[RNLD] Linguistics in the Pub Wednesday June 13th: Approaches to language revitalisation research NOTE VENUE

[Andrew Tanner]

Hello everybody,

Just further to Ruth's email about Linguistics in the Pub in Melbourne next
week (see below): for those who are interested, Chapter 2 of "Decolonising
Linguistic Practice" can be accessed here
<http://www.rnld.org/sites/default/files/Stebbins%20et%20al%20%282017%29%20Chapter%202%20Decolonising%20linguistic%20practices.pdf>
.

See you there!

Andrew Tanner
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On 28 May 2018 at 09:38, Ruth Singer <ruth.singer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This month we are lucky to have all three authors of the new book '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.
>
> 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 (http://www.rnld.org/MLIP).
>
> ******Please note change of venue as Naughton's is closed for three
> months******
>
> *Approaches to language revitalisation research*
>
> *Discussion led by*: Vicki Couzens and Kris Travers Eira (both from
> Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages), Tonya Stebbins (La Trobe
> University)
>
> 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.
>
> *Date*:      Wednesday 13th June 2018
>
> *Time*:       6:00 - 8:00 pm
>
> *Venue*:    Sun Ra room
>
>               *Longplay bar  NOTE NEW VENUE*
>
> *Address: *318 St Georges Road North Fitzroy 3068 <info at longplay.net.au>
>
>                 *http://www.longplay.net.au/
> <http://www.longplay.net.au/> *
>
> LIP is an occasional gathering of language activists and linguists 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).
>
> --
> Dr Ruth Singer
> Research Fellow, Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity Project
>
> College of Asia and the Pacific
>
> The Australian National University
>
>
> http://chl.anu.edu.au/our-people/details/ruth-singer
> http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621
> https://anu-au.academia.edu/RuthSinger
>
> Wellsprings project: http://chl.anu.edu.au/research
> /research-projects/details/484
> Research Unit for Indigenous Language (RUIL): http://indiglang.arts.
> unimelb.edu.au/
> ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL):
> http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/
>
>
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