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SUMMARY:Human vs machine: what can corpus linguistics contribute to our understanding of large collections of texts?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nKeynote Speaker: Professor Sylvia Jaworska\, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics \nA collaboration between Heritage & Creativity and Prosperity & Resilience on Wednesday 7 February 2024 from 14:00-15.30. \nLocation: Palmer 103 and Online \n\n\n\n14.00\nWelcome and introduction\nDr Mara Olivia\, Digital Humanities Champion \nProfessor Roberta Gilchrist\, Research Dean\, Heritage & Creativity \nProfessor Adrian Bell\, Research Dean\, Prosperity & Resilience\n\n\n14.10\nKeynote address: Human vs machine: what can corpus linguistics contribute to our understanding of large collections of texts?\nProfessor Sylvia Jaworska\n\n\n14.40\nRoundtable\nDr Jonathan Golub (Politics & International Relations): “Treating the text of EU legislative proposals as data” \nDr Rachel Foxley (History): “A beginner’s project in textual analysis: political polarisation in the English Civil War” \nProfessor Mike Goodman (Geography & Environmental Science): “Analysing the texts of #CovidTwitter and getting students to de-normalise the world through frame analysis”\n\n\n15.10\nQ&A\n\n\n15.30\nWhat’s next for the Digital Humanities Community of Practice and Hub? and close.\nDr Mara Olivia\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nAbstracts\n[/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Keynote Address by Professor Sylvia Jaworska” tab_id=”1701707611243-a4829d54-d289″][vc_column_text]In this talk\, I will first outline key principles underlying the linguistically informed approach of corpus linguistics which has been adopted to study discourse in large collections of texts (corpora). I will focus in particular on the analytical tools of frequency\, concordance\, collocation and keyword and the software programme Sketch Engine to show the benefits of this approach to identify and examine discourse patterns and topics in large text corpora. Examples will include collaborative work conducted with researchers from HBS\, SAGES and Pharmacy. The second part will compare the corpus approach with another popular method widely used in social sciences\, that of topic modelling\, which was developed in computer science. It will report on insights from a small quasi-experiment in which the two approaches were used to identify topics in a corpus of sustainability reports. The talk explores how the identified topics were similar and different and what this means for the analytical power of the two methods. I will conclude with a series of tentative observations regarding the benefits and limitations of each method and recommendations for researchers in choosing analytical technique to study large collections of texts available digitally.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_column_text] \nSpeakers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Professor Sylvia Jaworska” tab_id=”1701707709188-51fab374-658f”][vc_column_text]Professor Sylvia Jaworska explores professional communication in (new) media\, business and health settings focusing predominantly (but not exclusively) on the ways in which language and other semiotic choices are used to construct identities and perpetuate social stereotyping\, biases and stigma. She examines discourse and communication using tools and techniques from corpus linguistics and discourse analysis as well as other quantitative and qualitative methods adopted in linguistics and social sciences including interviews\, focus groups and surveys.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Dr Jonathan Golub” tab_id=”1701707709300-76f94e96-9b99″][vc_column_text]Dr Jonathan Golub is a political scientist using quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse decision making in the European Union. He is particularly interested in modelling the EU policymaking process and issues of institutional performance\, such as the role of formal versus informal rules\, the potential trade-off between efficiency and democratic legitimacy\, and the distribution of power between Member States and supranational actors. His research interests also include modelling UN Security Council decision making\, evaluating the effects of economic sanctions\, studying the determinants of national and global environmental policy\, and understanding judicial politics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Dr Rachel Foxley” tab_id=”1701707790995-b0c53051-44a1″][vc_column_text]Dr Rachel Foxley’s work focuses on the history of political language and political thought\, particularly in seventeenth-century England. Her PhD and first book were on the Levellers\, and looked at the way in which this remarkably audacious network of activists and pamphleteers adapted and reworked the less radical thought of the parliamentarian cause which they had supported. Her more recent and current work focuses particularly on the writings of the English republican writers of the seventeenth century\, including John Milton\, James Harrington\, Marchamont Nedham\, Henry Neville\, and Algernon Sidney. She is working on a book on their complex and perhaps conflicted treatments of the idea of democracy\, and have published several shorter pieces on them. She has an abiding interest in the reception of classical ideas in early modern Europe\, which is highly relevant to this project\, and she is co-editing the Brill’s Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought with David Carter and Elizabeth Sawyer. She is also interested in the gendered aspects of political texts and political thought\, and hopes to focus on this more in future work.