International conference Encyclopedistics 2020 – achievements and challenges

Encyclopedistics 2020 January 17, 2020

The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography

is organising the

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ENCYCLOPEDISTICS 2020 – ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES

MEĐUNARODNI ZNANSTVENI SKUP
ENCIKLOPEDIKA 2020 – DOSEZI I IZAZOVI

The conference took place on 15 and 16 of October. Due to the current pandemic situation the conference was held at the premises of the institute and online via the Zoom platform.

On the occasion of its 70th founding anniversary, the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography organised the international conference Encyclopedistics 2020 – Achievements and Challenges, which was held from 15 to 16 October in Zagreb.

Invited speakers:

Naja Bentzen, European Parliament’s Liaison Office in Washington, DC
The Role of Encyclopedias in an Era of Asymmetric Digital Knowledge

Ranko Matasović, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
Jezična klasifikacija u enciklopedijama / Language Classification in Encyclopedias

Uri Nodelman, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Challenges and Lessons

Toma Tasovac, DARIAH-EU, Berlin
Imagining the Future of Dictionaries: Tracing the Early History of e-Lexicography

Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Rethinking a Genre: Accelerating Encylopedic Knowledge into Action on the Example of COVID-19

The presentations are available here.

Session recordings are available here.

Papers based on these presentations that are submitted by 1 March 2021 will be published, following the appropriate peer review process, in the lexicography and encyclopedistics journal Studia lexicographica.

Organising Committee: Ivana Crljenko, Vlatka Dugački, Filip Hameršak, Zdenko Jecić, Nataša Jermen, Iva Klobučar Srbić, Bruno Kragić

Programme Committee: Petra Bago, Vlaho Bogišić, Damir Boras, Irina Deretić, Peter Jordan, Stipe Kutleša, Janko Lozar, Nives Mikelić Preradović, Željko Pavić, Slaven Ravlić, Krešimir Regan, Hrvoje Stančić, Goran Sunajko, Domagoj Vidović, Antun Vujić

Technical support: Zdravko Pondelak, Cvijeta Kraus

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