21.2715, Calls: Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics/UK

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Subject: 21.2715, Calls: Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics/UK

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Date: 22-Jun-2010
From: Imogen Gunn < ilg22 at cam.ac.uk >
Subject: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities
 

	
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:39:17
From: Imogen Gunn [ilg22 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities

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Full Title: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities 

Date: 10-Dec-2010 - 11-Dec-2010
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Imogen Gunn
Meeting Email: ilg22 at cam.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.oralliterature.org/research/workshops.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jul-2010 

Meeting Description:

This workshop explores key issues around the dissemination of oral literature 
through traditional and digital media. Funding agencies, including the World 
Oral Literature Project's own Supplemental Grants Programme, now 
encourage fieldworkers to return copies of their work to source communities, 
in addition to requiring researchers to deposit their collections in institutional 
repositories. But thanks to ever greater digital connectivity, wider internet 
access and affordable multimedia recording technologies, the locus of 
dissemination and engagement has grown beyond that of researcher and 
research subject to include a diverse constituency of global users, such as 
migrant workers, indigenous scholars, policymakers and journalists, to name 
but a few.

Professor John Miles Foley (W.H. Byler Chair in the Humanities; Curators 
Professor of Classical Studies and English; Director, Center for Studies in 
Oral Tradition; Director, Center for eResearch and Editor, Oral Tradition) from 
the University of Missouri has kindly agreed to be our keynote speaker and 
principal discussant. 

Call for Papers

When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings 
and digital archives holding linguistic and cultural content, their involvement 
raises interesting practical and ethical questions. We welcome proposals that 
address some of the following issues:

- What kinds of political repercussions may result from studying marginalised 
languages or from working with the custodians of endangered oral traditions? 
- How can online tools help ensure responsible access to sensitive cultural 
materials? 
- Who should control decisions over how digitised heritage material is to be 
accessed, curated and understood? 
- How can researchers remain true to the fluidity of performance over time 
and avoid fossilisation in the creation of their digital documents? 
- When archives become primary sites for interaction and discussion rather 
than static repositories of heritage data, how do relationships between 
collections and their users change? 

Building on discussions around orality and textuality, we hope that 
participants will reflect on the politics of ownership of cultural recordings that 
are increasingly born digital or even birthed directly into an archive. We 
welcome ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, 
archivists, librarians and our project's own grantees to exchange ideas at this 
second workshop.

Submission Guidelines and Considerations:

If you are interested in presenting at the workshop, please submit an abstract 
of no more than 300 words and a short biography, in Word, RTF or PDF 
format, to Imogen Gunn (ilg22 at cam.ac.uk) by Friday, 30 July 2010. 
Abstracts will be reviewed and assessed, with notification of acceptance by 
31 August 2010.

Accepted abstracts will be included in the conference programme which will 
be made available online. Abstracts and presentations should be in English. 
Individuals may submit no more than one proposal each. Registration fees 
will be waived for participants whose abstracts are accepted and who present 
at the workshop, and the costs of two lunches and one dinner will be covered 
by the organising committee. Please note that presenters are responsible for 
their own travel and accommodation fees.




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