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Date: 22-Oct-2010
From: Imogen Gunn [ilg22 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities
 

	
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:13:30
From: Imogen Gunn [ilg22 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities

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Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities 

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

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

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. 

Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities:
World Oral Literature Project 2010 Workshop

Friday, 10 December

9:00 - 9:30            
Registration

9:30 - 9:45            
Welcome and Introduction

9:45 - 11:30          
Panel One

Cultural Bureaucracy and the Manufacture of Ifugao Oral Literature
Roger Blench, Kay Williamson Educational Foundation

New Approaches to Orality: The Ecuadorian Experience
Jorge Gomez Rendon, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Documenting the Epic Oral Narratives of Uyghur in Xinjiang Uyghur

Autonomous Region, China
Rahile Dawut, Xinjiang University

11:30 - 12:00        
Tea/Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:00        
Keynote Address
John Miles Foley, University of Missouri

13:00 - 14:00             
Lunch

14:00 - 15:45       
Panel Two

Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Reflections on Partnership
Daniela Merolla, Leiden University

The Performance of Traditional Poetry and Its Avatars Mediated by ICT: The Example of Berber
Abdellah Bounfour, Centre de Recherche Berbère

Kumabali Ye Horon Di' (The Person Who Doesn't Speak is Free): On the Social Construction of Copy Rights
Jan Jansen, Leiden University

15:45 - 16:15            
Tea/Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:30            
Panel Three

Recording Oral Tradition in American Indian Communities: Some Basic Considerations
Margaret Field, San Diego State University

Stòras a' Bhaile: Digital Archives and Community-based Language Renewal in the Cape Breton Gàidhealtachd
John Shaw & Tiber Falzett, University of Edinburgh

17:30 - 18:00            
General Discussion and Logistics

18:00 - 19:00            
CRASSH reception (open to all)

19:30 onward            
Dinner at St Catharine's College (registration open to all)

Saturday, 11 December

9:15 - 11:00            
Panel Four

Digital Archiving of Spoken Language: Changing Data Formats and Continuing Access Problems
Thomas Widlok, Radboud University Nijmegen

Archive Access and Accessibility: A Progress Report on Social Networking at Work
David Nathan, School of Oriental and African Studies

Multiple Audiences and Co-Curation: Linking an Ethnographic Archive to Contemporary Contexts
Judith Aston & Paul Matthews, University of West England

11:00 - 11:30            
Tea/Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:15            
Panel Five

The Traveling Archive Project
Moushumi Bhowmik & Sukanta Majumdar, Independent Researchers

Identity Politics, Cultural Heritage and Technology in Sacred 'Black  Hand' Valley, Central Altai
Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge

Disappearing Horchin Mongolian Narrative Songs
Uranchimeg Borjigin, University of Cambridge

13:15 - 14:15            
Lunch

14:15 - 15:30            
Panel Six

>From Shrine to Stage: the Challenges of Archiving Ritualistic Performances with Reference to the Tejaji Ballad of Rajasthan
Madan Meena, Freelance Researcher

Challenges of Fieldwork and Documentation: A Case Study of Mudugar- Kurumbar Research Centre, Attappady
Sachindev P.S., Mudugar-Kurumbar Research Centre

Tianzhu Mongghul: The Ha Clan
Sangjie Zhaxi, Charles University

15:30 - 16:00           
Tea/Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:15            
Panel Seven

Recording Verbal Art Performances with Handheld Equipment: the Preparatory Phase in Africa
Henri Aalders, Voices of Africa Media Foundation

Patronage, Commodification and the Dissemination of Performance Art: The Shared Benefits of Web Archiving
Elizabeth Wickett, Independent Researcher

17:15 - 18:00            
Summation and Good-byes

18:00 - 19:00            
CRASSH reception (open to all)





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