Conference Programme
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BAAHE 2026: Human and Human-like Voices
27 November 2026
Conference venue: Learning Centre Christine de Pizan, Place Cardinal Mercier, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
The conference programme is available here.
| 8.30-9.00 Registration | ||
| 9.00 Welcome and conference opening - Salle du Conseil | ||
9.15-10.15 Keynote: Prof. Jennifer Richards (University of Cambridge) - Salle du Conseil Live artefacts? The role of voice in a seventeenth-century book on bees. | ||
| 10.15-10.30 Coffee break | ||
| 10.30-12.30 Parallel sessions | ||
Cultural and literary studies Salle du Conseil | Linguistics Eras 56 | Linguistics and ELT Eras 57 |
| Visualized voice: how literary materiality turns reading to embodied listening in Max Porter’s Lanny and Shy ~ Nils Van den Keybus | “What is in a Greeting?” The pragmatics of greetings in Nigerian English ~ Deborah Fifelola | Introducing GenAIsis: Following learners’ GenAI use across L2 writing tasks ~ Shiyi Guo |
| “Omniscient, yes, but only sometimes”: The Issue of the Narrator in John Banville’s The Singularities ~ Antonina Mazurek | Building a multilingual corporate voice online: insights from companies operating in multilingual markets ~ Florence Detienne | Dialogue or Monologue? Interaction and Production in Structured Spoken English ~ Elmira Shirinsokhan |
| Purring Children, Silent Woman: Human and Human-like Voice in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake ~Saleh Altam | Voices addressing postcolonial debates: a Membership Categorisation Analysis of interventions in European media ~ Lucie Niclaes |
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| Writing Silence: Thomas A. Clark, Birdsong and the Withdrawal of the Poet’s Voice ~ Christian Wethered | Leo Strauss and the Political Art of Speaking in Many Voices ~ Rory O’Sullivan |
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| 12.30-13.30 Lunch break | ||
13.15-13.45 BAAHE AGM (Eras 53) 13.45-14.10 BAAHE thesis award - Salle du Conseil
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14.15-15.15 Keynote: Prof. Ellen Simon (UGent) - Salle du Conseil Many voices, one message: Phonetic variation and the perception of English accents | ||
| 15.15-15.30 Coffee break | ||
| 15.30-17.00 Parallel sessions | ||
Cultural and literary studies Salle du Conseil | Linguistics Eras 56 | Translation and interpreting Eras 57 |
| Nature Bites Back in the Second Person: An Ecofeminist Reading of Stephen Graham Jones’ Ecohorror The Only Good Indians ~ Jessica Maufort | Did you say mouse or mice?: the impact of phonetic characteristics on intelligibility in Belfast English ~ Chloé Ostiguy, Ellen Simon & Bastien De Clercq | Towards the characterization of expert, learner and GenAI voiceprints: A multi-corpus comparison of participle clauses in English-to-French translation ~ Maïté Dupont & Marie-Aude Lefer |
| Beyond the Human Voice: Testimony, Ecology, and Machine Address in Indian Writing in English ~ Bosudha Bandyopadhyay | Your Voice Speaks Better English Without You: Perceived Nativeness in AI Voice Clones of English-French Bilinguals ~Anthony Gemayel & Emmanuel Ferragne | Relocating Mene’s Voice: Linguistic Affordances and Translational Agency in the French and Italian Translations of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy ~ Manuela Palagro |
| The Non-Human Other as a Site of Relation and Creolization: A Glissantian Reading of André Alexis’s Fifteen Dogs ~ Zahra Al-Sharoufiz | Human and Human-like Voices in Written and Spoken Discourse: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Interactional Metadiscourse in Human and AI Texts ~ Ruhan Glüçü | Does Obscenity Survive Localization? A Large-scale Diachronic Corpus Study of Offensive Character Voice in English and French in the Grand Theft Auto Series ~ Louis Escouflaire & Simon Copet |
| 17.00-17.15 Closing session - Salle du Conseil | ||