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Professor Mike Goodman” tab_id=”1701707825866-10a6a91b-cf91″][vc_column_text]Professor Mike Goodman is an interdisciplinary\, critical human geographer focusing on the cultural politics of food\, humanitarianism and the environment. Research topics have included fair trade networks\, alternative food networks\, the rise of celebrity politics in the context of food\, climate change and global development and ways society is attempting to make life more just\, liveable and care-full in the Anthropocene. He is particularly interested in conceptualising how these issues and connections are framed in the media in order to understand their social and geographical significance to building more sustainable societies\, challenging existing structures of power and offering critical spaces for marginalised voices.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_column_text]If you are not already a member\, you are welcome to join the Digital Humanities Community of Practice via our MS Teams channel. (This link will take you to the Teams channel. If you are not already a member\, you will be presented with a dialogue box that says ‘Join’. Click this to send a request\, which will be approved if you are a member of the University of Reading. If you are already a member of the Team\, this link just takes you directly to the ‘General’ channel.) or email the DH Champion\, Dr Mara Oliva (m.oliva@reading.ac.uk) \nWithin the COP\, you will be able to introduce yourself\, share your research\, and access information about funding opportunities\, support\, and events. Read more here. \nOur events are open to all researchers\, staff\, and PGRs from any subject – we welcome interdisciplinary collaboration![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/human-vs-machine-what-can-corpus-linguistics-contribute-to-our-understanding-of-large-collections-of-texts/
LOCATION:Palmer 103
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity,Prosperity & Resilience
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SUMMARY:My Mother Tongue: A celebration of community languages
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) to celebrate International Mother Language Day. The free\, family friendly event will showcase and celebrate some of the languages spoken in Reading. \nFree to attend. Light refreshments served. \nRegister using this Microsoft form.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/my-mother-tongue-a-celebration-of-community-languages/
LOCATION:Lifespring Church\, 143 Oxford Road\, RG1 7UY
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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SUMMARY:Beyond Scale: GIS and the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Scale: GIS and the Humanities\nProfessor Stuart Dunn \n(King’s College London) \nDate: Wednesday 28 February 2024 \nTime: 14:00-15.30 \nPlace:  Palmer 105 and Online \nProgramme \nCoffee and Tea available from 13.50 \n14.00 Welcome and Intro – Dr Mara Oliva (DH Champion) \n14.10 Keynote address: Professor Stuart Dunn (King’s College London) – ‘Beyond Scale: GIS and the Humanities’ \n14.50 Q&A  \n15.25 What’s next (DH CoP and Hub – future events) & close – Dr Mara Oliva
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/gis-and-the-humanities/
LOCATION:Palmer 105\, University of Reading\, Whiteknights Campus\, Reading\, Select a State or Province:\, RG6 6EW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Future Health: Can nutrition and lifestyle combine to make a global impact? IFNH Annual Forum 2024
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe 2024 IFNH Forum event will be held on 28 February (14:00-17:00). \nThis year the theme will look to the future to explore what new developments in nutrition and its interaction with lifestyle can help reduce the massive burden of some key non-communicable diseases including dementia. This will include how effects of food cultures can impact the need to change dietary habits and how the needed dietary changes can be affected by social inequalities and climate change. The Forum will probe key aspects of these substantial challenges. \nThe event is free to attend\, please Click Here to register your attendance and forward this invitation to colleagues you think may be interested. \nProgramme\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n14:00\nWelcome\nProf. Carol Wagstaff\, Research Dean for Agriculture\, Food and Health\, University of Reading\n\n\n14:05\nIFNH – activities and achievements of 2023\nProf. Ian Givens\, IFNH Director\, University of Reading\n\n\n14:15\nCognition and Dementia: Milk fat globule membrane\, supplementation for promotion of neurodevelopment in infants and prevention of neurodegeneration in ageing adults\nDr Javier Fontecha\, Head\, Food Lipid Biomarkers and Health\, Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL\,CSIC) in the Autónoma University of Madrid\n\n\n14:45\nDietary fibre: How can we increase intake of this important dietary\ncomponent?