Please join us for our Fall 2022 Hybrid Events:
November 11
2:00-3:00 PM
Language Resource Center, 1500 North Quad
Game Drop! Learn to play the educational game Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition that fosters discovery of fun finds across languages in the digital library. The first hour (2-3 PM) members of the development team will introduce the game to players in person at the LRC and online and they will stay until 5PM to answer questions and cheer you on! There will be snacks and drinks and opportunities to meet other players and form teams to compete in the Multilingual Midwest Challenge! Rules of the challenge will be announced at the Game Drop and prizes will be awarded on Dec. 8, Game Night!
Watch the recording of our November 11 game drop of “Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition” here!
December 7
4:00-5:30 PM & 6:30-8 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Invited speakers Carolyn Shread, Nathan Langston, Christopher Warren and Rini Bhattacharya Mehta will discuss their own experiences working on projects of translation and/or digital networks in the arts and humanities (such as Telephone Game and Six Degrees of Francis Bacon), as the Translation Networks team members consider possibilities for future development.
For more information on the December 7 Panel, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-7-2022-gaming-multilingual-works-in-the-digital-library
December 8
4:00-5:30 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Game Night with South Asian Studies faculty! Prizes awarded for the Multilingual Midwest Challenge! Play chess in a South Asian language, our new digital game Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition, or a new adaptation of an old South Asian favorite!
For more information on the December 8 Game Night, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-8-2022-game-night-amp-multilingual-midwest-challenge/
