Plenary Speakers
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Joshua R. Brown
Joshua R. Brown is associate professor of German and linguistics, as well as affiliate faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is primarily interested in heritage languages, language maintenance and shift, and historical sociolinguistics. His recent publications include "Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia" with Simon Bronner and a special issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics on heritage language ego-documents. His forthcoming edited volume "The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities" will appear through Oxford University Press.
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Jackson Crawford
Jackson Crawford is Director of Nordic Studies and Instructor of Nordic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a pioneer in using new technologies to communicate scholarly expertise to the interested public, using his Youtube channel and website to reach hundreds of thousands of people with accurate, up-to-date information about old Germanic languages and the literature and mythology preserved therein. His published translations include The Poetic Edda (2015), The Saga of the Volsungs (2017), and the dual-language edition The Wanderer’s Hávamál (2019).
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Conference Program
Coming Soon.
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