---
title: "Events & Community"
subtitle: "Workshops, webinars, and collaborative events for language data researchers worldwide"
toc: true
toc-depth: 2
---
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```
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LADAL hosts and participates in workshops, webinars, panels, and collaborative events that bring together researchers, students, and practitioners from around the world. **All events are free and open to the research community.**
```{=html}
<div class="event-types">
<div class="event-type-card">
<div class="ev-icon">🎓</div>
<h4>Workshops</h4>
<p>Hands-on, practical learning with real data</p>
</div>
<div class="event-type-card aqua">
<div class="ev-icon">🌐</div>
<h4>Webinars</h4>
<p>Expert talks from leading researchers</p>
</div>
<div class="event-type-card magenta">
<div class="ev-icon">💬</div>
<h4>Panels</h4>
<p>Diverse perspectives on key questions</p>
</div>
<div class="event-type-card blue">
<div class="ev-icon">🤝</div>
<h4>Collaborations</h4>
<p>Network and share knowledge globally</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="connect-bar">
<p><strong>Never miss an event.</strong> Subscribe to our mailing list or watch our YouTube channel for announcements and recordings.</p>
<div class="connect-links">
<a href="mailto:ladal@uq.edu.au" class="connect-link">📧 Email List</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPUPT8UvOAxUnorC95-F4Q" class="connect-link yt">▶ YouTube</a>
</div>
</div>
```
---
## Upcoming Events {#upcoming}
We announce new workshops and webinars regularly. To be notified as soon as new events are scheduled, subscribe to the LADAL mailing list by emailing [ ladal@uq.edu.au ](mailto:ladal@uq.edu.au) with the subject line **email list**. Check back here for updates.
LADAL is also part of the [ **Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA)** ](https://ldaca.edu.au/) — visit the [ LDaCA events page ](https://ldaca.edu.au/events/) for additional opportunities.
---
## Past Workshops {#workshops}
LADAL offers practical, hands-on workshops on text analytics, statistics, data visualisation, and computational methods — from introductory sessions for beginners to advanced techniques for experienced researchers.
```{=html}
<div class="year-header">
<span class="year-pill">2024</span>
<div class="year-rule"></div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-list">
<div class="workshop-card">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge">May 23–24, 2024</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Introduction to Computational Text Analytics</h4>
<p class="ws-context"><a href="https://hass.uq.edu.au/Digital-Cultures-and-Societies/Research-Training">UQ Digital Cultures and Societies Hub</a> · 2 days</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>An introduction to computational text analysis fundamentals using LADAL resources — suitable for researchers who have more text than they can analyse manually and want systematic, reproducible approaches.</p>
<ul>
<li>Why and where computational methods are appropriate</li>
<li>Preparation and preconditions for computational text analysis</li>
<li>R programming with Jupyter notebooks</li>
<li>Common methods and libraries for text analysis</li>
<li>Project management for computational research</li>
</ul>
<p><em>No programming experience required.</em></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-card aqua">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge aqua">Feb 9, 2024</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Text Analytics for Humour Studies</h4>
<p class="ws-context"><a href="https://ahsnhumourstudies.org/">Australian Humour Network 2024 Conference</a> · Half-day</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>Showcasing how LADAL resources can elevate humour studies through computational methods. Covered text analytics techniques, data processing for humorous texts, visualisation of humour patterns, and practical applications.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="year-header">
<span class="year-pill">2023</span>
<div class="year-rule"></div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-list">
<div class="workshop-card">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge">Nov 22, 2023</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Unlock the Power of Text Analytics with LADAL</h4>
<p class="ws-context"><a href="https://resbaz.github.io/resbaz2023qld/schedule/">Research Bazaar Queensland 2023</a> · Half-day</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>Hands-on exploration of LADAL's text analytics capabilities. Participants gained essential NLP skills in R, worked through live demonstrations, and learned insight extraction and visualisation techniques.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-card aqua">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge aqua">Aug 25, 2023</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Advanced Dimension Reduction Methods</h4>
<p class="ws-context">AcqVA Aurora Workshop · Half-day</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>Explored PCA, MDS, and Factor Analysis for language research — basic concepts, practical applications in linguistic research, and interpreting and visualising results.</p>
<div class="ws-resources">
<a href="https://github.com/MartinSchweinberger/AcqVA_DimRedR_WS" class="ws-resource-link">GitHub</a>
<a href="https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/MartinSchweinberger/AcqVA_DimRedR_WSIA/main?labpath=acqvadimredws_cb.ipynb" class="ws-resource-link">Interactive Notebook</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="year-header">
<span class="year-pill">2022</span>
<div class="year-rule"></div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-list">
