<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Forwarded, with usual apologies for cross-postings, an interesting conference call:<br>
<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Lähettäjä: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andreas Simons <000122c0027c9efc-dmarc-request@JISCMAIL.AC.UK><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Aihe: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Invitation & Call for Speakers – “Digital Challenges for Small Languages” Workshop (22–23 Oct 2025, Maastricht)</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Päivämäärä: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">27. elokuuta 2025 klo 17.27.26 UTC+3<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Vastaanottaja: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">VAR-L@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br></span></div><br><div><div>Dear colleagues,<br><br>We are pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming workshop “Digital Challenges for Small Languages”, which will take place on October 22–23, 2025, at Maastricht University (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences).<br><br>Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/chalsmall<br><br>This two-day workshop brings together researchers and students, working on small, minoritized, or low-resource languages. Our goal is to provide a cross-disciplinary platform across fields such as:<br>Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Explainable AI<br>Digital Humanities<br>Sociolinguistics and minority language studies<br>Theoretical, computational, and corpus linguistics<br>Network science<br>Digital heritage, ethics, and fair pipelines for language technologies<br>Language revitalization, decolonization, and preservation of digital heritage<br><br>The program will feature invited talks, contributed presentations, and interactive discussions in a collaborative setting.<br><br>Registration for participants: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffuJlC9YNYluexY4T2X7l-wpzVzgslyPTt2YbNkONqK5qYig/viewform <br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Call for Speakers<br><br>We invite proposals for presentations on any topic related to the workshop themes. Contributions can include, for example:<br>Ongoing or completed research projects<br>Finished Master’s theses<br>Methodological approaches<br>Case studies of digital tools, resources, or practices<br>Interdisciplinary perspectives on linguistic diversity and technology<br><br>How to apply:<br>Please submit a short abstract (max. 300 words) to the form below by September 22. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by September 30.<br>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-rfZ0uLMR0U0CzOd9UtV4V1-r0u2DAQAqgiUffao8TJGUpg/viewform?usp=dialog<br><br>We warmly welcome researchers and students interested in the intersection of language and digital technologies to join us. Please feel free to share this invitation and call with your networks.<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you in Maastricht this October!<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Andreas Simons<br>(On behalf of the organizing team: Leonie Cornips, Adriana Iamnitchi)<br>Digital Challenges for Small Languages Workshop<br>Maastricht University<br><br>########################################################################<br><br>The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics.<br><br>To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to:<br>VAR-L@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br><br>To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link:<br>https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>