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Classroom Decolonization
by Barbara Bordalejo 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

Dear all, The post "Questions academics can ask to decolonize their classrooms” (2018) was recommended to me and I thought it might be of interest to others in this group. Here is the link: https://folukeafrica.com/questions-academics-can-ask-to-decolonise-their-cl… <https://folukeafrica.com/questions-academics-can-ask-to-decolonise-their-cl…> BB

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GO::DH and ADHO membership
by Quinn Dombrowski 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

Dear all, I am writing to follow up on the long-dormant discussion thread about the future of GO::DH with regard to ADHO. The vote in late 2017 indicated that the membership would like the exec to look into what would be involved in joining ADHO as a constituent organization (CO). At DH 2019, Barbara Bordalejo and I met with Harold Short (chair of the ADHO Admissions Committee) and Ray Siemens (also on the Admissions Committee) about the conditions under which GO::DH could join as CO of ADHO. Since the GO::DH membership last discussed the possibility of becoming a CO, ADHO itself has undergone a massive reorganization. Most significantly, ADHO is led by a Constituent Board, where each CO has one representative -- regardless of the number of members of that CO. (Previously, EADH had the most representation because they had the most members, followed by ACH.) There is also an Executive Board, which is in charge of carrying out the decisions made by the Constituent Board. Becoming a CO would give GO::DH a voice equal to any other CO in the high-level decision-making processes of ADHO. Barbara and I made it clear to Harold and Ray that not having a membership fee was essential for GO::DH, and while GO::DH would be the first organization with that requirement, they noted that ADHO has adapted its rules many times for new members, and didn’t see not charging a membership fee as a barrier to ADHO admission. A related requirement from the ADHO side is that COs have an official way to receive and manage money (i.e. a treasurer, bank account, etc.), but since we’re not collecting membership fees, they were also receptive to the idea of not having that as a requirement for GO::DH, either. Currently, ADHO COs are guaranteed $3k/year if their membership fees aren’t enough to provide at least that much. Because GO::DH doesn’t collect membership fees, and wouldn’t have an official way to manage money, we talked about waiving the annual $3k subvention from ADHO, and instead requesting funds on an as-needed basis for projects. These funds could then go directly to the institution(s) organizing those projects (e.g. workshops, etc.) Instead of getting $3k from ADHO, we talked about the possibility of getting annual registration fee waivers for our members (e.g. those from countries that can receive free access to LLC) to the DH conference, and other events, workshops, and trainings. We felt that those registration fee waivers may ultimately be more valuable than the $3k, and working with other COs to obtain those waivers will help strengthen our partnerships throughout ADHO. We welcome any thoughts or feedback from you on the possibility of admission to ADHO as a CO, now or at any point in the process. Please let me know if you have any questions. From here, the next step is to draft a proposal, get feedback from the GO::DH membership, and ideally, connect with other COs about what we might be able to do together. I started some of these discussions informally at the conference, and so far the response has been overwhelmingly warm and positive. Laura Mandell of centerNet, in particular, is excited about the possibility of having another globally-scoped organization to collaborate with. Looking back on the discussions from 2017, I’m optimistic that GO::DH is now in a position to have the best of both worlds: giving our members a voice in international DH decision-making through becoming an ADHO CO, as well as working on projects that raise the visibility of digital humanities work going on across the globe, in many languages. As mentioned at the GO::DH meeting in Utrecht, we’re starting work on a new “Around DH” project that will run throughout 2020, as well as revisiting the 2012 infographic quantifying DH that was rightly criticized for omitting the Global South: http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/around-dh-2020-and-quantifying-dh-infographi… If you’d like to help work on either of those projects, or have your work featured in “Around DH 2020”, please fill out the form(s) on that blog post. Thanks for reading this long note; please let us know if you have any thoughts or questions on it. All the best, Quinn

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[Call for Participation] Kaggle Competition: Kuzushiji Recognition
by KITAMOTO Asanobu 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

