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2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator. North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics, 7th edition

The 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (with free registration). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in cutting edge research without the limitations imposed by international travel. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields in our global scholarly community to join us online for our Research Incubator this spring. The 7th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, or prototyping.

The incubator’s audience actively participates in workshopping these new ideas, brainstorming along with the presenter to forge scholarly paths and develop research solutions. We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing and pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, and tools in historical sociolinguistics; seeking feedback from peers; and engaging in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects.

NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope.

Successful abstracts will be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection of the abstract.

To encourage maximum exchange of ideas in the incubation environment, an hour-long discussion with the audience -- led by specialists -- will follow each thematic panel and will encompass specific feedback on three papers as well as emergent considerations of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models. To facilitate such incubation, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and the other presenters a few days prior to the start of the conference.

Presentations will be delivered via Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform will be sent to authors in due time.

Please contact us at NARNiHistSoc@gmail.com with any questions.

Join us this coming weekend --25-27 April 2025-- for the 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator!

Consult the full program for the richest Incubator line-up ever: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3075

Fourteen (14!!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics and an expert roundtable!

The event is fully online and free for NARNiHS members. Not yet a NARNiHS member? Membership is free: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2

Information concerning access to the online venue will be distributed through the NARNiHS members' listserv a few days before the event.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The 2025 NARNiHS Research Incubator organizing committee

Carolina Amador-Moreno (Universidad de Extremadura)
Joshua Bousquette (University of Georgia)
Yasmin Crombez (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & FWO)
Anna Havinga (University of Bristol)
Mark Richard Lauersdorf (University of Kentucky)
Vicente Lledó-Guillem (Hofstra University)
Laura Moquin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Kelly E. Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Olivia Walsh (University of Nottingham)
Aaron Yamada (Creighton University)