[RNLD] Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages - Launch

[Susan Ford]

Launch of the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages  by Professor Michael Christie, Charles Darwin University


The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages (www.cdu.edu.au/laal) will be launched at ANU in Canberra on March 6th 2014. The archive, which is funded by the Australian Research Council, contains thousands of books in Australian Aboriginal languages produced in the Northern Territory during the era of bilingual education and now digitised with permission for public access. The archive has been devised to be of use both to the remote Aboriginal communities of origin in the intergenerational transmission of traditional knowledge, and to the international research community interested in working collaboratively with Aboriginal languages, texts, and their owners. The archive contains books in over 25 Indigenous languages from 20 different communities, and includes traditional stories, language instruction, histories, songs, experience stories, ethno-scientific texts and others. A Stage 2 of the archive project has been funded to radically extend the range of texts, and to engage language owners, educators, and researchers in exploring, enriching and engaging the archive.

The Archive will be introduced with a talk entitled ‘Aboriginal languages, literatures and technologies in the Northern Territory since the 1970s’. Prof Michael Christie from Charles Darwin University will reflect upon over 40 years involvement with bilingual education, linguistics and literature production in the NT, and the ways in which Aboriginal philosophies and pedagogies have influenced the production and use of literature over the years. 

Go to http://chl.anu.edu.au/languages/alw2014.php where registration (catering purposes only) will be available next week.

 




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