Dear Colleagues, I would like to announce the launch of the Kaggle Competition "Kuzushiji Recognition." Kuzushiji is a set of old Japanese characters that had been used for a thousand years in Japan, but most of the contemporary Japanese people cannot read them due to cursive writing style and the different form of characters. To solve this problem, we take advantage of machine learning and AI to develop Kuzushiji OCR algorithm for automatically extracting the type and the location of kuzushiji characters from old Japanese books. Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists, and this competition is the first on the Kaggle platform in the area of digital humanities. We wish to see active participation of people with background not only in computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, but also in Japanese studies and digital humanities. ** Period: July 19 to October 14, 2019 ** Competition official page: https://www.kaggle.com/c/kuzushiji-recognition/ ** Competition host page: http://codh.rois.ac.jp/competition/kaggle/ ** Hosts ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities http://codh.rois.ac.jp/ National Institute of Japanese Literature https://www.nijl.ac.jp/ National Institute of Informatics https://www.nii.ac.jp/ We will also offer opportunities for the winners of the competition to receive awards and give talks at a Symposium on November 11 in Tokyo, Japan. ** Japanese Culture and AI Symposium 2019 http://codh.rois.ac.jp/symposium/japanese-culture-ai-2019/ We are looking forward to your participation in the competition to develop innovative tools and datasets for improving accessibility to Japanese culture of the past. --- Asanobu KITAMOTO ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities National Institute of Informatics http://researchmap.jp/kitamoto/

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Journal: Digital Humanities in Arabic
by Barbara Bordalejo 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

Dear all, I just saw a post about a journal publishing DH research in Arabic. I thought some of you might find it interesting. You can find a webpage here: https://www.dhinar.com/?fbclid=IwAR2OVJMR3ZcX2kovsrh3LRFBmxld6M7zNtEQijGYqv… <https://www.dhinar.com/?fbclid=IwAR2OVJMR3ZcX2kovsrh3LRFBmxld6M7zNtEQijGYqv…> The English version is here: https://www.dhinar.com/en/?fbclid=IwAR2OVJMR3ZcX2kovsrh3LRFBmxld6M7zNtEQijG… <https://www.dhinar.com/en/?fbclid=IwAR2OVJMR3ZcX2kovsrh3LRFBmxld6M7zNtEQijG…> BB

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Digital Humanities: views from the South
by Domenico Fiormonte 21 Jul '19

21 Jul '19

Dear all, people interested in Global South & Digital Humanities will find of special interest this special issue of the LIINC Brazilian journal: "Humanidades digitais: olhares do sul | Humanidades digitales: miradas del sur | Digital Humanities: views from the South": http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/issue/view/275 This special issue was edited by Ricardo Pimenta y Gimena del Rio Riande, to whom I'm extremely grateful. Enjoy! All the best Domenico

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Fw: [FORCE11] Who is leading the global charge for open access? Answer: The Global South?
by O'Donnell, Dan 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Hi all, This is a really interesting article from the Force11 list. [U of Lethbridge Logo] Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor President, Force11<http://force11.org> Chief Spokesperson (Bargaining), University of Lethbridge Faculty Association<http://ulfa.ca> Editor, Digital Studies/Le champ num<http://digitalstudies.org/>érique <http://digitalstudies.org/> Department of English<http://www.uleth.ca/artsci/english> and University Library (Centre for the Study of Scholarly Communication<http://www.uleth.ca/research/centres-institutes/centre-study-scholarly-comm…>) University of Lethbridge<http://uleth.ca/> 4401 University Drive West Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell @danielPaulOD<https://twitter.com/DanielPaulOD> ________________________________ From: Jon Tennant <jon.tennant.2(a)gmail.com> Sent: July 18, 2019 2:54 To: info(a)opensciencemooc.eu Subject: [FORCE11] Who is leading the global charge for open access? Dear list members, apologies for cross-posting as always, Many of you probably saw this powerful recent article by Humberto Debat and Dominique Babini, "Plan S in Latin America: A precautionary note" https://peerj.com/preprints/27834/, which is well worth reading if you haven't. Building upon this, in this latest video for the Open Science MOOC, Arianna Becerril-Garcia from AmeliCA and Redalyc discusses the leading role they are playing with Open Access in Latin America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQDFHBJX7xI It is really quite inspiring. For those of us in the western world, I feel like a lot of the time we like to think we are leading the global charge for OA. I learned many years ago that this is not true, and in fact the commercial elements of our industry continue to cause unprecedented damage to our research and our society. We should be looking to our friends in Latin America about the incredible work they have been doing for decades now. It is quite eye-opening, and I think a discussion worth developing. Have a great weekend! Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rogue Palaeontologist; PhD, MEarthSci, MSc - Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Paris. Latest papers: Ten hot topics around scholarly publishing<https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/7/2/34> and Open Access in Palaeontology<https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2019/2548-open-access-in-palaeontolo…>. * Founder of the Open Science MOOC - Join us today<https://eliademy.com/opensciencemooc>! (open Slack<https://osmooc.herokuapp.com/> channel) [https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1g1fMlnkipKkXf34g7hVJ4wzHe_Vt…] <https://eliademy.com/catalog/catalog/product/view/sku/02d7338a7e> * Founder of paleorXiv<https://paleorxiv.org/>, a free, open source digital publishing platform for all Palaeontology research * Companion Website<https://paleorxiv.github.io/> * Independent open science communicator and consultant<http://fossilsandshit.com/open-scholarship/> * Author of Excavate! Dinosaurs<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Excavate-Dinosaurs-Paper-Toy-Palaeontology/dp/17824…> and World of Dinosaurs (coming 2018) Personal website<http://fossilsandshit.com/> - Home of the Green Tea and Velociraptors blog. ORCID: 0000-0001-7794-0218<http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7794-0218> Twitter: @protohedgehog <https://twitter.com/Protohedgehog> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FORCE11 Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to f11discussion+unsubscribe(a)force11.org<mailto:f11discussion+unsubscribe@force11.org>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/force11.org/d/msgid/f11discussion/CABE9Wna%2Be_…<https://groups.google.com/a/force11.org/d/msgid/f11discussion/CABE9Wna%2Be_…>.

