FW: 6th HiSoN Summer School 2012: Bookings available

[Woolard, Kathryn]

From: Simon Pickl <simon.pickl at GMAIL.COM<mailto:simon.pickl at GMAIL.COM>>
Reply-To: Simon Pickl <simon.pickl at GMAIL.COM<mailto:simon.pickl at GMAIL.COM>>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 17:08:25 +0000
To: <HISON at JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:HISON at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>>
Subject: 6th HiSoN Summer School 2012: Bookings available


Dear colleagues,

We're happy to announce that bookings for the 6th HiSoN Summer School<http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison/index.php?cat=conferences&site=ss2012> are now available.

The Summer School will take place on the island of Frauenchiemsee (Lake Chiemsee, Germany) in the monastery of Frauenwörth<http://www.frauenwoerth.de/english/> and it will offer classes by leading experts on modern and historical sociolinguistics.

Our teachers and modules in 2012 will be

  *   Richard Watts<http://www.ens.unibe.ch/content/about_us/modern_linguistics/r_watts/> (Bern)
t.b.a.
  *   Mari Jones<http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/staff/mcj11/> (Cambridge)
Language Death & Historical Sociolinguistics on Channel Island French
  *   Magnus Huber<http://www.uni-giessen.de/anglistik/ling/Staff/huber/> (Gießen)
The Sociolinguistic Potential of the Old Bailey Corpus – Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries
  *   Helmut Graser<http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/germanistik/spracheliteratur/lehrstuhl_loeser/mitarbeiter/graser/> (Augsburg) & Ann Tlusty<http://www.bucknell.edu/x1110.xml> (Bucknell)
History of the German Language 'From Below': Archival Sources from the 16th and 17th Centuries
  *   Joan Beal<http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/people/beal> (Sheffield)
Enregisterment and Historical Sociolinguistics
  *   Mark Lauersdorf<https://linguistics.as.uky.edu/users/mrlaue2> (Kentucky)
Dialect Continua, Political Borders, Standard Languages – Data, Interpretation, Visualization
  *   Kristine Horner<http://www.shef.ac.uk/german/staff/kristinehorner> (Sheffield)
Social and Critical Approaches to Multilingualism from Past to Present

The school will last for one week and will cost €495, which includes accommodation, three meals per day, tuition, and an excursion. If you pay in full by May 1st, you will get a discount of €50. We would like to point out that we're not making a profit from this and neither organisers nor teachers get a fee for their work.

You can register by downloading this registration form<http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison/content/conferences/reg_form.pdf> and sending it to simon.pickl at phil.uni-augsburg.de<mailto:simon.pickl at phil.uni-augsburg.de>. Your registration is complete once we have received both the registration form and the payment (€445 before May 1st, €495 after).

Best,

Stephan Elspaß and Simon Pickl