09:00: Opening and welcome
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: Operationalising 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 in relation 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 the dative plural ending in the 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): Non-human 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