<div class="workshop-card">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge">Jan 16, 2023</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Advanced Methods and Online Computing (t-SNE, UMAP, Jupyter)</h4>
<p class="ws-context">AcqVA Aurora Workshop · Half-day</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>Advanced dimension reduction (t-SNE, UMAP) combined with reproducible workflows: creating Jupyter notebooks from R, connecting RStudio to GitHub, and using Binder for sharing interactive analyses.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-card aqua">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge aqua">Jun 17, 2022</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>From Tables to Forests</h4>
<p class="ws-context">AcqVA Aurora Workshop · Full day</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>Two skills in one: working with tabular data (loading, processing, summarising) and tree-based models (conditional inference trees, random forests, Boruta feature selection) in R.</p>
<div class="ws-resources">
<a href="https://github.com/MartinSchweinberger/acqvatabletree" class="ws-resource-link">GitHub</a>
<a href="https://martinschweinberger.github.io/acqvatabletree/" class="ws-resource-link">Rendered Script</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-card magenta">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge magenta">May 18, 2022</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Network Analysis and Topic Modeling on Twitter Data</h4>
<p class="ws-context">ADO · ATAP · ARDC · Online · 9 AM–12 PM AEST</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>Network theory, network analysis in R, and topic modeling of tweets using open-source 2019 Federal Election Twitter data. A collaboration with the Australian Digital Observatory, ATAP, and ARDC.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-card">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge">Feb 1, 2022</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Power Analysis with R</h4>
<p class="ws-context">AcqVA Aurora Lab Workshop · 4 hours</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>Design studies with appropriate sample sizes using the pwr and simr packages. Covered power analysis fundamentals, sample size determination, effect size estimation, and post-hoc power analysis.</p>
<div class="ws-resources">
<a href="https://github.com/MartinSchweinberger/AcqVAPowerRWS" class="ws-resource-link">GitHub</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-card aqua">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge aqua">Jan 25, 2022</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Data Visualisation with R (ggplot2 and likert)</h4>
<p class="ws-context">AcqVA Aurora Lab Workshop · 4 hours</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>Publication-quality visualisations using ggplot2 fundamentals and Likert scale visualisation, with customisation best practices and real-world examples.</p>
<div class="ws-resources">
<a href="https://github.com/MartinSchweinberger/AcqVA_DataVisR_WS" class="ws-resource-link">GitHub</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="year-header">
<span class="year-pill">2021</span>
<div class="year-rule"></div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-list">
<div class="workshop-card">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge">Nov 24, 2021</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks for Text Analysis</h4>
<p class="ws-context">Digital Humanities Australasia 2021 · 3 hours · Facilitators: Sara King, Simon Musgrave</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>A hands-on introduction to Jupyter notebooks, basic text analysis, and reproducible workflows — for absolute beginners with no prior programming experience required.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="year-header">
<span class="year-pill">2019–2020</span>
<div class="year-rule"></div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-list">
<div class="workshop-card aqua">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge aqua">May 2020</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Best Practices in Corpus Linguistics</h4>
<p class="ws-context">ICAME 41, Heidelberg, Germany · Martin Schweinberger</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>Lessons from the Replication Crisis for corpus linguistics: best practices for high-quality, reproducible, and transparent research.</p>
<div class="ws-resources">
<a href="http://martinschweinberger.de/docs/ppt/schweinberger-ppt-heidelberg-2020-05-21.pdf" class="ws-resource-link">Slides</a>
<a href="http://martinschweinberger.de/docs/materials/SchweinbergerBestPractices_ICAME41.mp4" class="ws-resource-link">Video</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-card">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge">Oct 2019</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Implementing LADAL at UQ</h4>
<p class="ws-context">ARDC eResearch Skilled Workforce Summit, Sydney · Michael Haugh & Martin Schweinberger</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>How UQ established LADAL as school-based support for digital humanities research: institutional implementation, infrastructure design, community building, and lessons learned.</p>
<div class="ws-resources">
<a href="http://martinschweinberger.de/docs/ppt/HaughSchweinberger_eResearchSummit_20190730.pptx" class="ws-resource-link">Slides</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-card aqua">
<div class="workshop-header">
<span class="workshop-date-badge aqua">Apr 2019</span>
<div class="workshop-meta">
<h4>Using R for Corpus Linguistics</h4>
<p class="ws-context">CoEDL Corpus Workshop, Melbourne · Martin Schweinberger</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="workshop-body">
<p>Why R for corpus linguistics? A practical discussion of sustainability, replicability, and workflows for corpus-based research.</p>
