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4th Annual African Digital Humanities Symposium
by Rosenblum, Brian 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Colleagues, We are proud to announce the 4th annual African Digital Humanities Symposium. Organized by the University of Ghana and the University of Kansas, the event (previously online only) will be held in person at the University of Ghana in Accra on February 15-16, and streamed on Zoom. Morning sessions are devoted to workshops and are for in-person attendees. Afternoon sessions will feature panels and presentations and will be streamed live and recorded for later viewing. See Zoom registration details and full program at https://africandh.ku.edu/symposium/2024 The program includes the following panels and speakers: Featured Speakers * Menno van Zaanen Professor of Digital Humanities, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR<https://sadilar.org/>), South Africa Building a Digital Humanities community of practice, the case of Escalator * Randa El Khatib Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Social Scholarship, INKE & Co-director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute Building Bridges: The Journey of Digital Humanities Institute Beirut Panel 1: Digital Collections * Fu’ad Lawal, Founder and Project Lead, Archivi.ng<https://archivi.ng/> We’re On The Brink Of An Irreparable Loss: Digitizing Nigeria’s Historical Newspapers * Siaka Fadera Assistant Director, Research and Documentation Division, National Centre for Arts and Culture, The Gambia Digitization of the NCA/RDD Oral Archive of The Gambia: Experiences, Challenges, Outlook * Judith Opoku-Boateng, Director, J.H. Kwabena Nketia Audio-Visual Archives, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana Preserving Audio and Video of Ghanian traditional drumming and dance Panel 2: Languages * Augustin Ndione, Director, Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar (CLAD), Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD), Senegal Digitizing a didactic method for applications in local language teaching * Emmanuel Ngue Um, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Digital Humanities, Higher Teacher Training College, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon Language as Software : A Digital Humanities Perspective to Revealing the Rhizome of African Language Spaces. * Alex Gil, Senior Lecturer II & Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Yale University Mother Tongue DH: Reflections on the Computational Limits of Any Language Panel 3: Digital Culture * Ashleigh Harris, Professor of English, Uppsala University, Sweden & Director ALMEDA: African Literary Metadata Project Linked Open Metadata for African Literary Heritage * Karen Ijumba Senior Researcher, Open Restitution Africa Poetry Africa Digital Map: An example of how selective and curated digitisation of ephemeral material in collections can enable new pathways of knowledge production * Kodjo Atiso, Librarian for Africana and International Studies, University of Kansas Towards the preservation of flora and fauna: digitization of pre-independence herbarium in Ghana Panel 4: Artificial Intelligence * Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Ghana Gibberish and Structure: ChatGPT and the Curious Case of African Literary Criticism * Oluwaseun Sanwoolu PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas Close personal relationships with AI * Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún Founder, Yoruba Name Project<https://www.yorubaname.com/> Digitization in Lexicography: AI and the Future of African Languages and Oratures Panel 5: DH Infrastructure * Tunde Ope-Davies Chair & Principal Investigator, Center for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos (CEDHUL) Digital Humanities as Platform for Redefining and Retooling the Human Sciences: A Case Study * Brian Rosenblum Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas Building a Digital Humanities Community at a Public Research University * Roundtable discussion DH Centers & Libraries With gratitude to all of our sponsors: Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas https://idrh.ku.edu School of Information and Communication Studies, University of Ghana https://sics.ug.edu.gh/ ALMEDA: African Literary Metadata A project funded by the European Research Council https://almedaresearch.org/ Kansas African Studies Center https://kasc.ku.edu University of Kansas Libraries https://lib.ku.edu Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics, University of Kansas https://i2s-research.ku.edu/center-cyber-social-dynamics-ccsd Project on the History of Black Writing https://hbw.ku.edu/ Department of African & African-American Studies, University of Kansas https://afs.ku.edu/ Department of Information Studies, University of Ghana https://www.ug.edu.gh/infostudies/ -- Brian Rosenblum Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities Digital Humanities Librarian University of Kansas Libraries Watson 450, 1425 Jayhawk Blvd Lawrence, KS 66045 http://idrh.ku.edu

