<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>This month we are lucky to have all three authors of the new book '<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Living Languages and New Approaches to Language Revitalisation Research' coming to talk with us. So we can continue the fruitful discussion about collaboration between linguists and Australian Indigenous communities from last month's LIP.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Their book is the outcome of many years of research on language revitalisation in Australian Indigenous communities. A pdf of Chapter 2 of the book 'Decolonising Linguistic Practice' will be made available on the RNLD website closer to the event <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">(<a href="http://www.rnld.org/MLIP" target="_blank">http://www.rnld.org/MLIP</a>)</span>. </div><div><br></div><div>******Please note change of venue as Naughton's is closed for three months******</div><div><br><b>Approaches to language revitalisation research</b><br><br><i>Discussion led by</i>: Vicki Couzens and <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Kris Travers Eira </span>(both from Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages), Tonya Stebbins (La Trobe University)<br><br>Language revitalisation involves drawing knowledge and culture from the ancient past and re-creating something new for the future of Aboriginal people. The Meeting Point Project, co-hosted by the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages and La Trobe University, advocates for a new model of describing the practices of language revitalization, and decolonizing the research methods used to study them, as described in the book Living Languages and New Approaches to Language Revitalisation Research. The model is supported by understanding revival languages as emergent and ever-transforming and by taking a holistic approach to their description that reflects Aboriginal language practitioners’ understandings of the nature of language. Committing to these perspectives requires conceptual tools that can support efforts to develop deeply collaborative research, highlight the diversity of language revitalisation practice and map between the realms of old and new, local and global, and the social, cultural, and textual dimensions of language.<div><br></div><div><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong>Date</strong>:      Wednesday 13th June 2018</p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong>Time</strong>:       6:00 - 8:00 pm</p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong>Venue</strong>:    Sun Ra room</p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">              <strong>Longplay bar  NOTE NEW VENUE</strong></p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong style="font-size:12.16px">Address: </strong><a href="mailto:info@longplay.net.au" style="background-color:rgb(243,238,223);font-family:FrutigerLTW01-45Light,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:0px" target="_blank">318 St Georges Road North Fitzroy 3068</a><strong><br></strong></p><p style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.16px">                </span></font><font color="#336699" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.16px"><b><a href="http://www.longplay.net.au/" target="_blank">http://www.longplay.net.au/</a> </b></span></font></p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">LIP is an occasional gathering of language activists and <span class="m_-1410476245842143098gmail-il">linguists</span> in Melbourne and is coordinated by the MLIP committee: Ruth Singer, Rosey Billington, Jill Vaughan (Melbourne Uni), Lauren Gawne, Mijke Mulder (LaTrobe Uni), Jonathan Schlossberg (Monash Uni) and Andrew Tanner (RNLD).</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-1410476245842143098gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Dr Ruth Singer</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Research Fellow, </font><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity Project</span></div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">College of Asia and the Pacific</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">The Australian National University</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><br></p></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://chl.anu.edu.au/our-people/details/ruth-singer" target="_blank">http://chl.anu.edu.au/our-<wbr>people/details/ruth-singer</a> </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621" target="_blank">http://www.findanexpert.<wbr>unimelb.edu.au/display/<wbr>person2621</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><a href="https://anu-au.academia.edu/RuthSinger" target="_blank">https://anu-au.academia.edu/<wbr>RuthSinger</a></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Wellsprings project: <a href="http://chl.anu.edu.au/research/research-projects/details/484" target="_blank">http://chl.anu.edu.au/<wbr>research/research-projects/<wbr>details/484</a><br>Research Unit for Indigenous Language (RUIL): <a href="http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/" target="_blank">http://indiglang.arts.<wbr>unimelb.edu.au/</a></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL)</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">: <a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/</a> </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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