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From: David Joseph Wrisley <djw12@nyu.edu>
Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 1:30 PM
Subject: [DHSI] CFP: Right to Left 2022 virtual conference
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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 rtlright2left@gmail.com 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)
