Presentations Prof. Dr. Josef Schmied
2025
- Unimore Doctoral Programme in Human Sciences, Summer School 05/06/25.
- Volkshochschule Bayreuth (10.01.24). ChatGPT & Co. für Fremdsprachenlehrende und -nutzer (= Linguistic Perspectives on Large Language Models for Advanced (C1) English Writing)
2024
- Unimore Doctoral Programme in Human Sciences, Guest Professor lecture series November 2024: Conventions & Genres, Digitalisation, Reviews, Project Proposals
- Guest lecture University of Padova, 11 November 024: Specialised Discourse with Large Language Models?
Beyond ChatGPT in Academic English - Guest lecture University of Ferrara, 04/11/24: Writing an MA thesis with the help of Large Language Models? Beyond ChatGPT in Academic English
- Unimore Doctoral Programme in Human Sciences, Summer School 05/06/24: Practical AI Applications (esp. Large Language Models) for Academic Writing: prompt generation – result evaluation – ethical consideration
- Unimore Doctoral Programme in Human Sciences, Summer School 05/06/24: Specialised Discourse with Large Language Models? Beyond ChatGPT in academic English
- Lernbrücke Chemnitz - Lwiw 2.0, 13/05/24: Large Language Models for University Students Learning English?
- Volkshochschule Bayreuth (02.05.24). Sprachpartner ChatGPT? Chancen und Probleme des Fremdsprachenlernens in der Ära der Künstlichen Intelligenz/Large Language Models for Autonomous Language Learning? A Critical Evaluation of Opportunities, Focusing on Advanced English
2023
- Lernbrücke Chemnitz - Lwiw 2.0, 12 December 2023: Cultural adaptations in the World English lexicon: The case of China
- Lernbrücke Chemnitz - Lwiw 2.0, 30 November 2023: New methods of investigating innovations in the World English lexicon: The case of East Africa
- Lernbrücke Chemnitz - Lwiw 2.0, 16 November 2023: English as a lingua franca of the European Union? Applications to Ukraine
- Lernbrücke Chemnitz - Lwiw 2.0, 2 November 2023: Standards – global, international-regional, national
- The Tenth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English: Looking beyond the surface of the text. Brno, 04 September 2023: Specialised discourse with bots/agents? Beyond ChatGPT in academic English
- 39th International LAUD Symposium, Landau, 24 August 2023: New Methods to Document African Multilingualism and New Englishes: Twitter (†) and Other Internet Sources
- IAWE25, Stony Brook University, NY, 16 June 2023: Empirical perception studies on Italian English:Neglected, charming or unaccepted?
- Presentation University of Padova, 8 March, 2023: Writing Research Articles for International Journals: Global Principles & Practices for Non-Native Research Novices
2022
- Guest Lecture to PhD Digital Humanities, Modena, 29 November, 2022: Writing Research Articles for International Journals: Global Principles & Practices for Non-Native Research Novices
- Guest Lecture to Ateneo/Language Centre, Modena, 24 November, 2022: Analysing our own students’ Writing: Differences & parallels as a basis for establishing functional standards? (Josef Schmied) Preparing & using the Modena Corpus (Matteo de Cristofero)
- Guest Lecture to PhD Digital Humanities, Modena, 15 November, 2022: Reviewing International Conference Proposals: Awareness of Principles & Practices for Non-Native Research Novices
- Presentation at Manchester Symposium "China English or Chinese English? Implications for World Englishes in students’ academic writing", 14 June, 2022: Constructing a database of Chinese MA and PhD theses: Opportunities and challenges to design an acceptable empirical standard for academic Chinese English
- Presentation at TISLID22, 27 May 2022: Computer agents with non-native English as acredible compromise between solidarity and professionality: university communication innational cultural accents
- Presentation at TISLID22, 28 May 2022: mLearning for Palestine: Practical challenges in a project to “bridge educational and socio-political gaps” for university learning
- Presentation University of Padova, 6 April 2022: Reviewing international conference proposals: Awareness of principles & practices for non-native research novices
- Talk at the TEFL-ePal Project Dissemination Conference, Ramallah, 22 March, 2022: What have we learnt from the forced remote learning experience during the Covid-19 pandemic for the ePal project in Palestine?