\nProf. Julie Lovegrove\, Director Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition\, University of Reading\n\n\n15:05\nCognitive function and mood: The effects of flavonoid-rich blueberries\nin healthy children and adults\nProf. Claire Williams\, Chair of Neuroscience\, School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences\, University of Reading\n\n\n15:30\nObesity: Diet\, lifestyle and genes in an obesogenic environment\nProf. John Mathers\, Professor of Human Nutrition\, Human Nutrition & Exercise\nResearch Centre\, Newcastle University\n\n\n16:00\nFood culture: Dietary diversity and farm decision making for\nresilient agrifood systems in the Global South\nProf. Henny Osbahr\, Co-Head\, Department of International Development\, School of\nAgriculture\, Policy and Development\, University of Reading\n\n\n16:20\nDiet\, health\, and social inequalities: Adaptation and mitigation strategies with indigenous cooperatives in Latin America\nDr Claudia Murray\, Research Fellow\, Department of Real Estate and Planning\,\nHenley Business School\, University of Reading\n\n\n16:40\nQ&A\nChaired by Prof. Ian Givens and Prof. Vimal Karani\n\n\n17:00\nFormal close\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Download the programme \nDownload the speakers’ biographies[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/institute-for-food-nutrition-health-annual-forum-2024/
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health
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SUMMARY:Scouting\, Translating\, and Publishing Young Adult Literature from Latin America
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World\, the organisation dedicated to promoting and exploring world literature and children’s books in translation\, are delighted to announce the latest event in their seminar series on translation for children: \nSpeakers: Claire Storey (Translator/ World Kid Lit) and Rosemarie Hudson (HopeRoad Publishing)\n \nThis seminar is a hybrid event (in-person & on Zoom) and is free & open to all.\n \nTo register for the Zoom link\, please click here.  \nTo join us in person\, come to Room 104\, Palmer Building\, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus)\, RG6 6EW\n \nIn 2021\, Claire Storey (Translator/ World Kid Lit) applied for funding from Arts Council England for a project focusing on translating and pitching Young Adult literature from Latin America to UK publishers. In this webinar\, she will discuss her project\, how she identified Latin America as her focus area\, how she pitched the project to UK publishers and what she has learned about scouting and pitching along the way. \nClaire will be joined by Rosemarie Hudson (HopeRoad Publishing) who will talk about why she set up HopeRoad Publishing in 2010 and how three of the titles from Claire’s project fitted with her publishing objectives: Never Tell Anyone Your Name by Federico Ivanier (Uruguay)\, The Darkness of Colours by Martín Blasco (Argentina) and The Wild Ones by Antonio Ramos Revillas (Mexico). Rosemarie and Claire will also discuss how their relationship as publisher and translator has grown and been mutually beneficial. \n♣ \nClaire Storey – translates from German and Spanish into English\, specialising in middle grade and young adult literature. In 2021/22\, she was awarded funding from Arts Council England for a translation project focusing on Young Adult Literature from Latin America. From 2019-2023\, Claire was co-editor of the blog at World Kid Lit and remains involved in the project highlighting translated books for you people. Claire also acts as an international book scout\, seeking out and presenting suitable Spanish and German-language books to English-speaking publishers. Claire regularly volunteers in schools talking about careers with languages and was named Outreach Champion 2021 by the UK Institute of Translation and Interpreting. \nJamaican/British Rosemarie Hudson grew up in London and it’s where she founded her first independent publishing company BlackAmber in 1998. Its ethos was to publish unheard voices in English and international languages\, and in particular the best writers and writings from Africa\, Asia and the Caribbean. Its aim she’s pursued ever since. She published many authors to critical acclaim during this period including Patricia Cumper; Alex Wheatle; Cauvery Madhavan; Rachel Manley; Yvonne Brewster and Gaston-Paul Effa\, before her company was bought out. Often called a ‘trailblazer’\, \nRosemarie is a keen and experienced mentor\, serving on the board of the Book Trade Charity (BTBS) for six years and mentoring on the Arts Council project\, Decibel.\nAbout HopeRoad\nIn 2010 Rosemarie Hudson founded HopeRoad\, the indie publisher which loves to share untold stories around identity\, cultural stereotyping and injustice\, and specialises in encouraging new talent and promoting the best literary voices from and about Africa\, Asia and the Caribbean. HopeRoad’s authors include: Tahar Ben Jelloun; Kamala Markandaya: Cauvery Madhavan; Pete Kalu; Ferdinand Dennis; Yan Ge\, Max Lobe; Véronique Tadjo\, Igiaba Scego\, John Agard and Tony Fairweather to name a few. Rosemarie is also a board member of Inpress Books. She is excited about the future for HopeRoad and very much looking forward to celebrating its forthcoming 15th anniversary.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/scouting-translating-and-publishing-young-adult-literature-from-latin-america/
LOCATION:Palmer 104\, University of Reading\, Whiteknights Campus\, Reading\, RG6 6EW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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