here's a list of presentations/talks i have given/contributed to:
Narratives of human-animal relations. Panel speaker at the Critical Research in Industrial Livestock Systems workshop, 2024. [presentation on TABLE theory of change] [interactive quiz on animal narratives] | April 2024 |
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Garnett, Tara & Tamsin Blaxter. The need for dietary shift. presentation at the LEAF Annual Conference, 2024. London. | February 2024 |
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Blaxter, Tamsin. The balance between plant and animal sourced foods. presentation at International Symposium on ‘Dietary Protein for Human Health’. Utrecht. | September 2023 |
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Blaxter, Tamsin. The supreme nutrient: A cultural history of protein, 1837-2023. presentation at the After the Green Revolution Summer School, gloknos, Cambridge. [summer school] [presentation] | July 2023 |
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Blaxter, Tamsin. Protein transitions to save the world: what can we learn from history? poster presentation at Sustainable Food Systems in the Face of Global Human-made Catastrophes conference, Bristol: University of Bristol. [slides] [poster] | March 2023 |
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Blaxter, Tamsin. 2023. The primary nutrient: What can the cultural history of protein teach us about the current moment? presentation at Cambridge Alternative Proteins Workshop / F4S Academy Webinars. | February 2023 |
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Blaxter, Tamsin. 2021. “Using apps to collect data for spatial and social linguistics: Gamification, virality and metadata.” UNIL Summer School: Digital Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Université de Lausanne. | June 2021 |
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Willis, David, Deepthi Gopal, Tam Blaxter & Adrian Leemann. 2019. “Apparent-time and spatial diffusion in large social-media corpora.” NWAV 48, University of Oregon, Eugene. | October 2019 |
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Burridge, James, Tam Blaxter & Bert Vaux. 2019. “Testing the evolutionary paths of grammar.” RUSE 2019: Symposium on Representations, Usage and Social Embedding in Language Change, University of Manchester. | August 2019 |
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Willis, David, Deepthi Gopal, Tam Blaxter & Adrian Leemann. 2019. “Big data for a small language: Mapping variation in Welsh on social media.” ICLaVE 10, Fryske Academy, Leeuwarden. | June 2019 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2019. “Variationist evidence in explanations for the loss of the nominative in Norwegian.” Language Sciences Research Symposium for early-careers researchers 2019, University of Cambridge. | June 2019 |
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Britain, David & Tam Blaxter. 2019 Hands off the metadata!: comparing the use of explicit and background metadata in crowdsourced dialectology. Plenary Lecture. "Let’s Compare: Erste variationslinguistische Tagung zum Vergleich von historischen und modernen Daten". University of Bern, 6-7 May 2019. | May 2019 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2019. “Geographical evidence for the morphosyntax of genitive loss in the history of Norwegian.” Historical Corpora and Variation Workshop. Università degli Studi di Cagliari. | April 2019 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2019. “The geography of actualisation: mapping the restructuring of the genitive in the history of
Norwegian.” DAAD–University of Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies Research network: Mapping Language Variation and Change workshop. University of Cambridge. | March 2019 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2019. “The geography of actualisation: mapping the restructuring of the genitive in the history of
Norwegian.” Philological Society Early Career Researchers' Forum. University of Oxford. | March 2019 |
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Willis, David, Deepthi Gopal, Tam Blaxter & Adrian Leemann. 2018. “Localising morphosyntactic variation in Welsh Twitter data.” Linguistic Society of America 2019 Annual Meeting, New York. | January 2019 |
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Willis, David, Deepthi Gopal, Tam Blaxter & Adrian Leemann. 2018. “Urbanisation and morphosyntactic variation in Twitter data.” Urban Language Research 2018, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. | November 2018 |
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Willis, David, Deepthi Gopal, Tam Blaxter & Adrian Leemann. 2018. “Localising morphosyntactic variation in Welsh Twitter data.” NWAV 47, New York University. | October 2018 |
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Blaxter, Tam & Adrian Leemann. 2018. “Dialectological apples and oranges: Exploring language change between the Survey of English Dialects and the English Dialects App.” Sussex Research on Language Linguistics Seminar, University of Sussex. | October 2018 |
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Willis, David, Deepthi Gopal & Tam Blaxter. 2018. “Localising morphosyntactic variation in Twitter data.” Language Association of Great Britain Annual General Meeting, University of Sheffield. | September 2018 |
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Blaxter, Tam, Adrian Leemann & David Britain. 2018. “Levelling, isogloss movement or artefacts of the method? Mapping change between the SED and the English Dialects App.” ISLE5. University of London. | July 2018 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2018. “Towards a stylistic geography of the Íslendingasögur.” Old Norse in Oxford Seminar, University of Oxford. | May 2018 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2018. “Ther varom mid j hia: Tracing linguistic diffusion in the Diplomatarium Norvegicum.” Seminar on Language Change, Universitetet i Oslo. | April 2018 |
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Grossenbacher, Sarah, David Britain, Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Tam Blaxter & Daniel Wanitsch. 2017. “Smartphone app methodologies for regional dialectology: the English North-South divide in data from the English Dialects App. Conference on Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction: perspectives from Linguistics and Geography,” April 23-28 2017, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland. | April 2017 |
