Liebe Liste, das hier ist sicherlich interessant für uns als AG, aber evtl. auch für Euch selbst, wenn ihr mit RTL-Sprachen arbeitet. Liebe Grüße Jonas -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [DHSI] CFP: Right to Left 2022 virtual conference Datum: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:05:09 +0100 Von: David Joseph Wrisley <[email protected]> An: [email protected] The fourth annual Right to Left conference (#RTL22) will take place during the DHSI 2022—Online Edition, on Wednesday, 8 June, 9:30 am – 11:30 am PDT. The Right to Left (RTL) conference focuses on research and pedagogy related to the past, present and future of languages which are written from right to left, as well as their multilingual, multiscript and multidirectional cultural contexts. While these languages have posed technical challenges to computing, they have also become the object of increasing attention in global digital culture. RTL aims to encourage digital research in and about right-to-left language cultures, providing a frame for thinking beyond the left-to-right-centric assumptions of contemporary computing. The RTL conference welcomes contributions from researchers, developers and independent scholars working on research and pedagogy of any living or historical RTL language, including, but not limited to, Arabic, Azeri, Hebrew, Kurdish, Ottoman, Persian, Syriac or Urdu. We are particularly interested in engagement and dialogue with societies in which those are spoken or read today. Possible topics might include RTL languages and cultures seen from any of these angles: • bidi/multidirectionality • digital culture in RTL societies • open social scholarship • digital pedagogy • integrating RTL into global digital humanities • platforms and user experience • transliteration practices (e.g., Arabizi, P/Finglish) • internationalization/localization (e.g., interface translation) • adapting and building digital resources and methods (e.g., RTL XML) We invite proposals for pre-recorded talks (5-15 minutes) that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area. The live component of the conference will include discussion of the papers. Please send a title and 200-word abstract along with short bios to [email protected] by 4 April 2022. We welcome co-authored work. We look forward to receiving your proposals. Conference chairs: David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi), Kasra Ghorbaninejad (U Victoria)