Nina Tahmasebi will give a tutorial in the 2026 Summer School of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, to be held from 7–13 June 2026 at Uppsala university, Sweden.
The summer school The 2026 Summer School of the International Society for the Linguistics of English will take place at Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden). It will be hosted by the Department of English and the Faculty of Languages at Campus Blåsenhus, von Kraemers allé 1, 752 37 Uppsala, between 7 - 13 June. This summer school aims to throw light on how to investigate language change within modern analytical frameworks. The focus will be on recent advances in research including contemporary and historical cultural contexts. The frameworks highlighted comprise, among others, historical corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics, historical socio-pragmatics, genre studies, manuscript studies, public (historical) linguistics, and AI and historical linguistics. Nina Tahmasebi will be giving a tutorial on the challenges of modern AI applied to historical texts (and historical languages) and presenting strategies for overcoming them.