Hearty congratulations to Sue, Lenore, and Chris on receiving funding support from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for their projects (see below)! Look forward to learning more about these exciting projects!
Linguistic Futures: Language Shift and Revitalization in Rethinking (Socio)linguistic Theory
Lenore Grenoble (Linguistics), Susan Gal (Anthropology)
Recent efforts to revitalize endangered languages have created the opportunity to advance linguistic scholarship. Mobilizing new evidence alongside current and emerging methods, this project will position shifting languages at the center of sociolinguistic theory in order to rethink some of its core questions.
Humanistic AI: Reimagining Humanistic Pursuits in the Age of Generated Media
Hoyt Long (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), Chris Kennedy (Linguistics)
An interdisciplinary group of researchers will convene for a series of workshops focused on generative models, laying the conceptual and methodological foundations for a new approach to humanities research and related cultural activity in the age of AI.