| Wednesday, July 7, 2027 | |||
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| 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Conference Registration | ||
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Conference opening | ||
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Keynote 'Evolution of world Englishes: A personal history' |  | KK & SN Sridhar, Stony Brook University, New York, United States |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Refreshments | ||
| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Parallel sessions | ||
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch | ||
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Parallel sessions | ||
| 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Keynote 'The Geopolitics of Language: Is English losing its soft power edge?' |  | Rosemary Salomone, St. John’s University, New York, United States |
| 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | Refreshments | ||
| 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM | Parallel sessions | ||
| Thursday, July 8, 2027 | |||
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Conference registration | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Keynote 'Can English even be part of stable multilingual repertoires?' |  | Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Refreshments | ||
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Parallel sessions | ||
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Parallel sessions | ||
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Refreshments | ||
| 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Keynote 'Migration linguistics and language spread: Sociolinguistic perspectives for world Englishes' |  | Daniel Schreier, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM | Parallel sessions | ||
| 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Conference dinner | ||
| Friday, July 9, 2027 | |||
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Conference registration | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Keynote 'World Englishes and AI' | Werner Botha, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia | |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Keynote 'One hundred years of the OED, fifty years of world Englishes: How a historical dictionary became the definitive record of a global language' |  | Danica Salazar, Oxford University Dictionary, Oxford, United Kingdom |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Refreshments | ||
| 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Parallel sessions | ||
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Parallel sessions | ||
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Keynote 'Widening the scope: Maldivian English and its place in the world Englishes paradigm' |  | Tobias Bernaisch, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | AGM & Conference closing | ||
