Conference: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities

[James Crippen]

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Date: 10-Dec-2010 - 11-Dec-2010
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Imogen Gunn
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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.