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3rd CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
by Menno Van Zaanen 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://bit.ly/rail2024 New: deadline and article submission type Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024 Workshop date: 25 May 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy) The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024 LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/ The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content for a long submission and up to four (4) pages of content for a short submission plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 23 February 2024 Date of notification: 15 March 2024 Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024 RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za<mailto:menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za> Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org<https://www.sadilar.org/> ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Open Access New Book: Geopolitics of Digital Heritage
by Natalia Grincheva 20 Jan '24

20 Jan '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Hello all, Happy New Year to all! Let 2024 be very powerful, prosperous and joyful for everyone! I am writing to share that my new co-authored monograph, G<https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/archaeology/archaeolo…>eopolitics of Digital Heritage<https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/archaeology/archaeolo…> (2024: Cambridge University Press), has just been published online. The book is now in Open Access until February 2, 2024 You can download your FREE e-copy of the book from here<https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/geopolitics-of-digital-heritage/0F7…>! Please feel free to share with your students, colleagues, and your Universities Libraries! I am now soliciting the book reviews. Please do let me know if you are interested in writing one. I am happy to arrange this review publication with a good academic journal. Please contact me directly. The monograph received fantastic appraisals from major scholars in the field, which you can find here<https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/archaeology/archaeolo…>. Happy readings and have a great year ahead! Natalia Dr Natalia Grincheva Programme Leader<https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/about/academics/dr-natalia-grincheva>, BA(Hons) Arts Management University of the Arts Singapore & Senior Research Fellow (Hon)<https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/784300-natalia-grincheva>, Digital Studio The University of Melbourne Academic Profile: https://grincheva.com/

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[DH Asia Webinar]: "Computational Methods and Intangible Cultural Heritage" by Dr. Miguel Escobar Varela (Jan 26th, 2pm GMT+8)
by Setsuko Yokoyama 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear Global DH Community, Hello & Happy New Year! Please mark your calendar & register for the next DH Asia Webinar session on January 26th at 2pm (Singapore Time): https://sutd-edu-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtf-6qrTssGNwUSa0EIW-sItXiGg… The next DH Asia Webinar session features Dr. Miguel Escobar Varela, Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore :- ) Dr. Varela's talk is titled "Computational Methods and Intangible Cultural Heritage." The session will be moderated by Dr. Alastair Gornall, Associate Professor in History and Religion at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. [DH-Asia-Varela.png] What is the DH Asia Webinar series? The year 2023 marks DHARTI & KADH’s joining the ADHO! To celebrate this occasion and to keep the momentum of the growing DH Asia community, we* decided to launch a monthly webinar series. This series is specially designed for DH researchers based in Asia as well as DH scholars whose works concern Asia. By musing on the intersection of DH and Asia, the series aims to recognize a variety of endeavors that have informed DH in the region and to nurture emerging DH efforts that are shaping the future of DH Asia. More on the DH Asia Webinar series rationale when the official website launches. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing you at Dr. Varela’s talk on January 26. Please make sure to register in order to receive the Zoom link! ----- *We, the planners: * Chen Jing, Nanjing University, China * Hsiung-ming Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Jae-Yon Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea * Jinho Park, Seoul National University, Korea * Kiyonori Nagasaki, International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan * Lik Hang Tsui, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong * Lyndsey Twining, Academy of Korean Studies, Korea * Miguel Escobar Varela, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Nirmala Menon, Indian Institutes of Technology, Indore, India * Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Setsuko Yokoyama Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore * Xingkun Liang, Peking University, China

