Relevant powerpoint slides will be provided upon request.
2023
Anita Auer and Mark Iten gave a presentation on “Northern English Pauper Letters: Exploring Social and Regional Variation in Late Modern England” at the ICEHL-22 conference, i.e. International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, at the University of Sheffield (UK), 3-6 July 2023.
Anita Auer and Mark Iten gave a presentation on “Creating a Corpus of Late Modern English Pauper Letters: Uncertainties, Challenges, and Solutions” as part of the SAUTE Conference 2023: Trust and Uncertainty at the University of Fribourg, 5-6 May 2023.
2022
Anne-Christine Gardner gave a presentation on “From Petition to Letter: On the Diachronicity of Poor Relief Applications in Late Modern England” at the Anglistentag at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (Germany), 2-5 September 2022.
Anita Auer, Anne-Christine Gardner, and Mark Iten gave a presentation on “Approaching the History of English ‘from below’: The Value of Late Modern English Pauper Petitions” at the SHEL-12 conference, i.e. Studies in the History of the English Language, at the University of Washington, Seattle (US), 19-21 June 2022.
Mark Iten, Anita Auer, and Anne-Christine Gardner gave a presentation on “Normative Grammarians’ Influence On Late Modern English Pauper Petitions” at the HiSoN conference at the University of Murcia (Spain), 1-3 June 2022.
Anne-Christine Gardner, Anita Auer, and Mark Iten gave a presentation on “Speech Reflections in Late Modern English Pauper Petitions from Dorset” as part of the NARNIHS’ Fourth Annual Meeting (via online video-conference), 7-9 January 2022.
2021
Anita Auer, Anne-Christine Gardner, and Mark Iten gave a presentation on “Language and Mobility of Late Modern English Paupers” as part of the SAUTE Conference 2021: Migrations and Contacts (via online video-conference), 14-15 May 2021.
Anita Auer gave a talk on “Historical sociolinguistic and heritage linguistic perspectives on ego-documents” at the Masterclass Migrant Ego-documents in Late Modern English at the University of Oslo, 10 May 2021 (online video-conference).
Anita Auer gave an invited talk on “Pauper Petitions as a Source for Historical Sociolinguistic Research” at the combined linguistics research seminar series of the University of Salamanca and the University of Valladolid, 7 May 2021 (online video-conference).
Anita Auer gave an invited talk on “Language Variation and Change in Late Modern England: Case Studies from the Lower Orders” in the English Department at the University of Zurich, 7 May 2021 (online video-conference).
Mark Iten gave a presentation on “The Influence of Eighteenth-Century Normative Texts on the Language in Contemporary Pauper Petitions: Case studies of Long-s (ſ), H-Dropping and H-Insertion” as part of the 2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator, 22-24 April 2021.
Anita Auer gave an invited talk on “Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches to the Language of the Labouring Poor in Late Modern England” at the Center for the Study of Language and Society (University of Bern, online video-conference) on 21 April 2021.
Anita Auer gave an invited talk on “Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches to the Language of the Labouring Poor in Late Modern England” at the Center for the Study of Language and Society (University of Bern, online video-conference) on 21 April 2021.
Anne-Christine Gardner gave a presentation titled “Petitioning for the education of the poor: The sociohistorical context of self-corrections in a Late Modern English draft letter” as part of the HiSoN conference on Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics (via online video-conference), 17-19 March 2021.
Anita Auer, Anne-Christine Gardner, and Mark Iten gave a presentation on “Patterns of linguistic variation in pauper petitions from the parish of Pangbourne, Berkshire” as part of the HiSoN conference on Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics (via online video-conference), 17-19 March 2021.
Anita Auer, Anne-Christine Gardner, and Mark Iten gave a presentation on “Merits and Challenges of Late Modern English Pauper Petitions as a Source for Historical Sociolinguistic Investigations” as part of NARNiHS’ Third Annual Meeting (via online video-conference), 8-11 January 2021.