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Douala
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Advances and challenges of NLP (Natural Language Processing) for african languages
How far have we come?
This workshop will bring together NTeALan’s large community of members living in Cameroon and abroad, invited researchers, partners and other members of the scientific community. This workshop aims at bringing together professionals, researchers and experts in African languages and Natural Language Processing (NLP), whose research work focuses on machine learning techniques and electronic lexicography applied to NLP and language pedagogy/didactics. We will also discuss the main challenges that arise in this context for the constitution of corpora in African languages. We will define possible directions for future progress.
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The Institute of History of the University of Wrocław, Poland (IH UWr), Zajezdnia (Depot) History Centre, and the International Federation for Public History invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to share their research in the framework of the fourth Public History Summer School to be held online, 31 May-4 June 2021.
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Rennes
Telling and narrating closed Latino-American spaces in a global world
Après une première journée d'étude sur les imaginaires des limites, le Centre d'études des langues et littératures anciennes et modernes (CELLAM) et la revue Amerika (université de Rennes 2) accueilleront une deuxième manifestation sur ces thèmes. Y seront abordés les rapports aux frontières, aux espaces clos et aux dynamiques de ségrégation et de fédération au sein des imaginaires des Amériques.
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Montpellier
5th International "Language and Territory" Colloquium
This multidisciplinary colloquium will discuss the different ways that languages and territories are linked, and will show the political, social and economic stakes that arise from the relationships between them. Above all, these terms refer to men and women with their social practices and representations, at the core of the logic of territoriality. New territories give rise to new language practices, which, in turn, create new spaces, discourse and meaning. The "boundaries" we draw between languages and territories are permeable in time and space, depending on factors such as population displacement, language policies, linguistic and social representations, education, mass media and socio-cultural values.
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Critic is an innovative scholarly journal which covers a wide range of interesting topics, from literary translation to audiovisual and multimedia translation through language technologies, translator training, conference and community interpreting, and intercultural communication. The journal is interested in anything related to languages, translation, culture, and multilingual communication. Published annually, it includes articles and book reviews spanning through the whole translation studies spectrum.
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Shame, Shaming, and Online Image Sharing
Journal First Monday
We are preparing a special issue for the open-access journal First Monday on the topic of shame and shaming around the practices of sharing images online. Vernacular mobile images are the visual intersection of everyday life and popular culture, taken, viewed on and/or shared from mobile devices. They are the building blocks of our visual co-construction of reality. But, what can the experiences of shame and shaming related to practices of sharing more or less intimate vernacular mobile images indicate about our digitally connected societies and about contemporary subjectivities?
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Paris
Call for papers - Representation
Rethinking the digital transition - Beauviatech international conference
Colloque international Beauviatech
Ce colloque ambitionne d’interroger, à nouveaux frais, la relation argentique/numérique en cherchant à la replacer dans un contexte bien plus large d’histoire des techniques et des formes. Si le programme BEAUVIATECH, s’intéresse plus particulièrement pour sa part à ces questions techniques sous l’angle d’une étude approfondie de la société française de fabrication de matériel audiovisuel Aaton et de ses relations avec les techniciens et cinéastes des années 1970 à nos jours, ce colloque souhaite élargir la réflexion en se focalisant sur un moment particulier de cette histoire technique du cinéma, correspondant à une importante crise de l’argentique au profit du support numérique.
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Paris
The representations of ethnoracial minorities in the French audiovisual world
From TV stations to digital platforms
Cette journée d'étude propose d’étudier comment les modes de représentation des minorités ethnoraciales (Safi, 2013 ; Cervulle, 2013) ont évolué en France au sein d’une offre de contenus audiovisuels alimentée de façon croissante par des médias issus du web, souvent étrangers, et échappant donc à toute régulation ou politique volontariste hexagonale en la matière. Elle s'appuie sur un double cadrage interdisciplinaire : un premier d'ordre socio-économique et un second d'ordre socio-technique.