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium (Mar 18-23) - Registration Open
by Mapes, Kristen 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear colleagues, The Global Digital Humanities Symposium (msuglobaldh.org<https://msuglobaldh.org/>) Planning Committee is pleased to share the program<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/> and to encourage free registration<https://msuglobaldh.org/register/> for the 9th annual Symposium, which will take place as a virtual event, March 18-20, 2024 and an in-person event at Michigan State University, March 22-23, 2024. The registration deadline is Monday, March 11. During the Virtual Symposium, we will support live interpretation of presentations from English into Spanish and from Spanish into English, as well as live captions for presentations in English. Virtual * Monday, March 18, 3:00 - 7:00 pm EDT (converted to more time zones<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240318T190000&p…>) * Tuesday, March 19, 12:00 - 4:00 pm EDT (converted to more time zones<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240319T163000&p…>) * Wednesday, March 20, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (converted to more time zones<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240320T130000&p…>) In-Person (at Michigan State University) * Friday, March 22 (Symposium), 8:30am-6:30pm EDT (converted to more time zones<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240322T130000&p…>) * Saturday, March 23 (Unconference), 10:30am-2:00pm In particular, we would like to point out virtual keynote presentations from Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss and Rachel Adams, with a response and discussion, led by Alex Gil. We are also looking forward to a keynote presentation from Bill Hart-Davidson on the in-person day on Friday. Sincerely, Global Digital Humanities Symposium Planning Committee Explore the program below and find abstracts on the website. Monday, March 18 (Virtual) * 3:00 – 3:30 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks * 3:30 – 4:30 pm – Keynote: “Uncertain Intelligences? anti-colonial and queer identity formations in the socio-technical imaginary” – Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss * 4:35 – 5:35 pm – Transnational Borderlands Thinking and Knowledge-Making through Feminist Data Mapping – Sylvia Fernandez, Niloufar Esmaeili, Kiri Avelar * 5:45 – 6:45 pm – Artificial Intelligence: Praxis, Problems, and Play * Generative AI and Linguistic (In)justice – Laura Hensch * AI in Visual Art Education: Inspirations from Contemporary Artists – Borim Song, Ahran Koo * Who wrote it better? Analyzing human and generative AI journalistic reporting – Abby Cole Tuesday, March 19 (Virtual) * 12:00 – 12:15 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks * 12:15 – 1:15 pm – Humanidades digitales latinas y decolonialismo – Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Montse Feu, Paloma Vargas Montes * 1:20 – 2:00 pm – Womanhood, Art, and Labor * Analysing the Depiction of Motherhood through Multimodal Networks: a Comparative Study about socially engaged engravers producing in Brazil in the 20th century – Barbara Romero Ferron, Luana Medina Fortes * Intersectional Play: Representation in Storytelling, Decolonization in Digital Games, and Black Women’s Cultural Labor Production – Diamond Beverly-Porter * Chronicling Harriett: Afrofuturist Museology through Immersive Technology – Synatra Smith * 2:10 – 3:10 pm – Digital Storytelling * Mexico City From Above: Mapping Archival Aerial Imagery for Bilingual Digital Storytelling – Jessica Mack * Transcending Boundaries via Digital Storytelling: A Case Study of Ghayath Almadhoun’s Poetry Films – Tianrui Ma * Exploring Vernacular Arab Architecture in Educational Immersive Virtual Environments: The case of Sheikh Isa House in Bahrain. – Eiman Elgewely * 3:15 – 4:15 pm – Keynote: “Empire of AI: How AI is Widening Global Inequality” – Rachel Adams Wednesday, March 20 (Virtual) * 9:00 – 9:10 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks * 9:10 – 10:25 am – Text Analysis: Languages of Power & Resistance * Unleashing Diverse Voices of Colonialism: Topic Modeling Translated and Original Adventure Fiction in Semi-colonial China (1898-1919) – Xuezhao Li * Entre la censura, el vigilantismo, y la resistencia: Activismo K-Pop y Derechos Humanos en Colombia. – Andrés Lombana-Bermúdez, Sergio Rodríguez Gómez * The Language of Colonialism: A Study of the Speeches of the Viceroys of India – Gauri Jhangiani * Computational Political Propaganda Detection on Twitter during Russia-Ukraine War: A Critical Discourse Analysis based Theoretical Framework – Husnain Raza * 10:30 – 11:00 am – Project Showcase (Concurrent sessions in breakout rooms) * Visualizing 400 Years of History of the Indigenous Native American -The Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia – Babiha Bakshi * VideoDreams and the Transmedia Novel+: Blurring the edges between literature, video games, music, programming, and digital archaeology – Fernando Montes Vera * ‘Singing the Song of the Land You Are In’ – Digital Humanities and Post-Colonial Study of the Kyrgyz Manas – Anguelina Popova, James Plumtree * Discovering Sukhareva: Neurodiversity, Minimal Computing, and the History of Autism – Ian Goodale * Digital Humanities as Memory Work: Memory Eternal as a Virtual Site of Mourning – Monique Tschofen, Armstrong Jolene, Fisher Caitlin, Maaren Kari, Siobhan O’Flynn, Pruska-Oldenhof Izabella, Egan Kelly, Angela Joosse, Lai-Tze Fan * Conservation Narratives Reimagined: Harnessing Digital Storytelling for Environmental Protection in the Global South – Olarotimi Ogungbemi * A Voice of Distress: A Computational Linguistic Exploration of “Political Depression” During COVID-19 Pandemic – Qilin Liu * The Blackspeare Project: Developing Post-Secondary Teaching Resources for Shakespeare Scholars – Hannah Bowling * 11:10 – 12:10 pm – Multilingual Praxis in DH * Adaptability is traditional: incorporating a digital toolkit in Anishinaabe language and cultural revitalization – Ellie Mitchell * Characterizing similarities between TenTen family corpora: revealing a hierarchy in multilingual digital tools – David Bordonaba-Plou, Laila M. Jreis-Navarro * Bridging the Gap for Digitally Disadvantaged Languages – Quinn Dombrowski * 11:15 – 1:15 pm – A Discussion Among Keynote Presenters Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss and Rachel Adams, with a response by Alex Gil * 1:15 – 1:30 pm – Closing Remarks Friday, March 22 (In-person & Livestreamed) * 9:00 – 9:15 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks * 9:15 – 10:15 am – Keynote: Mixing and Mastering Genre Signals: Generative AI, Writing, and the Near Future of Writing Technologies – Bill Hart-Davidson * 10:30 – 11:30 am – Lightning Talks * 10:30 – 11:10 – Power and Advocacy on the Internet * #AdiosStarbucks: The Impact of Cross-Border Political Discourses within an Online Community and Their Influence on Consumer Behaviors Amidst Political Uncertainty. – AGARZELIM ALVAREZ-MILÁN * Security Issues, Migration and the Japa-Syndrome in Nigeria: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Study of Social Media Posts – Ayo Osisanwo * Digital Intersectional Gender Responsive Approach to the Issue of Sexual Violence Against Women in the Global Pandemic – Farinaz Basmechi * #nativetiktok: Indigenous Comedy and Survivance in the Age of Social Media – Aaron Whitestar * A Corpus-based study of the Internet Fraud Language of the Afropolitan Nigerian youth – Victor Abonyi * 11:10 – 11:30 – Decolonization in practice * Decolonial Art Practices: Virtual Exhibition as a Teaching Tool – Alla Myzelev, Ilene Sova * Digitizing Colonized Heritage: Strategies and Challenges – Caroline T. Schroeder * 12:30 -1:30 pm – Lightning Talks * 12:30 – 1:00 pm – Humans & Algorithms: Discontents & Infrastructures * Misogyny Goes Viral: Understanding TikTok’s Algorithmic Influence on Andrew Tate’s Content – Sunday Ayodabo * Advances in Open Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Scholarly Information Retrieval in Digital Humanities Research – John Adebayo * From “Hello World” to “Hello Mom”: The Transition of Human-AI Relationship – Nini Zhou * 1:00 – 1:30 pm – Navigating Femininity Across Space and Time * The Travels of Lady Nijo: Pilgrimage, Travel, and Tourism in 13th and 14th Century Japan – Daniel Fandino * Uncovering and Showcasing the Work of a 19th Century Botanist and Educator using Digital Humanities Tools – India Smith, Erin Lane, Katie Sagal * “Reclaiming the Female Narrative: Recovering Women’s Voices in Global South Cold War Politics.” – Adelina Tratarou * 1:45 – 2:45 pm – Equity and Inclusion in Digital Access: Panel of Perspectives from North American College Professors in a Collaborative Online International Learning Community (Mexico, Canada and the U.S.) – Christina