The link to access the Q/A of the day was sent each morning to avoid Zoom bombing.Īdvantages: 1. Youtube have no limitations regarding the number of simultaneous viewers. People enjoyed watching the talks following their own rhythm, to be able to pause them or increase the speed, 5. It allowed to translate videos ahead of time and to provide the transcript of the videos, 4. It guaranteed better video quality (no internet connection issues), 3.
asynchronous watching options made it easier for people to attend from many different time zones, 2. Talks and lighting poster videos were stored on Youtube but embedded on the website on dedicated pages such that all the conference videos were visible from the official conference website.Īdvantages: 1. The conference included 10 talks and 12 posters with a recommended watching program starting on Tuesday, June 23 rd and ending on Thursday, June 25 th.
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The conference had English and ASL/International Sign as official languages, all the budget was used to provide both offline translation and online interpretation. The event was co-organized by the Université de Paris /CNRS (LLF and Labex-EFL), the Université Paris 8/CNRS (SFL), and the Ecole Normale Supérieure/CNRS (IJN) and ERC Orisem (PI- Philippe Schlenker)). It was finally held online on June 23-25, 2020.
Mid-March, with the worldwide lock-down, the whole conference had to be re-imagined. The eighth meeting of the “Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory” (FEAST) colloquium had to take place in Hong-Kong in June of this year but due tothe increase of COVID-19 cases in Asia, by mid-February, it was decided to displace the conference in Paris instead. FEAST is a regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language grammar (in particular in the generative tradition), experimental approaches to sign languages, and their interaction.