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"In 1996, five Comparative Literature majors, with financial support from Comparative Literature, founded an annual undergraduate journal of poetry and visual art dedicated to the publishing of student writing in languages other than English, with facing page translation. The mOthertongue journal is now in its 13th cycle, and enjoys support from the Arts Council and the Alumni Association as well as Comparative Literature, and is still edited by Comparative Literature majors, who celebrate each publication in a public reading and reception attended by audiences of 50 or more"

Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory

The Museum of Fine Arts is hosting five recent French children's films with the following titles on the following days: > Ernest and Celestine Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:30 pm - 3:50 pm > Kirikou and the Men and the Women Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Friday, April 19, 2013 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm > The Painting Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm > A Monster in Paris Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm > Zarafa Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:30 am - 12:00 pm For plot summaries and more information on the aforementioned films listed above, click here: http://www.mfa.org/programs/series/boston-international-children%E2%80%99s-film-festival. Tickets go on sale March 29th and are $10.00 for adults and children ages 3 & up.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA is showing how the "City of Lights" is portrayed through transitions from gas lamps to electric lighting--and how Parisianskept up, just as modern in technology as in society.

"The UAM CorpusTool is a state-of-the-art environment for annotation of text corpora. So, whether you are annotating a corpus as part of a linguistic study, or building a training set for use in statistical language processing, this is the tool for you."

"Caravanserai: A place where cultures meet creates new pathways for Americans to experience the diversity of contemporary Muslim artistic expressions by introducing U.S. audiences to exciting and dynamic artists from the Muslim world. The 2011-2012 season of Caravanserai features the diverse cultures of contemporary Pakistan. Five participating organizations will host two musical residencies featuring traditional and contemporary Pakistani artists and one film residency featuring a young and innovative Pakistani filmmaker. The 2012-2013 Caravanserai season will bring music and film from different Muslim cultures to new communities across the United States."

"The Academy welcomes emerging as well as established scholars, writers, and professionals who wish to engage in independent study in Berlin. Around two dozen Berlin Prizes are conferred annually. Past Berlin Prize recipients have included historians, economists, poets, art historians, journalists, legal scholars, anthropologists, musicologists, public policy experts, and writers, among others. The Academy does not accept project proposals in mathematics and the hard sciences. Fellowships are typically awarded for an academic semester or, in some cases, for an entire academic year. Only the Bosch Fellowships in Public Policy may be for shorter stays of six to eight weeks. Fellowship benefits include round-trip airfare, housing at the Academy, partial board, and a stipend of $5,000 per month."

"Visual storytelling for everyone: A platform for writers, readers, and artists of all ages. Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories." Has tools for teachers to set up student accounts, manage privacy and give feedback.

Finding the right way view your data is as much an art as a science. The visualizations provided on Many Eyes range from the ordinary to the experimental.

Welcome to the Language Technology Boot Camp Site. The first Boot Camp was initiated because the language residents at the Oldenborg Center at Pomona College did not receive any training in the use of technology in foreign language learning and teaching. Many had never encountered the possibilities that a private liberal arts college offers and most had not been familiar with the teaching and learning styles and philosophy prevalent at our institution. Therefore the first Boot Camp was conducted at Pomona College in August 2006. After talks with colleagues at other colleges I found that this was a novelty, as usually only faculty get trained in these matters and that language residents or assistants usually fall through the cracks. But especially these teacher/students are the ones with a lot of enthusiasm, current cultural knowledge, native-speaker abilities, and a more open and relaxed relationship with new technologies and possibilities. As I was planning the 2007 Boot Camp, which underwent several changes, the idea was born that all this work and preparation should be shared, and also that if others contributed to this Boot Camp, the program would be better than if only I prepared everything.

Eta Sigma Phi is the national honorary collegiate society for students of Latin and/or Greek. Members are elected by local chapters which have been chartered by the society. The purposes of the Society, in the words of the Constitution, are "to develop and promote interest in classical study among the students of colleges and universities; to promote closer fraternal relationship among students who are interested in classical study, including inter-campus relationship; to engage generally in an effort to stimulate interest in classical study, and in the history, art, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome."

With Academic Commons, we seek to form a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals who will help create a comprehensive web resource focused on liberal arts education.

Excellent example of interactive art museum website from the Armand Hammer Museum in California.

Usenet group for interactive fiction

Welcome to Yale Books Unbound 1 This project is part of the Institute for the Future of the Book's CommentPress experiment. 2 It's a way of sharing books and the ideas within them, as well as facilitating some of our works in progress. 3 Yale University Press is pleased to participate in this initiative since we see it as a very promising way of fulfilling our main objective of disseminating art and knowledge to the widest possible audience and facilitating on-going and all-important dialogues about ideas and issues that shape our world. 4 Up until now, very few book publishers have leveraged new technologies to add any additional value beyond basic Search functionality to their content. We agree with the Institute for the Future of the Book that a broad rethinking of books-and particularly scholarly monographs-needs to take place.

"Why do we have copyrights? What's "fair use"? Bound By Law reaches beyond documentary film to provide a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property and an increasingly digital world of remixed culture. This book is available under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike license."

The room is nothing less than a state of the art information dump, a physical manifestation of the all too pervasive yet narrow and naïve assumption that to learn is simply to acquire information, built for teachers to effectively carry out the relatively simple task of conveying information. Its sheer size, layout, and technology are testaments to the efficiency and expediency with which we can now provide students with their required credit hours.

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Acceptance Notification: Early October Abstracts are invited from undergraduate and graduate students for 15-minute presentations including, but not limited to, relationships between and among language, linguistics, and their many applications: * American Sign Language * natural and artificial languages * extinct and endangered languages * speech pathology and hearing sciences * language and cognition * theoretical and applied linguistics * structural, semantic, or phonological analyses * comparative grammars * discourse/text analysis * applications in rhetoric, the arts, and the humanities * applications in academic, cultural, and sociological constructs

TAGARELA is an intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) system designed to be fully integrated into the Portuguese Individualized Instruction Program at The Ohio State University. It can be viewed as an intelligent automatic workbook that provides students with opportunities to practice their reading, listening, and writing skills. Because it is a web-based system, it can be used anywhere there is a computer with internet access. TAGARELA uses state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology to analyze students' input, and detect spelling, morphological, syntactic and semantic errors. Its NLP components allow the system to handle activities that go beyond the usual multiple choice or fill-in-the-blanks used by regular CALL systems. Its exercise types are similar to the ones typically found in current workbooks, such as: * listening and reading comprehension * picture description * vocabulary practice * phrasing and re-writing TAGARELA has a student model that keeps track of each student's individual performance, and an instructor model that carries information about activity and error types. Together the student and instructor models allow the system to choose the best feedback strategy to use with each individual learner based on the level of the activity, type of task, characteristics of error, and learner profile.

Suggestions for students on email etiquette.