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2024
3 April 2024
The Construction of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Australian law (Emma Genovese)
An internal in-person research seminar presented by Emma Genovese (University of Technology, Sydney).
2023
13 November 2023
Using Keyword Co-occurrence Analysis to Track Discourses of HPV Vaccination on Twitter over Time (Isobelle Clarke)
An online webinar by Dr Isobelle Clarke (Lancaster University), co-hosted with the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science/CASS (Lancaster University). A flyer with all event details is available here and you can access a recording of this talk online.
6 November 2023
A Question of Time (Tony McEnery)
An online webinar by Prof Tony McEnery (Lancaster University), co-hosted with the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science/CASS (Lancaster University). A flyer with all event details can be found here. The talk was recorded and you can view it online.
9 October 2023
New Tools for Corpus Linguistics (Monika Bednarek)
An online webinar by Prof Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney), co-hosted with the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science/CASS (Lancaster University). A flyer with all event details can be found here. The talk was recorded and you can view it online.
4 May 2023
The Macquarie Laws of War Corpus (Annabelle Lukin)
An online guest lecture by A/Prof Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University). A flyer with all event details can be found here.
20 April 2023
Using Language Data to Learn Language: Corpora and Data-driven Learning (Peter Crosthwaite)
An online guest lecture by Dr Peter Crosthwaite (University of Queensland). A flyer with all details of the event is available here.
17 March 2023
Online News Comments through Multiple Lenses (Maite Taboada)
In-person (at the University of Sydney) and via Zoom. A flyer with all event details is available here.
10 March 2023
Self-representation in the Aboriginal Public Sphere: A Case Study of Historical News Writing (Helen Caple)
In-person (at the University of Sydney) and via Zoom. A flyer with all event details is available here.
3 March 2023
Jupyter Notebooks for Discourse Analysis (Monika Bednarek)
In-person (at the University of Sydney) and via Zoom. A flyer with all event details is available here.
24 February 2023
‘You said, we did’: Analysing Marketising Discourse in UK Healthcare Websites (Gavin Brookes)
Investigating ‘the science’ in UK News Coverage of the Covid-19 Pandemic (Luke Collins)
Joint talk by two international visitors from the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (Lancaster University). In-person (at the University of Sydney) and via Zoom. A flyer with all event details is available here. (NB Gavin Brookes’ talk had to be cancelled due to illness, but the other talk went ahead as planned.)
23 & 24 February 2023
Exploring Health in the News: Corpus Perspectives on Illness Representation (Gavin Brookes); Corpus Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (Luke Collins)
Internal (in-person) talks at the University of Sydney (no flyer available)
2022
25 October 2022
From the Darkness to the Light: Reproducibility, Replication and Transparency in Corpus Linguistics
An online guest lecture by Dr Martin Schweinberger (The University of Queensland & The Arctic University of Norway). A flyer with all event details is available here. All welcome!
9 September 2022
Language and Individuals Affect Typological Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Corpus Approach
An online guest lecture by Dr Danielle Barth, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (Australian National University). A flyer with all event details is available here.
27 July 2022
Workshop: Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks
This online workshop run by AARNet introduced participants to Jupyter Notebooks, a digital tool that has exploded in popularity in recent years for those working with data. An event description is available here.
27 May 2022
Workshop: Tracking variation and change in Australian English through corpus analysis
This interactive workshop, led by corpus lab affiliate Prof Catherine Travis, introduced participants to the Sydney Speaks Corpus and the corpus management tool LaBB-CAT. A flyer is available here.
22 April 2022
Law, language, and warfare workshop
A flyer with all event details is available here.
2020-2021
The planned Corpus Linguistics Down Under workshop in July 2020 had to be cancelled due to covid-19. No other events were held in 2020-2021, on account of the ongoing impacts of the pandemic.
2019
30 September-1 October 2019
Corpus linguistics workshop (at ASFLA pre-conference institute, The University of Sydney)
This hands-on workshop, designed by Monika Bednarek and delivered by corpus lab members Alex Garcia and Georgia Carr, introduced participants to corpus linguistics – the computer-based analysis of text. It provided an overview of current tools that are available, and also covered key issues such as language encoding, file types, and tagging. Participants were also instructed on how to use AntConc.
6 August 2019
UAM Corpus Tool workshop (corpus annotation tool)
This hands-on workshop run by Dr Matteo Fuoli (University of Birmingham, UK) introduced participants to UAM Corpus Tool, a free software for the annotation of text corpora.