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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:05:55
From: Naomi Wells [naomi.wells at sas.ac.uk]
Subject: Disrupting Digital Monolingualism: An international workshop on languages in critical digital theory and practice
Full Title: Disrupting Digital Monolingualism: An international workshop on languages in critical digital theory and practice
Date: 16-Jun-2020 - 17-Jun-2020
Location: London, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Paul Spence
Meeting Email: paul.spence at kcl.ac.uk
Web Site: https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monolingualism/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Translation
Call Deadline: 16-Mar-2020
Meeting Description:
There has been increasing attention in the past few years to the challenges of
multilingualism in digital practice. It has been widely accepted that digital
ecosystems have a ‘language and geocultural diversity’ problem – at present
they have a strong bias towards firstly English, and then a small group of
(mostly European) languages. A series of initiatives has attempted to address
this imbalance in a variety of ways, whether driven by practice (language
diversity guidelines, multilingual toolkits, open data repositories, and
endangered languages archives) or theory (biocultural diversity, digital
modern languages and translingual/transcultural critiques).
This two-day workshop explores the theme of ‘Disrupting Digital
Monolingualism’ and brings together leading researchers, educators, digital
practitioners, language-focused professionals, policy makers and other
interested parties to address the challenges of multilingualism in digital
spaces and to collectively propose new models and solutions. The workshop will
combine both conceptual (strategy, policy and theory) and practical
perspectives (digital ecosystems, methods and tools with a focus on language).
By bringing together multiple perspectives on languages-driven digital
practice, we hope the workshop will lead to new collaborations centred on
multilingualism and geocultural diversity. Outcomes will be defined by
attendees, but may include co-design of conceptual frameworks or practical
outcomes such as prototypes or toolkits.
The event will take place at King’s College London in central London on
Tuesday 16 June and Wednesday 17 June 2020. This workshop is hosted by the
Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and is led by the
Language Acts and Worldmaking project with the support of the Cross-Language
Dynamics: Reshaping Community project, funded by the AHRC under its Open World
Research Initiative.
Contact: The workshop is led by Paul Spence and Renata Brandao (Language
Acts), in collaboration with Naomi Wells (Cross-Language Dynamics).
If you have any queries, please contact Paul Spence - paul.spence at kcl.ac.uk
Call for Papers:
This two-day workshop brings together leading researchers, educators, digital
practitioners, language-focused professionals, policy makers and other
interested parties to address the challenges of multilingualism in digital
spaces and to collectively propose new models and solutions. The workshop will
combine both conceptual (strategy, policy and theory) and practical
perspectives (digital ecosystems, methods and tools with a focus on language).
It aims to strengthen connections between numerous overlapping digital and
languages-driven conversations and initiatives.
The core themes of the workshop are:
-Linguistic and geocultural diversity in digital knowledge infrastructures
-Working with multilingual data
-Transcultural and translingual approaches to digital study
-Artificial intelligence, machine learning and NLP in language worlds
The programme will feature a variety of formats, including lightning talks,
posters, demos, roundtables and (a limited amount of) mini-workshops, and we
welcome proposals for experimental formats. Invited speakers will represent a
range of education, industry and third sector roles and we are open to new
ideas through our call for proposals.
The workshop is aimed at those interested in multilingual and cross-cultural
approaches to digital practice, and is likely to be of particular interest to
those working in the areas of: modern languages and linguistics;
multilingualism research (including endangered or minority languages and
community languages); digital cultural heritage; digital humanities; new media
and internet research; critical digital infrastructure studies; digital
policy; translation studies; AI, machine learning and NLP.
Workshop aims:
-To map the current state of multilingualism in digital theory and practice
through, and across, languages
-To identify areas of ‘language indifference’ in digital methodologies and
infrastructure
-To bring together experts in language-driven digital study and practice to
discuss priorities for future action and potential collaboration
-To discuss the value and role of languages in digital theory and practice and
their implications for language study and professions
-To explore emerging models for linguistic diversity and languages-aware
digital practice in academia, education and private/third sectors and to
document best practice
The workshop will be structured as follows:
Day 1: Context/aims, lightning talks, demos, meetups
Day 2: Group activities addressing the workshop’s core themes through
discussion and practical work
Outcomes will be defined by attendees, but may include the co-design of
conceptual frameworks or practical outcomes such as prototypes or toolkits
We welcome proposals for:
-Lightning talks (7 minute presentations)
-Posters
-Technical demos (short and interactive, as part of the poster session)
-Mini-workshops (max 3 hours duration)
-Experimental formats (defined by you)
Proposals should address a theoretical or practical response to one of the
workshop’s core themes:
https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monolingu
alism/aims-and-themes/
Key dates:
Call for proposals deadline: 12pm (GMT) on 16 March 2020
Response to proposals: 30 March 2020
Language:
Abstracts: the main workshop language will be English, but once reviewed, we
welcome translations of accepted abstracts.
At the event: we recommend that presenters consult the GO::DH Translation
toolkit (https://go-dh.github.io/translation-toolkit/conferences/) and we
welcome creative proposals for those wishing to work multilingually during the
event
Submissions:
Submissions may be made via our online form:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=FM9wg_MWFky4PHJAcWVDVnHV2L
aqqJFJnwhF0RL8KwxUNllRR1FSWFNVSE00OE05RzNSUTFHUVRHNS4u
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