2021
- Guest Lecture to PhD The Ancient Mediterranean World: History, Archaeology and Art, Pavia, 29 November, 2021: Writing Research Articles for International Journals: Global Principles & Practices for Research Novices
- Introduction to Constructing Confidence and Trust Online 2021. International Student Conference, Online "Summer School" for the DAAD Project, 22 November, 2021
- Guest Lecture to PhD Digital Humanities, Modena, 3 November, 2021: Reviewing International Conference Proposals: Awareness of Principles & Practices for Non-Native Research Novices
- Guest Lecture to PhD Digital Humanities, Modena, 2 November, 2021: Writing Research Articles for International Journals: Global Principles & Practices for Non-Native Research Novices
- Academic Writing Conventions in English MA Theses before and after Bologna: Global Rhetorical Structures and Stance in Sub-Disciplines at a German University (with Marina Ivanova). Web Conference ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) Lyon S18 (September 2021): Developing Genre-and Discipline-Specific Standards in Academic Writing?, organised by Josef Schmied (Chemnitz), Marina Bondi (Modena), Olga Dontcheva Navratilova (Brno), María Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auria (Universidad Zaragoza).
2020
- Web Conference (Leiden) "Africa knows", 2 December, 2020 - 28 February, 2021 (with Paul Onanuga, Nigeria): "Blame Colonialism?“ or „Blame the Government?”: Identity Construction and Ideological Framing in Homosexuality Narratives on Nigerian Twitter. Panel D27b The language issue and knowledge communication in Africa, organised by Marieke van Winden, Bert van Pinxteren (Leiden), Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju (Ilorin), Josef Schmied (Chemnitz).
- Webinar on Grantsmanship and Postdoctoral Application Writing, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, July, 2020 Grant Proposals as a Genre in International Academic Discourse Communities: Best Practice Examples from German Funding Agencies (AvH, VW, DAAD)
- Online Workshop for the DAAD Project, June, 2020 From Uncertainty to Confidence & Trust: Concepts & Examples
2019
- Guest Lecture, Pavia, 4 December, 2019: Professional Digital Communication: Exploring different types of reviews
- Fakultätsretreat (Professorium), Lichtenwalde, 31 October - 1 November, 2019
- Eighth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English 2019, Brno, 12-13 September, 2019: Limits of Discourse. Examples from Academic, Journalistic, and Human-Humanoid Interaction
- Ohrid Summer School for the DAAD Project, 21 - 31 August, 2019: Conflicting Truths in Academic and Journalistic Writing: Forms, Functions and Intentions
- IAWE, Limerick, 20-22 June, 2019: Comparing Non-Native Metalanguage Developments in the Periphery: the Case of Chinese English MA and PhD theses
2018
- Graduate Symposium of SYSU and TUC students on "Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar“, Chemnitz, 30 November, 2018: Functional Perspectives on New Discourses: Academic Writing, Social Media, and Human-Humanoid Interaction
- School of International Studies Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 24 September 2018: Academic Writing for M.A. Students: How to Find a Topic. How to Find disciplinary Conventions on 3 Levels.
