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18/05/2026

🍩Announcement: BæFoLa🍩
We are very happy to invite you to the second talk of Season 10 of the Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language digital lecture series ( ), scheduled for this Friday (May 22), 12:30-13:30 pm (CEST).

Luisa Marino (University of Naples “Federico II”) will present on “’Good for You. Good for the Planet’: Trust-Building and Corporate Legitimacy in Barilla's Sustainability Reports”. For details, see the attached abstract.

The BæFoLa talk series is open to anyone interested in language and food. If you would like to participate but aren't on the mailing list yet, get in touch with Sofia Rüdiger ([email protected]).

More information is available on the BæFoLa website: https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we06/arbeitsbereiche/linguistik/konferenzen_tagungen_symposien/Bayreuth---Berlin-Food-and-Language-_BaeFoLa_/index.html

11/05/2026

📢LingLab Announcement 📢

We’d like to invite you to our first LingLab talk of this season. The session will take place tomorrow (May 12) from 4-6pm and we’ll meet in room S55/RWII.

Johannes Trüdinger will present about “Automating Modality: AI-Driven Semantic Analysis of Scottish Standard English”.

If you want to get on the LingLab mailing list, please send a short email to Billian Otundo ([email protected]).

We’re looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! 🙂

22/04/2026

🍩Announcement: BæFoLa🍩

We are very happy to invite you to the first talk of Season 10 of the Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language digital lecture series ( ), scheduled for this Friday (April 24), 12:30-13:30 pm (CEST).

Justyna Robinson (University of Sussex) will present on “Neology in Food and Drink Terminology: Recent Perspectives and Developments in Research by the European Network of Lexical Innovation”. For details, see the attached abstract.

The BæFoLa talk series is open to anyone interested in language and food. If you would like to participate but aren't on the mailing list yet, get in touch with Sofia Rüdiger ([email protected]).

More information is available on the BæFoLa website: https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we06/arbeitsbereiche/linguistik/konferenzen_tagungen_symposien/Bayreuth---Berlin-Food-and-Language-_BaeFoLa_/index.html

21/04/2026

📢LingLab Program Announcement 📢

We’re very happy to announce the program of the new season of our Linguistic Laboratory.

This summer term, you can dive into our research with the following three talks:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿May 12, 4-6 pm (c.t.): Johannes Trüdinger
“Automating Modality: AI-Driven Semantic Analysis of Scottish Standard English”
(S55, RWII)

🧑‍💻June 9, 4-6 pm (c.t.): Marianne Irrgang
“Acceptability, Translation, and Motivations for (Non-)Sexist Language in Job Titles”
(S55, RWII)

🍝July 13 (Monday!!), 4-6 pm (c.t.), Sofia Rüdiger
“Feasting for the Feed: Discourse of Carnivalesque Consumption on YouTube”
(S132, NWIII)

The Linguistic Laboratory (LingLab) is a work-in-progress colloquium at the Chair of English Linguistics, organized by Prof. Susanne Mühleisen and Dr. Billian Otundo. LingLab showcases ongoing research in English Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth and is open to presenters from all stages of academic life (advanced MA students, PhD students, postdocs, visiting researchers, professors).

We usually meet on a Tuesday between 4 and 6pm (c.t.) - but please see the actual dates in the program. To join the mailing list, please write to: [email protected]

More information on LingLab can be found at: https://www.english-linguistics1.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Linguistic-Laboratory/index.html

07/04/2026

🍩The Bayreuth - Berlin Food and Language Talks (BæFoLa) – Season 10 🍩

We're very happy to announce the program of the tenth season of BæFoLa, the Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language digital lecture series, co-organized by Sofia Rüdiger (Freie Universität Berlin) and Susanne Mühleisen (University of Bayreuth). BæFoLa takes place once a month (usually the last or second-last Friday), 12:30-13:30pm (CEST), via Zoom, and is open to anyone interested in language and/or food.

Attendance of BæFoLa is free, but participants are asked to register via a quick message to [email protected]. If you are already on the mailing list, no need to register again - you will receive the abstracts and Zoom links for each talk automatically (~one week in advance of each talk). Feel free to forward the program (and the attached poster) to your students as well as interested colleagues. More information on BæFoLa can also be found at https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we06/arbeitsbereiche/linguistik/konferenzen_tagungen_symposien/Bayreuth---Berlin-Food-and-Language-_BaeFoLa_/index.html.

