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ICANN78 Welcomes Notable Expert Cokorda Pramartha for Key Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Session

The eagerly awaited ICANN78 meeting, taking place from October 21 to October 26, 2023, in Hamburg, Germany, is gearing up for an essential session focusing on the Implementation of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). In a recent update, a distinguished expert has received a formal invitation to present during this pivotal session.The session, appropriately named the “Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Implementation Roundtable,” is set to delve into critical IDN-related topics.

Distinguished expert Cokorda Pramartha, a recognized authority in the field, will provide specific insights into Balinese script IDN implementation progress and intricacies.

Cokorda Pramartha

ICANN78 holds the promise of being a landmark event in the realm of Internationalized Domain Names, and the participation of such esteemed experts adds to the anticipation surrounding this gathering.

For additional details regarding ICANN78 and its comprehensive program, please visit the official ICANN website (https://www.icann.org/ ).

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Shassion on #Linguistics 10 – Dr. Jessica Birnie-Smith

Sharing Session (Shassion) on #Linguistics is back mid-year 2021! Our speaker is Dr. Jessica Birnie-Smith (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia). Jess presented part of her Ph.D. research on the construction of social identity and categories by Chinese Indonesian in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The materials in the talk are published as a book chapter titled Framing Chineseness and Indonesianess on the Indonesian Periphery in the book co-edited by Shuang Gao and Xuan Wang (2021) titled Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness: The Cultural Politics of Language and Identity in Globalizing China.

Jess presented the talk in Indonesian and below you can find the recording of the talk on YouTube.

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Challenges & Opportunities in Digitalization – Cokorda Pramartha

Cokorda Pramartha, PhD was invited as a Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Challenges and Opportunities in Digitalization in 21st Century (April 22nd, 2021), hosted by Balaji College of Arts, Commerce and Science, India.

Pramartha talked about his research and project related to the Digital Heritage and Digital Humanities: the Case of Balinese Culture.

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Kicking off the Shassion on #Linguistics 2021

Sharing Session on #Linguistics is back on March 5, 2021! 

Our first speaker for 2021 is Dr. Poppy Siahaan (University of Cologne, Germany) with the topic of the language of SMELL in Indonesian language (abstract here). Webex meeting link, password and dates can be found below:

Webex Meeting link: https://universitas-udayana.webex.com/universitas-udayana/j.php?MTID=m6778672a0d0e04a4ae7df05d62971923

Meeting number: 184 908 0384

Password: shassion050321

Date: Friday, 5 March 2021 at 15:30 PM WITA (Central Indonesian Time)

Feel free to join us via the link above (NO REGISTRATION IS NEEDED)!

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Invited Speaker at FGD Center for Digital Culture – Cokorda Pramartha

Cokorda Pramartha, PhD was invited as keynote speaker at STIKI Indonesia, Bali on Focus Group Discussion regarding the development of the Center for Digital Culture. The development of the Center for Digital Culture Studies in STIKI Indonesia is a cross-scientific domain engaged in designing, researching, reviewing and publishing various cultural-based findings. Pramartha talked of how information technologies can be a driver to support the preservation of cultural heritage.

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Doing language sciences in the digital age – by Gede Primahadi W. Rajeg

Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg, PhD (website) was invited to give a guest lecture under the theme: Doing Language Sciences in the Digital Age at the English Study Program, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Mahasaraswati University, Denpasar. 

The lecture was targeted at the fourth- and six-semester undergraduate students at the Program. The first part of the lecture provided a brief overview of linguistics and its sub-areas. The second part of the lecture discussed how students’ linguistic research project can take advantages of the technological advances characterising the field of corpus linguistics, particularly the availability of large collection of digitalised texts (i.e. language corpora) and the retrieved quantitative information from analysing large dataset from corpora; this was illustrated with a number of simple case studies around the word’s usages on the basis of data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the Coronavirus Corpus (webpage). You can download the slides and watch the recording from below.

  • Dr. Gede P. W. Rajeg presenting at the lecture
  • Dr. Gede P. W. Rajeg presenting at the lecture
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Shassion on #Linguistics 9 – Prof. I Nengah Sudipa

Our Shassion on #Linguistics in 2020 was concluded with a talk on the National Mothers Day (22 December 2020) by Prof. Dr. I Nengah Sudipa, M.A. Prof. Sudipa discussed about semantic molecules, Natural Semantic Metalanguage, and their application in analysing the meaning of words for MOTHER. Below is the recording of the talk. We will be back with Shassion on #Linguistics in March 2021!

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Microlinguistics lecture series #2 – Dr. Aryawibawa

I Nyoman Aryawibawa, PhD, the Vice Dean for Academic & Planning affair at the Faculty of Humanities, and our own board member of CIRHSS, was the invited guest lecture in the Microlinguistics lecture series organised by the Linguistics Postgraduate Programs at Faculty of Humanities, Udayana University. Dr. Aryawibawa talked about his experimental works that touch on the issue of language universality.