- School of International Studies Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 24 September 2018: Academic Writing for Chinese Students: From Reading to Writing. From Global to Local
- 14th ESSE Conference, Brno, 29 August - 2 September, 2018: Functional Linguistic Approaches to Non-Native Academic Writing: Global Comparisons of Abstracts, Theses and Articles
- Split Summer School for the DAAD Project, 20 - 30 Juli, 2018: Teaching and Developing Credibility, Honesty, Ethics, and Politeness in Academic and Journalistic Writing
- Benin Workshop, 24 May. 2018: Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa , 28 Mai, 2018: A Global View on Writing Research Articles for International Journals: Principles & Practices
- Benin Workshop: Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa , 28 Mai, 2018: The Importance of Being Published: the Journal/Research Article as the Central Gene for Academic Promotion
- Ege University, Izmir, 10-11 May, 2018: From Traditional to Digital International Media Researches: Digital Humanities Approaches to Discourse: Current Language Change in Journalistic Media, National Discourses and Norms in Social Media, Reader Perception of Non-Native Usage, and Humanoid Teachers
- Lagos, 25 May, 2018: A Global View on Writing Research Articles for International Journals: Principles & Practices
- Berat, 20 April, 2018: Credibility, Honesty, Ethics, and Politeness in Academic and Journalistic Writing
- School of International Studies Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 23 March, 2018: Studying at Chemnitz in Germany: opportunities and challenges
- School of International Studies Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 23 March, 2018: Hedging and Modal Auxiliaries in English
- Guest Lecture, School of International Studies Sun Yat-sen University, 22 March, 2018: The Global View on (Thesis) Writing: from Planning to Final Editing
2017
- Anglistentag, Regensburg, 22 September, 2017: with M. Hofmann. New Digital Methodologies for old Grammar Problems: Corpus Analyses and Eye-tracking to Discover non-native English Article Usage Preferences.
- Ohrid Summer School for the DAAD Project: Hochschuldialog mit den Ländern des westlichen Balkans, 10 August, 2017: DIgesting Crises in Europe (DICE): Deconstructing and Constructing Media Texts in Dialogue with Students
- Corpus Linguistics & Digital Humanities Conference Chemnitz 14 July, 2017: From Spin to Fake News: Corpus-Linguistic Contributions to Deconstructing and Constructing Media Texts
- Nis Workshop for the DAAD Project: Hochschuldialog mit den Ländern des westlichen Balkans, 17 May , 2017: Using Corpora in Analysing Academic Writing Qualitatively and Quantitatively
- Nis Workshop for the DAAD Project: Hochschuldialog mit den Ländern des westlichen Balkans, 15 May , 2017: DIgesting Crises in Europe (DICE): Deconstructing and Constructing Media Texts in Dialogue
2016
- ICAME37. The 37th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Hong Kong, 25 - 29 May, 2016:
- ESSE2016. Bi-Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of English, Galway, Ireland, 22 - 26 August, 2016:
Research Dissemination through academic.edu and researchgate.net: Academic Writing Perspectives
2015
- KDDE Conference. Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Era. Language and Episteme, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, 18 - 20 November, 2015:
Popular Digital Knowledge Dissemination Platforms: from Wikipedia to Academia.edu - IAWE 21, The 21st Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Istanbul, Turkey, 8 - 10 October, 2015:
Chinese English in Academic Writing: Databases, Features, Prospects - International Symposium on Academic Writing Excellence in the Humanities (AGNETA), Yaoundé, Cameroon, 20 - 22 July, 2015: Academic Writing World-Wide
- TESOL International Conference “TESOL in the Global Age: New Theories and Methodologies”, Shanghai University (Baoshan Campus), 14 - 16 May, 2015:
How Can Students Find their Academic Discourse? Student Choices in BA / MA Theses in Germany and World-Wide - School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, 15 April, 2015:
An Introduction to Corpus-Linguistics: Principles & Applications, from Teaching to Research? - Nitra, Discourse Analysis and Beyond: Reflections of Discourse in Culture, Society and Vocational Language, 19-20 March, 2015:
How Can students Find their Academic Discourse? Student Choices in BA/MA Theses and Term papers in Germany and World-Wide - Usti nad Labem, CHALLENGES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING VI, 6th International Conference, 13 March, 2015:
The ChemCorpus as a Reference Corpus for Comparative Studies in Academic Writing
2014
- UPSET discussion, NWU, Vaal Triangle Campus, 11 September, 2014:
Student Writing at European Universities: an empirical Comparison - UPSET discussion, NWU, Vaal Campus, 10 September, 2014:
Corpus Approaches to African Englishes (esp. ICE-EA and ICE-EA2.0) - Africa Symposium (CASE1), Chemnitz, 23 January, 2014:
Fieldwork in East Africa: Developments over 30 Years - Offenes Seminar, Chemnitz, 23 January, 2014:
English as an International Academic Language: Exploring conventions in different disciplines
2013
- Usti nad Labem, 13 November, 2013:
Culture-Specific Differences in Writing: German–Czech/Macedonian–African–Chinese - Clavier13, Modena, 7 November, 2013:
Adaptation in Knowledge Dissemination: Science Slam/Fame Lab and other New Formats as Recontextualization? - DAAD Summer School, Ohrid, July 19, 2013:
Principles of Academic Writing - Academic Writing Workshop, Chemnitz, July 20, 2013:
Introduction to Comparative Research on Academic Writing - ICAME34, Santiago de Compostela, May 22-26, 2013:
ICE-EA2.0 - Between new Methodologies and old Compatibilities - Skopje, April 4-11, 2013:
How do we teach academic writing to German MA students?
