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
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Dra. Isabel Galina Russell
Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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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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>>> CulturePlex Lab | Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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>>>
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