37.749, Summer Schools: The 2026 Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Summer School (Belgium)

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Date: 23-Feb-2026
From: Chiara Monaco [chiara.monaco.cf7n at gmail.com]
Subject: The 2026 Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Summer School


The 2026 Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Summer School

Host Institution: Ghent University
Website: https://hison2026summerschool.ugent.be/en

Dates: 13-Jul-2026 - 18-Jul-2026
Location: Ghent, Belgium

Minimum Education Level: graduate students and researchers

Focus: The HiSoN 2026 Summer School offers a series of advanced
courses in historical sociolinguistics, covering a wide range of
languages, periods, and methodological approaches. Courses are taught
by internationally leading scholars and combine theoretical discussion
with empirical case studies.
Teachers and course titles
Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Extremadura)
Orality and the study of Irish English spoken discourse in historical
sources
James Clackson (University of Cambridge)
Sociolinguistic variation in ancient languages
Simeon Dekker (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
The development of Middle Ruthenian as a literary language in an Early
Modern multilingual environment: integrating philological and
sociolinguistic perspectives between East and West
Chiara Fedriani (University of Genoa)
Diachronic socio-pragmatics: The evolution of requests in the history
of Italian
Matthias Kappler (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
The sociolinguistics of an empire: Multilingualism and multigraphism
in the Ottoman world
Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge)
The historical sociolinguistics of creoles and pidgins
Ulrike Vogl (Ghent University)
Differentiating Dutch: Language naming and metalinguistic debates in
the Low Countries and beyond
Course descriptions and abstracts
https://hison2026summerschool.ugent.be/en/courses
Description:
The summer schools organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics
Network (HiSoN) offer classes by leading experts in modern and
historical sociolinguists. There is space for only 40 graduate
students and young (at heart!) researchers, so you are advised to
register early.
Dates: 13–18 July 2026
Location: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
The summer school lasts one week, with arrival on Sunday 12 July.
Classes take place from Monday to Friday, with an excursion scheduled
for Saturday. Departure is on Sunday 19 July in the morning.
As in previous editions of the HiSoN Summer School, participants
attend all seven courses. Each course consists of four contact hours.
Participants will also have the opportunity to present their own
research in a dedicated session.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Registration Open until 13-Mar-2026

                Email: hison2026summerschool at ugent.be

Apply by Email: hison2026summerschool at ugent.be
Apply on the web:
https://hison2026summerschool.ugent.be/en/registration

Registration Instructions:
Application deadline: 31 March 2026.
Programme & details:
https://hison2026summerschool.ugent.be/en
Registration:
https://hison2026summerschool.ugent.be/en/registration



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