TGDP presentation at the Conference Varieties in Contact: Phenomena – Methods – Theories: “TGDA 2.0 – An enriched Texas German Dialect Corpus for (comparative) corpus analyses” (Hans C. Boas, Margo Blevins, Thomas Schmidt). University of Dortmund, Germany (June 6, 2025).
Official start of the 18-month long research project “Let the People of the Past Speak! Turning Migrant Letters from the 19th Century into Speech”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Together with Atiba Pertilla from the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and Thomas Schmidt from Linguisticbits (Germany), members of the TGDP will be exploring how 19th century handwritten Texas German letters can be turned into spoken Texas German with the help of artificial intelligence.
TGDP presentation at the Workshop “Archiving Ethnic Voices and Memory: A Roundtable on German Americana” at the 71st Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies in Siegen, Germany. Organized by Jana Weiss (UT Austin), with participation of Hans C. Boas on the founding, evolution, and relevance of the Texas German Dialect Archive for (German) American Studies.