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DEADLINE EXTENDED - CLI 2019 Conference in Paris 8 University
by ly 04 Jul '19

04 Jul '19

After receiving a plethora of requests for extra time to submit abstracts, we're happy to announce that we've extended the deadline for abstract submissions for the CLI 2019 Congres in Paris 8 University. The extended deadline is now Sunday, 15 July 2019. Dates et registration https://colloque-cli.univ-paris8.fr/submission.html July 15th, 2019 - Deadline EXTENDED for the proposals reception July 25th, 2019 - Beginning of notifications (acceptance or decline) and return of the double blind expertises to every authors August 5th, 2019 - Reception of the identified abstracts September 21st, 2019 - Registration for the workshop (free, but mandatory) October 10th and 11th, 2019 - CLI 2019 workshop Web Site https://colloque-cli.univ-paris8.fr/home-eng.html *-----* *Luis Torres-Yepez* Patrimoine Immatériel à l'ère du numérique <http://citu-paragraphe.fr/index.php/projets/patrimoine-immateriel/> Département Humanités Numériques <http://www.humanites-numeriques.univ-paris8.fr/> Laboratoire CITU-Paragraphe <http://citu-paragraphe.fr/> Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis @luiy

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GO::DH meeting at DH 2019 (and virtually)
by Quinn Dombrowski 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

Global Outlook:: Digital Humanities invites all DH 2019 participants who are interested in DH in the Global South and in languages beyond English to attend the GO::DH meeting on Thursday during lunchtime at Drift 25, room 201. We will be discussing numerous new initiatives with opportunities for the community to get involved, including a series of articles in (Digital Studies/ Le champ numérique), and revisiting "Around DH" and the 2012 DH infographic in 2020. We'll also discuss the current state of our conversations with ADHO about the possibility of becoming a Constitutent Organization with voting privileges, rather than a Special Interest Group. If you won't be at DH or can't make it to the meeting, we'll be live-tweeting the meeting from @globaloutlookdh and posting live notes; check the Global Outlook DH website (http://www.globaloutlookdh.org<http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/>/) on July 11th for the link to the notes. Please let us know if you have any questions, and we hope to see you there in person or virtually. All the best, Quinn Dombrowski, for the GO::DH exec

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Attend FSCI 2019 Scholarly Communication Institute- Early bird rate ending this Friday!
by O'Donnell, Dan 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

