Hans C. Boas

American Studies! Germanic Studies! Texas-German Studies! Today, I participated in the workshop “Archiving Ethnic Voices and Memory: A Roundtable on German Americana” (organized by my colleague Jana Weiss, UT Austin) at the 71st Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies in Siegen, Germany.

Presentation on TGDA 2.0. Today, I co-presented a talk and workshop on “TGDA 2.0 – An enriched Texas German Dialect Corpus for (comparative) corpus analyses” at the Conference Varieties in Contact: Phenomena – Methods – Theories at the University of Dortmund, Germany.

Off we go! Today is the start of the Volkswagen Foundation-sponsored project “Let the People of the Past Speak! Turning Migrant Letters form the 19th Century into Speech“. Together with my colleague Atiba Pertilla from the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., I will be experimenting how AI can be applied to historical letters to re-create the voices of Texas German speakers from the 19th century.

New paper published! Together with my colleagues Collin Baker (International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California) and Josef Ruppenhofer (Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany), I just published a new paper on FrameNet at 25: Results and Applications in the International Journal of Lexicography.

Call for papers just published! My colleague Atiba Pertilla (German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.) and I are organizing a workshop on “Listening to the Past,” bringing together scholars from history, linguistics, and digital humanities (March 2026). See here for more information.