TGDP presentation at the Institute fuer Deutsche Sprache (Institute for the German Language) in Mannheim, Germany: Documenting word usage in a critically endangered dialect. (Hans C. Boas, Margo Blevins, Utpal Pandey). August 4, 2026.
On August 16, 2026, the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin will cease to exist. Per orders from university leaders, it is being merged with two other units, the Department of French and Italian and the Department of Slavic Studies, into a new unit called the Department of European and Eurasian Studies. This academic unit will be the new home of the Texas German Dialect Project going forward.