2012
- IAWE19, The 19th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Hong Kong, December 5-9, 2012:
ICE-EA2.0 - Discussing Methodologies, Compatibility and Development - IAWE19, The 19th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Guangzhou (P.R. China), December 5-9, 2012:
Researching English in Tanzania on-line - LINKD12, Modena (Italy), October 13, 2012:
Positioning LINKD in a wide Discourse Perspective: from Rhetoric to New Rhetorics to New New Rhetorics? - LINKD12, Modena (Italy), October 11-13, 2012:
Academic Knowledge Presentation across "Cultures" and Disciplines: a Case Study of South African MA Theses - ESSE2012, Istanbul (Turkey), September 2012:
Introducing the Rhetoric of Science: Linguistic Approaches to National Traditions and Global Norms - Curriculum Development Workshop, Usti (CR), March 28-30, 2012:
Academic Writing: Background + Key Concepts
2011
- CLAVIER2011, Modena (Italy), November 26, 2011:
Round Table on Language Change in Corpus Studies: Integrating cultural variables & practices - Pavia (Italy), November 21, 2011:
Researching into Academic Writing "at home": the ChemCorpus, compilation and exploitation - Brno (CR), October 5, 2011:
A European MA Module in Academic Writing - a Staff - Student Discussion - SILCC, Chambéry (France), September 5-17, 2011:
Introduction to internet Research Tools, esp. Web-as-Corpus & Social Digital Media/Discourse - SILCC, Chambéry (France), September 5-17, 2011:
The ChemCorpus of Academic Writing 1: Introduction, Structure and Case Studies - AILA Beijing, August 2, 2011:
"Sex-up science?" A Comparison of Modality in Specialised and Popular Academic English - Chemnitz, July 01, 2011:
Culture in Language: Research in Variation, Variation in Research - Culture in English World-Wide:
Unifying the Contrasts between World Englishes and Academic Writing - Keynote in Vlora, June 12, 2011:
Albanian Association of English Studies
Englishes of Science: Concepts, Analyses, Teaching Applications - Nitra (SK), March 24-25, 2011:
Social Digital Discourse: New Challenges for Corpus- and Sociolinguistics.
