2017
Fake news: Emotions and rationality in social media
Moderator: Jens Braarvig.
Time and place: 27. apr. 2017 16:00–18:00, PAM 3
Impoliteness and emotions in discourse
Ljiljana Saric will talk about this subject at the Tenth Travelling Emotions meeting.
Time and place: 27. march 2017 16:15–18:00, PAM 3
The Chinese face and the expression of emotions and character
Halvor Eifring will talk about this subject at the ninth Travelling emotions meeting
Time and place: 9. march 2017 16:15–18:00, PAM 3
2016
Materialising History: Digitisation, Visualizations and Epistemological Questions in the Study of the Past
Guest lecture by Anna Foka, HUMlab, Umeå university
Time and place: 27. okt. 2016 14:15–16:00, Group room 7, 3. floor, Georg Sverdrups hus
Humanistic uses of digital technologies have opened up new ways to think about, communicate, and discuss historical research. The common use of digital tools to visually represent ancient cultures and sites, however, has also introduced new issues. For example, critics have argued that digital visualisations, largely synonymous with reconstruction in 3D models, often attempt to represent a photorealistic-artificial vision of the past, and may often prove to be a way to communicate history to a large(r) audience.
Against this backdrop, this talk will discuss precisely how technology may help immerse researchers into historically situated life, and radically advance historical research through critical experimentation.
Adding to related criticisms of ocularcentric traditions of knowledge production, this talk seeks to demonstrate the potential of digital humanities to move beyond mere representations on screen and to 1) discuss interactive mapping interfaces for geospatial analyses of ancient texts and 2) immersive visualizations in order to mobilize other senses as a historically situated component for research.
For this purpose, I focus on my current projects mekhane and digital models, and a project on sounds and movement in the roman amphitheatre. I will discuss the implications of one point digital maps, new tools for semantic geospatial annotation, and the use of immersive infrastructures for humanistic research.
Corpus studies of emotions
In this last meeting of the Spring semester of Travelling Emotions, we will have an external guest invited by Multiling, followed by another presentation on a corpus-based study by Anne Golden.
Time and place: 6. june 2016 16:15–18:00, PAM 4
Program
- Ng Bee Chin. "The Semantics of Chinese Emotion – A Corpus Study"
- Anne Golden. "Emotions negotiated in L2 texts. A corpus study on written production by adult learners in a Norwegian test".
About the guest lecturer
Ng Bee Chin works mainly in the area of bilingualism and multilingualism with a focus on the impact of language contact on individuals and the community they live in. Her research approach is to explore both cognitive and social aspects of language acquisition and use. Currently, she is working on language identity, attitudes and use and language and emotion in multilinguals. She also works in the area of language as a source of intangible heritage with collaborators in art and design studies. She currently works in the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies in Nanyang Technological University she is also the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Abstract of her talk
This study aims to explore language specificity in the semantic organisation and distribution of emotion words in Mandarin Chinese. While prior studies have made anecdotal references to the prevalence of use of verbs in some languages (e.g. Russian and Mandarin Chinese) for expressing emotion words compared to English, this has not been supported by empirical evidence involving a comprehensive study of the emotion words vocabulary. To date, despite a proliferation of cross linguistic studies of emotion words, a database of a corpus of emotion words across languages is absent. A more acute problem in the field is the lack of comparable ways of identifying emotion words.
Using the framework proposed by Pavelenko (2008), emotion words in Mandarin Chinese are extracted and sorted into three semantic categories; emotion words, emotion laden words and emotion related words. Each word in the corpus is also tagged for frequency of use, valency, intensity and parts of speech. Each emotion word was also tagged for the broad emotion category (e.g. pride, shame, guilt, anger, joy, disgust etc.) it is a member of. Corpus data analysis method was then employed to study the patterns of the data. Not surprisingly, consistent with other reports on Mandarin Chinese in other domains (e.g. acquisition), it was found that verbs occupied the biggest percentage in both emotion words and emotion-related words categories. An analysis of the valence and intensity of emotion words shows crosslinguistic divergence from other studies reported. The varying distribution and behaviour of emotion words in the three categories identified by Pavlenko lends support to her proposed categorisation of the emotion lexicon. The study also represents a significant attempt at providing a working template for the identification of emotion words in emotion research.
Universal and language specific emotions
Tid og sted: 2. mai 2016 16:15–18:00, PAM 3
Program
- Tor Ivar Østmø. "Translating emotions: four Norwegian versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata"
- Anders Sydskjør. "Comparing what? And in what regard? Some reflections on the comparative study of emotions in language".
- Elizaveta Khachaturyan.
What is (an) emotion?
