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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Vorankündigung: Im Wintersemester 2025/2026 finden erstmalig die Heidelberg Gender Lectures statt. Mit Gastvorträgen von Sabine_ Hark (TU Berlin) und Carolin Müller-Spitzer (IDS Mannheim), sowie Beiträgen der Heidelberger Gender & Queer Studies. Mark your calendars, das wird wundervoll!

Plakat Heidelber Gender Lectures, weiß und blau, mit Details

Heidelberg Gender Lectures

29. Oktober, Alte Aula: Sabine_ Hark: Gefährliche Erbschaften. Sex/Gender: Biologische Fundierung und das Begehren nach Kategorien
Eröffnung & Auftakt Gender Studies CAS (anschließend Empfang)

05. November Miriam Neuhausen & Corinna Assmann: Out-rageous bodies: Unfolding the closet

19. November Ute Hüsken: Nuns and women in contemporary transcultural Buddhism

03. Dezember Renata Motta & Yaatsil Guevara Gonzalez: Geschmack der Grenze: Essen, Gender und Zugehörigkeit auf der Flucht

17. Dezember Brigitte Sölch: Kunstgeschichte und Feminismus

07. Januar Philipp-Thomas Wehage: Games & Gender – Implizites und explizites Spiel mit Geschlecht

21. Januar Karen Nolte: „WahnsinnsFrauen“ – Aneignungen von Hysterie in der Neuen Frauenbewegung

04. Februar Carolin Müller-Spitzer: Gender & Sprache im Deutschen unter empirisch-linguistischer Perspektive

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Heidelberg's new interdsciplinary Certificate of Advanced Studies 🌈Gender & Queer Studies🌈 is now online! 💡Master's and PhD students are very welcome to apply to participate in the programme for the upcoming winter semester.

CAS Gender and Queer Studies ad, with registration details, rainbow optics

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Call for Papers: Workshop on Queer Linguistics, Klagenfurt/Austria, December 2025, co-organized by Vroni Zieglmeier (Heidelberg) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Final guest lecture of the summer term: we are happy to welcome @susanreichelt.bsky.social, Research Associate in Digital Humanities at Konstanz University, to Heidelberg! Susan will speak about Experiential Authority as Stance Marking. 🗓 July 22, 2.15 PM 📍Room 110 ✨ Listeners are warmly invited!

Lecture poster with date and place: Experiential Authority as stance marking, Dr. Susan Reichelt, Universität Konstanz

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

From July 4–7, 14 participants took part in the Interdisciplinary Summer School “Approaching Theatre Performance from Literary Studies and Linguistics”, co-organised by @heidilulie.bsky.social and @dlandert.bsky.social in a dynamic blend of analysis and performance. Thank you to everybody involved!

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Throwback to June: our Department was represented at ICAME46 in Vilnius with three talks by Oriana Yim, Lea Kryveli Chrysanthopoulou and @dlandert.bsky.social on Early Modern English, health communication, and improv theater. Thanks to the #ICAME46 team for a wonderful conference!

shots of the conference, with Daniela giving a talk

impressions of Vilnius, including the conference boat tour

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Today at 1.15pm: Lunch Lecture with Dr. Anna Islentyeva! Anna will present her new book “American National Identity: Language Patterns & Myths Across the Centuries”. Introduction by Theresa Heyd.   🗓 15.07., 1.15 PM 📍Room 110 🥨 Snacks will be provided ✨ Everybody welcome!

Poster for the event, with the details provided in the post, in light yellow and dark red.

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Cringe: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust @uebercringe.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

First conference day: beginning at 1.45pm German time, we will have a wonderful afternoon program: talks by Sebastian Haselbeck, Ana Deumert and Yaiza Otero on mediatized cringe; the keynote by Teresa Pratt on Language and affect in interaction and performance at 6pm tonight.

Sebastian Haselbeck

July 7, 2 p.m.

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Dem Wald zu nah. Cringe als Verfahren und Schicksal in Maren Ades „Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen“
Ana Deumert

July 7, 3 p.m. —

„My favorite things” – Transforming the cringe
Yaiza Otero

July 7, 4 p.m.

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Zwischen Lachen und Cringen. Die ARD-Miniserie Sexuell Verfügbar (2024) als Feminist Cringe Comedy
Keynote: Teresa Pratt

July 7, 6 p.m.

