Programme
Thursday 16 November | |||
| 9.00 | Opening Ceremony | 1. Vice Chancellors’ Welcomes: Prof. Glyn Davis AC FASSA, University of Melbourne Prof. Richard Larkins AO, Monash University |
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| 9.20 | 1st Session: Australian Languages | 1. Keynote Waymamba Gaykamangu and John Greatorex Yolngu Languages and Culture in University Teaching and Research |
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| 2. Keynote Joe Gumbula and Aaron Corn Following the Voices of Ancestors |
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| 3. Film Fragments of the Owl’s Egg, with an introduction and Q&A with the filmmaker, Kim McKenzie |
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| 4. Panel Alan Dench FAHA, Joe Gumbula and Aaron Corn Aboriginal Language Lyrics and Contemporary Popular Music | |||
| 5. Welcome to Country Joy Murphy Wandin, Wurundjeri Elder |
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| 1.00 | Lunch | ||
| 2.00 | 2nd Session: Translating & Interpreting | 1. Keynote Anthony Pym Agency and Technology in Translation Projects: Who Calls the Shots? |
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| 2. Paper Haami Piripi Humanising the Humanities with Cultural Capital |
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| 3. Paper Uldis Ozolins Community Interpeting |
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| 4. Paper Meredith Bartlett Sign Language Interpreting |
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| 5. Panel Mabel Lee FAHA, Rifaat Ebied FAHA and Pat Clancy Literary Translation | |||
| 5.30 | Book Launch | Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language by Keith Allan and Kate Burridge, 2006 Cambridge University Press, to be Launched by Jill Kitson Presenter of Lingua Franca on ABC Radio National. | |
| 6.30 | Public Forum | Speaker: |
Mary Kostakidis, Chief Newsreader, SBS World News Australia |
| Moderator: Panel: |
Joseph Lo Bianco FAHA Maria Vamvakinou MP Graeme Turner FAHA |
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Friday 17 November |
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| 9.00 | 3rd Session: English in the World and the World in English | 1. Keynote David Graddol Global English - The Next Stage |
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| 2. Keynote Edwin Thumboo Living With English: A Personal Account |
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| 3. Paper Pam Peters Prescription and English Usage |
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| 4. Paper Farzad Sharifian Glocalization of Cultural Conceptualisations in English |
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| 5. Paper Cynthia Allen FAHA Surviving the Contact: Middle English and Those Invasions |
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| 12.30 | Lunch | ||
| 2.00 | 4th Session: Multilingualism in a Stressed World | 1. Keynote Mary Louise Pratt Towards a Geo-Linguistic Imagination |
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| 2. Keynote Tim Mehigan FAHA Multiculturalism With Interest or ‘Is Life Too Short to Learn German? |
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| 3. Paper Michael Clyne FAHA Australia Between Multilingual Society and Monolingual Mindset |
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| 4.20 | Close and Thanks | Joseph Lo Bianco FAHA | |
| Displays | Photographs on Silk Road and Translations (Sam Lieu and Ken Parry) | ||
| Catering | Registration includes lunch as well as morning and afternoon tea. | ||