Disrupting Digital Monolingualism workshop, a one-and-a-half day event, was held online on June 16th and 17th 2020. The workshop was hosted by the Language Acts & Worldmaking project with the support of the Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community project, both projects funded by the AHRC as part of its Open World Research Initiative.
The core themes of the workshop were:
This workshop had these goals:
View the workshop Programme. Read about the Theme Groups which have continued work on topics which emerged at the workshop.
View workshop presentation videos below.
Paul Spence (en)
Paul Spence (es)
Renata Brandao (pt)
Naomi Wells (en)
Anasuya Sengupta - Whose Knowledge? Decolonising the Internet's Languages... and questions of epistemic (in)justice
Eduard Arriaga - University of Indianapolis. Language and Technology Decolonization as a Disruption to Digital Monolingualism
Cosima Wagner - Freie Universität Berlin. Towards multilingually enabled digital knowledge infrastructures
Andiswa Bukula - South African Centre for Digital Language Resources. Multilingualism in the South African context
Sarah McMonagle - University of Hamburg. Which (mis)perceptions matter in minority language media research? Reflections on/from an enquiry of digital language practices among Sorbian adolescents
Pascal Belouin and Sean Wang - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. RISE and SHINE: An API-based Infrastructure for Multilingual Textual Resources
Michael Castelle - University of Warwick. Multilingual Transformers: Linguistic Relativity for the 21st Century
Ernesto Priani Saisó - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Challenges of not using English as the dominant language in DH international projects
Carlos Yebra Lopez - New York University. How to Use Digital-Homelands in order to Revitalise Diasporic Languages
Isabelle Zaugg - Columbia University's Data Science Institute. Let's Talk About Scripts
Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez - University College Cork, Ireland. Digital Peripheries: A Postcolonial Digital Humanities Approach to Catalan 20th Century Literary Spaces
Cosima Wagner - Freie Universität Berlin. Challenging research infrastructures from a multilingual DH point of view - a short overview
Caoimhín Ó Dónaill - Ulster University. CLILSTORE: An open online platform for multimedia language learning
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