Digital humanities projects in languages other than English

Join us for a 90-minute session to explore Digital Humanities projects across AMICAL in languages other than English!

Each speaker will present a project and discuss it in terms of the way it supports pedagogy or scholarship:

• “Postcolonial Switzerland: A German oral history project” – Kate Roy, Coordinator of Digital Pedagogy Initiatives and the Writing and Learning Center; Adjunct Professor of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (FUS)
• “Bridging the gaps: Digitizing Lebanon’s press for a new frontier of research and discovery” – Elie Kahale, Director of Digital Initiatives and Scholarship, University Libraries (AUB)
• “Arabic literature and digital humanities: possibilities and perspectives” – Mai Zaki, Associate Professor of Linguistics (AUS)
• “From pixels to words: Breaking language barriers through Urdu OCR” – Farrukh Shahzad, Chief Librarian (FCCU)

Target audience: Faculty and librarians interested in digital projects, working in languages other than English

Organizers: Digital Liberal Arts Programs Committee

Event info

• Slides from Kate Roy's presentation
• Slides from Farrukh Shahzad's presentation
• Slides from Elie Kahale's presentation
• Slides from Mai Zaki's presentation