Our Past Conferences

Here is a list of previous FGLS events

15th Forum for Germanic Language Studies conference

6-7 January 2022, hosted by the University of Reading, UK


Event Details

Due to the uncertainties regarding Covid-19 restrictions and international travel, the 15th Forum for Germanic Language Studies conference, hosted by the University of Reading, was held online.

Invited Speaker 

Prof. Joachim Scharloth (Waseda University, Tokyo): Invectivity and the German New Right: Forms and Functions of a Modality of Interaction 


Virtual Colloquium in Germanic Linguistics for Postgraduate Research Students and Early Career Researchers

12-13 January 2021, hosted by the University of Sheffield, UK


Event Details

The Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS), in cooperation with the Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL), held a virtual colloquium for Postgraduate Research Students and Early Career Researchers on Germanic linguistics. 

Invited Speaker 

Prof. Grit Liebscher (University of Waterloo, Canada): Instructions-giving in the (pre-)COVID German linguistic landscape

University of Bristol 9-10 January 2020

University of Edinburgh 11-12 January 2018

Aston University 7-8 January 2016

University of Cambridge 9-11 January 2014 (with our American and Canadian sister organisation The Society of Germanic Linguistics)

Previous conferences also include:

Sheffield (2012, organised by Kristine Horner, Roel Vismans, and Regina Weinert), Gregynog in 2010 (organised by Wini Davies, Aberystwyth), in Banff (Alberta) with the SGL in 2009, and in Nottingham (2007, organised by Nicola McLelland). Earlier conferences were in Cambridge (2005), London (2003), Manchester (2000), Canterbury (1999), York (1996) and Manchester (1994).