We are pleased to share the History, Identity, and Linguistic Diversity Podcast--available at https://eutopia-hild.eu and through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts.

The podcast features interviews with members of the Eutopia History, Identity, and Linguistic Diversity (HILD) Connected Research Community Incubator. Colleagues respond to the challenge: “How can we reduce present-day European conflict through knowledge of historical multilingualism, language conflict, and language policy?”

The podcast is will appeal to anyone interested in the ways that historical sociolinguistics can provide insight into solutions for present-day problems. Episodes will publish serially through February, and will remain available as a resource for academic and non-academic listeners.

The podcast is the first of several anticipated academic and public engagement outputs from HILD. HILD is an EU-funded initiative of researchers at universities in the Eutopia alliance, who engage with historical sociolinguistics through topics such as language history, language contact, language policy, multilingualism, language education, language variation and change, language conflict, minoritized languages and dialects, and language standardisation.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics