Pre-Conference Workshops
8:00 Registration opens
9:30– Workshops
8:00 Registration opens
9:00 Conference opening
9:30–10:30 Plenary
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–13:00 Parallel sessions
13:00–14:30 Lunch
14:30–16:00 Parallel sessions
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–18:00 Parallel sessions
19:00–20:00: Welcome reception
9:00–10:00 Plenary
10:00–10:30 Coffee break
10:30–13:00 Parallel sessions
13:00–14:30 Lunch
15:00– Boat trip
9:00–10:00 Plenary
10:00–10:30 Coffee break
10:30–12:30 Parallel sessions
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–16:00 Parallel sessions
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–18:00 Parallel sessions
19:00– Conference dinner
9:00–10:00 Plenary
10:00–10:30 Coffee
10:30–12:00 Parallel sessions
12:00–13:00 General meeting
13:00 Closing
Tuomo Hiippala is Professor of English Language and Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki, where he leads the interdisciplinary Multimodality Research Group. His main interests include the compilation and analysis of multimodal corpora and how computational methods can support empirical research on multimodality. His current research project funded by the European Research Council develops novel methods for collaborative annotation of multimodal corpora and their analysis using computational methods.
Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has also worked in The Philippines and at the National University of Singapore. She specialises in corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and has published books and articles on topics such as evaluative language, academic discourse, the use of corpora to describe the grammar and lexis of English, and the interface between corpus and discourse studies. Her most recent books are the 2nd edition of Corpora in Applied Linguistics (2022) and Pattern, Construction, System: a unified approach to grammar and lexis (2025), both published by Cambridge University Press.
Merja Stenroos is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her main research interests are within historical sociolinguistics and dialectology, particularly with reference to the Middle and Early Modern English periods. Since 2006, she has headed a research group, The Middle English Scribal Texts programme, which has produced two historical corpora: The Middle English Grammar Corpus (MEG-C) and A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD). The latter project also resulted in a book volume, Records of real people: linguistic variation in Middle English local documents (John Benjamins, 2020). At the moment she leads an ERC-funded project, Linguistic Traces: low-frequency forms as evidence of language and population history (LiTra).
Axel Bohmann is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Cologne. His research combines corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and is interested in the global spread, variability, and social meaning of English. He has worked on register in World Englishes, recent morpho-syntactic change, and the enregisterment of linguistic variation into discrete varieties. His ongoing project is concerned with the linguistic individual and attempts to bring together attention to linguistic experience, cognitive entrenchment, and observable variation at the individual level. He is the (co-)author of three research monographs and articles in journals such as World Englishes, Language, or the Journal of Sociolinguistics.