List of events
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Events in Michaelmas Term 2025:
Thursday 23 October 2025, 15:00-16:00 BST
A speaker of Cockney, Estuary English, Essex, MLE, SSBE or RP? Identifying separable accents from patterns of language variation and change in South East England
Amanda Cole (Cambridge)
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/237274
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Thursday 30 October 2025, 15:00-16:00 GMT
Mapping Swiss German: Creating a Dialect Atlas in the Digital Age
Adrian Leemann (Bern)
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/237277
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Thursday 20 November 2025, EARLIER TIME: 14:00-15:00 GMT
Rate of change in London English: Continual change or punctuated equilibria?
Devyani Sharma (Oxford)
http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/237544
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Thursday 27 November 2025, 15:00-16:00 GMT
Exploring constructed languages: A sociolinguistic approach
Bettina Beinhoff (Cambridge/ARU)​​
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/238453
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Events in Easter Term 2025:
Friday 09 May 2025, 15:00-16:00 BST
Language Ideologies in Education: Insights from Galicia
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/231544
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Friday 16 May 2025, 15:00-16:00 BST
How can historical linguistics matter to speakers today, and why are streetnames important?
Laura Wright (Cambridge)
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/230998
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Events in Lent Term 2025:​
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Friday 14 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Language purism in language contact: A case study of New Zealand English and New Zealand Maori
Miriam Meyerhoff (Oxford)
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/227392
Friday 28 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Onward Migration and Heritage Languages: The Case of 'New Italians' in England
Francesco Goglia (Exeter)
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/227395
Friday 14 March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 GMT (postponed)
Mapping Swiss German: Creating a Dialect Atlas in the Digital Age
Adrian Leemann (Bern)
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/227398
Friday 21 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 GMT
Language policy as practice: Advancing the empirical turn in language policy research
Florence Bonacina-Pugh (Edinburgh)
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/227401
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Events organised in 2021:
27 Oct. 2021
Reading Group
Text discussed: Affect in Sociolinguistic Style (Pratt 2021)
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404521000774
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10 Nov. 2021
Reading Group
Text discussed: 'First things first, I'm the realest': Linguistic appropriation, white privilege and the hip-hop persona of Iggy Azalea (Eberhardt & Freeman 2015)
https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12128
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24 Nov. 2021
Reading Group
Text discussed: Historitocal and Theoretical Perspectives in Language Policy and Planning (Ricento 2002)
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9481.00111
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Note:
In the academic year 2021/22, the Circle was managed by Jasper H. Sim (Cambridge, now NTU) and Madeleine Rees (Cambridge).
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Events organised in 2019:
6 Nov. 2019
Speaker: Dr Vitek Dovalil (Prague)
'Can diverse research concepts of metalinguistic activities be harmonized? Language management theory, its scope and potential for language policy research'
​Link:
https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/134287​
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Academic Year 2018/19
22 May 2019: Abhi Sharma (Cambridge)
‘Language, Policy and Identity in India’
5.00-6.30pm, Sidgwick Site, Faculty of English, GR04
Link: https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/124348
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8 May 2019
Dr Sheila Watts (Cambridge)
‘Dictionaries and Linguistic Nationalism’
5.00-6.30pm, Sidgwick Site, Faculty of English, GR04
Link: https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/124951
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(events co-organised in 2019 with UnCaNi)
24 Apr. 2019
Professor Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwaterstrand)
‘De-globalisation’ (in English)
Corpus Christi College, McCrum Theatre
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25 Apr. 2019
Professor Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwaterstrand)
‘Le Double corps de la langue: Ré-flexion sur la langue francaise’ (in French)
Corpus Christi College, McCrum Theatre
​27 April 2019
Professor Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwaterstrand)
Q&A session
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29 April 2019
Dan Smith (POLIS)
‘Populism and Nationalism: An Inseparable Nexus?’
Gonville & Caius College, Old Courts, Senior Parlour
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