Life and Language

Professor Michaela Mahlberg chats with her guests about life and why language matters.Michaela is Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor & Professor in Digital Humanities at FAU, Germany´s most innovative universityFor more see https://michaelamahlberg.com

Life and Language is a society podcast hosted by Professor Michaela Mahlberg, with 26 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Professor Michaela Mahlberg hosts Life and Language, a society show with 26 episodes published.

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  Episode #3

  Gavin Brookes - Public Discourses of Dementia

  Jun 23, 20261h 4mS5

  Gavin Brookes provides insights into the language that people use when they talk about dementia. Language plays an important part in making sense of a health condition. In this episode we cover a wide range of topics - from stigma tohumour. Gavin has some very concrete messages for all of us - whether you have lived experience of dementia, work in social care, or do not know that much about the condition yet. Dr Gavin Brookes is a UKRI Future Leader Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University (UK). His research uses corpus linguistic, critical and multimodal approaches to discourse analysis in order to examine how language and image are used to representhealth and illness. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and Co-Editor of the BloomsburyCorpus and Discourse book series .

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  Lauren Tilton - Distant Viewing

  Jan 23, 20261h 1mS5

  In this episode, I chat to Lauren Tilton about digital humanities and the ways we can teach AI to view the world. Distant viewing is a theory and method for how computer vision works. It enables a critical view of the social, political, and cultural values and beliefs that are built into computer visionsystems. You will also learn about digital humanities morewidely. And if you want to get the Distant Viewer Explorer that’s mention in the episode, you find that here Lauren Tilton is the E. Claiborne Robins Professor ofLiberal Arts and Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of Rhetoric and Communications at the University of Richmond. She is the author (togetherwith Taylor Arnold) of Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images. MIT Press (2023) . Lauren Tilton is the Constituent Organisation Board (COB) President of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) .

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  Life and Language

  Dickensland

  Dec 19, 202558 minS0

  <p>Don’t we all love it when we visit places that we know from stories in books and films? </p><p>In the first episode of Season 5, my guest is the wonderful Lee Jackson. We are talking about his book ‘Dickensland’ and literary tourism. </p><p>Lee Jackson takes us to places that Dickens’s writing has brought into the public imagination. Some of them are more real than others, but all of them are exciting! </p><p></p>

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  Lyndsey Stonebridge - Changing the World

  Jun 16, 202459 minS4

  <p>Today’s world is in much need of change. But what can we do as individuals and as a society? And how can we bring a humanities perspectives to the change that the world needs? Who better to talk to than Lyndsey Stonebridge, author of the book “We are free to change the world”. Lyndsey refers to her book a "critical creative biography of Hannah Arendt". It is very topical in the way it helps us to think about our troubled political times. </p> <p><br></p>

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  Essie Fox - The Fascination

  Mar 15, 20241h 3mS4

  <p>Have you given Victorian gothic fiction a try? The Fascination by Essie Fox will certainly be a good one to get you started. It is a novel that takes you to the Victorian country fairgrounds, the glamour of the Drury Lane pantomimes, and a museum in London’s Oxford Street filled with anatomical wonders. It is a story about belonging and finding your family. In this episode, I talk to Essie about her novel, but also about the craft of writing historical fiction, the very practical challenges of navigating the expectations of sales and marketing, and the research that is...

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