We have exciting news! After a lot of work and thanks to “a little help from our friends”, we can announce our new Master in Digital Humanities for a Sustainable World at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. It is a master program designed to take professionals of humanities into a future where their input and […]
Participation in the sCAN Advanced Monitoring Training in Vienna
Wor(l)ds Lab member Manuel Alcántara-Plá has participated in the sCAN Advanced Monitoring Training (Vienna, October 10th-11th), which has been held by ZARA experts Anna-Laura Schreilechner and Karin Bischof. It has been focused on relevant topics for fighting cyberhate such as “monitoring hate speech and counteraction, documenting the phenomenon, and tackling underreporting”. The EU sCAN Project […]
New book: Political Discourses at the Extremes: Expressions of Populism in Romance-Speaking Countries
A new Wor(l)ds Lab study has been published as a chapter in the book Political Discourses at the Extremes: Expressions of Populism in Romance-Speaking Countries, edited by Françoise Sullet-Nylander, María Bernal, Christophe Premat, and Malin Roitman. The title of our chapter is ¿Quién es el pueblo? La exclusión de las minorías en la campaña electoral […]
Miguel Sáenz on Translation
We welcome Miguel Sáenz, one of the most prestigious Spanish translators, for a talk on his experiences translating literary works from German into Spanish. Sáenz is a member of the Real Academia Española, of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, and he has received many prizes, including the Spanish National Prize for Translators. Miguel […]
Wor(l)ds Lab is part of the exhibition UAM50 at the City Hall of Madrid
Wor(l)ds Lab is part of the exhibition at the Centro Centro (City Hall) celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. MarcoPolo, the web for surfing the words used on Twitter by the political parties, has been chosen as one of the projects representing the research of the UAM. Visitors will have the […]
New Publication: “Not for Twitter: Migration as a Silenced Topic in the 2015 Spanish General Election”
A new Wor(l)ds Lab study has been published as a chapter in the book Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse : Empirical Approaches, edited by Charlotte Taylor and Melani Schröter. The book “fills a significant gap in the field by addressing the topic of absence in discourse”. The title of our work is Not for Twitter: […]
A Mailing List of Corpus Linguistics in Spanish
In the last Conference on Corpus Linguistics for Spanish (CLICE 2018), co-organized by Wor(l)ds Lab’s member Manuel Alcántara-Plá, participants discussed the need to have a mailing list for researchers on Spanish and Corpus Linguistics. We committed ourselves to creating it and here it is. Our lab will be in charge of its management and we […]
Conference on Corpus Linguistics for Spanish (CLICE 2018)
Wor(l)ds Lab has been part of the organization of the Conference on Corpus Linguistics for Spanish (CLICE 2018) in Florence (Italy). The goal of this congress is to stimulate the conversation between researchers using Corpus Linguistics for the study of Spanish. To this end, we discussed the current status of Corpus linguistics, and we shared […]
Participation in the II World Forum on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace
Wor(l)ds Lab participates in the II World Forum on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace in Madrid. It is a “meeting place for local leaders, international organisations and networks, the academic world, NGOs and civil society.” Its purpose is “to open a joint process of debate, reflection and construction of common solutions that […]
I International Conference on Research in Multilingualism: Innovation and New Challenges
Ana Ruiz participates in the I International Conference on Research in Multilingualism: Innovation and New Challenges, held at the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain). She has been invited to present her work in a plenary session, with the title “Rethinking multilingualism from the perspective of intercultural research“. The conference is focused on the fact that the […]