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Douala
Miscellaneous information - Language
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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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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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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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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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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Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation
2019 Charles C. Eldredge Prize
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is now accepting nominations for the 2019 Charles C. Eldredge Prize. Single-author books devoted to any aspect of the visual arts of the United States and published in the three previous calendar years are eligible. To nominate a book, send a one-page letter explaining the work’s significance to the field of American art history and discussing the quality of the author’s scholarship and methodology. Nominations by authors or publishers for their own books will not be considered.
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Nantes
50th conference of the Association des germanistes de l'enseignement supérieur (AGES)
L’objectif de cette manifestation sur les machines est de confronter les études germaniques au récent tournant des études matérielles dans lesquelles la thématique des machines s’intègre. Contribuer à mettre en perspective d’un point de vue historique et à penser l’ordinateur et les techniques du numérique et ce qu’ils font aux humains avec les outils des sciences humaines est l’une des ambitions de ce colloque. Cette édition du congrès de l’AGES mettra de manière décisive doctorant·e·s et postdoctorant·e·s en avant en leur réservant la moitié des contributions dans chaque panel.
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Paris
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Africa
The Ovahimba years, contemporary multimedia ethnography
Call for researchers at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (2016-2017)
Ethnographe, cinéaste et photographe, élève de Jean Rouch, Rina Sherman a vécu entre 1997 et 2004 au sein d’une communauté ovahimba d’Afrique australe (Namibie et Angola). Lors de son séjour, elle a filmé, photographié et écrit sur la vie quotidienne et rituelle des Ovahimba et d’autres communautés dites de langue otjiherero. De cette étude, elle a rapporté des centaines d’heures de vidéo et de sons et des milliers de photographies, ainsi que des notes et des dessins, qu’elle a donnés à la BnF en 2014.
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Yaoundé
Formation, recherche, appui au développement
les sciences et métiers de l’information documentaire face au défi d’« émergence » de l’Afrique
Ce colloque ambitionne d'intérroger les mécanismes d'intégration des métiers et sciences documentaires en Afrique dans les universités et institution de formation, de lrecherche et d'appui au développement. Il a pour objectifs de : dresser un bilan du niveau d’appropriation du champ des connaissances scientifiques et professionnelles en information documentaire par les pays africains ; interroger les modèles institutionnels de formation en Afrique, et les résultats obtenus au niveau de la formation, de la recherche et de l’appui au développement ; montrer, au-delà d’une vision militante, quelle peut être la contribution de l’organisation, de la gestion et de la conservation des savoirs et des informations dans les politiques africaines de développement ; identifier les transformations, les distanciations, les bifurcations, les « bricolages » et les innovations qui se sont produits dans la cohabitation entre la culture occidentale dite écrite et celle africaine dite orale afin de mettre en évidence les mécanismes qui rendent possibles des modèles innovants de développement endogène des sociétés et institutions africaines.
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Paris
The digital practices of migrants
TIC Migrations program
Pour célébrer ses dix ans, le programme TIC Migrations de la fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme organise deux journées d’étude dédiées aux usages numériques des migrants. Nous souhaitons soutenir et mettre en valeur des jeunes chercheurs dont les travaux prometteurs pourraient s’enrichir des outils, des méthodes et de l’expérience développés par le programme TIC Migrations. Toutes les propositions alliant les thèmes des nouvelles technologies et des diasporas / migrations internationales sont les bienvenues.
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Grapic design and multimedia - uses and users in the digital age
Appel à contribution pour le numéro 2 de « Échappées, revue annuelle d’art et de design - recherche » de l’École supérieure d’art des Pyrénées Pau Tarbes, sortie janvier 2014. Le présent appel à contribution est lié aux programmes de recherche du site de Pau portant sur des questions de design graphique et multimédia dans nos sociétés contemporaines. Le sujet proposé ici interroge le design graphique et multimédia, les usages et les usagers à l’ère du numérique.
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Neuilly-sur-Marne
Electronic Games and Exclusions
This call for papers is for a multidisciplinary day conference on the subject of "Games and Exclusion" with a main focus on electronic and video games in social work approaches to socially excluded groups and populations. Papers can be submitted by researchers in all fields of the human and social sciences, professionals in social work as well as students in social work, masters and Phd programs. This day conference will take place on the 21st November 2013.
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Dizionario di eretici, dissidenti e inquisitori
Ereticopedia
Ereticopedia si fonda sull'idea-base è di costruire un dizionario on line di personaggi e movimenti che si sono opposti alla "norma", rivendicando il diritto alla libertà personale, di pensiero, di espressione, di azione, il diritto al dissenso e il primato della coscienza individuale su regole, dottrine e rituali di comportamento imposti dall'alto ovvero comunemente accettati dalle società in cui ebbero la sorte di vivere. Cioè che hanno scelto di esercitare (con coraggio e spesso al prezzo della propria vita) diritti che dovrebbero costituire la base della nostra attuale società, che spesso si proclama figlia dei valori illuministici, ma appartenenti anche alla più autentica tradizione cristiana, di tolleranza e rispetto della dignità della persona.
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Lyon
Study days - Prehistory and Antiquity
recherches lexicales et lexicographiques sur les langues de l'Italie préromaine
Le Ve Séminaire sur les langues de l'Italie préromaine réunira le jeudi 15 mars 2012, des spécialistes français et étrangers autour du thème du lexique. Les approches herméneutiques, les questions de méthode ainsi qu'une réflexion globale sur ce que peuvent apporter les différents domaines linguistiques de l'Italie préromaine (étrusque, latin, langues sabelliques, vénète) à la lexicographie et à la lexicologie modernes feront le cœur de cette journée d'étude.
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