The organisation has invited four special speakers to Leeuwarden, all four experts in their field:

Barbara Gross (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy / Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany) will hold a keynote lecture on 'Linguistic and cultural heterogeneity in super-diverse contexts: The example of South Tyrol, Italy'.

Jarich Hoekstra (Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany) knows everything about 'It Fryske bynwurdsysteem: in enklityske ûnderskikker en in Doubly-Filled Comp'.

Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam & Maastricht University) holds a keynote lecture on 'Minor languages negotiating the rise and fall of the Public Sphere'.

Odette Scharenborg (Delft University of Technology) is also coming to Leeuwarden her keynote lecture will be about 'Towards inclusive automatic speech recognition'.

We will publish the programme time schedule soon. Do you want to know more about the keunote speakers? Take a look!