J Calder is a Chicanx genderfluid individual, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Affiliate Faculty in the Departments of Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, and Women & Gender Studies. Their work explores the role of language in the performance and construction of marginalized identity in communities of queer/trans and BIPOC individuals. They are currently preparing a monograph entitled Handsome Women: nonbinary language, gender, and embodied style in a San Francisco drag community.
Plenary Lecture – ‘What can examining understudied populations show us about social meaning?‘
Hannah Gibson is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Essex. Hannah’s research is concerned with linguistic variation, particularly why and how languages change. Much of her work examines variation in the morphosyntax of the Bantu languages of Eastern and Southern Africa. She is also interested in language and identity, language use in urban contexts and the relationship between linguistics and social justice.
Plenary Lecture – ‘From varieties to variation:
Contact, change and identity in Swahili‘
Nick Palfreyman is a deaf academic working in the fields of linguistics, sociolinguistics and international development. He has worked with the Indonesian deaf community since 2007, and is particularly interested in Labovian and third-wave sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, sign language typology, applied linguistics, and corpus-informed sign language teaching. As co-Director of the iSLanDS Institute at the University of Central Lancashire, Nick has a strong record of using research to transform the lives of deaf people in the global South.
Plenary Lecture – ‘The BISINDO corpus in five clips: Towards a better understanding of sign language variation and change’
Isabelle Buchstaller is the director of the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research on the mechanisms of intra-speaker instability has been published in Language in Society, the Journal of Sociolinguistics and the Journal of English Linguistics. She is the PI of the project “Tracing language variation across the life-span”, which explores changes in the grammar of the individual speaker. She co-edits the ‘Routledge Studies in Language Change’ series and she has published two edited collections on panel research (with Suzanne Evans Wagner and Karen Beaman).
Plenary Lecture – ‘Linguistic Malleability across the
life-span: A view from the North East of England‘
