BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Awakening Dreaming Beauties: Language Reclamation and Social Wellb
 eing  - Ghil‘ad Zuckermann\, University of Adelaide
DTSTART:20161114T171500Z
DTEND:20161114T190000Z
UID:TALK68282@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Dr Oliver Mayeux
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:*\nThis lecture will explain why language revival an
 d diversity are (1) right\, (2) beautiful\, and (3) beneficial. In our glo
 balized world\, more and more groups are losing their heritage. Language r
 eclamation (e.g. Hebrew\, Barngarla)\, revitalization (e.g. Te Reo Māori)
  and reinvigoration (e.g. Welsh) are becoming increasingly relevant as mor
 e and more people seek to reconnect with their ancestors\, recover their c
 ultural autonomy\, empower their spiritual and intellectual sovereignty\, 
 and improve their wellbeing and mental health. There is an urgent need to 
 offer comparative insights\, for example from the Hebrew revival\, which i
 s so far the most successful known linguistic reclamation. \n\nGiven capri
 cious governmental policies\, this lecture will propose compensation (for 
 linguistic activities) for peoples whose mother tongue was killed (due to 
 linguicide)\, making Indigenous tongues the official languages of their re
 gion\, and erecting multi-lingual official signs\, changing the lanGscape 
 (linguistic landscape). \n\nThe lecture will introduce Revivalistics\, a n
 ew trans-disciplinary field of enquiry\, and provide examples from all ove
 r the globe\, e.g. from the reclamation of the Barngarla Aboriginal langua
 ge in South Australia.\n\n*About the speaker:*\n"Professor Ghil‘ad Zucke
 rmann":http://www.facebook.com/ProfessorZuckermann (DPhil Oxford\; PhD Cam
 bridge\, incorporated\; MA Tel Aviv\, summa cum laude) is Chair of Linguis
 tics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide. He is the aut
 hor of the seminal bestseller Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful 
 Language\; Am Oved\, 2008)\, Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Is
 raeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2003)\, three chapters of the Israeli T
 ingo (Keren\, 2011)\, Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and
  Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People\, and thei
 r Arts Practices and Intellectual Property (2015) and the first online Dic
 tionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language (2016). He is the editor of B
 urning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (2012)\, Jewish Language Contact
  (2014)\, a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of
  Language\, and the co-editor of Endangered Words\, Signs of Revival (2014
 ). He is the founder of Revivalistics\, a new trans-disciplinary field of 
 enquiry surrounding language reclamation\, revitalization and reinvigorati
 on. He has launched\, with the Barngarla Aboriginal communities of Eyre Pe
 ninsula\, South Australia\, the reclamation of the Barngarla language. Pro
 fessor Zuckermann is elected member of the Australian Institute of Aborigi
 nal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and the Foundation for En
 dangered Languages (FEL). He is a chief investigator in a large research p
 roject assessing language revival and mental health\, funded by Australia'
 s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). He was President o
 f AustraLex in 2013-2015\, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fel
 low in 2007–2011\, and Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College C
 ambridge in 2000-2004. He has been Consultant and Expert Witness in (corpu
 s) lexicography and (forensic) linguistics\, in court cases all over the g
 lobe. He has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shanghai Internation
 al Studies University and taught at the University of Cambridge\, Universi
 ty of Queensland\, National University of Singapore\, Shanghai Jiao Tong U
 niversity\, East China Normal University\, Shanghai International Studies 
 University\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Ben-Gurion University of the
  Negev and Miami University. He has been Research Fellow at the Weizmann I
 nstitute of Science\; Tel Aviv University\; Rockefeller Foundation’s Stu
 dy and Conference Center\, Villa Serbelloni\, Bellagio\, Italy\; Harry Ran
 som Humanities Research Center\, University of Texas at Austin\; Israel In
 stitute for Advanced Studies\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\; Institute 
 for Advanced Study\, La Trobe University\; Institute of Linguistics\, Shan
 ghai International Studies University\; and Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo\, N
 ational Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics\, Tokyo. He has be
 en Denise Skinner Scholar at St Hugh's College Oxford\, Scatcherd European
  Scholar at the University of Oxford\, and scholar at the United World Col
 lege of the Adriatic (Italy). His MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)\, "Lan
 guage Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages":https://www.ed
 x.org/course/language-revival-securing-future-adelaidex-lang101x\, has so 
 far attracted 7\,000 students from 150 countries.\n\n*All welcome!*
LOCATION:Nightingale Room\, Peterhouse
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR