Outreach

YouTube Channel

We are now hosting the ISLE YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@isle2008. We publish selected video material from our summer schools, conferences, and other events. 

Outreach Activities

We are seeking proposals from people interested in organising future ISLE Online Forum sessions. Propose a topic that would be of interest to ISLE members and suggest who would be the invited speakers (max. 3). If you would like to organise such a session, please submit a proposal via the Google form below by 1st December 2024. Submitting a proposal does not obligate you to go ahead with the session at this stage; if your proposal is accepted, we will confirm this with you and find a mutually convenient date in 2025 for the event. Please note that the organiser (who would normally be the Chair of the session) and the speakers all take part on a voluntary basis. 

For more information and to submit a proposal please go to the following URL: Propose a future ISLE Online Forum

2024

20 November 2024, 10:00am (CET): Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Morana Lukač & Linda Pillière - "Normative Linguistics, Twenty-five Years on" (link to video)

29 October 2024, 6:30pm (CET): Brian D. Joseph, Gunther Kaltenböck & Belén Méndez-Naya - "From the Core to the Periphery: The Value of the Marginal Aspects of Language" (link to video)

18 September 2024, 6pm (CEST):  Marianne Hundt, Terttu Nevalainen & Joel Wallenberg - "Perspectives on Grammatical Change" (link to video)

24 June 2024, 5pm (CEST): Michaela Mahlberg, Laurence Anthony & Mikko Laitinen - "The Future of Corpus Linguistics" (link to video)

29 May 2024, 6pm (CEST): Laurel Brinton, Merja Kytö & Georgia Zellou (moderated by Bernd Kortmann) - "Publishing is Key: But Where and How?" (link to video)

20 March 2024, 10am (CET): Gerold Schneider & Irina Nikishina - "Linguistics versus AI?" (link to video)

21 February 2024, 3:30pm (CET): Tove Larsson, Stefan Th. Gries & Laura Janda - "English Linguistics After the Quantitative Turn" (link to video)

17 January 2024, 6pm (CET): Julia Schlüter, Marcus Callies & Ignacio Palacios Martínez - "English Linguistics in Teacher Education" (link to video; Ppt Julia Schlüter)

2023

22 November 2023, 8am (CET): Joseph Flanagan, Lukas Sönning & Martin Schweinberger - "Replication and Replicability in English Linguistics (Including Open Data and Data Publication)" Poster (link to video)

18 October 2023, 8am (CEST): Kate Burridge & Dan McIntyre - "Communicating (English) Linguistics to the Public" (link to video)

27 September 2023, 6pm (CEST): Edgar Schneider - "New Directions in World Englishes Research" (link to video)

New ISLE outreach formats to current and future members

(starting: September 2023)

  • Overall purpose: ISLE reaching out to its members (current and future), getting a communication going with and among ISLE members on current issues in teaching, research and societal impact relevant to people working in English linguistics at all career levels and regardless in which part of the world

  • Basic idea: once a month (September thru June each academic year) a 60-90 minutes Zoom slot on a fixed weekday (e.g. every 3rd Wednesday) and in 2 fixed time slots (serving the needs of different time zones: 6pm CET and 8am CET)

  • Two alternating formats (where useful and agreed to by the participants, these sessions will be recorded):

Format 1: “ISLE Expert of the Month” (for expert consultancy on individual methods, theories or theoretical frameworks)

Format 2: "ISLE Forum" (for discussion and debate of questions and issues of potential relevance to all ISLE members; this will also be an important playing field and source of inspiration for ISLE’s Vice-Presidents Teaching, Research and Profession; moderated by an ISLE board member)

  • When? Beginning in September 2023
  • IMPORTANT: For suggestions of topics and people (volunteers!) for both formats: please, contact the new ISLE President Bernd Kortmann at president@isle-linguistics.org
  • Most welcome is both immediate feedback on this idea now AND continuously, in the course of the academic year 2023/24, once the first few ISLE interaction zoom sessions have taken place!! Please contact Bernd Kortmann or the ISLE secretary (secretary@isle-linguistics.org).