ECDI Update: June 2023 activities

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This is a monthly update about the Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative (ECDI) activities and upcoming events.

News

ECDI’s Sam Passmore was interviewed by ABC Radio Canberra about Grambank, language diversity and language endangerment. Listen now

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Outreach

SYNAPASE

Upcoming SYNAPSE Seminars:

  • Ancestral remains and pershonhood in the Southern Massim – Simon Coxe – Monday 10 July, 2pm AEST – register via Eventbrite
  • When ordinary processes lead to extraordinary outomes – Carmel O’Shannessy – Monday 31 July, 2pm AEST – register via Eventbrite
  • Tracking the Tombuk Eruption of Kuwae Vanuatu – Chris Ballard, Stuart Bedford, Sonke Stern, Shane Cronin, Sandrine Bessis and Alice Kaloran – Monday 28 August, 2pm AEST – register via Eventbrite

The seminar series will be held monthly in-person and via zoom. All available seminars for registration can be found on our Eventbrite collection.

Previously recorded seminars are available on our YouTube channel:

Please also share our upcoming seminars with your networks.

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Tok Pisin Lunches

Informal Tok Pisin lunch gatherings bring together anyone interested in the language or in Papua New Guinea. If you’re happy to forget about English for an hour and chat in Tok Pisin instead, just come along. Your proficiency level doesn’t matter. Just bring your coffee, or lunch, or just yourself! We catch up every Thursday at 12:30pm in the barbecue area to the left of Menzies Library.

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Field Recording and Safety Equipment Workshop

CHL and PARADISEC are running as two-part workshop, held over two days:
Part 1: 9:30–12:30 on Monday, 17 July 

Part 2: 9:30–12:30 on Tuesday, 18 July
Room (3.369), HC Coombs Building 9 Fellows Road Acton, ACT 2601
This workshop will give you holistic and hands-on training on the use of equipment available to borrow from CHL and the process for checking items out for use in the field. Practice using audio recorders, microphones and video cameras in simulated field work scenarios and learn how the equipment can be used together in different configurations. Discover the best audio and video recording settings and formats for your fieldwork objectives. 
Hear experienced field workers share anecdotes about what could go wrong with the equipment and how to find solutions or workarounds. Learn about data management and archiving suggestions, as well as best practices. More information and reserving a post here.

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Seminars, Workshops, Conferences

Sharing Shared Heritage Presentation
Dr Maaike Derksen will make an informal presentation on the Sharing Shared Heritage project, followed by discussion about preservation, digitisation and accessibility of colonial records. You are invited to attend and to bring your own stories, experiences and questions. With Maaike returning to the Netherlands soon, this is a great opportunity to speak with her about this important project, to learn from her experience, and to share your own knowledge and experience as well. This is an informal, on-campus only gathering, but please share with any ANU staff or students you think may be interested in joining us. 

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ANU Anthropology Seminar Series
Program for 2023 is now available. Seminars will be in person and via zoom unless stated otherwise.

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Linguistic Futures reading group
Once a month the linguistic futures reading group we will be reading papers which have an eye on the future of the language sciences with a special focus on comparative approaches to language. The group will be held on the first Wednesday of every month in the Engma room (3.165) in the Coombs Building from 11am to 12noon. All are invited to attend, research students are especially encouraged to come along. Any questions contact mae.carroll@anu.edu.au

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2023 LSA Institute – Linguistics as Cognitive Science: Universality and Variation
19 June-14 July 2023

The Institute will offer 88 courses, including introductory and advanced courses. The theme for this Institute is “Linguistics as Cognitive Science: Universality and Variation”. It will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from June 19 to July 14. It will be a great opportunity for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students to deepen their expertise, explore new topics, and interact with an amazing community of students and professors from many colleges and universities. You can find information about the 2023 Institute and the courses here.  

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Sixth Workshop on the Languages of Papua (WLP6)
17-19 July 2023, Sorong, Papua Barat Daya, Indonesia 
Papers to be presented will be on “Papuan” (ie. non-Austronesian) languages spoken in eastern Indonesia, the greater New Guinea region, and the Solomon Islands. Also papers concerned with the Austronesian languages spoken in the same areas, including the contact varieties of Malay, as well as Tok Pisin and Solomon Islands Pidgin. More information here.

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Publications 

Bundgaard-Nielsen, R. O’Shannessy, C., Wang, Y., Nelson, A., Bartlett, J. & Davis V. 2023. Two-part vowel modifications in Child Directed Speech in Warlpiri may enhance attention to speech and scaffold non acquisition. Phonetica. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2022-0039

Nicholas Evans & Alexandra Marley. 2023. The Gunwinyguan languages. In: Claire Bowern. Ed. The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-guide-to-australian-languages-9780198824978

Carmel O’Shannessy. 2023. Young peoples’s varieties. In: Claire Bowern. Ed. The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-guide-to-australian-languages-9780198824978

Gabriele Bammer, Chris A. Browne, Chris Ballard, Natalie Lloyd, Alison Kevan, Nicholas Neales, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Sean Perera, Isha Singhal and Lorrae van Kerkhoff. 2023. Setting parameters for developing undergraduate expertise in transdisciplinary problem solving at a university-wide scale: a case study. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01709-8

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