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Aix-en-Provence
Call for papers - Political studies
Artistic, Digital, and Political Creation in English-Speaking African Countries
Africa 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. Even if this cultural focus cannot be abstracted from a broader geopolitical agenda marred by controversial presidential declarations, it nevertheless has the potential to offer a somewhat different coverage of the continent. One can only hope that it avoids the temptation to officially “curate into being” “exceptional” artists (Dovey), tapping into the all-too-familiar image of Africa as “the supreme receptacle of the West’s obsession with, and circular discourse about, the facts of ‘absence,’ ‘lack,’ and ‘non-being,’ of identity and difference” (Mbembe).
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Aix-en-Provence
Call for papers - Political studies
Africa 2020: Artistic, digital, and political creation in english-speaking African countries
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. The peer-reviewed journal of Aix-Marseille Université research centre on Anglophone Studies (LERMA), E-rea, has decided to seize the opportunity of Africa 2020 to dedicate a special issue to contemporary artistic, digital, and political creation in English-speaking African countries. Heeding Kenyan political analyst Nanjala Nyabola’s advice to eschew the too reductive ‘Africa rising’ and ‘Africa failing’ narratives in favour of ‘Africa being’ stories, this special issue wishes to focus on “stories reflecting the ambivalence, complexity, challenges and opportunities of African societ[ies] in an increasingly connected world”.
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Paris
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
New technology-based metamorphosis in Japan
In Japan, the kyara-ka phenomenon, ‘transforming into a character’ (Aihara Hiroyuki, 2007) is now giving birth to what Nozawa Shunsuke (2013) calls ‘an emerging art of self–fashioning.’ Based on elaborate disguise techniques, the kyara-ka phenomenon covers a variety of communication strategies and practices: cosplay, kigurumi, Vtubing, utaloid voice banks, use of voice-image filters to upload videos where humans look like characters… Exploring all the aspects of this ‘thingification of humans’, the conference will reflect on how and why a growing number of people market themselves as characters. The conference goal is to address the complexity of issues raised by these voluntary and, perhaps, ironical acts of obliteration. What is the profile of men and women who transform themselves into computer-graphic creatures? How do they deal with being loved only through their digital alter-ego? What little or grand narratives are being produced alongside? Can we still deal with the phenomenon in terms of authenticity (original) versus artificiality (copy)? What negotiations or refusals underly the use of characters as social masks?
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Call for papers - Representation
Impossible and unthinkable objects and their thinking in films
The encyclopedia of impossible objects
En novembre 2018 s’est tenu à Toulouse (Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès et partenaires) le colloque international CinéDesign 2, deuxième événement organisé par le groupe de recherche CinéDesign. Depuis 2016, le groupe propose des événements d’échange et de travail autour des disciplines du cinéma et du design, et a organisé dans cette optique une première journée d’étude en 2016, suivie d’une publication rapidement parue en 2017. Suite au colloque de 2018, nous ne souhaitons pas seulement réaliser des actes conventionnels, mais ambitionnons de rassembler une publication de recherche et un complément encyclopédique inventoriant objets impossibles, impensables et à penser, entre design et cinéma. Il s’agit donc d’actes du colloque, mais aussi d’une publication qui s’ouvre à d’autres contributions, y compris de chercheur/se/s n’ayant pas participé à l’événement.
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Scholarship, prize and job offer - Language
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies – University of Maryland
The Department of French and Italian in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC) at the University of Maryland (UMD) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor with a specialization in 19th-century French and Francophone literatures/cultures and expertise in Digital Humanities beginning August 2020.
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Monopoli
Pathos. Forms and fortunes of literary emotions
The goal of this summer school is to explore the role of emotions in literature, namely with respect to the excess of pathos in different forms and times. Pathos has been a fundamental aspect of literature in every epoch. Great poetry has always foregrounded its ability to represent feelings, evoke intense and vivid moods, and elicit readers’ emotions and empathy. On the other hand, the novel – the genre dominating literary modernity – has been o!en accused of indulging in sentimental excess, giving too much space to melodramatic expression. Indeed, in Western cultures, there is a widespread suspicion towards pathos, which has o!en been identified as a shortcoming of literature. Great books – according to a common implicit assumption – can prompt reflection and laughter, but not tears: pathos only concerns lowbrow production. The summer school is an opportunity to engage in a reflection on issues related to pathos in literature in the last few centuries. Different perspectives will be taken into account: specific literary works, reader response theory, cognitive narratology, transmedia adaptation, and publishing history.