Acosta * 3:00 – 4:00 pm – Rhetoric of Empire: Semantic Networks and Colonial Legacy in User Reviews of Themed Hotels in Las Vegas – Ayodele James Akinola * 4:15 – 5:15 pm – Poster Session * World Scripts Explorer: one stop to explore, learn and write any world script – Vyshantha Simha * Digital Activism among Dalit-Bahujan Communities in India: Anti-Caste Discourses in Relations and Conflict – Tereza Menšíkov * A Digital Critical Disability Studies “Care Web”: Imagining a Disability Studies Collective Archive – Griffin Zimmerman * Tailoring Strategies to Navigate Censorship in Russian Political Landscape: Archival Activism and Technology – Ilia Venyavkin, Ilya Utekhin, Anna Nemzer * Translation Networks – Ali Bolcakan * Pandemic Storytelling across Cultural Contexts: Comparing Covid Self-Portraits from Korea, Singapore, Columbia, and the U.S. in Digital Archives – Natalie Phillips, Soohyun Cho, Sydney Logsdon * “Abortion Access Has Everything to Do with Access to Information”: A Digital Collection of Abortion Memories – April Urban * Digital Rights in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Perception of Privacy Literacy Among Selected Bipoc Graduate Students in the United States – John Adebayo * OCR for Coptic Literature: Digitizing an Under-resourced Historical Language Corpus – Lydia Bremer-McCollum, Caroline Schroeder Saturday, March 23 (In-Person) During a half-day unconference (10:30am - 2:00pm), attendees will have the opportunity to share and learn from each other through discussions, presentations, and workshop sessions. The program for this day will be created at the beginning of the unconference. No submission process or preparation is involved to participate. Kristen Mapes Assistant Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters Michigan State University East Lansing MI kmapes(a)msu.edu she/her

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2nd CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://bit.ly/rail2024 Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024 Workshop date: 25 May 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy) The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024 LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/ The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC- COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 16 February 2024 Date of notification: 15 March 2024 Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024 RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Debates in the Digital Humanities -- Call for General Volume Editors (1/31/24)
by Matthew K. Gold 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Debates in the Digital Humanities Call for General Volume Editors Debates in the Digital Humanities is looking for a new team to edit the next general volume in the series. The Debates in the Digital Humanities series, published in print and online<http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/> by the University of Minnesota Press, highlights topics of pressing interest to the field as they emerge. General volumes are published at several-year intervals and seek to survey the full range of issues animating the field at a given moment. (For a sense of this range, see the Table of Contents for the 2012<https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities>, 2016<https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-20…>, 2019<https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-20…>, and 2023<https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-20…> volumes). These volumes also reflect our interdisciplinary and international audience. We are looking for a team that can balance a unique editorial vision with a commitment to considering the full scope of current debates in the field. Our editorial teams are intentionally inclusive, typically involving two to three people who bring diverse experiences and perspectives to their work. We welcome proposals from editorial teams as well as from individuals. (Those who apply independently should be willing to be paired with others to form an editorial team.) Proposals should consist of an editorial statement of roughly 500 words that describes the team’s (or individual’s) vision for volume and their sense of the field as it currently stands, as well as an additional description of their qualifications. Proposals should also include CVs for all editorial team members. Proposals should be submitted via email to both mgold(a)gc.cuny.edu<mailto:mgold@gc.cuny.edu> and lauren.klein(a)emory.edu<mailto:lauren.klein@emory.edu> by January 31st, 2024. Finalists will be interviewed in Spring 2024. Please contact Matt<mailto:mgold@gc.cuny.edu> and Lauren<mailto:lauren.klein@emory.edu> with any questions about the proposal or selection process.

