The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Summer School lasts for one week from Monday 4th July to Friday 8th July 2022.
Below is the final programme for the Summer School.
The Summer School is designed to encourage participants to rethink global Englishes from decolonising and raciolinguistic perspectives. This will entail drawing important distinctions between Settler Englishes of the type found in New Zealand and other dialects which have instead evolved in colonial contexts. In the postcolonial Englishes of newly independent nations such as India, it is the indigenous languages which are regularly not given the credit they deserve for playing a key role in differentiating these varieties from Settler Englishes both structurally and socially. The “Empire Speaks Back” Summer School offers presentations, workshops and social activities that seriously engage with the colonial and settlement histories of diverse World Englishes with a view to questioning and reshaping how they can best be modelled by the next generation of researchers.
It will take place at Newcastle University, UK and is currently planned as a hybrid meeting (i.e. you can participate virtually or in-person). The in-person programme is subject to COVID-19 national and international travel, border and quarantine restrictions. Please be aware that, as a result of these (or other factors beyond our control), ISLE may change the format of the Summer School to wholly online at a later date, cancel the full programme, or cancel elements within it. In-person participants should therefore organise their own health, travel and personal insurances in advance. Every effort will be made to update participants as quickly as possible should a change occur. We will closely communicate with those affected and try to find a satisfactory solution for everyone.
Educational excursions and social activities for in-person participants will be confirmed in the programme at a later date because some of these may depend on numbers registering for in-person participation as well as on public health guidance. The complete programme will be available nearer the start of the Summer School but the following are currently envisaged:
Social/Educational Activities for in-person participants include:
- Conference dinner in the Medieval Banquet Hall of Blackfriars Restaurant
- Excursion to St Paul’s Monastery / Jarrow Hall / Lindisfarne
- Access to the ‘Linguistic History and Archaeology of Jarrow and Lindisfarne’ e-booklet
- ‘Place-Names of Newcastle’ e-booklet and tour led by Emeritus Professor Diana Whaley (currently President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland and a Vice-President of the Viking Society for Northern Research)
- Film-screening of Black ‘47 at the Tyneside Irish Centre with Q&A led by Prof. Tony Crowley and Dr Frances Kane
From July 4th-7th, all participants will be actively involved in three kinds of learning opportunity – Presentations, Workshops and Pop-Up Mentoring slots.
Presentations will be delivered by leading scholars in postcolonial Englishes around the world. They also have expertise in novel approaches to our understanding of these varieties as products of colonialism, empire and racism. Workshops will provide opportunities to acquire practical skills and expertise for coding, transcribing, visualizing and statistically analysing linguistic data. There will also be hands-on sessions exploring manuscript materials relevant to the history of English and postcolonialism. The importance of acquiring expertise in how to exploit your research to benefit wider publics will be demonstrated in our on-site Digital Kitchen which has been used to teach languages using motion sensor technology. Furthermore, every early career researcher needs to understand how to navigate the job market. As such, one of the workshops will be devoted to preparing for the next steps in your career. Pop-Up Mentoring slots will be offered as one-time, no strings attached, mentoring sessions that give you the chance to have an informal chat with a mentor about your career, impact or research plans outside of your official support system.
Tuition for in-person participants includes:
- Access to all presentations and workshops (in-person and online)
- Access to the abstracts and recommended reading material
- Access to ‘Place-Names of Newcastle’ e-booklet
- Access to the ‘Linguistic History and Archaeology of Jarrow and Lindisfarne’ e-booklet
- Daily lunches and coffee breaks as envisaged in the final programme
- In-person or online Pop-Up Mentoring sessions
- Debate on When Language Meets Life – or Death podcast
Tuition for virtual participants includes:
- Access to all online presentations and workshops
- Access to the abstracts and recommended reading material
- Access to ‘Place-Names of Newcastle’ e-booklet
- Access to the ‘Linguistic History and Archaeology of Jarrow and Lindisfarne’ e-booklet
- Online Pop-Up Mentoring Sessions
- Debate on When Language Meets Life – or Death podcast
Below is a list of confirmed presenters, workshop leaders and pop-up mentors.