With apologies for cross listing [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d/images/861d7fe8-353…] <https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> The FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) will take place at UCLA August 5 - 9, 2019. Be sure to take advantage of the early-bird discounts<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> which end this Friday, June 21. This recent post on Scholarly Kitchen<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> places FSCI in the context of the existing training opportunities within Scholarly Communication, showing that FSCI enables and serves those that are done asking why, and are now asking how we move towards an Open Knowledge culture together. FSCI2019<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> offers participants 5 immersive days of training and skills development in new modes of research communication. All levels of participants, from beginners to advanced, will find courses of interest. There are 27 Courses<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> to choose from (check out the Course Abstracts<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…>), with topics designed to appeal across disciplines. We also have an exciting agenda of plenary events<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> (see list below), and Speakers and Instructors<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> are coming from 6 continents, including experts in scholarly communication from many communities of practice. The diversity of perspectives provided by the instructors and attendees is one of FSCI’s key strengths, allowing for comprehensive exploration of the issues in class and beyond. We hope you’ll add your voice to the conversation, and broaden your perspective on the evolving world of scholarly communication! PLENARY EVENTS Monday, August 5 9:00 am - 9:30 am - Welcome Introduction - Palisades Ballroom Welcome Speakers: * Ginny Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, UCLA * Joe Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Academic Senate, UCLA First thing on Monday morning we will all meet to kick off the Institute. Expect a short introduction, basic logistics information, run over the week's schedule and a brief overview of the courses. 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Lightning Talks - Palisades Ballroom Chair/Moderator: Daniel S. Katz, Assistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications NCSA, University of Illinois This session will consist of reviewed 5-minute talks by FSCI participants. These short talks are meant to present something the speaker is passionate about, related to scholarly communications. Talks may be about new technology that might change our lives or vanish without a trace, tell us about a policy that has made a difference somewhere, rants about how the scholarly communications world should be, and other topics. The talks will inspire us to think and to discuss things that make an impact on scholarly communications. Tuesday, August 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Do-a-Thon - Palisades Ballroom Chair/Moderator: Steve Diggs, Technical Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Building off the concept of a hackathon, a do-a-thon is a work-sprint where people from different skill sets work together and collaborate on different challenges and projects. Sign up forms will be posted on the website in early July. Wednesday, August 7 8:30 am - 12:00 pm - Plenary Session Panel - What if Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society had never existed? Learning from the successes beyond the North Atlantic - Palisades Ballroom * Gimena Del Rio Riande (Moderator), Researcher, Investigadora Adjunta CONICET in Argentina * Dan O’Donnell, Professor of English, University of Lethbridge Speakers from around the globe will be presenting in this centerpiece plenary session Much of today’s debate around open access and scholarly communication in Northern America and Europe centers around how well plans developed in one part of this “North Atlantic” region might work in another, or, usually as an afterthought, in the “Global South”. In this session we want to turn this on its head. What would scholarly communication be like if our origin myth did not start in the UK’s Royal Society in London in 1665? Let’s imagine a world where Phil Trans never existed and we instead had developed our systems from the ideas underpinning the success stories of scholarly communications infrastructures and systems from Latin America, Asia and Africa, from beyond the English-speaking world, and from communities not traditionally considered as “scholarly”. Thursday, August 8, 2019 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - “Moving the Needle” Roundtable - Palisades Ballroom Speakers: * Ginny Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, UCLA * Alison Scott, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, UCLA * Tom Olijhoek, Molecular Biology Researcher, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) * Cameron Neylon, Professor of Research Communication, Curtin University Engage in a discussion with a panel pulled together to discuss some of the highest-level recent developments to “move the needle” towards open research and publishing. Virginia Steel, The UCLA Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, and Alison Scott, the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, will discuss the University of California’s negotiations with Elsevier to secure a read and publish contract; Tom Olijhoek will discuss the European Union’s “Plan S” which requires state-funded research output to be Open by 2020; and Cameron Neylon will discuss recent results evaluating how universities are implementing Open Access globally. Who is doing this well? What is driving change, and in what direction? What will these changes mean for the scholarly communication ecosystem? Come with questions and opinions, and join the discussion. 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm - Battledecks: PowerPoint Karaoke - Palisades Ballroom Chair/Moderator - Nicky Agate, Assistant Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Projects, Columbia University You will not want to miss this night!! Everyone is invited to take part in Battledecks (a.k.a. PowerPoint karaoke). How are your improv skills? Ready to perform in front of a live audience? Each contestant will be given 3-5 minutes to present ten slides on a surprise topic, with the goal of telling a coherent story while (a) entertaining the audience and (b) keeping a straight face. Link to upload your slide decks will be posted in May. Friday, August 9, 2019 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Birds of Feather Topic tables - DeNeve Cafeteria Private Room Co-Chairs: * Anna Oates, Scholarly Communication and Discovery Services Librarian, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis * Dan O’Donnell, Professor of English, University of Lethbridge Join your colleagues in the De Neve cafeteria to discuss School Comm topics in an informal setting. You'll be able to network and exchange ideas, insights, and experiences. If you are interested in leading a BOF table or have ideas of topics you wish to contribute, please send an email to FSCI-INFO(a)force11.org<mailto:FSCI-INFO@force11.org>. Or you may add to the list that will be posted here June 17. 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - Keynote: Would including open scholarship in tenure guidelines move the needle? Speaker: Juan Pablo Alperin<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…>, Assistant Professor in Publishing and Co-Director of the Scholarly Communications Lab Despite all the arguments and evidence in favor of open scholarship, years of advocacy, tool building, mandates, and policies, less than half of the research that is published is publicly available. But what if we could magically add open scholarship practices as a valued activity in every salary review and tenure guideline document? Would such an explicit valuation of open scholarship for academic career advancement serve to move the needle? This presentation will challenge commonly held notions of the barriers to change through evidence from the analysis of hundreds of salary review and tenure guideline documents from universities in the United States and Canada, and from results of a survey of faculty from the same universities. This empirical exploration of what we say we value in academic careers, how we say it, and what we think our peers value may confirm your belief that review, promotion, and tenure processes affect the adoption of open scholarship practices—but it just won't be in the way you think they do. Visit the FSCI 2019 <https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> website for more information. Convinced? Then register here <https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> and take advantage of the early-bird discount that ends on June 21st. We hope you can join us and we look forward to seeing you in Los Angeles! 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Digital Modern Languages mailing list and seminar (25 June 2019)
by Spence, Paul 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

