Hans C. Boas

Today, I presented a talk on “Documenting and Analyzing Texas German” at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria). On the same day, the German weekly news magazine DER SPIEGEL publishes a story on Texas German, see here.

Today, I presented a talk on “250 years of Texas German” at the Division of Alsatian Dialectology at the University of Strasbourg (France).

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.