On December 6th, 2016 (Tue) ⑨:00 – ⑪:50 a.m. we will be holding Student Poster Session on MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION ACCESS in various global contexts. Western FIMS & Linguistics and broader community welcome! See course description here.
Location: Graduate Research Center, Faculty of Information Media Studies, 2nd floor, North Campus Building, Western University.
See our posters around campus!
Below is the list of presenters and tentative poster topics:
| Ada Wassink | Keeping the Inuktitut Language Alive |
| Adwoa Amampene | Multilinguality in Today’s World- The case of Buli in Ghana |
| Albandry Aldossari | Comparing Arabic in Israel and French and English in Canada: Technical Challenges |
| Amal Alrashidi | Arabic in the Digital World |
| Ariella Elema | Language and Unity in the Republic of Georgia |
| Cameron Gordon | Information Access & Retrieval in Japan |
| Cameron Wheaton | Hierarchy, Nationalism and Urdu Language in Pakistan |
| Charlotte Brun | Arabic and French in Mauritania: Looking at the Impact of Colonialization on Information Access |
| Eduard Sviridenko | Tatar: Language Barriers in Writing and Speaking |
| Elizabeth Sallese | Ciao da Italia: a brief introduction to the Italian Language |
| Jennifer Roy | The Romanian Language in Romania |
| Joe Maher | “It’s like they are speaking French”: Haitian Creole |
| Leith Wrightman | Information Access in Paradise: French and Haitian in French Polynesia |
| Lisa Lawlis | Greek and Information Resources |
| Maritza Andagoya | The challenge of information access in the Kichwa language of Ecuador |
| Michaela Posthumus | Korero te reo: Māori Language Revitalization in Aotearoa |
| Mikyala Redden | Socio-cultural practices and the Swedish Language in the Kingdom of Sweden |
| Rachel Forbes | Language, Libraries and Information Access in the Netherlands |
| Shuting Zhang | MLIS Technology Support for Danish Language in a Global Context |
| Stephanie George | Preserving Ojibwe Through Technology Use |
| Susan Forsythe | Poverty and Access to the Internet? (Angola) |
| Thom Albertini | Accessing Information from the Roof of the World (Tibetan in China) |
| Tolu Asubiaro | Local Language Use in a Nigerian Context |
| Vanessa Szpurko | Language Use as Marker of National Identity in Ukraine |
| Victoria Wong | Gàidhlig ann an Alba: Revitializing Scottish Gaelic in Scotland |