Sociolinguistics LabFest

Welcome to the inaugural Sociolinguistics LabFest. Please join us for an evening of brief research presentations (PechaKucha style), posters, discussion, and of course, food and drink. We look forward to seeing you!

When?
04 April 2019, 5pm

Where?
Glaspavillon Campus Essen | R12 S00 H12
see below for details

 

Programme

5:00- 5:30	Welcome	Isabelle Buchstaller
5:30- 5:40	Pecha Kucha	Christian Paga Tidy data: scraping and analysing song lyrics with R
5:40- 5:50	Pecha Kucha	Yolandi Ribbens-Klein Place makers: Locality, Belonging and the Afrikaans (r) in Houtiniquadorp
5:50- 6:00	Pecha Kucha	MILL Project: Isabelle Buchstaller Seraphim Alvanides Frauke Griese Carolin Schneider Investigating Ideological Street Renaming in Eastern Germany and Poland
6:00- 6:10	Pecha Kucha	Frauke Griese 'Ireland’s old fighting spirit': The construction of Irish identity in recruitment posters during the First World War
6:10- 6:25	Break	Snacks, drinks
6:25- 6:45	Pecha Kucha	Carolin Schneider Code-Switching in bilingual persons living with Alzheimer's dementia
6:45- 6:55	Pecha Kucha	Anja Auer English on the rock: Some insights into American Samoan English
6:55- 7:05	Pecha Kucha	Teresa Pratt Generational Trends: Vocalic Compression in the California Vowel Shift
7:05- 7:15	Pecha Kucha	Isabelle Buchstaller Yolandi Ribbens-Klein Teresa Pratt Exploring linguistic (in)stability across the life-span
7:15- 7:20	Closing comments	Isabelle Buchstaller
7:20- 8:00	Reception time	Food, drink, poster viewing

How to find us

The LabFest at the University of Duisburg-Essen will take place at the Essen campus, in the Glaspavillon right next to the entrance of R12. The address is Universitätsstraße 12, 45141 Essen.

This is how you get there:

By public transportation

From Essen Hauptbahnhof (main train station) take tram number 101 in the direction of "Germaniaplatz" (Borbeck) or tram number 105 in the direction of "Unterstraße" (Frintrop). Get off at the second stop: "Rheinischer Platz." Follow the signs for "Universität" and exit the station onto Gladbecker Straße. Walk north on Gladbecker Straße for one block, cross Universitätsstraße and you will find yourself in front of building R12, which has red columns in front of it and the cafeteria "Café Rosso" on its ground floor. The Glaspavillon is located right next to the entrance of building R12.

By car

Set your navigation system for "Universitätsstraße 12, 45141 Essen" or for the intersection of Universitätsstraße and Gladbecker Straße in Essen.

From Autobahn A52, take exit number 28 ("Essen-Rüttenscheid") and go north on B224, following the signs for "Zentrum" and "Universität."

From Autobahn A40, take exit number 23 and go north, following the signs for "Universität."

Signs for "Universität" will lead you to the intersection of Gladbecker Straße and Universitätsstraße or to the intersection of Segerothstraße and Universitätsstraße. Take Universitätsstraße and enter the parking garage on the south side of the street, about 100 meters from the intersection of Universitätsstraße and Gladbecker Straße. Once you have parked your vehicle, exit the parking garage, cross Universitätsstraße and veer to the building on the right, which is marked R12 and which has red columns in front of it and the cafeteria "Café Rosso" on the ground floor. The Glaspavillon is located right next to the entrance of building R12.