GLD IN-PERSON EVENT 2/2025
Pennsylvania Dutch Day in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, July 19, 2025
The GLD and the Delaware Valley Translators Association (DVTA) will be hosting a day dedicated to Pennsylvania Dutch at Southern Market in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on July 19, 2025, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Optional social gatherings will be offered on July 18 as well. Our featured speaker will be Prof. Mark Louden of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the author of Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language. The program will present the history and present-day status of this German language variant, highlight gaps in interpreting services for the Plain community, and offer attendees the opportunity to learn some Pennsylvania Dutch themselves.
Preliminary agenda:
| 9:00 am | Registration/Welcome | |
| 9:30 am | Keynote | Professor Mark Louden, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 11:00 am | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 am | : PA Dutch Cultural Context |
Steven M. Nolt, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | Interpreting PA Dutch Gaps in service (in Pennsylvania) |
Panel on PA Dutch interpreting |
| 2:00 pm | Coffee | |
| 2:15 pm | PA Dutch lesson, Unit 1 | Prof. Mark Louden |
| 3:30 pm | PA Dutch lesson, Unit 2 | Prof. Mark Louden |
| 4:45 pm | Wrap-up |
Check back for latest updates and registration details—we hope to see you there!
Mark L. Louden, Ph.D., is the Alfred L. Shoemaker, J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic Linguistics and director of the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his undergraduate and graduate education at Cornell University and taught for 12 years at the University of Texas at Austin before joining the UW–Madison faculty in 2000. A Mennonite speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, most of his research deals with the language and culture of its speakers. He is the author of Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language, for which he received the Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Research in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. He serves as a medical and legal interpreter, cultural mediator, and patient navigator for Amish and traditional Mennonite communities across the US.
GLD IN-PERSON EVENT 1/2025
GLD Stammtisch in New York City
March 8, 2025 from 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. at Hunter College
Join the GLD for a jointly sponsored Stammtisch with the New York Circle of Translators.
Our topic will be “Germany’s new citizenship law and the Einbürgerungstest.”
We plan to start with lunch. Please take the opportunity to meet and network with fellow English-German/German-English translators.
Attendance is also open to non-NYCT and non-ATA members and is free of charge, but all attendees must register by March 2nd by sending an email to GLD Administrator Karen Leube.