<div class="ws-resources">
<a href="https://slcladal.github.io/resources/resources/CoEDLCorpusWorkshop2019.pdf" class="ws-resource-link">Slides</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
```
---
## Panels {#panels}
### Computational Thinking in the Humanities
```{=html}
<div class="panel-card">
<div class="panel-card-header">
<h3>Computational Thinking in the Humanities</h3>
<div class="panel-meta">Thursday, 1 September 2022 · Online · 3 hours · 5–8 PM QLD | 10 AM–1 PM Finland | 8–11 AM UK</div>
<div class="panel-partners">
<span class="panel-partner-tag">ATAP</span>
<span class="panel-partner-tag">FIN-CLARIAH</span>
<span class="panel-partner-tag">Australian Digital Observatory</span>
<span class="panel-partner-tag">UQ Digital Cultures Hub</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="panel-card-body">
<p>An international workshop bringing together speakers from multiple countries to address fundamental questions: How can humanities embrace computing on their own terms? How do we resist having our problems "solved" for us? What are the methodological foundations of computational humanities? Does computation change the nature of what we do?</p>
<p><strong>Part I — Plenary Talks</strong></p>
<ul class="talks-list">
<li>
<span class="talk-speaker">Krista Lagus</span> (University of Helsinki) —
<span class="talk-title">Bridging the impossible: How to avoid bringing technodystopia to the social sciences</span><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/PDGrWSyAPqo">▶ Watch</a>
</li>
<li>
<span class="talk-speaker">Barbara McGillivray</span> (King's College London / Alan Turing Institute) —
<span class="talk-title">Computational approaches and the Humanities: what might await us?</span><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/7-5WWA9Ps2U">▶ Watch</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top:16px"><strong>Part II — Lightning Talks</strong></p>
<ul class="talks-list">
<li>
<span class="talk-speaker">Marissa Takahashi</span> (QUT / Australian Digital Observatory)
<a href="https://youtu.be/jslHPCXcoiQ">▶ Watch</a>
</li>
<li>
<span class="talk-speaker">Martin Schweinberger</span> (UQ / LADAL)
<a href="https://youtu.be/rdpAcoRW7a4">▶ Watch</a>
</li>
<li>
<span class="talk-speaker">Eetu Mäkelä</span> (FIN-CLARIAH Technical Director)
<a href="https://youtu.be/W1MxGWtHeec">▶ Watch</a>
</li>
<li>
<span class="talk-speaker">Steven Coats</span> (University of Oulu)
<a href="https://youtu.be/VqVuQe8n1xA">▶ Watch</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
```
**Plenary speakers:**
```{=html}
<div class="speaker-cards">
<div class="speaker-card">
<img src="/images/Krista.jpg" alt="Krista Lagus" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4>Krista Lagus</h4>
<span class="sp-role">Full Professor, University of Helsinki · Centre for Social Data Science</span>
<p>Research interests: Quantitative and qualitative data analysis for understanding individual and social well-being practices including loneliness, peer support, and mindfulness.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img src="/images/barbara.jpg" alt="Barbara McGillivray" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4>Barbara McGillivray</h4>
<span class="sp-role">Lecturer, King's College London · Turing Research Fellow · Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Open Humanities Data</span>
<p>Previously language technologist at Oxford University Press and data scientist at Springer Nature. Author of <em>Applying Language Technology in Humanities Research</em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
```
---
## Webinar Series {#webinar-series}
All recordings are freely available on the [ **LADAL YouTube channel** ](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPUPT8UvOAxUnorC95-F4Q) .
### 2022 Series {#ladal-webinar-series-2022}
Six expert webinars on computational linguistics topics.
```{=html}
<div class="webinar-grid">
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">1</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/sW70Y6XDiRA">Spread of Lexical Innovations</a>
<span class="w-speaker">Jack Grieve (Univ. of Birmingham)</span>
<span class="w-date">Mar 7, 2022</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">2</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/-dcwbKZuzDU">Archives as Subject not Source</a>
<span class="w-speaker">Cedric Courtois</span>
<span class="w-date">2022</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">3</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/oKZHRHqU0YY">Analyzing Longitudinal Data</a>
<span class="w-speaker">Dimitrios Vagenas</span>
<span class="w-date">2022</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">4</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/UwIgWD5pWzQ">Bayesian GLMMs with brms</a>
<span class="w-speaker">Bodo Winter (Univ. of Birmingham)</span>
<span class="w-date">Nov 7, 2022</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">5</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/oJFmw1Sy7iE">The Travels of Marco Polo</a>
<span class="w-speaker">Andreas Niekler (Univ. of Leipzig)</span>
<span class="w-date">2022</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">6</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/feF987aX5s8">Found in Translation</a>
<span class="w-speaker">Jörg Tiedemann</span>
<span class="w-date">2022</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
```
### 2021 Opening Series {#ladal-webinar-series-2021-ladal-opening}
The inaugural LADAL Opening Webinar Series — 25 webinars from international experts in linguistics, data science, and digital humanities, running June–November 2021. All recordings are available on [ YouTube ](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPUPT8UvOAxUnorC95-F4Q) .
