
April 2008	RELC (Regional English Language Conference), Singapore (invited speaker)
Oct 2006	International Association of World Englishes, Chukyo / Nagoya, Japan (invited plenary speaker)
May 2006	Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies", Yaounde, Cameroon(invited plenary speaker)
Apr 2004	Language Variation in the South III, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (invited speaker)
June 2001	The Major Varieties of English 3, Freiburg i. Br.(invited plenary speaker)
April 2001	Australian Style Council Conference, Sydney (invited keynote speaker)
July 1999	6th IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) Conference, Tsukuba, Japan (invited focus speaker)
Dec 1997	4th IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) Conference, Singapore (invited focus speaker)
April 1993	Language Variation in the South II, Auburn, Alabama (invited speaker)
Feb 1988	Round Table on Africanisms in Afro-American Language Varieties, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., USA (invited speaker)

Lectures at International Conferences

May 2012	Fifth "English as a Lingua Franca" conference, Istanbul
Aug 2011	Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Accra, Ghana
June 2011	International Society for the Linguistics of English, Boston, MA, USA
Feb 2011	New Ways of Analyzing Variation – Asia-Pacific (NWAV-AP) conference, Delhi, India
July 2010	International Association for World Englishes, Vancouver, Canada
Oct 2009	International Association for World Englishes, Cebu, The Philippines
July 2009	International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English 3, London
Dec 2008	International Association for World Englishes, Hong Kong
Oct 2008	International Society for the Linguistics of English, Freiburg
Jul 2007	International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English 2, Toulouse
Nov 2006	NWAVE35: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Columbus, Ohio
Oct 2005	SHEL4 – Studies in the History of the English Language, Flagstaff, Arizona, US
Aug 2005	12th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology. Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Jun 2005	"Creole language structure between substrates and superstrates", Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Universität Leipzig
May 2005	ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) and AAACL (American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics) Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dec 2003	8th English in Southeast Asia Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Aug 2003	Summer Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Honolulu, HI, USA
Oct 2003	NWAVE32: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 2002	NWAVE31: New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Stanford, CA, USA
Aug 2002	Biennial Meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, St Augustin Campus, Trinidad
July/Aug 2001	IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English), Bamberg
Oct 2000	NWAVE29: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Lansing, Michigan
Oct 1999	NWAVE28: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Toronto, Canada
Aug 1999	AILA '99 World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan
Oct 1998	NWAVE27: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Athens, Georgia, USA
Jun 1998	International Symposium "Degrees of restructuring in Creole Languages / Degrés de restructuration dans les langues créoles", Regensburg
Oct 1996	NWAVE25: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
July 1996	Ninth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bangor, Wales, UK
Oct 1995	NWAVE24: New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Oct 1994	NWAVE23: New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Stanford, CA, USA
Sep 1994	Eighth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Edinburgh, Scotland
Aug 1992	Ninth Biennial Meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, Cave Hill, Barbados
July 1991	"Early Modern English" Conference, Tulln, Austria
June 1991	International Conference "Language Contact and Language Change", Rydzyna, Poland
July/Aug 1990	International Congress of Dialectologists, Bamberg
June 1990	11th ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern English) Conference, Berlin
May 1990	Sixth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Helsinki, Finland
March 1989	Workshop "Computer Methods in Dialectology", Athens, Ga., USA
Nov 1988	SAMLA / SECOL (South Atlantic Modern Language Association and South-Eastern Conference on Linguistics), Washington, DC
Nov 1987	Colloquium "Problems of Lexical Semantics", Essen
Aug 1987	XIV. International Congress of Linguists, Berlin, DDR
Aug 1987	Sixth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bangor, Wales
Aug 1983	6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznan, Poland
April 1982	Sociolinguistics Symposium, Sheffield, England

Feb 1988

Round Table on Africanisms in Afro-American Language Varieties, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., USA (invited speaker)

International Conferences Attented

July 2008	Symposium "Approaches to Language Variation and Change", Bamberg
Dec 1997	Three Circles of English Conference, Singapore
Mar 1987	L.A.U.D.-Symposium "Pidgin and Creole Languages", Duisburg
Oct 1983	SAMLA / SECOL South Atlantic Modern Language Association and South-Eastern Conference on Linguistics, Atlanta, GA, USA

National Conferences

May 2006	"British and American TV Series", Lehrerfortbildungs-Symposium, Regensburg
Sep 2005	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Bamberg
Feb 2005	Symposium "Humour and Gender", Regensburg
Sep 2003	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, München
Sep/Oct 2002	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Bayreuth
July 2002	Symposium "World English", Köln
Sep 2001	Jahrestagung des Deutschen Anglistentags, Wien
Sep 1999	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Mainz
Sep/Oct 1997	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Gießen
Sep 1996	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Dresden
Dec 1995	Symposium "Variation in der Sprache", Heidelberg
Sep/ Oct 1995	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Greifswald
Sep 1994	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Graz
Sep 1993	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Eichstädt
Sep/Oct 1991	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Düsseldorf
Oct 1990	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Marburg
Jul 1990	Kolloquium der DFG zur Planung eines Forschungsschwerpunkts "Multikulturalismus in der englischsprachigen Welt", Bonn
Sep 1989	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Würzburg
Sep 1988	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Göttingen
Sep 1987	Jahrestagung des Anglistentags, Tübingen
May 1985	32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Marburg/Lahn

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