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“Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities: Applying Digital Linguistics Techniques to Oral History Collections” an open lecture by Chris Fitzgerald on 18 November

HDSM Team is delighted to share the news that next Monday, 18 November at 14:25 (CET), Chris Fitzgerald (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland) will give a lecture on “Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities: Applying Digital Linguistics Techniques to Oral History Collections” as a part of Voices Unbound Seminar Series. The Digital Oral History seminar series are co-organised by TU Darmstadt, University College London, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.

The seminar will accommodate hybrid format, offering an opportunity to join online via Zoom. To join us and secure your spot please follow instructions on Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-unbound-tickets-1048687180587

Chris Fitzgerald is Assistant Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick in Ireland. He was a post-doctoral research fellow on the Interactional Variation Online (see ivohub.com) project, which involved a multimodal discourse analysis of online meetings. Apart from this, his research has focused on corpus linguistics applied to various registers and genres of discourse with a prominent focus on oral histories. He has published extensively in this area, including two books with Routledge:Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies: The Linguistic Construction of Certainty(2023) and Corpus Linguistics for Oral History (with Ivor Timmis, 2024). In addition, Chris is the editor of a forthcoming (2025) volume with Bloomsbury, Linguistics and Oral History: Towards and Interdisciplinary Approach.

The abstract of the talk is as follows:

This talk will highlight the interdisciplinary potential between oral history and (corpus) linguistics. I will demonstrate how oral historians can gain insights from the application of various linguistics tools and competencies and how linguists can benefit from using oral history texts in their research as they present rich examples of authentic spoken language. Examples will be provided of studies that have bridged this interdisciplinary divide and projections will be presented as to how this synthesis may progress. Attendees will be exposed to various contemporary tools used in corpus linguistics as well as accessible and relevant oral history archives that they may wish to exploit for further research.


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