ECDI Update: July 2024 activities

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

News

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Outreach

SYNAPSE

Upcoming SYNAPSE Seminars:

  • 19 Sep – Adults, children and how languages diversify – register via Eventbrite
  • 3 Oct – Pathways (in)to Australia – 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. Latest addition:

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Weekly Walk-in Coding and Statistics Clinic

Are you stuck with a coding problem, confused about a statistical procedure, or just want to talk through some technical aspects of your research? The Model Behaviour quantitative working group is opening a dedicated space where you can get one-on-one support for coding and statistical problems and help you through the technical aspects of your research, with a focus on research in CHL and CASS. 

We are here to help with:

  • Coding problems, with a particular focus on R & Python, such as:
  • How to organise and structure your scripts
  • How to wrangle data into a required format
  • Statistical design, analysis, and interpretation. 
  • How to plan your statistical analysis
  • How to interpret the summary of a multi-level or linear regression model
  • Visualisation of data and results 
  • Other common coding-related tools like Git and Github, LaTeX, bash 

Sessions are held in the Engma Room 3.165, H C Coombs Building, on Thursdays between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. 

Help is offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

No formal registration is required, but we encourage you to send us a note in advance if you are planning to come to ensure we have enough time to see everyone. 

For more details contact samuel.passmore@anu.edu.au (CHL), anton.malko@anu.edu.au(CASS), or wolfgang.barth@anu.edu.au (CASS)   

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Funding opportunities

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP)

The ELDP provides grants for the documentation of endangered languages globally. ELDP especially welcomes applications from documenters from language communities, local scholars and students from the country where the language is spoken/signed, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. There are no restrictions on nationality or host institution, language documenters of any nationality to undertake projects in any part of the world with our funding. 

Grant types on offer:
– Small Grants (SG): up to 10,000 Euros for up to 12 months
– Individual Graduate Scholarships (IGS): support for PhD students for up to 36 months, including a stipend for living expenses (no salary and no tuition) and fieldwork expenses
– Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships (IPF): support for early career scholars for up to 24 months, including salary and fieldwork expenses, up to 250,000 Euros
– Major Documentation Projects (MDP): any project over 10,000 Euros, lasting up to 36 months, for a maximum of 300,000 Euros 
– Legacy Materials Grants (LMG): up to 10,000 Euros to support the digitization and archiving of existing analogue language recordings is at risk of loss or damage

Application form must be submitted by 1st October and support statements must be submitted online by 15th October.

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Seminars, Workshops, Conferences

Centre of Archaeological Research Seminar, 26 July 2024
The domestication of vegetatively propagated field crops: Theory, method and practice, being given by Prof Tim Denham on Friday 26 July at 3.30pm in Room 3.03/04 in the Sir Roland Wilson Building.

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Language Documentation and Archiving 2024 (LD&A 2024)
4-6 Sept 2024, Berlin and Online
ELAR (the Endangered Languages Archive) and PARADISEC (the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) are excited to announce the second Language Documentation and Archiving conference with the theme “Recent Advances in Language Documentation and Archiving”, which will take place in Berlin and online from 4-6 September 2024. The deadline to submit abstracts is 1 April, 2024. More information here

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IMMERSIA, CHL ANU
9-23 Sept 2024
ECDI’s September SYNAPSE seminar will be part of the CHL IMMERSIA event in September. For more information about the event, see here: https://immersia.anu.edu.au/

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COOL13, ANU
23-27 June 2025

13th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (COOL13) at ANU in Canberra, 23-27 June 2025. Le 13e colloque de linguistique océanienne aura lieu à l’Australian National University à Canberra, du 23 au 27 juin 2025. Call for papers deadline: 30 October 2024. La date limite de soumission des résumés est le 30 octobre 2024. For more details see / Pour plus de détails voir: https://sites.google.com/view/cool-13/

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Opportunities

Research Assistants, ANU

Seeking expressions of interest for casual research assistant(s) to work on the project “Voices of Regional Australia”, an ARC Discovery Project being conducted by Catherine Travis, Ksenia Gnevsheva and Gerry Docherty, 2023-2026.  

This project examines English as spoken in regional Australia, addressing a significant gap in research on Australian English that to date has been largely focused on major urban centres. The project has at its heart the compilation of a large-scale corpus of spontaneous speech from regional Australians, combining existing oral history recordings with new interviews made for this project, all centred around the topic of bushfires.  We are currently looking for RAs in particular to assist with transcription, but other tasks may arise in the future, including in areas related to analysis and research dissemination.

The expected time commitment is up to 10 hours a week (for a time period from 6 months to 2 years), at grade ANU Officer Level 5.1, contingent on the applicant’s training and experience. ANU linguistics students will be given priority, but all applications will be considered.

Please note, the successful candidate must have rights to live and work in Australia and may be required to undergo a background check during the recruitment process. An offer of employment is conditional on satisfactory results.  

In order to apply for this role please email your CV and a cover letter with the names of at least two referees to Ksenia.Gnevsheva@anu.edu.au by 29 July 2024. 

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Are you interested in participating in a Distorted Speech Experiment?

Looking for participants for a Distorted Speech experiment to learn more about how people understand distorted (unclear) speech. This experiment will take around 10 minutes,and you will be asked to listen to 5 short audio files (between 1-3 seconds in length) and to write down what you hear. We will also ask you some questions about your background and experience in this experiment. We will not ask you for any personally identifying information. If you are keen to participate, please click on the link to go to our online experiment. (If the link does not work, please go to https://q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_0qAKxuNv8ZyhvH8 

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Publications

Katrantsiotis, C., Haberle, S., Ekblom, A., Smittenberg, R., Risberg, J., Rule, S., Clark, G., Anderson, A., Prendergast, A., Carmens, A., Radimilahy, A., Rakotozafy, L., Ramilisonina, & Norstrom, E. 2024. Late Quaternary hydroclimate variability in Madagascar and its connection to atmospheric circulation patterns. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatolgy, Palaeoecology. 649: 112336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112336  

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