2010
- Hong Kong, October 4, 2010:
Classroom Observations at a Rural Chinese University from a European Perspective - SILCC, Lódz, September 9, 2010:
The Story of ICE. - SILCC, Lódz, September 9, 2010:
Dimensions of Language Variation World-Wide - IAWE10, Vancouver, July 27, 2010:
Modalities in the Outer and Expanding Circles: Focus on Must and Would in East African and Chinese Englishes - TALC9, Brno, July 3, 2010:
Analysing and Teaching Englishes of Science - China Day, Chemnitz, May 18, 2010:
Project Management: English for Chinese Universities (Honghe University, Mengzi, Yunnan Sept. 2010)
2009
- Clavier09, Modena, November 5-7, 2009:
Using Corpora as an Innovative Tool to Compare Varieties round the World: the International Corpus of English ICE2 Story - IAWE15, Cebu, October 24, 2009:
Modalities in East-Afican English - IAWE15, October 22, 2009:
Concepts and Research Methodologies in Academic Writing: Corpus-Linguistic and Cultural Approaches - ICE Meeting, Cebu, October 21, 2009:
Modalities in East-Afican English - Guest Lecture, Universiti Sains Malaya, Penang , October 12, 2009:
Concepts and Research Methodologies in Academic Writing: Corpus-Linguistic and Cultural Approaches - Guest Lecture, Universiti Malaya, KL , October 9, 2009:
Concepts and Research Methodologies in Academic Writing: Corpus-Linguistic and Cultural Approaches - 3rd Nitra Conference on Discourse Studies, March 23-24, 2009:
Pragmatics (through) Corpora (in) Cultures: an Empirical Comparison of Academic Writing
2008
- ICE Workshop, HongKong, December 6, 2008:
New Approaches to ICE texts: a cCitical, Empirical Comparison of Academic Writing in ICE-EA and beyond - Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, HongKong, December 3-5, 2008:
Sentence Complexity and Clause Linking in African Academic Writing: a Critical Empirical Comparison - Ideas That Work, Plzen 2008:
Project Work in English Language Teaching - Discourse Approaches to Functional Linguistics, Translation and Foreign Language Teaching, Wloclawek 2008:
Discourse Approaches to Specialised and Popular Academic English: Comparing Modality and Hedges - Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse, Brno 2008:
Specialised and Popular Academic Discourse: Comparing Hedges and Interclausal Relationships - TALC, Lisbon 2008:
Investigative Learning in different Types of Academic Writing in the SPACE Corpus: Modal and Evaluative Sentence Adverbs
2006/7
- Challenges, Usti, 23/11/07:
English 21: from Language Teacher to Language Service Provider? - TALC, Paris, 2/7/06:
Teaching and Learning Contrastive Linguistics Using an EU Translation Corpus with English, German, French and Spanish - ICAME, Helsinki, 28/5/06:
Hedges in general and popular Academic English
2005
- Language Planning for Development in Africa, Moi University, 2/6/05:
"Designing" national Norms for African Varieties of English and English for Academic Purposes Using Corpus-Linguistic Methodologies - Kenya DAAD Scholars Association Conference, Kenyata University Nairobi, 27/5/05:
Re-Invigorating the University Mandate in a Globalising Environment - Linguistics Circle Poitier/France, 1/4/05:
Contrasting Causativity in English and German - Plsen/CR (Teacher Training-Syposium), 6/11/04:
ICT for the Secondary School Teacher
2004
- Abschlusssymposium Forschergruppe "Neue Medien", Chemnitz, 25/11/04:
Lernerverhalten in der Internetgrammatik - Anglistentag Aachen 25/9/04:
Hypertext and (Grammar) Learning - Granada/Spain (TALC6), 8/7/04:
Discovery learning in the Chemnitz Internet Grammar - Verona/Italy (ICAME25), 20/5/04:
Exploiting the Corpus of East African English (ICE-EA)
2002/3
- 50Jahrfeier Hochschule Maschinenbau Chemnitz, 25/11/03:
Englisch lernen im Internet - Symposium SFB 538 Mehrsprachigkeit, Universität Hamburg, 14/11/03:
Uncovering Gradience: a Translation Corpus as a Discovery Principle - Santiago/Spain (ICLC2), 24/9/03:
Rendering English aspects in non-aspect languages (like German): a corpus-linguistic approach - ICAME24, Guernsay/Channel Islands, 26/4/03:
New ways of Analysing ESL on the WWW with WebCorp and WebPhraseCount - PALC 2003, Lodz/Polen, 4/4/03:
Partial Ontologies, Corpora and the www: towards new Approaches with WebPhraseCount - British Studies Conference, Dortmund 9/4/03:
Local Culture in Global English: a case study of Kultur in Sprache /Sprachwissenschaft in Kulturwissenschaften - DAAD IT Conference, Moi University, Eldoret/Kenya, 27/11/02:
Information & the Internet: Challenges for a modern Department of English (Language & Linguistics)