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The Hague
Conference, symposium - Modern
Cultural encounters in the nineteenth century
The exhibition The Dutch in Paris, which was on show in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and in the Petit Palais, Paris during the fall of 2017 and spring of 2018 respectively, aimed to visualize the artistic exchange between Dutch and French artists between 1789 and 1914. As part of a larger research project, set up by the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, the exhibition generated so much response that ESNA, in collaboration with the RKD and NWO, decided to organize an international conference on the subject, focusing specifically on international as well as national and local points of encounter and how they facilitated artistic exchange.
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Tunis
Conference, symposium - Thought
The how in design ? Introspective/retrospective design
Rencontres annuelles internationales du design (RAID 2019)
Les rencontres annuelles internationales du design (RAID) sont nées d'une initiative de l'École supérieure des sciences et technologies du design et s'articulent autour de deux volets majeurs : un scientifique portant un regard prospectif sur le domaine de la recherche et un autre expérientiel, tourné vers l'exploration de nouvelles formes de pratiques et d'échanges, visant l'ouverture du design sur d'autres domaines et d'autres territoires. La vision des RAID aspire à sillonner et à saisir de nouvelles formes d'interactions possibles entre le design et ses environnements scientifiques, professionnels, culturels, etc. Les RAID sont à leur troisième édition qui se tiendra durant trois jours du 24 au 26 Avril 2019 à l’ESSTED sous la thématique « The how in Design Introspective/prospective design ».
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Bacău
The construction of reality in the post-truth age
We invite papers for the 25th issue of the intersdiciplinary academic journal Interstudia, based at the Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania. The proposed topic for this issue is "The construction of reality in the post-truth age". We will accept articles written in English, French, Italian and Spanish whose main points of interest will be related to ideas deriving from these following themes for reflection: the role of language in the construction of post-truth, the manipulation of emotion in the media, ethics and post-truth, the role of humanities in the preservation of human values, truth versus opinion in the post-truth society, the relation among data, information and knowledge, ICT and post-truth, the role of numerical devices in the propagation of post-truth attitudes. These are only suggested topics, and should not be considered exhaustive. authors should be free in choosing their topic of research within the frame offered by the general title.
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Luxembourg City
The materialities of reported speech
8th international, multidiscipilinary conference Ci-dit / Luxembourg
Souvent ignoré, le support qui matérialise le discours est volontiers considéré comme accessoire, ou en tout cas comme moins intéressant que le discours qu’il véhicule. Pourtant, cette partie matérielle du discours constitue un élément structurant porteur de sens, et leur interdépendance reste à questionner. En quoi le choix de support, en relation avec un choix de format et le choix d’un média ou transmédia comme circuit de diffusion, influence-t-il la pratique de la citation et du discours rapporté au sens large, abordée tant du point de vue des conditions de production que de réception, en relation avec des valeurs singulières et collectives (par exemple, l’impact sociétal) et des formes de vie (celle dont témoigne, par exemple, la pratique aujourd’hui banalisée du tatouage) ?
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Paris
Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology
The audiovisual body: what approaches? What uses?
Ce colloque se propose de traiter des questions – à la fois techniques, scientifiques et pratiques – relatives à la constitution de corpus audiovisuels (vidéos, images, sons, …), à la description de tels corpus, à leur gestion et préservation et, plus particulièrement, aux usages de ces corpus dans le cadre notamment (mais pas exclusivement) de l’enseignement des langues et des cultures. Il prend appui sur plusieurs projets de recherche nationaux récemment terminés ou actuellement en cours.
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Charenton-le-Pont
What role for communities in heritage management ?
Cette journée a pour thème « Quel rôle pour les communautés dans la gestion du patrimoine ?». Il s’agira, à travers trois sessions, d’examiner comment ces communautés assurent la participation des citoyens à la gestion du patrimoine culturel à travers la construction et le partage des savoirs. Cette journée a pour objectifs de faire mieux connaître les recherches européennes financées par la JPI-CH, de faciliter les synergies avec des projets français.
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