[RNLD List] UniMelb Pacific Seminar, Alpheaus Zobule, Developing a vernacular language materials in Solomon Islands

[Debra McDougall]

Dear RNLD colleagues,

I wanted to share an invitation to a Pacific Interest Group Seminar at the University of Melbourne. Dr Alpheaus Graham Zobule, a PhD scholar in the Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative at ANU, discuss his work in developing monolingual linguistic materials in (lga) Luqa language for speakers of Luqa in Solomon Islands.

When: Friday, 7 October 2022 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm.

Where: Babel, room 407 (on your right as you exit the lift) or remotely (email debra.mcdougall at unimelb.edu.au<mailto:debra.mcdougall at unimelb.edu.au> for a Zoom link)

Alpheaus Graham Zobule is founder and Executive Director of Kulu Language Institute (Solomon Islands), and founder and formerly Executive Director of (now Advisor to) Islands Bible Ministries (Solomon Islands). For more than 20 years, he has been writing course modules and training nationals in the Solomon Islands in English Grammar, Writing Skills, Bible, Biblical languages (Hebrew, Greek), Translation and Luqa Language. He has worked as a translation consultant for projects in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, and now a primary translation consultant to seven (7) translation projects in the Solomon Islands. A native of Luqa in the Solomon Islands, he has invented a Luqa metalanguage to describe the grammar of Luqa language in Luqa and has established a vibrant community language movement in the Kubokota and Luqa areas of Ranonga Island in the Solomon Islands. Now working on a second PhD (in linguistics) to document the vernacular metalanguage. His PhD project, titled Developing and documenting a system for using the Luqa vernacular as its own grammatical metalanguage, and its use by Luqa speakers to study and analyze their own language in the Solomon Islands, is supervised by Prof Nick Evans.

All best
Debra

Dr. Debra McDougall
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
School of Social and Political Sciences | Faculty of Arts
Room E464, John Medley (Building 191)
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
P: 03 834 45648; E: debra.mcdougall at unimelb.edu.au

President Emerita, Australian Anthropological Society https://www.aas.asn.au/

Recent publications:
 R. Emerine Hicks, D. McDougall, and D. Oakeshott, 2021, The Promise of Education: Schooling Journeys in the Southwestern Pacific<https://t.co/tS8yohXiX4>, The Contemporary Pacific<https://t.co/4XXhMjp0BG> 33 (2)
 D. McDougall and A. G. Zobule, 2021, All Read Well: Schooling on Solid Ground in a Solomon Islands Language Movement’<https://t.co/B4UMSGcBSL>, The Contemporary Pacific<https://t.co/4XXhMjp0BG> 33 (2)
 D. McDougall, 2021, Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age. In Decay<https://www.dukeupress.edu/decay>, ed. G. Hage (Duke)
 N Bainton, D McDougall, K Alexeyeff, J Cox, eds, Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific<https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/pacific/unequal-lives>, ed. (ANU Press)
 D McDougall, 2020, Beyond Rupture: Christian Culture in the Pacific<https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12364> The Australian Journal of Anthropology

 I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people who are traditional owners of the unceded land in Melbourne on which I work and live. I pay my respect to their elders, past and present.


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