{"id":9052,"date":"2024-02-21T11:59:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2024-02-21T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T10:07:47","slug":"blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12819 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news category-uncategorized tag-sadilar-2 tag-digital-humanities tag-digitisation tag-node tag-university-of-pretoria tag-up tag-women-prof-elsabe-taljard\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Breaking Barriers, Building Futures: Prof. Elsab\u00e9 Taljard\u2019s Journey as a Woman in Science<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">17 August 2026 For more than four decades, Prof. Elsab\u00e9 Taljard has dedicated her academic career to the study of African languages, contributing to research that places language, multilingualism and digital innovation at the heart of South Africa\u2019s knowledge society. As a professor in the Department of African Languages at the University of Pretoria (UP)&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/breaking-barriers-building-futures-prof-elsabe-taljards-journey-as-a-woman-in-science\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12816 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Building connections through Digital Humanities at the University of the Free State<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">14 August 2026 What does Digital Humanities look like in practice? At the University of the Free State (UFS), the answer spans everything from digital archives and language-learning applications to literary analysis and resources for South African Sign Language. On 27 July 2026, approximately 40 researchers, postgraduate students and professional support staff gathered virtually for&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/building-connections-through-digital-humanities-at-the-university-of-the-free-state\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12768 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">SADiLaR and NMU equip postgraduates for the full research journey<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">13 August 2026 On 15 July 2026, SADiLaR partnered with Nelson Mandela University (NMU) to host &#8220;From Research Data Management to a Data Paper&#8221; at the Ocean Science Conference Centre at NMU. The workshop brought together postgraduate students and interested staff members for a full day dedicated to building practical knowledge around research data management,&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/sadilar-and-nmu-equip-postgraduates-for-the-full-research-journey\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12724 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">SADiLaR Researcher appointed to the North West Provincial Language Committee<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">31 July 2026 SADiLaR is proud to congratulate Mrs Mmasibidi Setaka-Bapela, Digital Humanities Researcher: Sesotho, on her appointment as a member of the North West Provincial Language Committee. Mrs Setaka-Bapela has been appointed for a five-year term, effective 1 June 2026, where she will contribute her expertise in language development and multilingualism to support language&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/sadilar-researcher-appointed-to-the-north-west-provincial-language-committee\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12660 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">SADiLaR preserves nearly five decades of South African language teaching scholarship through digitisation initiative<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">27 July 2026 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is proud to support the preservation and long-term accessibility of South Africa&#8217;s language teaching scholarship through the digitisation of historic editions of the Journal for Language Teaching (Tydskrif vir Taalonderrig). As part of its commitment to advancing multilingualism and strengthening digital language resources,&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/sadilar-preserves-nearly-five-decades-of-south-african-language-teaching-scholarship-through-digitisation-initiative\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12616 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Building the future of Sesotho through the African Wordnet<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">01 July 2026 The African Wordnet Project demonstrates that preserving and advancing indigenous languages requires contributions from people across many disciplines. Within the Sesotho African Wordnet team, linguists, translators, educators, broadcasters and language activists are working together to ensure that Sesotho remains relevant, accessible and technologically enabled for future generations. 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