Let's March on as they usually say! We are already three months into the year and exciting things are happening at SADiLaR. The newly established ESCALATOR project of SADiLaR has kicked off and all the SADiLaR members are busy with new ventures and plans for the rest of the year. Management is busy with the first report of the year and everyone's input is worthy to the final product. We are happy and fortunate to still work during these times.
It is unfortunate that we have to say goodbye to two of our colleagues (more of that later).
May you all have a good and productive month ahead!
Kindest regards
Liané van den Bergh
News and Achievements
SADiLaR and Mother Language Day
- Authors: Andiswa Bukula and Liané van den Bergh
Sunday 21 February 2021 is a day of celebrating mother language across the globe. What does celebrating your mother language mean to you? For some it is celebrating the mere fact that language offers an avenue of communicating in a way that others understand, others will be celebrating language as a way of learning and teaching or the means of being creative and expressing yourself. There are many other reasons to celebrate one’s mother language as it forms part of your culture and of your being.
Congratulations to Menno van Zaanen and Anelda van der Walt with the launch of the ESCALATOR project! The project is set up to have a great impact within the Digital Humanities communities of South Africa and we are looking forward to see what it has in store.
On 17February 2021 SADiLaR hosted a DH colloquium with Rachel Hendery, from Western Sydney University (Australia), as guest speaker. It was a very interesting session. Below is the video material of the colloquium, and herewith the link to all the past DH colloquiums: PAST EVENTS
Join in the next DH colloquium hosted by SADiLaR. This session will take place on 17 March 2021 at 10:00 AM (SAST). The speaker for the colloquium is Viktor Schlegel. To register click on the link below.
SAPRIN and SADiLaR, both South African National Research Infrastructures, are aiming to foster collaboration. To identify potential areas of collaboration, a mini-symposium will be organised to provide more information on the work done at both research infrastructures. This call requests people interested in illustrating the work performed at their research infrastructure to submit a short topic focus for presentation at a half-day seminar. Selected topics (to ensure a balanced programme) will be the starting point of the seminar, followed by discussions around these themes to identify practical further steps in collaboration.
People interested in presenting their research, on such a level to encourage collaboration, are requested to submit a topic focus described in two sentences (i.e., high level). This topic focus can be emailed to menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za and mark.collinson@mrc.ac.za
Presentations will take place online and are expected to take ten minutes each, with five minutes for questions.
The symposium will be held on 15 April 2021 in the morning.
Preliminary program 1. Introductory presentations by SADiLaR and SAPRIN Directors. 2. Two to three SAPRIN presentations. 3. Two to three SADiLaR presentations. 4. Round table discussions on priority areas for collaboration and next steps.
Blogs
Is toegang ʼn gegewe? | Is access a given? - Benito Trollip & Deon du Plessis
"Does it go without saying that something that’s available online will be more accessible because it’s online? We’re asking because the digital is the norm nowadays: we’re comfortable in the digital environment, and we’re progressively migrating more toward it. But isn’t the fact that something is available online possibly more of a hindrance that makes it less accessible still?"
