Attendees are invited to enjoy a light breakfast of fruit and pastries in the Lilly Library's Slocum Room. Coffee provided by Bloomington's Soma Coffee.

Jonathon Green is the chief editor of Green’s Dictionary of Slang (three massive volumes, Chambers, 2010, and online and updated since), which many call the Oxford English Dictionary of English slang, and which received the Dartmouth Medal for an outstanding reference work from the American Library Association in 2012. He is also author, just skimming the surface, of The Vulgar Tongue: Green’s History of Slang (Oxford UP, 2015)), Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made (Holt, 1996), and the memoir Odd Job Man: Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer (Jonathan Cape, 2014).

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Jack Lynch is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University — Newark. He is author of many books, including The Lexicographer’s Dilemma: The Evolution of “Proper” English from Shakespeare to South Park (Walker, 2009) and You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia (Bloomsbury (2016). He is also a notable collector of dictionaries, a member of the Grolier Club, for which he and Bryan A. Garner mounted an exhibition from their private collections, now celebrated in print as Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographical Geniuses, Sciolists [you could look it up], Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined the English Language (Godine, 2024).

Lindsay Rose Russell is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois — Urbana. She is the author of Women and Dictionary Making: Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography (Cambridge UP, 2018). She is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of Lexicography and, by no means incidentally, Executive Director of the Dictionary Society of North America, of which Madeline Kripke was a founding member.

Create-your-own bowls from Bloomington's Feta Kitchen will be served in the Slocum Room.

Rob Rulon-Miller, Jr., is proprietor of Rulon-Miller Books, Saint Paul, Minnesota, and a long-time member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America. He has also been intimately involved in the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS, now CABS-Minnesota) from 2002 to the present.  He considers himself a generalist bookseller, selling rare, fine and interesting books, manuscripts, and ephemera in many fields, with concentrations in language books (dictionaries, grammars, etc.), fine and unusual printing, exotic imprints, exploration and maritime material, and general Americana. He also appraises and sells archival material on a regular basis. He has been in the book trade for over fifty years, during which he has met many collectors, Madeline Kripke included.

Elena Wicker is an analyst at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where she specializes in military terminology and the labyrinthine bureaucracy of national security documents. She collects and studies military dictionaries and, in 2024, received the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Her book on the history of American military lexicography is forthcoming with Cornell University Press.

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Volker Harm is chief editor of Wortgeschichte digital, a structurally innovative historical dictionary of New High German, at the Lower Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen, and he teaches as a Privatdozent at the University of Göttingen. Previously, he was, for nearly a quarter century, a lexicographer and then Senior Editor on the revision of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Deutsches Wörterbuch. He is the author of several books on lexicography, all of them in German.