Season 10 of BæFoLa features the following four delicious talks:

🍽April 24, 12:30-13:30 CEST: Justyna Robinson (University of Sussex)
Neology in Food and Drink Terminology: Recent Perspectives and Developments in Research by the European Network of Lexical Innovation

🌱May 22, 12:30-13:30 CEST: Luisa Marino (University of Naples "Federico II")
"Good for You. Good for the Planet": Trust-Building and Corporate Legitimacy in Barilla's Sustainability Reports

🍝June 19, 15:00-16:00 CEST: Irene Cenni (Ghent University) & Camilla Vásquez (University of South Florida)
Self-Branding of Italian Food Granfluencers

🍛July 17, 12:30-13:30 CEST: Revathi Suresh (St Joseph's University, Bengaluru)
Chattichoru as Spectacle: Constructing Malayali Identity and Food Narratives in Online Spaces

We'd be delighted to see you at BæFoLa! 🍩

31/03/2026

💪Team English Linguistics in Action 💪

From March 23-25, Markus Bieswanger attended the 40th anniversary edition of the Flyoperativt Forum (Flight Operational Forum Norway) and gave a plenary speech on “Communication and Language Factors in Air Safety Investigations”.
He very much welcomed the opportunity to spread the message to aviation industry experts from all over Scandinavia and beyond that communication and language do affect flight safety and have to be systematically included in incident and accident investigations.

More information on the forum can be found at: https://fof.aero/agenda-2026/

30/03/2026

💪Team English Linguistics in Action 💪

From 26–28 March, Susanne Mühleisen from Team English Linguistics attended “Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices” at FU Berlin. The conference was organized by our former colleague Sofia Rüdiger together with her team, Rita Vallentin and Ryan Fountain.

Sixty participants from thirteen different countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK, and the US) made their way to Berlin to engage in conversations and discussions centered around language and food.
The flavorful program featured two workshops (by Zeena Feldman and Janina Wildfeuer), a practitioner talk (by Marina Beuerle), four keynote lectures (by Cynthia Gordon, Stefan Diemer, Cornelia Gerhardt, and Keri Marwick), and more than thirty presentations and lightning talks. It really was a wonderful opportunity for bringing together scholars from across the field, from emerging voices to renowned experts.

A heartfelt thank you to Sofia and her team for organizing this wonderful conference! It truly was a deliciously enjoyable event, offering a rich menu of contributions and discussions. ☺️🍽️

23/03/2026

💪Team English Linguistics in Action 💪

This coming Friday, Billian Otundo from Team English Linguistics will give a talk about “Schoolscape and Language Hierarchies: Visualising Language Policy and Authority in Kenyan Schools” at the closing workshop of the MESSAGE-project. The workshop is hosted by RWTH Aachen University, and you can find more information in the program attached.

As the workshop takes place online, we kindly invite you to participate via Zoom (scan the QR code and you’ll be forwarded straight to the meeting).

See you all on Friday! 🙂

23/03/2026

🔥Hot off the press 🔥

Together with two researchers from the University of Nicosia, Aretousa Giannakou and Ellie Zampiaki, Billian Otundo co-published a research article titled “The Dual Role of English in Kenya: Exploring Language Ideologies in a Multilingual Context”. The article was published in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development and is accessible via the following link (open access):
https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2026.2621104

Your thoughts and feedback are welcome! 🙂

16/03/2026

💪Team English Linguistics in Action 💪

Patricia Maier from Team English Linguistics attended the 23rd StaPs conference (Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende) at Osnabrück University from 13-14 March. In her talk “Environmental female voices: A pragmatic discourse analysis of speeches by women leaders in climate activism” she presented the framework of her PhD-project.

On two days, StaPs brought together linguistics PhD students from different countries and fields to discuss their ongoing research. The conference was also lightened up by incredibly interesting plenary talks by Nathalie Bauer (University of Münster) and Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück University), as well as two practical workshops organized by Elen Le Foll (University of Cologne).

A big thank you to the linguistics department at Osnabrück University for organizing the conference! It was a pleasure to be there and a great chance to get to know so many people and their projects!😊

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