HiSoN Conferences

 
in the future
 
• Spoken and Written Discourse in Historical Sources
  Salzburg, Austria
  28-30 September 2026
  Keynotes: Michał Głuszkowski, Sybille Große, Joseph Salmons
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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
 
• 2025: Bristol — HiSoN 20 years on: past, present, future
  Keynotes: Joanna Kopaczyk, Nils Langer, Israel Sanz-Sánchez
   
  
• 2024: Zürich — Diversity and Uniformity Across Time and Space
  Keynotes: Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Joshua Brown, Aneta Pavlenko
   
  
• 2023: Brussels — Language Histories from Above and from Below
  Keynotes: Jeroen Darquennes, Salikoko Mufwene, Simon Pickl, Shana Poplack
   
  
• 2022: Murcia — Macro and Micro Perspectives in Historical Sociolinguistics
  Keynotes: Javier Calle Martin, Carol Percy, Gijsbert Rutten
   
  
• 2021: Erlangen (digital) — Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics
  Keynotes: José Del Valle, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Terttu Nevalainen
  Proceedings: Schiegg, Markus, Judith Huber (eds.) (2023): Intra-writer variation in historical sociolinguistics (Historical Sociolinguistics 5). Oxford: Lang
   
  
• 2018: Leiden — Making Waves in Historical Sociolinguistics
  Keynotes: James Clackson, Kristine Horner, Rajend Mesthrie
   
  
• 2017: New York — Examining the Social in Historical Sociolinguistics
  Keynotes: Anita Auer, Nils Langer, Vicente Lledó-Guillem
   
  
• 2016: Helsinki — Historical Sociolinguistics and Socio-Cultural Change
  Keynotes: Jukka Tyrkkö, Marijke van der Wal
   
  
• 2014: Sheffield — Historical Discourses on Language and Power
  Keynotes: Anita Auer, Nils Langer, Sharon Macdonald, Phil Withington
   
  
• 2011: Leiden — Touching the Past. (Ego) Documents in a Linguistic and Historical Perspective
  Keynotes: Anthony Lodge, Laura Wright
   
• 2009: Bristol — Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography
  Keynotes: Robert Evans, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Brian Joseph, Tomasz Kamusella, Peter Trudgill
  Proceedings: Langer, Nils, Steffan Davies, Wim Vandenbussche (eds.) (2012): Language and history, linguistics and historiography. Interdisciplinary approaches (Studies in Historical Linguistics 9). Oxford: Lang.
   
• 2006: Bruges — The Future of Historical Sociolinguistics
  Keynotes: Peter Burke, Ernst Håkon Jahr, Klaus Mattheier, Terttu Nevalainen, Suzanne Romaine, Rosita Rindler Schjerve, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Richard Watts
   
• 2005: Bristol — Language Histories from Below
  Keynotes: Ana Deumert, David Denison, Ernst Håkon Jahr, Angelika Linke, Richard Watts
  Proceedings: Elspaß, Stephan, Nils Langer, Joachim Scharloth, Wim Vandenbussche (eds.) (2007): Germanic language histories 'from below' (1700–2000) (Studia Linguistica Germanica 86). Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.