Here’s a sneak peek at the conference program for the Multilingual Digital Authorship conference at Lancaster University March 8-9, 2018. The conference will feature familiar and new names from ELO’s international body of artists and scholars, reflecting on the topics of translation, poetics, tools, and more.
Multilingual Digital Authorship
Lancaster University, 8-9 March 2018
The inaugural symposium of The Creative Web of Languages (MEITS flexible funding project)
Programme:
Thursday 8 March
10.00-11.10
– Erika Fülöp (Lancaster University): The Creative Web of Languages: An Opening
– Claire Larsonneur (Paris 8): Do android authors dream of multilingual sheep?
11.10-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Chair: Charlie Gere
– Saskia Huc-Hepher (University of Westminster): Hidden Histories in the Archived Web: Habitus Transformation & Hysteresis Potential among London-French Bloggers
– Marwa Elkhodairy (University of Central Lancashire):Â Digital Technologies and Translation as Tools of ActivismÂ
– Yohanna Joseph Waliya (University of Calabar): Technolingualism and Multilingualism on The Web 3.0: A Case Study of the Usbek et Rica Blog
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Chair: Erika Fülöp
– Maria Mencia (Kingston University): Hybrid Digital Poetics: A Cross-Fertilisation of Languages
– Alexandra Saemmer (Paris 8): Is there any way out of the Colony? The Capturing of Language by the Digital Machine, and Where Poetic Insurrection May Begin
РSerge Bouchardon (Universit̩ de Technologie de Compi̬gne): Proposing a Work of Digital Literature in Several Languages: Issues and Feedback
16.00-16.30 Coffee
16.30-18.00 Chair: Claire Larsonneur
– Stephanie Obermeier (University of Kent): “Josephine Baker is now Friends with Justin Timberlake”: Communication, Digital Narratives, and Knowledge Processing in Thomas Meinecke’s Lookalikes (2011)
– Claudia Zucca (Trinity College Dublin): Translingual Digital Texts: Antoine Cassar
– Khadija Belfarhi (University of Annaba): Pragmatic Functions of Emoticons in CMC
19.30 Dinner
Friday 9 March
9.45-11.00 Chair: Erika Fülöp
– Canan Marasligil: City in Translation: Exploring Languages in Urban Spaces
РLou Sarabadzic: N̩e Lou Sarabadzic: Translating Digital Identities, a Bilingual Experience
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.30 Chair: Johnny Unger
– Claire Taylor (University of Liverpool): Mixing Languages and Sources in Latin(o) American Digital Authors
– Emmanuela Patti (Royal Holloway): Performing Italian Authorship in the Digital Age: PluraL Identities and Hybrid Genres
– Odile Farge (Paris 8): Thinking Digital Creativity: Rhetorical Strategies and Authorship
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.45 Chair: Nathan Jones
– JR Carpenter: Straight Quotes, Square Brackets: Page-based Poetics Inflected with the Syntax and Grammar of Code Languages
– Amy Spencer (University of the West of England): Between Literary Spaces: The Languages of Ambient Literature
15.45-16.15 Coffee
16.15-18.15 Chair: Erika Fülöp
Roundtable discussion: Languages and the Digital Space
Participants:
Claire Larsonneur
Claire Taylor
Paul Spence (King’s College London)
Rebecca Braun (Lancaster University)
Joe Deville (Lancaster University)
Astrid Nordin (Lancaster University)
18.15 (Open) Closure and Wine reception