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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">We are delighted to announce that the upcoming masterclass on
<strong>Migrant Ego-Documents in Late Modern English</strong> will be held as an online event on 10 May 2021 at the University of Oslo, Norway.</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Four scholars active in the field of English historical sociolinguistics will explore theoretical and applied perspectives on migrant ego-documents over the course of four lectures:</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><strong>Examining ‘Bad Data’: Ego Documents in the History of English</strong></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Raymond Hickey, <em>University of Limerick,</em></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><strong>Historical sociolinguistic and heritage linguistic perspectives on ego-documents</strong></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Anita Auer, <em>University of Lausanne,</em></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><strong>“And me at the age that I am”: Scotticisms in Emigrants’ Letters</strong></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Marina Dossena, <em>University of Bergamo,</em></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><strong>‘A beginning and an end of it’. The transition from eighteenth to nineteenth century English as represented in ego-documents from the foundation of the penal colony of New South Wales’.</strong></div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Robert McColl Millar, <em>University of Aberdeen.</em></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Please find further information on the programme and how to register on the masterclass’
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website</a>. Registration and attendance is free and open to the public.</div>
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We are looking forward to welcoming you virtually in Oslo!
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Best wishes,</div>
<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Nora Dörnbrack</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">(on behalf of the organising committee)</div>
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