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Gift of the Gab: Australia and Languages

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Symposium 2006

16-17 November 2006 in Melbourne, University of Melbourne Law School (University Square, 185 Pelham Street).

The Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities returned to the vital theme of languages after 16 years. Entitled Gift of the Gab, the 2006 Symposium had a very rich international and Australian group of speakers and was accompanied by a cultural program and a public forum.

The Symposium was broadly divided into four key themes: Australian languages and issues of contemporary space and expression for Indigenous experience in our society; Translation and Interpreting, understood in a broad and expansive sense; English in the World and the World in English; and Multilingualism in a Stressed World.

An A3 sized poster of the event is available for download, suitable for emailing (.PDF, 163KB).

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
9.20 1st Session: Australian Languages 1. Keynote
Waymamba Gaykamangu and John Greatorex
Yolngu Languages and Culture in University Teaching and Research
2. Keynote
Joe Gumbula and Aaron Corn
Following the Voices of Ancestors
3. Film
Fragments of the Owl’s Egg, with an introduction and Q&A with the filmmaker, Kim McKenzie
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
1.00 Lunch
2.00 2nd Session: Translating & Interpreting 1. Keynote
Anthony Pym
Agency and Technology in Translation Projects: Who Calls the Shots?
2. Paper
Haami Piripi
Humanising the Humanities with Cultural Capital
3. Paper
Uldis Ozolins
Community Interpeting
4. Paper
Meredith Bartlett
Sign Language Interpreting
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

Friday 17 November

9.00 3rd Session: English in the World and the World in English 1. Keynote
David Graddol
Global English - The Next Stage
2. Keynote
Edwin Thumboo
Living With English: A Personal Account
3. Paper
Pam Peters
Prescription and English Usage
4. Paper
Farzad Sharifian
Glocalization of Cultural Conceptualisations in English
5. Paper
Cynthia Allen FAHA
Surviving the Contact: Middle English and Those Invasions
12.30 Lunch
2.00 4th Session: Multilingualism in a Stressed World 1. Keynote
Mary Louise Pratt
Towards a Geo-Linguistic Imagination
2. Keynote
Tim Mehigan FAHA
Multiculturalism With Interest or ‘Is Life Too Short to Learn German?
3. Paper
Michael Clyne FAHA
Australia Between Multilingual Society and Monolingual Mindset
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.

Further information For more information contact:
The Australian Academy of the Humanities
Phone: (02) 61259860
Email: enquiries (at) humanities.org.au
Register Online

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