Aria Adli
Professor of Linguistics
Co-organizing chair and host of Summer School “Language, Diversity, and Minorities”

"We could never understand the story of language change without considering social and ethnic diversity."

Katajun Amirpur
Professor of Islamic Studies
Co-organizing chair and host of Summer School “Language, Diversity, and Minorities”

"Coming from a multi-lingual background, language and diversity have always mattered to me - also in my academic work, not only privately. As Carol Hanisch once put it: The private is political. And as an Iranian-German woman in Germany I am obviously a minority."