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Publication of 'Multilingual Digital Humanities' edited volume
by Paul Spence 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. We're delighted to announce the recent publication of our edited volume on "Multilingual Digital Humanities", published by Routledge as part of the Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities series: https://www.routledge.com/Multilingual-Digital-Humanities/Viola-Spence/p/bo… - ISBN 9781032491943<https://www.routledge.com/Multilingual-Digital-Humanities/Viola-Spence/p/bo…>. Edited by Lorella Viola and Paul Spence, this publication examines the profound impact of monolingualism, with a special focus on challenging Anglocentrism, on digital practices within the humanities and social sciences. This four-part, 13-chapter book navigates infrastructural projects, pedagogical resources, computational models, interface building, and publishing initiatives across diverse case studies, spanning languages such as Arabic, French, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish, Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil. This book was inspired by the recent growth in multilingual DH initiatives which explore the dynamic intersection of languages, culture, and digital mediation. "Multilingual Digital Humanities" recognizes the digital landscape as a culturally embedded, multilingual entity that weaves together past, present, and future worlds. Our aim was to bring together numerous debates connecting research with a linguistic focus to cultural criticism in Digital Humanities while addressing language technologies, documentation, and international language-based infrastructure creation. We hope that the volume will be useful reading for students, scholars, and practitioners in digital humanities and digital studies. "Multilingual Digital Humanities" includes the following chapters: Part I-Multilingual/Multicultural Theory and Practice 1. A model for Multilingual and Multicultural Digital Scholarship Methods Publishing: The Case of Programming Historian (Jennifer Isasi,Riva Quiroga, Nabeel Siddiqui, Joana Vieira Paulino, and Alex Wermer-Colan) 2. Diversifying Digital Biodiversity Knowledge: A Latin American Multilingual Perspective on the Biodiversity Heritage Library (Lidia Ponce de la Vega) 3. Applications and Developments of NLP Resources for Text Processing in Indian Languages: Shared Multilingual Corpora Building and Pre-trained Models (Justy Joseph, Lalithsriram SR, and Nirmala Menon) Part II-Pedagogy 4. Doing Digital Humanities in the Modern Languages Classroom (Susanna Allés-Torrent) 5. Digital Learning Environments for SLA: Learning Analytics and the Construction of Knowledge (Alice Gasparini) 6. Pedagogy and Praxis in Libraries: Natural Language Processing for Non-English Texts (Ian Goodale) 7. Bridging the Gap Between Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing: A Pedagogical Imperative for Humanistic NLP (Toma Tasovac, Nick Budak, Natalia Ermolaev, Andrew Janco, David Lassner) Part III-Language Models 8. Linguistic Injustice in Multilingual Technologies: The TenTen Corpus Family as a Case Study (David Bordonaba-Plou and Laila M. Jreis-Navarro) 9. Typological Challenges for the Application of Multilingual Language Models in the Digital Humanities (Marcell Fekete, Johannes Bjerva, and Lisa Beinborn) 10. Data Scarcity and Methodological Limitations in Multilingual Analysis of News Articles Published in Brazil (Caio Mello) Part IV-Methods and Infrastructure 11. Multilingual Interfaces for All? Localisation Strategies in Proyecto Humboldt Digital (Antonio Rojas Castro) 12. Towards Multilingually Enabled Digital Knowledge Infrastructures: A Qualitative Survey Analysis (Alíz Horváth, Cornelis van Lit, Cosima Wagner, and David Joseph Wrisley) 13. Digital Approaches to Multilingual Text Analysis: The Dictionnaire de la langue franque and Its Morphology as Hybrid Data in the Past (Josh Brown) Best wishes and happy reading, Lorella Viola (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Paul Spence (King's College London) #DigitalHumanities #MultilingualDH ------------ Paul Spence Reader, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS About: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/paul-spence Twitter: @politonaiz

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HASTAC CFP: Inviting Proposals to Host the Next HASTAC Conference
by Matthew K. Gold 02 Jan '24

02 Jan '24

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Hi All -- I'm sharing the CFP below on behalf of my colleague Cathy Davidson. -- HASTAC CFP: Inviting Proposals to Host the Next HASTAC Conference Expressions of interest due by January 30, 2024 (extended date). Full proposals will be invited thereafter. We invite proposals to host the twelfth international conference of HASTAC<https://hastac.hcommons.org/> (“Haystack”), the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, often called “the world’s first and oldest academic social network.” We are currently inviting proposals to host a conference in 2024, 2025 or later. With leadership at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Dartmouth College, HASTAC has some 18,000 network members and, in 2022, migrated its website to the collaborative Humanities Commons<https://hcommons.org/>. Each HASTAC conference has been hosted by a different institution or team of institutions that take the lead in shaping, deciding, and running all aspects of the conference. Historically, conference hosts have selected themes that best support their mission and that of HASTAC. To read more about this opportunity to host our next conference and submit a preliminary application, click here.<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrJd-QMAtbng0mmvwWe2ECAQCcpsPzv9z…>

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