*With apologies for cross-posting* We are delighted to announce the launch of a new mailing list called 'Digital Modern Languages' which is intended to provide a forum for research and teaching across Modern Languages which engages with digital culture, media and technologies. We hope it will allow for communication across different languages and language-related disciplines, with a primary focus on languages other than English. You can subscribe to the list here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DIGITALMODERNLANGUAGES We invite you to use the list to share announcements about your own events and initiatives, and hope it will provide the opportunity to share knowledge and experiences across the languages community. ---------- Second Digital Modern Languages seminar ----------- Following the successful launch of the Digital Modern Languages seminar series, we are also delighted to announce below the details of the next seminar on Tuesday 25 June, with Mandana Seyfeddinipur (Director of the SOAS World Languages Institute and Head of the Endangered Languages Archive). Tuesday 25 June 2019 - Mandana Seyfeddinipur (SOAS) - Two Sides of the Same Coin: Why the Digital is Blessing and Curse for Endangered Languages 6-8pm, Tuesday 25 June, Bush House Lecture Theatre 2, King's College London https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/2019/05/14/tuesday-25-june-201… Abstract: Globalisation, urbanisation and climate change are affecting people's lives all over the world drastically. Languages are falling silent at an alarming rate because people migrate to cities and give up their languages for more prestigious major language promising social and economic mobility. Linguists estimate that half of the world's 7000 languages spoken today will be gone by the end of this century. And with these languages humanity's knowledge about our own history, the local knowledges about flora and fauna and medicine, about social systems and cosmologies. At the same time the advent of digital technology has allowed linguists all over the world to record these disappearing languages and to preserve them in digital archives around the world. But while the internet held the promise of democratising access to knowledge, it is also the demise for linguistic diversity as the knowledge represented is heavily skewed towards the knowledge of the usual subjects and is only accessible in English or Chinese. The youth who are the hope for the survival of small languages wants to participate in the modern world and for that their small languages are not effective. Revitalisation and maintenance interventions try to utilise digital tools, games and phone apps but also their effects are limited. A digital multilingual and linguistically diverse world is the desire but the reality of it is complicated. The seminar will be followed by a wine reception. The lecture theatre is located on the Fourth Floor of Bush House (R on the campus map). Please register in advance at: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19928 Paul Spence (King's College London) and Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research) This series is part of the AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative, and is supported by the Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community and Language Acts and Worldmaking projects, and by the AHRC Leadership Fellow for Modern Languages (Janice Carruthers). Best wishes Paul ------------ Paul Spence Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS About: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/person.aspx?id=86f6979a-0322-46d3-996b-77323ee…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kcl.a…> Twitter: @dhpaulspence

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