Academic Talks & Presentations

Non-academic talks and presentations can be found in the outreach section. 
Guest lectures are a subsection of classroom experience.

Invited Talks (workshops, lecture series, etc).

  • 2025d. I thought Frisians were horses: Friesen, Friesisch, Nordfriesland (Frisians, Frisian, North Frisia). Hosted by the German and Dutch Graduate Student Association (GDGSA).  University of Wisconsin – Madison. 23 April 2025.
  • 2025c. Historical sociolinguistics in the digital age: Methods and approaches for analyzing multilingualism in the Duchy of Schleswig. Language Sciences, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison. 15 April 2025. 
  • 2025b. Analyzing the Duchy of Schleswig in the digital age. International Workshop on Language History “from Below”: Data Sources and (Digital) Approaches. University of Lausanne. 6–7 February 2025. (Organizers: Markus Schiegg & Anita Auer)
  • 2025a. Building Community: The academic environment we perpetuate. Discussion series: „Promotion – komplex und differenziert“ / Discussion Series “Doctoral Studies – complex and contrastive”. GraZ (Gradiuerten Zentrum), Europa-Universität Flensburg. 
  • 2024e. Terminologische Überlegungen in Bezug auf das Nordfriesische. The Sociolinguistics of North Frisian: Attitudes, Acquisition, and Applications of Research Findings. Workshop. Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig. (Organizer: Ruth Kircher, ECMI)
  • 2024d. Language Ideologies in the 19th Century: The Duchy of Schleswig and the Case of North Frisian / Sprachideologien im 19. Jahrhundert: Das Herzogtum Schleswig und der Fall des Nordfriesischen. The Sociolinguistics of North Frisian: Attitudes, Acquisition, and Applications of Research Findings. Workshop. Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig. (Organizer: Ruth Kircher, ECMI)
  • 2024c. Litty, Samantha M., Ruth Kircher, & Lena Terhart. The Case of North Frisian: minority language, regional language, or heritage language? Haugen Re-visited: Theoretical and Empirical Realities of Heritage Communities. Workshop. University of Uppsala. (Organizer: Angela Hoffman).
  • 2024b. Visibilizing ideologies of language in the 19th century in the Duchy of Schleswig. ICES Research Colloquium. Interdisciplinary Center for European Studies. Europa-Universität Flensburg. 
  • 2024a. Litty, Samantha M. & Andre Hermann. Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism (ViNoRHM).Invited talk. Peter Skautrup Centret. Aarhus Universitet. 
  • 2023b. Litty, Samantha M. & Lena Terhart. Narratives of language policy and known "truths": Problematizing the case of North Frisian. Endangered Languages in Europe (Conference). Flensburg. 
  • 2023a. Historical multilingualism in the nineteenth century: Multilingual practices of semi-public writing in the Duchy of Schleswig. Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics. Freie Universität Berlin. 
  • 2022d. Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism: Ideology, Policy, and Practice. Linguistic Colloquium / Sprachwissenschaftliches Kolloquium des Instituts für Linguistik und Phonetik (ISFAS). Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. 
  • 2022c. Language as a factor of identity creation in the German-Danish border region. Språkforum lecture series. Linguistic Identities Research Group. University of Stavanger. 
  • 2022b. Historische Mehrsprachigkeit in der deutsch-dänischen Grenzregion. Praktiken der Mehrsprachigkeit im Schwedischen Reich (1611–1721): Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Rolle des Deutschen. Humboldt Kolleg. Uppsala Universitet. 
  • 2022a. Visibilizing the daily life of speakers: A study of historical multilingualism in the German-Danish border region. ICES Research Colloquium. Interdisciplinary Center for European Studies. Europa-Universität Flensburg. 
  • 2021. Das historische soziolinguistische Umfeld des Deutschen in Wisconsin. Salzburger sprachhistorischer Workshop (SaShi Mini-Workshop). Universität Salzburg.
  • 2019b. Schaumtorte, Cheese, and Cherry Pie: Food in Wisconsin German-speaking Communities. Kleine und regionale Sprachen (KURS) Kolloquium. Europa-Universität Flensburg. 
  • 2019a. How the past can inform the present: Historical sociolinguistics and German varieties in the American Midwest & beyond. Spring Lecture Series. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. The Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA. 
  • 2018. Litty, Samantha & Joseph Salmons. German in Wisconsin: The 50-year update. The German Language in (North) America Revisited. University of Texas – Austin. 

