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18/06/2026

💪Team English Linguistics in Action 💪

Last week, Markus Bieswanger had the opportunity to present on possible contributions of Applied Linguistics at the meeting of the "Global Action Plan for the Prevention of Airborne Conflict“ (GAPPAC) working group at the EUROCONTROL headquarters in Brussels. GAPPAC focuses on reducing the risk of midair collisions in aviation.

He is grateful to his co‑presenters Elizabeth Mathews and Flávio Antonio Coimbra Mendonca Ph.D., MSc., MBA., FRAeS. (both Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), and to Tzvetomir Blajev (EUROCONTROL) and John Wennes (CANSO) for organizing such a powerful event.

It’s encouraging to see so many people with diverse backgrounds dedicated to moving this important work forward. The GAPPAC initiative highlights the real‑world impact we can achieve when expertise, collaboration, and commitment come together.

16/06/2026

🍩Announcement: BæFoLa 🍩

We are very happy to invite you to the third talk of Season 10 of the Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language digital lecture series ( ), scheduled for this Friday (June 19), 15:00-16:00 pm (CEST). Please note that this is a later time slot than usual!

Irene Cenni (Ghent University) and Camilla Vásquez (University of South Florida) will present on “Self-Branding of Italian Food Granfluencers”. 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

08/06/2026

📢LingLab Announcement 📢

We’d like to invite you to our second LingLab talk of this season. The session will take place tomorrow (June 9) from 4-6pm and we’ll meet in room S55/RWII.
Marianne Irrgang will present about “Acceptability, Translation, and Motivations for (Non-)Sexist Language in Job Titles”.
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! 🙂

08/06/2026

💪Team English Linguistics in Action 💪

On May 26, 2026, Markus Bieswanger gave a keynote address at the 24th AsiaTEFL International Conference in Xi'an, China, one of Asia’s largest and most influential language-focussed conferences (https://www.asiatefl2026.org/). The presentation in the impressive Xianzi Hall auditorium at Xi’an Jiaotong University attracted more than a thousand on-site listeners and was also simultaneously live-streamed to audiences across many parts of Asia.

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/

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