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Language: Interdisciplinary Forum

When

18 Oct 2019

This event has now ended.

Location

Old Quad (Building 150)
The University of Melbourne, Parkville

Admission

Free

Held to mark the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages, our second forum featured artists, performers and researchers from a range of disciplines exploring language in its many forms. Throughout the day, speakers shared insights into non-verbal and non-human forms of communication; Indigenous languages; and the relationship between LANGUAGE and power.

Speaker included Beth Sometimes, Amelia Turner and Shirley Turner who introduced audiences to Apmere angkentye-kenhe (a place for language) in Mparntwe/Alice Springs; Professor Alison Lewis who looked back on the Stasi and the secret language of power, and Professor Mark Elgar, who delved into the question of whether animals have language.

The forum also featured What might be obvious to me may not be obvious to others, a performance lecture by artist Sam Petersen and a newly commissioned performance of Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock’s Essays in vibrational poetics {~~} … , … ; … 2019.

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Language Publication

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

Speakers

Harley Dunolly-Lee | proud Dja Dja Wurrung person and speaker; community linguist at the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.

Associate Professor Richard Frankland | Associate Professor Cross-Disciplinary Practice, School of Theatre & School of Film & Television, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne

Amelia Kngwarraye Turner | Arrernte cultural leader, angangkere (traditional healer) and artist

Shirley Kngwarraye Turner | educator, cultural worker and poet

Dr Jennifer Green | DECRA Research Fellow in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne

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