This new meeting intends to raise the question and improve our own understanding of the emotion concept and of the delimitation of emotions, thus both titles "what is emotion?" or "what is (an) emotion?" are appropriate.
Time and place: 5. apr. 2016 16:00, PAM 4
Program
- Jens Braarvig, "Some terms related to the concept of emotion"
- Ana Rita Ferreira, "Emotions as upheavals of thoughts (Martha Nussbaum)"
- Diana Santos, "What is (an) emotion? My answer at the third meeting of Travelling Emotions"
- Elizaveta Khachaturyan
This is our third meeting in the Travelling Emotions interdepartmental research network.
Digital Humanities in The Nordic Countries
The first conference on Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries. The purpose is to strengthen research, education and communication in the field of Digital Humanities and make Nordic Digital Humanities more visible internationally.
Time and place: Mar. 15, 2016 11:30 AM–Mar. 17, 2016 5:00 PM, University of Oslo and the Norwegian National Library
Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN) wants to provide a platform for collaboration within the Nordic countries.
About Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN)
The association Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN) has been founded in 2015. Its aim is to further strengthen digital humanities research, education, and communication in the Nordic Countries. DHN is an associated organisation to the European Association for Digital Humanities.
DHN2016 Conference
The DHN2016 Conference gathered 220 participants and 80 presentations.
The participants came mainly from the Nordic countries (34 from institutions in Denmark, 41 Finland, 5 Iceland, 73 Norway and 52 Sweden) but there was also participants from other countries.
Patrik Svensson held the keynote speech.
Organizer
Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, Oslo Digital Humanities Research Network, Norwegian National Library and Digital Humanities Center at Gothenburg University
2015
PhD course on Emotions in Language
The rationale for this course is to open the eyes of researchers to the many interesting avenues and problems posed by the fact that language is as much a vehicle for emotion as for fact and information.
Time and place: 1. june 2015 09:00–5. june 2015 14:00, Niels Treschows hus, 12th floor, room 1224
This is a PhD course organized under the regi of the LingPhil Norwegian program (PhD for linguistics and philology), which grants 5 ECTs to the students who successfully complete it.
Motivation
The emotive side of language has not received enough study, although affect and sentiment analysis have become new buzzwords in computational linguistics in the last couple of decades. Still, the tradition of fact-based and logical analysis of information are deep-rooted in most linguistic schools, and we believe that a general course on the many ideas and approaches to tap emotion in language are relevant to a PhD education in linguistics.
This course is thus not focused on a narrow area of experiment or a specific linguistic theory. Rather its rationale is to open the eyes to the many interesting avenues and problems posed by the fact that language is as much a vehicle for emotion as for fact and information.
The course will touch upon the definition/demarcation/identification of emotions in language, the role of emotional matters in different linguistic theories and approaches, the syntax and semantics of emotions, the cultural consequences of expression or suppression of emotion and the consequence for translation. Also, it will introduce the many applications that have been suggested and developed for product overview or review, for reputation studies, for opinion mining, and sentiment analysis -- based on Pang & Lee (2008). If time permits we plan to also mention issues like artificial emotion generation for interfaces.
Teachers
The course holders, Belinda Maia (University of Porto) and Diana Santos (University of Oslo), have different backgrounds and have worked differently on emotional matters, so that they will provide different views and challenges. Both have worked in a wide range of subjects in linguistics and natural language processing, so that they will be able to lecture from a broad point of view. In addition to many years of collaboration, they have in common a specific interest for contrastive issues and for the human-computer loop in linguistic analysis and teaching. They have also organized, together or separately, several summer schools and PhD-workshop venues.
Schedule
- 1 June 9-12 lectures 12-14 lunch and discussion
- 2 June 9-12 lectures 12-14 lunch and discussion
- 3 June 9-12 lectures 12-14 lunch and discussion
- 4 June 9-12 lectures 12-14 lunch and discussion
- 5 June 9-12 lectures 12-14 lunch and discussion
Organizer
Diana Santos
Recent Developments in the Field of Sound and Music Computing
Professor Petri Toiviainen, a world leading music researcher from the University of Jyväskylä, will present an overview of the emerging field of sound and music computing (SMC).
Time and place: 21. apr. 2015 13:15–15:00, Salen, U1 i ZEB
The lecture will be targeted at a broad humanities audience, and will be followed by a panel discussion on how "digital musicology" can interplay with other digital humanities disciplines. All participants will be invited for a tour of the laboratories of the Department of Musicology at the end of the seminar.
About Petri Toivianinen:
Petri Toiviainen is professor of music cognition at University of Jyväskylä’s Department of Music, where he also leads the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research. He is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of systematic musicology, specialising in the modelling of music cognition and computational methods of music analysis. His research is applied in the context of music therapy, music education and in the playing of music.
Organizer
Department of Musicology