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Blaxter, Tam, Adrian Leemann & David Britain. 2017. “Evidence of sound change in the British English crowdsourced using the ‘English Dialects App’.” 4th International Workshop on Sound Change. University of Edinburgh. | April 2017 |
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Blaxter, Tam & Kate Beeching. 2017. “Sounds Bristolian: Variation and change in rates of rhoticity.” Language Variation in the South of England. University of Suffolk. | April 2017 |
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Willis, David & Tam Blaxter. 2017. “Pragmatic differentiation of negative markers in the early stages of Jespersen’s cycle in North Germanic.” Diachrony of negation workshop. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. | February 2017 |
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Britain, David, Adrian Leemann, Tam Blaxter & Marie-José Kolly. 2016. “Going, going but not gone: Dialect levelling, socially differentiated mobility and lessons from the English Dialect App.” Taal en Tongval. Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature (KANTL), Universiteit Ghent. | November 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2016. “The development of svarabhakti vowels in the history of Norwegian.” Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium 2016. University of Cambridge. | November 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2016. “Hierarchical and contagious diffusion of sound change in medieval Norway.” Phonetics and Phonology Seminar. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. | November 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam & Yang Li. 2016. “The end of English dialects?” Festival of Ideas. University of Cambridge. | October 2016 |
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Britain, David, Adrian Leemann, Tam Blaxter, Daniel Wanitsch, Marie-José Kolly & Sarah Grossenbacher. 2016. “Big bad dialectological data? Lessons from the English Dialect App.” Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences, Newcastle University. | October 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam, Adrian Leemann & David Britain. 2016. “Evidence of levelling processes in British English crowdsourced using the ‘English Dialects App’.” BCL PhD Linguistics Summer School. Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England. | July 2016 |
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Britain, David, Adrian Leemann, Tam Blaxter, Daniel Wanitsch, Marie-José Kolly & Sarah Grossenbacher. 2016. “Up, app and away?: Social dialectology and the use of smartphone technology as a data collection strategy.” Sociolinguistics Symposium 21. Universidad de Murcia. | June 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2016. “The role of language contact in structural simplification in the history of Norwegian.” Historical Sociolinguistics Colloquium, Sociolinguistics Symposium 21. Universidad de Murcia. | June 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2016. “The end of English dialects?” Graduate Poster Exhibition. Pembroke College, Cambridge. | June 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2016. “Pathways of linguistic diffusion in medieval Norway.” Graduate Poster Exhibition. Pembroke College, Cambridge. | June 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam & Kari Kinn. 2016. “Broken vs. unbroken forms of the 1st sg. pronoun in Middle Norwegian.” Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. University of Iceland, Reykjavik. | May 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2016. “Language change in Middle Norwegian: Diffusion processes and social structures in medieval Norway.” Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference. University of Helsinki. | March 2016 |
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Leemann, Adrian, Tam Blaxter & Yang Li. 2016. “Sound change in England from 1950 to today: Preliminary results from the English Dialect App corpus.” Phonetics and Phonology Seminar. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. | February 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2016. “A view on the past with a view to the future: Insights from historical sociolinguistics for language documentation.” Departmental Seminar, Department of Linguistics, SOAS University of London. | January 2016 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2015. “Do dialects emerge from the chaos? Searching for geographical factors in sound change in Old and Middle Norwegian.” Phonetics and Phonology Seminar. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. | October 2015 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2015. “Do dialects emerge from the chaos? Searching for geographical factors in language change in Old and Middle Norwegian.” Historical Linguistics Cluster Workshop. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. | September 2015 |
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Willis, David & Tam Blaxter. 2015. “Pragmatic factors in the grammaticalisation of new negative marking in Middle Norwegian.” Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik. Universität zu Köln. | September 2015 |
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Willis, David & Tam Blaxter. 2015. “Pragmatic differentiation of negative markers in the early stages of Jespersen’s Cycle in North Germanic.” International Conference on Historical Linguistics 22. Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II. | July 2015 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2014. “The dental preterite: Traditional problems and two recent solutions.” Comparative Philology Graduate Seminar. Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford. | February 2014 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2014. “The Trudgill conjecture and language change in Old and Middle Norwegian.” Phonetics and Phonology Seminar. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. | February 2014 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2013. “Digital explorations of the language of the Íslendingasögur.” Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. | February 2013 |
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Blaxter, Tam. 2012. “Towards a synchronic grammar of Proto-Indo-European: Impersonal verbs and active-stative alignment.” Comparative Philology Graduate Seminar. Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford. | November 2011 |
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