Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider
CONFERENCE LECTURES
Aug. 2025 NWAV-AP (New Ways of Analyzing Variation – Asia-Pacific) conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Invited Keynote Speaker)
Dec. 2024 1st International Conference on Migration Linguistics, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Invited Keynote Speaker)
April 2024 Language Variety in the South conference, Athens, GA, USA (Invited Plenary Speaker)
Jan. 2024 JAFAE (The Japanese Association for Asian Englishes) conference, Nagoya, Japan (Invited Keynote Speaker)
Sep. 2023 Italian Association of English Studies conference, Cosenza, Italien (Invited Keynote Speaker)
Nov. 2022 The Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa: Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Humboldt-Kolleg; Yaounde, Kamerun (Invited Keynote Speaker)
Dec. 2021 AsiaTEFL conference, Delhi, India (Invited Plenary Speaker) (online)
March 2019 Symposium "Contact Englishes", Fukuoka, Japan (Invited Plenary Speaker)
March 2019 LSPIC (Linguistic Society of the Philippines) International Conference - 50th Anniversary, Manila, The Philippines (Invited Keynote Speaker)
Feb. 2019 International Conference on Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality, Münster (Invited Plenary Speaker & Round Table Panelist)
July 2018 ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English) conference, University of London (Presidential Plenary Address)
August 2017 ICHL (International Conference on Historical Linguistics), San Antonio, Texas, USA; Invited Panel Speaker at a panel on “The Ecology of African American English”
Juni 2017 SHEL10 (Studies in the History of the English Language) conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (Invited Plenary Speaker)
Nov. 2016 Distinguished Lecture: 31st SAAL (Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics) Lecture, National University of Singapore
Juli 2016 Symposium "English and Spanish in Interaction", Universität Zürich (Invited Speaker)
Mai 2016 ICAME 37 conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Invited Plenary Lecture)
Juni 2015 International Conference "Changing English", Helsinki, Finland (Invited Plenary Speaker)
März 2015 Interntional Conference on Bilingualism, Valetta, Malta (Invited Plenary Speaker)
Dec. 2013 Conference of the Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics (KASELL), Cheonan, Korea (Invited Plenary Speaker)
October 2013 "Englishes Today" conference, Vigo, Spain (Invited Plenary Speaker)
July 2013 19e Congrès International des Linguistes, Genf (Session Manager)
Feb. 2013 Wilson Center Distinguished Lecturer, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Dec. 2012 International Association for World Englishes (IAWE), Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China (Invited Plenary Speaker)
July 2012 Second International Conference on Nondominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages, University of Salamanca, Spain (Invited Speaker)
Oct 2010 Free Linguistics Conference, University of Sydney, Australia (Invited Plenary Speaker)
Sep 2010 International Conference "Pluricentric Languages", Catholic University of Portugal, Braga (Invited Plenary Speaker)
June 2010 International Conference "Echoes of Albion: English-American Speech Relations", University of Groningen, The Netherlands (Invited Speaker)
June 2010 International Conference "English as a Contact Language", Zurich, Switzerland (Invited Speaker)
May 2010 ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) Conference, Giessen (Invited Plenary Speaker)
May 2010 3rd International Conference on English as a Lingua Franca, Vienna, Austria (Invited Plenary Speaker)
May 2009 Workshop "Linguistic complexity in interlanguage varieties, L2 varieties, and contact languages", FRIAS, Freiburg (Invited Speaker)
April 2008 RELC (Regional English Language Conference), Singapore (Invited Speaker)
Oct 2006 International Association of World Englishes, Chukyo / Nagoya, Japan (Invited Plenary Speaker)
May 2006 Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies", Yaounde, Cameroon (Invited Plenary Speaker)
Apr 2004 Language Variation in the South III, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Invited Speaker)
June 2001 The Major Varieties of English 3, Freiburg i. Br.(Invited Plenary Speaker)
April 2001 Australian Style Council Conference, Sydney (Invited Keynote Speaker)
July 1999 6th IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) Conference, Tsukuba, Japan (Invited Focus Speaker)
Dec 1997 4th IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) Conference, Singapore (Invited Focus Speaker)
April 1993 Language Variation in the South II, Auburn, Alabama (Invited Speaker)
Feb 1988 Round Table on Africanisms in Afro-American Language Varieties, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., USA (Invited Speaker)
Lectures at International Conferences
Sep. 2024 BICLCE (Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English) conference, Alicante, Spain
Feb. 2022 MasterVision student conference, University of Bremen (Invited Keynote Speaker) (online)
Aug. 2021 ICAME 42 conference, TU Dortmund
Juni 2021 ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English) conference, Univ. of Eastern Finland Joensuu (online)
Feb. 2021 6th NWAV-AP (New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific) conference, National University of Singapore (online)
Juni 2019 International Association for World Englishes, Limerick, Irland
July 2018 International Congress of Linguists (ICL 20), Cape Town, South Africa (workshop co-convener)
Mai/Juni 2018 International Association for World Englishes, Manila, Philippinen
Feb. 2017 International Conference of “Varieties of English in the Indo-Pacific” project, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australien
Sep.-Oct. 2016 Free Linguistics Conference, Padang, Indonesien
Sep. 2016 ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English), Poznan, Polen
April 2016 4th NWAV-AP (New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific) conference, National Cheung Chung University, ChiaYi, Taiwan
Oct. 2015 International Association of World Englishes, Istanbul, Turkey
Dec. 2014 International Association for World Englishes, Delhi, Indien
April-Mai 2014 ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) Conference, Nottingham, UK