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Language and affect in interaction and performance

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Cringe: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust @uebercringe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Interested but can't be in Heidelberg? Follow the talks via Zoom: uni-greifswald-de.zoom.us/j/8852412941... Meeting-ID: 885 2412 9418 Kenncode: 077194 Program and schedule: uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber...

uebercringe.de

UEBER CRINGE: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust

1751886000 days hours minutes secondsuntilTagung 07. – 09. Juli *** English Version below *** WISSENSCHAFTLICHE LEITUNG: Theresa Heyd (Heidelberg), Heide Volkening (Gr…

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Cringe: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust @uebercringe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics: July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online! Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance

conference poster with details, see https://uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber-cringe/

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Come and join us for the 7th annual Graduate Student Conference at the end of this week! 📣🎓👩🏻‍💻 🗓 27. — 28 June, 2025 📍English Department @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

pink poster with stylized hands, announcing the student conference

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I want to stress what a cool idea this is especially in the age of #AI and as a #teaching / learning vehicle. Get inspired, teachers!! (And unis - get inspired teachers that got ideas like this) #didactics #Englishteachers #academia #academicsky #humanities #zines

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 18/06/2025

A big big thank you to all the students who participated in the workshop yesterday! 🤗✨

Collage of pictures from the workshop with the phrase "thank you" in the center.

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

(Fairly) Hot off the press: A new paper by our department member Elena Salakhyan is out in the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca! It explores how Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish speakers use English, and how relevance theory sheds light on the dynamics of ELF communication. Available in OA! ⬇️

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Signalling the loopholes and spreading the trampoline: a relevance-theoretic perspective on ELF communication

The paper examines English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication from a relevance-theoretic perspective. Communication in English as a Lingua Franca is a type of interaction in which multilingual spe...

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Conference recap: Last month we hosted the International Symposium "The Pragmatics of Fiction on the Page, Stage, and Screen: Multimodality, performance, and audience interaction" under the direction of Daniela Landert.

sharepic: looking back at Pragmatics in Fiction on the Page, stage and Screen. Background: romantic Heidelberg

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🖍Join us for a hands-on zine-making workshop for linguists with @soltovar.bsky.social. ✂ We'll dive into zine-methodologies and then get crafty creating a collaborative linguistics-themed zine. 🗓 17.06 13:00-16:30 📍Room 114 ✨ Open to all students. Just come ready to create and have fun!

info zine workshop, with details on time and place

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

If you are thinking of using a questionnaire in an upcoming project, this intro session is right for you. 💁🏾‍♂️🗒️🖋️💬 We will discuss which types of research questions can be answered through a survey (and which can't), which decisions need to be made in questionnaire design, and which pitfalls to avoid.

info questionnaire workshop, with details regarding time and place

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

In this two-part workshop, we will explore how to describe and visualise data using R, based on real-life examples. 🙇🏻‍♀️💻📊 Don't worry if you are new to this — no background in statistics or linguistics is needed. We will have time to try things out, ask questions, and get passionate about R!

introduction to statistics, with details regarding time and location

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Next week is project week at Heidelberg's English Department. We are offering many hands-on workshops throughout the week, from stats to zine-making, from questionnaire design to data visualization. Full program: www.as.uni-heidelberg.de/index.html. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Workshop details, see program url for full text

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We’re excited to announce the UEBER CRINGE Conference, taking place July 7–9 in Heidelberg! Organized by Theresa Heyd (Heidelberg) and Heide Volkening (Greifswald) and funded by the @volkswagenstiftung.de, this interdisciplinary event explores ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics.

conference poster, pink frame, a blutted picture of Skipper the doll cringing. Details of the conference, header: UEBER CRINGE. Ambivalent affect and everyday aesthetics

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

We had the honor of hosting Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social (Edinburgh) in our Lunch Lecture series. Lauren's compelling talk on Sociophonetics and Mental Health ended with a call for Mad Linguistics as a new paradigm for theorizing language and mental health. Insightful and inspiring!

a photo of Lauren Hall-Lew and her presentation "Sociophonetics and Mental Health", as well as parts of the audience from the back

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Heidelberg School of Education @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Yeeees, we know it‘s not #FollowFriday yet. That doesn‘t keep us from letting you know that the #linguistics team of the #EnglishDepartment @uniheidelberg.bsky.social is now on Bluesky, though! A warm welcome to @englishinhd.bsky.social! 👋🏻

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English Linguistics Heidelberg @englishinhd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

We are the English Linguistics team at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Located in the heart of Heidelberg, we are passionate about everything linguistics, from historical pragmatics to digital discourse analysis, from impoliteness in children's fiction to queer sociophonetics. Follow us for updates!

signage on our building's wall: Universität Heidelberg, Anglistisches Seminar, Kettengasse 12

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