Plenary Speakers
Anne Curzan
The University of Michigan Anne Curzan is Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor. She also holds faculty appointments in the Department of Linguistics and the School of Education, and she is currently the Associate Dean for Humanities. Her research focuses on the history of the English language, attitudes about language change, language and gender, historical sociolinguistics, and lexicography. Her most recent books include Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History (2014) and the third edition of the co-authored textbook How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction (2012). She has also created the audio/video courses “Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins” and “English Grammar Boot Camp” for The Great Courses. For the past seven years, she has been the featured expert on the weekly segment "That's What They Say" on local NPR station Michigan Radio. |
Michael Jessen
Bundeskriminalamt Michael Jessen is senior scientist and forensic expert at the speech and audio department of the National Forensic Science Institute within the Bundeskriminalamt (federal criminal police office) in Wiesbaden, Germany. He has a PhD from Cornell University, taught linguistics and phonetics at Universität Stuttgart from 1993 to 2001, and carried out phonetic fieldwork on Xhosa in South Africa in 1998/99. He conducts forensic casework and research predominantly in the domain of forensic voice profiling and comparison. His main interest involves how to combine methods and results from speech technology (automatic speaker recognition) with those from linguistics, mainly on the level of phonetics and phonology. He is co-editor of International Journal of Speech and Language and the Law, and has served on several PhD examination committees internationally with a primary focus on forensic phonetics and acoustics. |
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Program for GLAC-25
Download the GLAC program as a pdf.
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