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New Workshop on Free and Open Software

SlamLab conducted a workshop on Free and Open Source Software. ↗️ LibreSlam website

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang: Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang gave a talk on Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South at the Information Science Department, HHU. ↗️ View the talk on YouTube

NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant awarded to the lab

NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant awarded to the lab. We will soon have 20 × NVIDIA JetsonTM Nano Developer Kits to foster Digital Humanities and AI with Internet of Things(IoT). ↗️ Nvidia grant info

E-Learning support fund

Won the e-Learning support fund of €9.424, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. ↗️ e-learning grants website

Dr. Chris Geissler: LSA Webinar

Dr. Chris Geissler presents in LSA Webinar: Dr. Christopher Geissler and his coauthors presented at a “Meet the Authors” webinar of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA). The event, “Gender Bias and Stereotypes in Linguistics Research and Teaching” highlighted two papers recently published in the LSA’s flagship journal, Language.

Audrey Zhang, Fjorda Kazazi, Kevin Tang & Peter Howell: hanges in mental wellbeing for gender and ethnicity groups between entry, and 4 weeks after starting, university

Audrey Zhang, Fjorda Kazazi, Kevin Tang & Peter Howell. September, 2022. Changes in mental wellbeing for gender and ethnicity groups between entry, and 4 weeks after starting, university. The third Institute of Mental Health International Conference, London, UK.

Dr. Chris Geissler presented a poster at the 18th Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum

Chris Geissler presented a poster at the 18th Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P) Conference in Bielefeld on 06.10.2022. The poster, “From Gestural Landmarks to Analysis-by-Synthesis: Tone-driven Gestural Timing in Tibetan” uses articulatory synthesis to study relative timing of speech gestures.

Dr. Chris Geissler: Paper published in Language

Dr. Chris Geissler published in Language. The paper appears in the December 2021 issue of Language. The article, “Gender Bias and Stereotypes in Linguistics Example Sentences,” written in collaboration with Hadas Kotek, Rikker Dockum, and Sarah Babinski, examines the distribution of gender in the example sentences published in three major linguistics journals over the past twenty years.

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang (with Jason Shaw): accepted to present at the AMP

Jason Shaw and Kevin Tang have been accepted to present ‘A dynamic neural field model of leaky prosody: proof of concept’ at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP)