At this year’s Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (isLE8), which took place in Santiago de Compostela from 1-4 September 2025, the GLS-team (represented by Lisa Lehnen and Ninja Schulz) participated in a pre-conference workshop dedicated to Expanding Circle Englishes. In their talk entitled “Expanding beyond variety? Challenges of categorising and structurally describing English(es) in geolocated social media data”, they presented data from 29 cities around the world asking whether the use of English and local languages differs across cities and to what extent these patterns align with world Englishes models.
Earth Observation at the DFG BETAFOR workshop
Jakob Schwalb-Willmann represented our team at the DFG BETAFOR workshop in the Bavarian Forest National Park. The room was full of biologists, which is the whole point of an interdisciplinary project, and our UAS multisensor time series drew a lot of interest from the...
