The Need for Language Diversity

By Janill Lema This post was developed as part of the Columbia University course “Multilingual Technologies and Language Diversity” taught by Smaranda Muresan, PhD and Isabelle Zaugg, PhD.  This cross-disciplinary course offering was a joint effort between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department of Computer Science, developed through the generous support of the Collaboratory@Columbia….

Reflections on the Global Language Justice Workshop

“Global Language Justice: An Interdisciplinary Workshop” brought together scholars from across continents for the final gathering of a three-year collective undertaking. Rather than providing closure, however, the breadth and intensity of the discussions at the full-day workshop generated still more openings, raising new questions about the future of language justice in our rapidly shifting global…

Language Justice and Technology

By Anjali Krishnan (See the author’s video about social media and indigenous languages here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jsgry4EZ-A) This post was developed as part of the Columbia University course “Multilingual Technologies and Language Diversity” taught by Smaranda Muresan, PhD and Isabelle Zaugg, PhD.  This cross-disciplinary course offering was a joint effort between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and…

English and the Software Development Lingua Franca

By Brennan Xavier McManus This post was developed as part of the Columbia University course “Multilingual Technologies and Language Diversity” taught by Smaranda Muresan, PhD and Isabelle Zaugg, PhD.  This cross-disciplinary course offering was a joint effort between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department of Computer Science, developed through the generous support of…