Confirmed Presenters
| Presenter name | Affilitation |
| Carolina Amador-Moreno | University of Bergen, NO |
| Umberto Ansaldo | Curtin University, AU |
| Dania Bonness | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NO |
| Alfred Buregeya | University of Nairobi, KE |
| Lynn Clark | University of Canterbury, NZ |
| Aris M. Clemons | University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US |
| Glenys Collard | The University of Western Australia, AU |
| Karen Corrigan | Newcastle University, UK |
| Alexandra D’Arcy | University of Victoria, CA |
| Derek Denis | University of Toronto Mississauga, CA |
| David Deterding | Universiti Brunei Darussalam, BN |
| Robert Fuchs | University of Hamburg, DE |
| Jette Hansen Edwards | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK |
| David Jowitt | University of Jos, NG |
| Keith Lilley | Queen’s University Belfast, UK |
| Lisa Lim | The University of Hong Kong, HK |
| Isabel Martin | Karlsruhe University of Education, DE |
| Celeste Rodriguez Louro | The University of Western Australia, AU |
| Mario Saraceni | University of Portsmouth, UK |
| Jane Setter | University of Reading, UK |
| Salbrina Sharbawi | Universiti Brunei Darussalam, BN |
| Devyani Sharma | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Kate Spowage | University of Leeds, UK |
Confirmed Workshops
| Workshop leader | Workshop title |
| Mark Carver University of St Andrews, UK | “Navigating the Academic Job Market” |
| Caitlin Halfacre Newcastle University, UK | “Introduction to the R programming language and data visualisation techniques” |
| Adam Mearns Newcastle University, UK With the DECTE team | “Exploiting DECTE with Concordancing and Tagging Software” |
| Sonya Mathews Queen’s University Belfast, UK With Jaleesa de Regt (Leiden/Newcastle) | “ELAN Transcription, Coding and Relational Databases” |
| Chris Montgomery Sheffield University, UK With Michael Bonney (Newcastle) | “Mapping Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Data Using GIS“ |
| Paul Seedhouse Newcastle University, UK | “Involving Communities Glocally: Giving all Languages and Cultures a Voice” at ilab:learn’s Digital Kitchens |
| Karen Wade University College Dublin, IE With the CORVIZ Team | “Social Network Analysis and the Visualization of Emigrant Correspondence Corpora” |
| William van der Wurff Newcastle University, UK | “From Caxton to Heslop: Exploring Manuscripts in the Philip Robinson Library Special Collections Rooms” |
Confirmed pop-up mentors
| Pop-up mentor name | Affiliation |
| Carolina Amador-Moreno | University of Bergen, NO |
| Laurie Bauer | Victoria University of Wellington, NZ |
| Joan Beal | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Kristin Bech | University of Oslo, NO |
| Alfred Buregeya | University of Nairobi, KE |
| Janice Carruthers | Queen’s University Belfast, UK |
| Mark Carver | University of St Andrews, UK |
| Lynn Clark | University of Canterbury, NZ |
| Aris M. Clemons | University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US |
| David Deterding | Universiti Brunei Darussalam, BN |
| Jette Hansen Edwards | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK |
| Robert Fuchs | University of Hamburg, DE |
| Sebastien Hoffman | Universität Trier, DE |
| Bernd Kortmann | University of Freiburg, DE |
| María José López Couso | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, ES |
| Joan Rahilly | Queen’s University Belfast, UK |
| Celeste Rodriguez Louro | The University of Western Australia, AU |
| Salbrina Sharbawi | Universiti Brunei Darussalam, BN |
| Jeremy Smith | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Qi Zhang | Dublin City University, IE |