Creative Multilingualism is a 4-year research programme aiming to release the #creative potential of #languages, shine a spotlight on the UK's hidden #multilingualism & celebrate the many benefits of language #learning. Explore our programme & projects: https://t.co/S2bSPSEb4M

@agosler @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton @OxfordCCT And now, for our Yoruba/English musical finale with @LekanFunk @KateLuxmoore. Could there be a more beautiful venue (and acoustically encouraging) venue than the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub @JesusOxford .

@agosler @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton @OxfordCCT How can we make visible a text as a co-creation? This is the question Prismatic Jane Eyre attempts to address, in showing how all versions of a text exist in some form as part of the same cloud. But what can we learn by asking which words are important in different translations?

@agosler @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton After our linguistically-enriched drinks, @OxfordCCT Matthew Reynolds is taking us through the prismatic aspects of translation, which acknowledges plurality and works against the process of standardisation.

@agosler @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton An exciting feature of the #DELTEA project is the opportunity to explore digital storytelling through language teaching.

@agosler @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton How can Speacher help teachers provide feedback on student pronunciation? Well, transcription and comparison are quite helpful here…

@agosler Our next presentation begins with an invitation to download a language learning app. With @SuzanneJaneGrah @anthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K #DELTEA research project @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton

@agosler The excitement in the room is palpable as @agosler shares the news that Bridge’s Dictionary (with c.32,000 words) has been digitally scanned and is now available to search. A huge resource for ethno-ecological vocabulary!

Now, @agosler shares insights from his research using data from Bird Life to ascertain correlation the linguistic and avian diversity. Here, local adaptation is a way of approaching g biocultural diversity.

We are here in the lovely Digital Hub space @JesusOxford with our Summer Showcase: “Language Diversity in the Digital Age”. Our first speaker, Dominik Lukěs @CTLOxford is challenging established paradigms of what LLMs can do for exploring and learning morphology.

Registration closes at noon today, so there is still time to book your free tickets!

Two more days until our summer showcase. We released more tickets! Book yours now! In case you need more incentive, we’re providing linguistically-enriched, non-virtual snacks & drinks. Plus, a multilingual finale w/ a Grammy-award-winning & internationally recognised musician!

We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for this year’s Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Congratulations to all of the translators! ✨ The winner will be announced at Oxford Translation Day 2024, Saturday 15 June. For more information, visit: https://t.co/RQSz49vphU

At @creativelangs’ Summer Showcase, ‘Language Diversity in the Digital Age’, Matthew Reynolds gives an account of the Prismatic Jane Eyre project while Wen-Chin Ouyang leads interactive experiments exploring AI translation’s capacity for that sort of creativity. 24/05, 5PM

We have some excellent speakers and presenters lined up for Friday. Do book your free tickets straightaway.

@agosler @MansfieldOxford @OxfordBiology @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton @engfac @OxfordCCT @SOAS @KateLuxmoore In 2020, @thedr5 #slanguages commissioned Lekan and other Birmingham-based artists Jagdis Kumar, Kiran Johal, and Steven Sahota to create an original and new ‘Multilingual Boliyan’. You can read more here:

@agosler @MansfieldOxford @OxfordBiology @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton @engfac @OxfordCCT @SOAS @KateLuxmoore We previously collaborated with two-times Grammy Award winner Lekan and his ‘Sacred Funk’ group on “Yoruba Sonnets” in 2020 for an event exploring the oral poetry associated with Ifa, the ancient Nigerian philosophy and divination system:

@agosler @MansfieldOxford @OxfordBiology @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton @engfac @OxfordCCT @SOAS The event will culminate with a Yoruba/English Musical Finale by Grammy Award Winner Lekan Babalola @LekhanFunk (Percussion) and Kate Luxmoore @KateLuxmoore (Clarinet).

@agosler @MansfieldOxford @OxfordBiology @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton @engfac @OxfordCCT @SOAS @OpenBookPublish The case Wen-Chin makes for the urgency of multilingualism and global humanities as a response to crisis continues to be relevant today:

@agosler @MansfieldOxford @OxfordBiology @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton @engfac @OxfordCCT @SOAS @OpenBookPublish Read more about how Wen-Chin re-situates world literature as multilingual and global literature in her co-edited volume Multilingual Literature as World Literature:

@agosler @MansfieldOxford @OxfordBiology @SuzanneJaneGrah @AnthonyPZhang @Dr_Heike_K @UniRdg_IoE @UniRdg_CeLM @TurnerTweeting @unisouthampton @engfac @OxfordCCT @SOAS @OpenBookPublish To learn more about Prismatic Jane Eyre project and school resources, you can visit https://t.co/o1Qw4GHcDZ.