«Altez Gaschraibach» and New Technologies: Documenting Cimbrian Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries - Dr Cugliana -seminar 24

Entangled Histories: Borders and Cultural Encounters – Online Seminar Series (Session 24)

• Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2026
• Time: 16:00 UK Time (BST) / 17:00 Central European Time (CET)
• Speaker: Dr Elisa Cugliana (University of Cologne)
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About the Seminar

We are delighted to announce the upcoming 24th session of the Entangled Histories series, featuring Dr Elisa Cugliana from the University of Cologne.

This session will explore the intersection of historical minority languages and cutting-edge digital humanities, focusing on the documentation of Cimbrian ("Altez Gaschraibach") across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

In the Seven Communities of Asiago (Vicenza, Veneto), a dialect of Bavarian origin was spoken from the Middle Ages until the late twentieth century. Historically traced back to the eleventh century—when families emigrated from Bavaria to northeastern Italy during a period of famine—the Cimbrian variety of the Seven Communities is generally regarded as the oldest of the three surviving Cimbrian language branches. Due to its geographical isolation, Cimbrian preserved highly conservative, archaic features, while simultaneously developing unique phenomena born from continuous contact with surrounding Venetian dialects. Despite its immense linguistic, historical, and cultural significance, the sources transmitting this precious heritage have never been systematically collected or made fully accessible. A critically curated, annotated digital corpus has long remained an urgent desideratum. In this talk, J-Prof. Elisa Cugliana presents an upcoming project for a historical, multimodal, and linguistically annotated digital corpus and archive of the Cimbrian language, developed in collaboration with the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Utilizing state-of-the-art Digital Humanities technologies, the project aims to document the language and culture of the historical Terra Cimbra. Furthermore, the project integrates a strong citizen-science component, actively involving local and international communities (including the Cimbern Kuratorium Bayern e.V.) to bridge academic research and cultural preservation beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.

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