Lightning Talks, Lasting Conversations

A novel and energising format was featured on the programme today: the Poster Lightning Talks. Presenters introduced their digital posters in a brisk five-minute talk. Afterwards the physical posters were displayed in the conference venue, drawing participants into rich, extended discussions. The session showcased a striking variety of research — from Martin Wynne’s “Fifty Years of the Oxford Text Archive: Digital Research Infrastructure Then and Now,” to Darya Katkova’s “Keyword analysis of British legal texts before and after Brexit”, Elen Le Foll’s work on statistical power in multifactorial alternation studies (“Power to the Corpus”), and Xingni Li’s cross-linguistic comparison of speech prosody and rap flows in American English and Cantonese. A short format with a long tail of conversation — exactly what a good poster session should be.