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For Whom the Language Bells Toll: African Languages & Technology

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Knox Hall, Room 208
  • Add to Calendar 2025-03-12 16:10:00 2025-03-12 18:00:00 For Whom the Language Bells Toll: African Languages & Technology Featuring: Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún Title: For Whom the Language Bells Toll: African Languages & Technology This event is jointly sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and Department of Africana Studies at Barnard, and the Institute of African Studies at Columbia. The event is open to current CU/BC ID holders only. A linguist, independent academic researchers, and writer, with over a decade of fieldwork in African studies, literature, and technology. Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún will address the work he has done in the space of language, revitalization, language technology, as well as the challenges that remain through social media, AI, language attitudes, and literature - especially African literature, where the question of what language to write in remains a subject of regular conversation, and sometimes incoherent postulations. There will also be a screening of Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún’s film Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory on Tuesday, March 11 at 6pm.  Wednesday, March 12th 4:10 - 6:00 PM | Knox Hall, Room 208, 606 West 122nd St. Knox Hall, Room 208 Barnard College barnard-admin@digitalpulp.com America/New_York public
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Featuring: Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

Title: For Whom the Language Bells Toll: African Languages & Technology

This event is jointly sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and Department of Africana Studies at Barnard, and the Institute of African Studies at Columbia. The event is open to current CU/BC ID holders only.

A linguist, independent academic researchers, and writer, with over a decade of fieldwork in African studies, literature, and technology.

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún will address the work he has done in the space of language, revitalization, language technology, as well as the challenges that remain through social media, AI, language attitudes, and literature - especially African literature, where the question of what language to write in remains a subject of regular conversation, and sometimes incoherent postulations.

There will also be a screening of Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún’s film Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory on Tuesday, March 11 at 6pm. 

Wednesday, March 12th 4:10 - 6:00 PM | Knox Hall, Room 208, 606 West 122nd St.

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