Program & rooms

Universität Stuttgart Campus Stadtmitte

Program

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The detailed program is online. Click on the button to be redirected to Frab, where you can see the various talks and events.

Rooms

The heart of Stuttgart's humanities is the College Building II (KII). However, courses may be held in other buildings around the Stadtgarten park – as is the case with the StuTS. Room numbers follow the pattern xx.yz, where x stands for the building number, y for the floor, and z for the room number. M17.23 is therefore the third seminar room on the second floor of Keplerstraße 17 (KII). Here's an overview:

Azenbergstraße 18

  • M18.11: The opening plenary and the first keynote will take place here.

Breitscheidstraße 2a

  • M2.00: Keynotes on Thursday and Friday evenings.
  • M2.01: Keynotes on Friday and Saturday mornings.

Breitscheidstraße 2

  • M2.31: Room for talks on Friday and Saturday.
  • M2.41: Room for talks on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, KasuS room on Thursday.

Keplerstraße 11 (KI):

  • M11.32: Room for talks on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
  • M11.82: Break room, breakfast and lunch on Saturday.
  • M11.91: KasuS room (on Friday and Saturday)

Keplerstraße 17 (KII):

  • 2.023 (Floor 2a): StuTS office.
  • M17.01: Keynote on Saturday evening, closing plenary.
  • M17.11: Room for talks on Thursday.
  • M17.21: Room for talks on Friday.
  • M17.23: Room for talks on Friday and Saturday.
  • M17.25: Room for talks on Thursday.
  • M17.74: Room for talks on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Ossietzkystraße 3:

  • Mensa Central: Breakfast and lunch on Thursday and Friday, registration on Thursday.

Keynotes

It is our great pleasure and honor to welcome the following outstanding keynote speakers to the 78th StuTS. We would like to express our gratitude for their willingness to enrich our program with their contributions, and we are looking forward to their keynotes with great excitement and anticipation. As soon as their topics are known to us, we will publish them on this page.

apl. Prof. Dr. Ellen Brandner

Mrs. Brandner worked at the University of Konstanz from 2006 to 2016. In 2010/11, she was a deputy professor of linguistic history at the University of Wuppertal. Since 2016, she has been at the University of Stuttgart, where she conducts research primarily on linguistic history and the syntax of Alemannic German. She was active in the first generation of StuTS and helped shape it early on.

Dr. Fabian Bross

Mr. Bross gained his doctorate in 2018 at the University of Stuttgart with a thesis on the syntax of German sign language. In the winter semester of 2021/22, he was a deputy professor at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at the University of Hamburg. The cat linguist's research focuses on cognitive linguistics, syntax, and sign languages.

Fabian Dirscherl, M.A.

Mr. Dirscherl completed his studies in linguistics and history at the University of Stuttgart in 2005 and has been working as a research assistant since 2007. His research focuses on speech and thought representation, verbal aggression, and historical pragmatics such as ancient spells. He was nominated for the University of Stuttgart's Teaching Award by the Fachgruppe Linguistik in 2023, 2024, and 2025 for his outstanding teaching.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Hole

Mr. Hole received his doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin in 2001 with a dissertation on the grammar of focus quantification in Mandarin. In 2008, he habilitated at Humboldt University in Berlin on the topic of free datives and variable binding in German. After several years as a substitute, he became the permanent successor to Klaus von Heusinger at the University of Stuttgart in 2013. He has been Dean of Faculty 9 since 2022. His research focuses on argument alternations, datives, Chinese, and Vietnamese.

Prof. em. Dr. Jürgen Pafel

Mr. Pafel received his doctorate in 1991 with a thesis on the semantic definition of grammatical functions. After working with Marga Reis in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, he moved to the University of Stuttgart in 2002 as a professor of German linguistics, where he retired in 2025. His research focuses on metaphor theory and reference.

Prof. Dr. Judith Tonhauser

Dr. Tonhauser received her doctorate in linguistics from Stanford University in 2006. After 14 years as an Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at Ohio State University, she moved to the University of Stuttgart in 2020, where she has also served as Vice President for Early Career Faculty and Diversity since 2024. Her research focuses on presuppositions, prosody, temporal anaphora, and reference, with a focus on underrepresented languages such as Paraguayan Guaraní.