```{=html}
<div class="webinar-grid">
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">1</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLocET9CC-E&t=253s">MuPADRF</a>
<span class="w-speaker">S. Th. Gries</span>
<span class="w-date">Jun 3</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">2</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGIGCubyJs0">LADAL & ATAP</a>
<span class="w-speaker">M. Schweinberger & M. Haugh</span>
<span class="w-date">Jun 10</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">3</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/BGa0gkkkWsc">Data Collection in the Field</a>
<span class="w-speaker">F. Meakins</span>
<span class="w-date">Jun 18</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">4</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/2_l3ViTzBOM">UZH Text Crunching Center</a>
<span class="w-speaker">G. Schneider</span>
<span class="w-date">Jun 24</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">5</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/g54yLpYefbI">Corpus-Based Media Linguistics</a>
<span class="w-speaker">M. Bednarek</span>
<span class="w-date">Jul 1</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">6</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/vpsJj7Nkgw4">Bayesian vs Frequentist</a>
<span class="w-speaker">N. Levshina</span>
<span class="w-date">Jul 8</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">7</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/7-9WRYpXEtE">Online Data Collection</a>
<span class="w-speaker">M. Vos</span>
<span class="w-date">Jul 15</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">8</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/bANTr9RvnGg">Reproducible Research</a>
<span class="w-speaker">A. Miotto & J. Toohey</span>
<span class="w-date">Jul 22</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">9</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/wVBkUSPQFUw">Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism</a>
<span class="w-speaker">DeLuca, Voits & Rothman</span>
<span class="w-date">Jul 28</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">10</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/QW0lVaHcNX4">Introducing Network Analysis</a>
<span class="w-speaker">S. Musgrave</span>
<span class="w-date">Aug 2</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">11</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/9YjZH4lBco0">Speech Recognition with Elpis</a>
<span class="w-speaker">J. Wiles & B. Foley</span>
<span class="w-date">Aug 12</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">12</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/kfb7xLC2nBs">Societal Big Data</a>
<span class="w-speaker">M. Laitinen</span>
<span class="w-date">Aug 19</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">13</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/QVwWPfxE93U">Tackling Social Media Data</a>
<span class="w-speaker">S. Hames</span>
<span class="w-date">Aug 26</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">14</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/JlHchgpzO3o">Data-Driven Learning</a>
<span class="w-speaker">P. Crosthwaite</span>
<span class="w-date">Sep 2</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">15</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/2oLJNYl_Ipw">Text Classification & Hate Speech</a>
<span class="w-speaker">G. Wiedemann</span>
<span class="w-date">Sep 13</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">16</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/rDuYGQkAtQg">VARIENG</a>
<span class="w-speaker">Nevalainen, Hiltunen & Liimatta</span>
<span class="w-date">Sep 21</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">17</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/F_eHRWxCZnw">AntConc 4.0</a>
<span class="w-speaker">L. Anthony</span>
<span class="w-date">Sep 27</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">18</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/Cof8lWdlRqI">Distributional Semantics</a>
<span class="w-speaker">G. Desagulier</span>
<span class="w-date">Sep 30</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">19</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/FP8x1Euf7SI">Usage-Based Language Learning</a>
<span class="w-speaker">L. Janda</span>
<span class="w-date">Oct 7</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">20</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/B3qar4mYE4k">Analyzing Historical Publications</a>
<span class="w-speaker">T. Säily</span>
<span class="w-date">Oct 15</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">21</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/MbRNbJUY0aE">Git and GitHub</a>
<span class="w-speaker">S. Guillou</span>
<span class="w-date">Oct 18</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">22</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/1zaKr2B2YBU">Replicability & Robustness</a>
<span class="w-speaker">J. Flanagan</span>
<span class="w-date">Oct 28</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">23</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/yJeQ6AGDLK0">Linguistic Phylogenetics</a>
<span class="w-speaker">Macklin-Cordes & Round</span>
<span class="w-date">Nov 4</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">24</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/YBC_y12bcF8">Analyzing Emigrant Letters</a>
<span class="w-speaker">C. P. Amador-Moreno</span>
<span class="w-date">Nov 11</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="webinar-item">
<div class="webinar-num">25</div>
<div class="webinar-info">
<a href="https://youtu.be/YfiV4QWzS6I">AARNet & CloudStor</a>
<span class="w-speaker">S. King</span>
<span class="w-date">Nov 18</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
```
---
## Get Involved {#get-involved}
```{=html}
<div class="cta-banner">
<div>
<h3>Want to Present at a LADAL Event?</h3>
<p>We welcome proposals for webinars, talks, and workshops from researchers at all career stages. Share your work with a global community of language data scientists.</p>
</div>
<div class="cta-actions">
<a href="mailto:ladal@uq.edu.au" class="btn-aqua">Submit a Proposal</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPUPT8UvOAxUnorC95-F4Q" class="btn-ghost-white">▶ Watch Recordings</a>
</div>
</div>
```
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