Language Publication
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Published by the Potter Museum of Art following the event Language: Interdisciplinary Public Forum, held at the Old Quad on 19 October 2019. Edited by Dr Kyla McFarlane, Senior Academic Programs Curator, Museums & Collections
Our second forum engaged with the theme of language in the UNESCO Year of Indigenous Languages. Presentations from Arrernte cultural leaders and experts in Indigenous sign languages, computing and information systems, language and linguistics, bioscience and more were joined by artists’ commissions.
Publication contributors: artist and writer Fayen d’Evie; Richard Frankland, Associate Professor of Cross Disciplinary Practice in the School of Theatre, Film and Television, University of Melbourne; Dr Jennifer Green, postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne; John Hajek, Professor of Italian and Director of RUMACCC (Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-cultural Communication), University of Melbourne; dancer and choreographer Benjamin Hancock; Dr Jey Han Lau, Lecturer in Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne; Alison Lewis, Professor in the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne; Amelia Kngwarraye Turner, cultural leader, prolific public speaker, angangkere (traditional healer) and artist; Shirley Kngwarraye Turner, Arrernte educator and poet; artist Sam Petersen; and Beth Sometimes, Pākehā artist, interpreter/translator and language worker from Aotearoa, based in Arrernte Country.