09:00: Opening and greetings

09:15: Peter Auer (Freiburg): Change from below? Change from above? The missing social in the socio-linguistics of (German) gender-sensitive language

10:00: Pia Quist (Copenhagen): Sociolinguistics in Transition: Operationalizing Mobility in the Study of Language and Place

10:45: Coffee break

11:15: Christian Braun (Graz): Language – ontological considerations regarding the object of study with regard to sociolinguistic approaches

12:00: Lunch break

14:00: Beat Siebenhaar (Leipzig): Sociolinguistics, Language Change, Individual Variation and Lifespan Change

14:45: Lars Bülow (Munich): How variable is the individual speaker? Intra-individual variation and change in Austrian dialect morphology

15:30: Coffee break

16:00: Stefanie Edler (Graz): Urban repertoires between collective patterns and individual practice: Intralingual variation in Vienna and Graz

09:15: Rebecca Karrer (Graz): A Distancing Effect: Reframing the Communicative Function of the German Werden-Passive and its Social Dimension

10:00: Dragana Rakocevic (Graz): Reduction of dative plural ending in process of second language acquisition. A variationist perspective

10:45: Coffee break

11:15: Sali Tagliamonte (Toronto): What’s next, Sociolinguistics? Perspectives and predictions from Canada

12:00: Lunch break

14:00: David Britain (Bern): Geolinguistics: now and next

14:45: Evelyn Ziegler (Duisburg-Essen): Sociolinguistics in times of deindustrialisation: mining language in the Ruhr Area (Germany) and the East Midlands (UK)

15:30: Coffee break

16:00: Leonie Cornips (Maastricht): Nonhuman animal sociolinguistics

19:00: Conference Dinner - Landhauskeller

09:15: Paul Kerswill (York): Language, centripetal forces and fragmentation in superdiverse speech communities

10:00: Anouschka Foltz (Graz): The role of English in the changing landscape of multilingualism in Europe

10:45: Coffee break

11:15: Arnulf Deppermann/Anssi Peräkylä (Mannheim/Helsinki): Rethinking the self in social interaction

12:00: Final Discussion and Farewell