At the conference Varietätenkontakt: Phänomene – Methoden – Theorien, Hans C. Boas, Margo Blevins and Thomas Schmidt held a workshop on TGDA 2.0 – An enriched Texas German Dialect Corpus for (comparative) corpus analyses in which they introduced conference participants to the new ZuMult platform for the Texas German Dialect Project.

Before the workshop, Thomas Schmidt honoured Margo Blevins and Hans C. Boas with the Lucky Luke Award, recognising their outstanding achievements in all things Texas German.