This is a monthly update about the Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative (ECDI) activities and upcoming events.
News
Joao Teieria recently participated on an episode discussing human evolution in South Asia for a YouTube channel discussing his work – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKUKoLdWdPQ
From 3-28 September the first Archaeology fieldschool in Papua New Guinea was run, in partnership with the University of Papua New Guinea. Ben Shaw is happy to report it was a success on all fronts. A lot of logistic and political challenges had to be overcome to deliver the fieldschool and it ran smoothly. Ben and Vincent Kewibu (UPNG) took 9 postgraduate and undergraduate students (Five from ANU) to Panaeati Island, 200km off the coast of New Guinea in the Milne Bay Province. Here they stayed in the village with their host family and undertook excavations of a site spanning 4300 years of human history. By design not all students were studying archaeology, and although they learnt detailed archaeological methods one of the main objective was for the students to work with community members on a day to day basis, to be involved in clan negotiations and a research program that has strong community involvement. A major aim of the fieldschool is to prepare students who are interested in working in the Pacific to work ethically with communities whether it be archaeology or a different field. Now the fieldschool is up and running, next year it will include linguistic research methods with the inclusion of other members of ECDI. To see more of the happenings from the fieldschool take a look at Ben’s Twitter account.
Upcoming SYNAPSE Seminar – Cultural evolution of birdsong: How environments help shape the dawn chorus, Dr Dominique Potvin – 5 Dec 2pm AEDT – https://chl.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/1586/synapse-trans-disciplinary-seminar-series
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Seminars, Workshops, Conferences
Workshop: Language Data Commons of Australia and the Australian Text Analytics Platform
Date: 29 November 2022
The Australian Text Analytics Platform and the Language Data Commons of Australia are projects supported by the Australian Research Data Commons to develop infrastructure for Australian researchers who work with language data. We are pleased to be running a 1-day workshop on Tuesday November 29 at the University of Melbourne, Parkville in the lead up to ALS2022. This workshop will provide an opportunity to learn more about this work. The day will include:
- an overview of the projects and the work to date
- reports on specific sub-projects
- introductory workshops on the tools and resources being developed
- a workshop on using Discursis, a tool for tracking topics in interactive use of language
- the opportunity to influence future work by exploring and providing feedback on the data interface which we are building.
The activities will be of interest to anyone who conducts research which includes language data, especially those who use or would like to use computational tools in their research. Participants should bring their own computer; no software is required beyond a web browser. Please click here to download the program.
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International Symposium on Bilingualism 14 – Diversity Now
Abstracts due: 30 November
The 14th International Symposium on Bilingualism will take place on 26-30 June 2023 at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. The theme of the conference is Diversity Now. The United Nations General Assembly has declared the period between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages to draw attention to the critical status of many Indigenous languages across the world and to encourage action for their preservation, revitalisation, and promotion. ISB14 especially encourages submissions of work involving lesser-studied bilingual communities and interdisciplinary work examining bilingualism across cultures, societies, and the life-span.
We invite abstracts for two categories of submissions: individual papers and posters. Find more information here
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Registration open for ALS 2022
30 November-2 December
The annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society will be held in-person on Wurundjeri country at the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus, November 30 – December 2, 2022. After two years of online conferences, we are excited to once again hold this important annual event in-person. ALS 2022 will be held alongside the seventh LCNAU Colloquium running from November 28-30 with a coordinated program on November 30. There will also be a pre-conference workshop run by LDaCA on November 29.
Find more information and register here.
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2023 International Symposium on Communication in Healthcare
14-15 February 2023
The 2023 International Symposium on Communication in Healthcare: Communicating for Patient Safety: Translating Health Communication Research into Clinical Practice, Education & Training will be hosted by the ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care and co-hosted with QUT Health Research Network and the International Consortium for Communication in Healthcare.
Find more information here and register to attend here.
