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Kingsley Bolton is Professor Emeritus at the University of Stockholm, and Research Fellow at Ateneo de Manila University. He has published widely on English across the Asian region. His publications include The Handbook of Asian Englishes (with Werner Botha and Andy Kirkpatrick, Wiley Blackwell, 2020), and The Routledge Handbook of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education (with Werner Botha and Benedict Lin, 2024). He is Co-Editor of the journals, Educational Studies (Routledge), World Englishes (Wiley-Blackwell), Series Editor of the Routledge book series, Multilingual Asia, and Chief Editor of The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. He is currently Executive Director of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE).

Kingsley Bolton will be giving his plenary talk on the topic "World Englishes: Forty Years and Beyond".

  

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick and former Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research centres around varieties of English, especially Irish English (Irish English, History and Present-day Forms, Cambridge University Press, 2007; Dublin English. Evolution and Change, John Benjamins, 2005), eighteenth-century English, standardisation of English, language contact and areal linguistics, as well as sociolinguistic variation and change. Recent books are Listening to the Past, Audio Records of Accents of English. (Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics. (Cambridge University Press, 2017), English in the German-speaking World (Cambridge University Press, 2020), English in Multilingual South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Handbook of Language Contact (Wiley, 2020), Sound of English World-Wide (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (Oxford University Press, 2023) as well as Life and Language Beyond Earth (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Raymond Hickey will be giving his plenary talk on the topic "Second-language English: Contact, Core and Communalities". You can find his abstract here.

  

Bernd Kortmann is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His publications include four monographs, 17 edited volumes and special issues, the two-volume multimedia reference work A Handbook of Varieties of English (2004), one print atlas on grammatical variation in the Anglophone world (2012), the open access electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (www.ewave-atlas.org; version 3.0 published 2020), and about 100 research articles and reviews in journals and collective volumes. He has published widely in English and areal European linguistics. His main research interest is the comparative grammar of non-standard varieties of English around the world, especially from a typological perspective. He is co-editor of Topics in English Linguistics and Dialects of English and a journal editor of English Language and Linguistics. He holds an Honorary Doctorate and is an elected member of the Academia Europaea. In June 2023, he took office as President of ISLE, the International Society for the Linguistics of English. Find out more about his research from his homepage, ResearchGate or Academia.edu.

Bernd Kortmann will be giving his plenary talk on the topic "Grammaticalization in World Englishes and the Future Shape of English as a World Language". You can find his abstract here.

  

Isabel Pefianco Martin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Management at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Prior to this post, she was Professor of sociolinguistics at the English Department, where she also served as Chair. Dr Martin is a leading figure in English language studies in the country, having published in various internationally recognized publications on topics ranging from Philippine English, English language education, English sociolinguistics, and forensic/legal linguistics. She is currently the President of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE). She also serves as Managing Editor of Asian Englishes, a Scopus-indexed journal.

Isabel Pefianco Martin will be giving her plenary talk on the topic "Translanguaging for Deeper Learning: Embracing Pluricentric Englishes in the Classroom". You can find her abstract here.

  

Dushyanthi Mendis is Professor in English at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is most comfortable in the teaching and research spaces of sociolinguistics, genre and discourse analysis and Sri Lankan Englishes. She was instrumental in the compilation of the Sri Lankan component of ICE (ICE-SL).

Dushyanthi Mendis will be giving her plenary talk on the topic "World Englishes: Into the Future". You can find her abstract here.

  

Salikoko S. Mufwene is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Dept. of Linguistics, the Dept. of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is also has professorial appointments to the Committee of Evolutionary Biology, the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the Committee on African Studies. He identifies his research area as evolutionary linguistics, which he approaches from an ecological perspective, focused on the phylogenetic emergence of languages and language speciation, especially the emergence of creoles and other forms of the indigenization of European languages in the colonies, as well as language vitality. His books include: The Ecology of Language Evolution (CUP, 2001), Language Evolution: Contact, competition and change (Continuum Press, 2008), Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America (ed., U of Chicago Press, 2014), Bridging Linguistics and Economics (ed., with Cécile B. Vigouroux, CUP, 2020), and two volumes of The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact (ed., with Anna María Escobar, CUP, 2022). He is the founding editor of Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact. He also a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (since Jan. 2018), the American Philosophical Society (since April 2022), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since April 2023). He assumes the Chaire Mondes francophones at the Clollège de France for the 2023-24 academic year. See more on him at: https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/salikoko-s-mufwene/

Salikoko S. Mufwene will be giving his plenary talk on the topic "A Uniformitarian Approach to the Kachruvian Concentric Model of World Englishes". You can find his abstract here.