Dear colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”.  See short and long CFP below.

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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]

The Language Change Forum is seeking to fill one position on its Executive Committee. The position will be for the duration of 5 years. Eligible nominees should be MLA members and should not be currently serving on another MLA Forum’s Executive Committee. Please send your nominations (including self-nomination) to Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino, g…[Read more]

Thursday, 5 January

The Changing Boundaries of Language Instruction

1:45–3:00 p.m., 303, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum LSL Language Change

Presiding: D. Brian Mann, Univ. of North Georgia

“The Lingering Problem of the Native Speaker in Foreign Language Education,” Margaret Keneman, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
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The maphackathon organising group have created a maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group. The group library is available for all to view, but to contribute and to edit you will need to be an invited member.

We would be delighted if members of the Humanities Commons Open-Source Historical Mapping group, the Digital Humanists group and the Linked…[Read more]

The Agas map of London, published c. 1633, but showing London c. 1550-1560, shows a series of cranes at different places along the Thames north shore, both above and below London Bridge. These cranes appear to be treadmill cranes. An example of a large treadmill crane, powered by four men in a treadmill at one side of the crane, can be seen in…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2017.

We hope to see you there!

Colonial Latin American Studies

<span data-term=”goog_370016640″>Thursday, 5 January</span>, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin A…[Read more]

This is a list of high quality, freely downloadable, freely reuseable maps of seventeenth and eighteenth century London, suitable for georectification and for use in the map hackathon. I will be working on geo-rectifying these over Christmas, but doubt I will get all done.

An exact survey of … London after the Great Fire

From the New York…[Read more]

I kicked off a MarineLives experiment today by creating a #maphackathon pinterest board, and publicising it on Twitter. It will be interesting to see if it acquires any followers and develops a creative life or is just a “good idea” which goes nowhere. As of 12.21 Wedneday December 7th 2016 it had eleven pins (all seeded by me) and had acquired…[Read more]

The MarineLives project uses a semantic media wiki as its platform to view and transcribe manuscript images, to annotate transcribed pages, and to create semantic biographies. All semantic biographies contain geographical location data. For example, semantic biographies for the hamlet of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney in the county of Middlesex…[Read more]

Coordinates: Digital Mapping and 18th C Visual, Material, and Built Cultures
Art history’s digital turn has been stimulated by the possibilities of spatial research.  Spurred by the collection, preservation, and distribution of art historical data in digital space—practices that have both collapsed and expanded our own discursive geog…[Read more]