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Job Opportunities
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ANU Language Lab
Deadline: 13 November 2022
The School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to support ongoing and new research initiatives in the ANU Language Lab (having previously been based in the ANU Research School of Psychology). Led by Professor Evan Kidd, the ANU Language Lab aims to investigate language processing in children and adult populations across a diverse range of languages
Find more information and apply online.
Assistant Professor of Fieldwork and Indigenous Languages, Ohio State University
Deadline: 15 November 2022
The Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University (USA) seeks to hire an Assistant Professor specializing in linguistic fieldwork and researching an indigenous language, with a commitment to engagement with that language’s community of speakers.
We welcome applications from specialists on indigenous signed or spoken languages anywhere in the world. We are particularly interested in applicants whose research focuses on languages often excluded from social institutions, associated with racial or ethnic minority communities, and/or subject to language loss. While we are interested in candidates with the promise of or expertise in conducting fieldwork and community engagement, we also value contributions toward development of documentary resources and advancement of linguistic theory (in any subfield). The department is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and outreach and we especially welcome applications from under-represented scholars, including members of the linguistic communities they study. Find more information and apply here. Contact Micha Elsner for enquiries.
Assistant Professor of Fieldwork and Indigenous Languages, Ohio State University
Deadline: 15 November 2022
The Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University (USA) seeks to hire an Assistant Professor specializing in linguistic fieldwork and researching an indigenous language, with a commitment to engagement with that language’s community of speakers.
We welcome applications from specialists on indigenous signed or spoken languages anywhere in the world. We are particularly interested in applicants whose research focuses on languages often excluded from social institutions, associated with racial or ethnic minority communities, and/or subject to language loss. While we are interested in candidates with the promise of or expertise in conducting fieldwork and community engagement, we also value contributions toward development of documentary resources and advancement of linguistic theory (in any subfield). The department is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and outreach and we especially welcome applications from under-represented scholars, including members of the linguistic communities they study.
Find more information and apply here. Contact Micha Elsner for enquiries.
Lecturer in Historical Linguistics, Yale University
Deadline: 2 December 2022
The Department of Linguistics at Yale University is looking to hire a multi-year Lecturer in Historical Linguistics, with an initial 3-year appointment, beginning July 1, 2023, and the possibility of renewal for a second 3-year term. The Lecturer will offer introductory and advanced courses and advise student research in historical linguistics/language change at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Find more information and apply online here.
PhD studentship, Surrey Morphology Group
Deadline: 31 January 2023
The Surrey Morphology Group is offering a PhD studentship on project about analogy in morphological change, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The student will be responsible for conducting a case study into morphological change in the history of a specific language. They will design their own project using the dataset they have collected, developing research questions and hypotheses relating to the theme of analogy in morphological change. The student will be supervised by Professor Matthew Baerman, Dr Oliver Bond and Dr Helen Sims-Williams, and will work and receive training in the vibrant research environment of the Surrey Morphology Group, alongside leading researchers on inflectional morphology.
Find more information here.
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Publications
Adeleye, M.A., Haberle, S.G., Ondei, S. et al. Ecosystem transformation following the mid-nineteenth century cessation of Aboriginal fire management in Cape Pillar, Tasmania. Reg Environ Change 22, 99 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-022-01954-8
Goodhew, S., Reynolds, K., Edwards, M., & Kidd, E. (2022). The content of gender stereotypes embedded in language use. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 41(2). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X21103393
Walsh, M., Reiter, S., Frieman, C., Kaul, F. and Frei, K. 2022. In the company of men: Potential alternative masculinities in the Nordic Bronze Age. In Life and afterlife in Nordic Bronze Age: Proceedings of the 15th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium held in Lund, Sweden, June 11-15, 2019. Pp. 159-182. https://www.dropbox.com/s/yc1e3fz5pgn3vul/Walsh%20et%20al%20In%20the%20Company%20of%20Men%20%5Bwith%20book%5D.pdf?dl=0
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