HiSoN Conferences

 
in the future
 
• HiSoN 20 years on: past, present, future
  Bristol, United Kingdom
  21-23 May 2025
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If you want to organize a HiSoN conference, please get in touch with Gijsbert Rutten (g.j.rutten@hum.leidenuniv.nl).
 
in the past
 
• Diversity and Uniformity Across Time and Space
  Zurich, Switzerland
  5-7 June 2024
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• Language Histories from Above and from Below
  Brussels, Belgium
  31 May - 2 June 2023
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• Macro and Micro Perspectives in Historical Sociolinguistics
  Murcia, Spain
  1-3 June 2022
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• Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics
  Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
  17–19 March 2021
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• Making Waves in Historical Sociolinguistics
  Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), The Netherlands
  30 May – 1 June 2018
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• Examining the Social in Historical Sociolinguistics
  New York University/CUNY Graduate Center, USA
  6–7 April 2017
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• Historical Sociolinguistics and Socio-Cultural Change
  University of Helsinki, Finland
  10–12 March 2016
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• Historical Discourses on Language and Power
  University of Sheffield, UK
  6–8 February 2014
  
   
  
• Touching the Past. (Ego) Documents in a Linguistic and Historical Perspective
  Leiden University, The Netherlands
  22–24 June, 2011
  
   
• Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography
  International Conference
  at Burwalls, University of Bristol
  2–4 April, 2009
  
   
• The Future of Historical Sociolinguistics
  Bruges, 2 December 2006
  
   
• Language History from Below –
  Lingustic Variation in the German Languages from 1700 to 2000
  April 6–9, 2005
  University of Bristol
  Elspaß, Stephan / Nils Langer / Joachim Scharloth / Wim Vandenbussche (eds.): Germanic language histories 'from below' (1700–2000). Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2007. (Studia Linguistica Germanica, 86).  
   
• Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages
  April 9–11, 2003
  University of Bristol
  Langer, Nils / Winifred V. Davies (eds.) 2005. Linguistic purism in the Germanic languages. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. (Studia linguistica Germanica, 75).