Friday/Saturday, April 6-7, 2018
The Faculty Club
University of California, Berkeley

Invited Speakers:
Tonya Dewey-Findell, University of Nottingham
Angelika Lutz, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
John McWhorter, Columbia University
Theo Vennemann, University of Munich

Scholars (faculty and students) interested in Germanic Linguistics, its near and/or distant related languages, diverse approaches, synchrony and/or diachrony, historical and/or contemporary language are invited to submit a one-page abstract of a twenty minute paper by January 31, 2018 to the conference organizer:

Irmengard Rauch, Department of German
Univ. of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA 94720-3243
phone/fax (707)746-7480; irauch@berkeley.edu

Lodging: Reservations can be made at: The Faculty Club (510) 642-1993/(510)-540-5678, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720; The Durant Hotel (510)-845-8981, 2600 Durant Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704, or The Hotel Shattuck Plaza (866)-257-5990, 2086 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704.