May 2012 "English in Asia's Language Habitats" conference, Freie Universität Berlin
May 2012 Fifth "English as a Lingua Franca" conference, Istanbul
May 2012 "English in Asia's Language Habitats" conference, Freie Universität Berlin
August 2011 Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Accra, Ghana
June 2011 International Society for the Linguistics of English, Boston, MA, USA
February 2011 New Ways of Analyzing Variation – Asia-Pacific (NWAV-AP) conference, Delhi, India
July 2010 International Association for World Englishes, Vancouver, Canada
Oct 2009 International Association for World Englishes, Cebu, The Philippines
July 2009 International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English 3, London
Dec 2008 International Association for World Englishes, Hong Kong
Oct 2008 International Society for the Linguistics of English, Freiburg
Jul 2007 International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English 2, Toulouse
Nov 2006 NWAVE35: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Columbus, Ohio
Oct 2005 SHEL4 – Studies in the History of the English Language, Flagstaff, Arizona, US
Aug 2005 12th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology. Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Jun 2005 "Creole language structure between substrates and superstrates", Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Universität Leipzig
May 2005 ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) and AAACL (American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics) Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dec 2003 8th English in Southeast Asia Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Aug 2003 Summer Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Honolulu, HI, USA
Oct 2003 NWAVE32: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 2002 NWAVE31: New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Stanford, CA, USA
Aug 2002 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, St Augustin Campus, Trinidad
July/Aug 2001 IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English), Bamberg
Oct 2000 NWAVE29: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Lansing, Michigan
Oct 1999 NWAVE28: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Toronto, Canada
Aug 1999 AILA '99 World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan
Oct 1998 NWAVE27: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Athens, Georgia, USA
Jun 1998 International Symposium "Degrees of restructuring in Creole Languages / Degrés de restructuration dans les langues créoles", Regensburg
Oct 1996 NWAVE25: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
July 1996 Ninth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bangor, Wales, UK
Oct 1995 NWAVE24: New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Oct 1994 NWAVE23: New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Stanford, CA, USA
Sep 1994 Eighth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Edinburgh, Scotland
Aug 1992 Ninth Biennial Meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, Cave Hill, Barbados
July 1991 "Early Modern English" Conference, Tulln, Austria
June 1991 International Conference "Language Contact and Language Change", Rydzyna, Poland
July/Aug 1990 International Congress of Dialectologists, Bamberg
June 1990 11th ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern English) Conference, Berlin
May 1990 Sixth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Helsinki, Finland
March 1989 Workshop "Computer Methods in Dialectology", Athens, Ga., USA
Nov 1988 SAMLA / SECOL (South Atlantic Modern Language Association and South-Eastern Conference on Linguistics), Washington, DC
Nov 1987 Colloquium "Problems of Lexical Semantics", Essen
Aug 1987 XIV. International Congress of Linguists, Berlin, GDR
Aug 1987 Sixth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bangor, Wales
Aug 1983 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznan, Poland
April 1982 Sociolinguistics Symposium, Sheffield, England
International Conferences Attended
Sept. 2019 BICLCE (8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English), Bamberg
June 2019 ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Neuchatel, Schweiz
April 2019 Irish Corpus Pragmatics, Dortmund
Mai 2018 Early Language Learning Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland
June 2017 Conference “The Global South on the Move”, University of Cologne
May 2013 Selection Conference of the VW-Foundation "Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa", Saly, Senegal
July 2008 Symposium "Approaches to Language Variation and Change", Bamberg
Dec 1997 Three Circles of English Conference, Singapore
Mar 1987 L.A.U.D.-Symposium "Pidgin and Creole Languages", Duisburg
Oct 1983 SAMLA / SECOL South Atlantic Modern Language Association and South-Eastern Conference on Linguistics, Atlanta, GA, USA
Conferences Organized
Oct. 2017 Organizer of the International Summer School of ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English), University of Regensburg
July 2013 Session manager of the session "Sociolinguistics and multilingualism", 19e Congrès International des Linguistes, Geneva, Switzerland
Oct. 2007 Organizer of 13th Conference of the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE), Regensburg: "World Englishes: Problems – Properties – Prospects"
Sep 2007 Workshop "The Sociolinguistics of Transformation", Cape Town, South Africa
July/Aug 2001 Vice-Chair of section "English in Contact: Mixed Varieties and Creoles" (with Geneviève Escure), IAUPE Jubilee Conference, Bamberg
June 1998 Organizer of International Symposium "Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages / Degrés de restructuration dans les langues créoles", Regensburg (with I. Neumann-Holzschuh)
Sep 1996 Organizer of the Linguistic Section "Approaches to Linguistic Change"; Annual Meeting of the German Anglistentag, Dresden
Sep 1996 Organizer of 2nd Regensburg Graduate Seminar in English Linguistics with Prof. Walt Wolfram (North Carolina): "The Changing Scope of American English Dialects"
Dec 1993 Organizer of Regensburg Graduate Seminar in English Linguistics with Prof. Guy Bailey (Memphis, TN, USA): "American Sociolinguistics in the 1990s: An Approach to Sociolinguistic Dialectology"
March 1989 Co-organizer of Workshop "Computer Methods in Dialectology", Athens, GA, USA
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