I don't know about the language sticker, but I am definitely putting on the one that says "I am looking for a job"...
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:57 PM, igalina igalina@unam.mx wrote:
I had a similar experience in Nebraska as Dan but the other way around. The presenter was not a native English speaker and although the presentation went very well as he had practiced previously he had difficulties understanding some of the questions from the audience. Is there something that could be set up at DH14? I am thinking along the lines of the mentoring program (where people go around with the sticker saying 'Ask me about a job' or 'I am looking for a job' - can't remember the exact phrase). Maybe somewhere where you can sign up and say "I am willing to help out with the following languages" or "I need help in this language"? A volunteer system for helping out in sessions that require it? Unfortunately I will not be in Lausanne this year either (newborn baby) but hopefully others might have the time and enthusiasm to implement something. Would love to hear the results of this effort! Best, Isabel
Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina@unam.mx @igalina
De: globaloutlookdh-l globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca en nombre de Domenico Fiormonte domenico.fiormonte@gmail.com Enviado: jueves, 19 de junio de 2014 06:08 a.m. Para: O'Donnell, Dan; A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community Asunto: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] DHSI unconference session on Multilingualism in DH
Hi everybody,
I think Maris Dacos made some interesting proposals on this regard in his GO::DH award-winning article: http://blog.homo-numericus.net/article11138.html
I'd like to remind here briefly some of his ideas:
"... des dispositifs s’appuyant sur la discrimination positive, les quotas de contributions, l’interdiction de cumul des mandats, le soutien financier aux déplacements pour les pays et les laboratoires les moins bien dotés, le travail collectif pour mettre au point une bourse des traductions collaboratives."
By the way, any news on the GO::DH winning papers publication front? Or did I miss something?
Ciao!
Domenico
2014-06-18 17:24 GMT+02:00 Daniel O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca:
Something we had thrown around in Nebraska last year that we'd wanted to
try
out in Lausanne was an implementation of what Alex and I call the "GO::DH method": i.e. rely on the community to smooth out discomforts at a local level.
The idea came up at a session where there were a number of Japanese
graduate
students who were uneasy with their English in a room in which there were plenty of other Japanese speakers who were not uneasy. One of the
students
wanted to ask a question of an (English language) speaker but was having
a
hard time formulating it in English. What we thought was how much easier
it
would be if the norm in DH talks was that you could ask questions in the language you were most comfortable in and rely on somebody else in the
room
to paraphrase the question to the speaker if there wasn't a common
language.
Or in this case if the student had been able to ask the question in
Japanese
and we'd been able to paraphrase it for the speaker. Most people, I
think,
find it easier to receive information in weaker languages than produce
it.
What we'd wanted to do in Lausanne was try the idea out: have somebody
ask a
question in a language other than the language of the speaker, do the translation, and show that it could work. Unfortunately, I can't go to Lausanne now due to a family emergency, but I still think it would be interesting to try. IMO, our collective language knowledge is an
underused
resource--especially given that we are humanists and so in many cases
have a
fair bit of linguistic training.
That's an interesting posting Élika (and this is an interesting
discussion).
Thanks for prompting it!
-dan
On 14-06-18 08:30 AM, Élika Ortega wrote:
Hi Giorgio,
I agree, there are some dangers in doing that--there is no easy way
around
it. But it's great that lots of ideas and initiatives are happening.
I will be in Lausanne, and I'd love to talk more about our projects.
Best, Élika
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Giorgio Guzzetta guzzettg@gmail.com wrote:
This is a crucial topic to me. Are you going to be in Lausanne? it would be interesting to have a meeting (unconference or just a chat) to
discuss
this further. There are models of translating different from the UN/EU
ones
that could be discussed (in fact, as much as I might like, in
principle, the
idea of "burden the hegemon", there is always the risk that this in the
end
will be just another form of cultural domination), such as the one used
in
Global Voices. Me and some friends of mine are trying to shape a multilingual project regarding DH that we would like to start sharing at some point.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Élika Ortega elikaortega@gmail.com wrote:
Deal all,
A few days ago during DHSI I organized an unconference session on Multilingualism in DH. I wrote a short blog post about what was
discussed
there and you can read it here:
Multilingualism in DH. Notes from the DHSI2014 Unconference Session
All the best, Élika
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