ISLE Summer School 2026
The 2026 ISLE Summer School "English in Transition: Socio-Cultural Encounters Across Time and Space" will take place at the Department of English and Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden, 7-13 June, 2026.
Courses offered
Register variation and the study of change: Challenges and rewards
Erik Smitterberg (Uppsala University)
Historical sociopragmatics of early Irish English
Patricia Ronan (TU Dortmund)
English historical linguistics and textual materiality
Peter J. Grund (Yale University)
Evolution of English via stylistics and corpus linguistics
Dan McIntyre (Uppsala University) & Brian Walker (Queen’s University Belfast)
Studying grammatical change with the Penn parsed corpora of historical English
George Walkden (University of Konstanz)
Psycholinguistics and language change: Novel interdisciplinary insights
Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich)
More information following soon!
Previous ISLE Autumn/Summer/Spring Schools
ISLE Summer School 2024 – "English(es) as a Moving Target: Exploring Online Data and Online Processing"
The ISLE 2024 Summer School took place in Freiburg, Germany, from 22 to 27 July 2024.
ISLE 2024 Summer School website
ISLE Summer School 2022 – "The Empire Speaks Back in a Postcolonial Dialect: Decolonising English Linguistics for the 21st Century"
The ISLE 2022 Summer School took place in Newcastle, UK, from 4 to 8 July 2022.
ISLE 2022 Summer School website
ISLE Summer School 2019 – "Using the Past to Explain the Present"
The ISLE 2019 Summer School took place in Glasgow, Scotland, from 24 to 28 June 2019.
ISLE 2019 Summer School website
ISLE Summer School 2017 – "Variation in World Englishes: Advanced Issues in Theory and Methodology"
The ISLE 2017 Summer School took place in Regensburg, Germany, from 4 to 7 October 2017.
ISLE 2017 Summer School website
ISLE Summer School 2016 – "Methods in English Linguistics"
The ISLE 2016 Summer School took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 13 to 16 June 2016.
ISLE 2016 Summer School website
ISLE (Post-)Doctoral Spring School 2013 – "Englishes in a Multilingual World: New Dynamics of Variation, Contact and Change"
The ISLE (Post-)Doctoral Spring School 2013 took place in Freiburg, Germany, from 15 to 19 April 2013.