Conference Presentations 
with peer-review abstract application process
  • 2025. Multilingualism and language policy in the Parliament of the Duchy of Schleswig. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference. 21–23 May. University of Bristol.
  • 2024e. Kircher, Ruth, Lena Terhart & Samantha M. Litty. Sprachpolitik und Spracheinstellungen in Nordfriesland. Sprach(en)politik in Deutschland: Perspektiven auf Sprachminderheiten- und Mehrsprachigkeitskonstellationen.Tagung am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache. IDS Mannheim. 
  • 2024d. Litty, Samantha M., Ruth Kircher & Lena Terhart. Nordfriesisch: Herkunftssprache, regionale Sprache oder Minderheitensprache. Sprach(en)politik in Deutschland: Perspektiven auf Sprachminderheiten- und Mehrsprachigkeitskonstellationen. Tagung am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache. IDS Mannheim. 
  • 2024c. Terhart, Lena, Samantha M. Litty & Ruth Kircher. Nordfriesisch an den Schulen Nordfrieslands: Schein oder Sein? Sprach(en)politik in Deutschland: Perspektiven auf Sprachminderheiten- und Mehrsprachigkeitskonstellationen. Tagung am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache. IDS Mannheim. 
  • 2024b. Litty, Samantha M. & Andre Hermann. ‘Visible bilingualism’: How regional languages in the Duchy of Schleswig are ‘invisibilized’. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference. University of Zurich.
  • 2024a. Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang…: Women and the Ranzelberg Guestbook. Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS) Conference. University of Cambridge. 
  • 2023c. Sichtbare und ‚unsichtbare‘ Sprachen in regionalen Alltagssprachen: Das Herzogtum Schleswig im 19. Jahrhundert.15. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG). Universität Passau.
  • 2023b. Langer, Nils, Samantha M. Litty & Temmo Bosse. Neue Narrative der Sprachgeschichtsschreibung: Alltägliche Mehrsprachigkeit im Herzogtum Schleswig. 15. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG). Universität Passau.
  • 2023a. Litty, Samantha M., Andre Hermann, Jan Momme Penning & Ilka Thomsen. Aus dem Gästebuch eines nordfriesischen Gasthofs: Regionale Mehrsprachigkeit im Herzogtum Schleswig. 15. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG). Universität Passau.
  • 2022c. Remember me when far far off: Multilingual Memory Albums in Wisconsin and the Duchy of Schleswig. Thirteenth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 13). University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • 2022b. Penning, Jan Momme, Ilka Thomsen & Samantha M. Litty. Multilingual practices in semi-formal 19th-century writing: The case of a North Frisian country inn. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference 2022. Universidad de Murcia. 
  • 2022a. Language dominance in Wisconsin German and English Varieties: Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent Neutralization, 1863–2013. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference 2022. Universidad de Murcia. 
  • 2021. German-Language Press in South Dakota. Twelfth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA12). University of Helsinki.
  • 2020b. Bousquette, Joshua & Samantha Litty. Natürlich waren ihre Herzen in Deutschland: Preliminary post-vernacular analyses of Wisconsin Heritage German. Eleventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA11). University of North Carolina – Asheville. 
  • 2020a. Historical Sociolinguistic Contexts: Documenting Networks of German-American Letter Collections. Eleventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA11). University of North Carolina – Asheville. 
  • 2019. Schaumtorte, Cheese, and Cherry Pie: Food in Wisconsin German-speaking Communities. Tenth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA10). Østfold University College. Halden, Norway.
  • 2018b. Wie ‘die Germentown boys’ im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg ‘hell gerest’ haben: A sociolinguistic analysis of German-American Civil War soldiers’ letters, 1864–1865. Ninth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA9). University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire.
  • 2018a. Evans, Christine & Samantha Litty. “Not the real German”? Folk perspectives on language and identity in Wisconsin Heritage German communities. 24th Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). The Pennsylvania State University. State College, Pennsylvania.
  • 2017d. Regional feature development in Wisconsin German and English varieties. Workshop: The Sociolinguistics of Bad Data. New Ways in Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 46. University of Wisconsin – Madison. 
  • 2017c. Generational differences in Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent Neutralization in Wisconsin German and English, 1863–2013. North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS). University of Kentucky. Lexington. 
  • 2017b. Page, B. Richard, Nora Hellmond, Hyoun-A Joo, Samantha Litty & Michael T. Putnam. Language attitudes and language use of recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11). University of Limerick, Ireland. 
  • 2017a. Immigrant languages old and new: Projects and policy in the Upper Midwest. Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS 2017). Minneapolis, MN.
  • 2016b. Joo, Hyoun-A, Samantha Litty, B. Richard Page, Michael T. Putnam & Nora Vosburg. Changing patterns of language use among recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas. Seventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA7). University of Georgia, Athens.
  • 2016a. Where’s the FON in that? The development of ‘final obstruent neutralization’ in Wisconsin German varieties. 22nd Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). University of Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • 2015c. Variation in word final obstruent neutralization in Wisconsin English. Sixth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA6). University of Uppsala, Sweden.
  • 2015b. Flying under the radar: Variation in final obstruent neutralization in Wisconsin English. Managing Multilingualism. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). 48th Annual Meeting. Leiden, Netherlands.
  • 2015a. Litty, Samantha & Joseph Salmons. Language and Cultural Heritage. WUN Workshop: Multilingualism and Mobility in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Sheffield, England. 
  • 2014d. Variation in English VOT in Three Southern Wisconsin Counties. Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (MidPhon). University of Wisconsin – Madison. (Poster.)
  • 2014c. Allison, Mary, Samantha Litty & Elizabeth Suetmeier. Phonemic merger in Early Modern Dutch urban dialects: [w] [v] [f] is going on here!? 20th Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana. 
  • 2014b. Stop. Hey, what’s that sound? Initial VOT in Wisconsin German and English. 20th Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana.
  • 2014a. Evans, Christine, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Linguistic consequences of ethnicity without groups. Aston University. Birmingham, England.
  • 2013e. Popular Music: Making it your own for the German classroom. Annual Convention of The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Orlando, Florida.
  • 2013d. Evans, Christine & Samantha Litty. Wir reden nicht so wie ihr tut [We don’t speak like you do]: Folk linguistic perspectives of Wisconsin Heritage German speakers. American Dialect Society-Midwest Regional Meeting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
  • 2013c. Time for /t/: VOT variation in three southern Wisconsin counties. American Dialect Society-Midwest Regional Meeting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
  • 2013b. Evans, Christine, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Dialecticity over time: Register compression in Wisconsin Heritage German. Fourth Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America (WILA4). University of Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • 2013a. Evans, Christine, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Nothing but ‘gray zones’: The fluidity of Wisconsin German language and identification. Sprachliche Konstruktion sozialer Grenzen. Europa-Universität Viadrina. Frankfurt/Oder.