Research, records and responsibility (RRR): Ten years of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)

Dates: 2nd-3rd December 2013

Venue: Old Arts, Lecture Theatre C, University of Melbourne. (see map)

A PARADISEC conference

Highlights

Keynote Speaker

Shubha Chaudhuri
Associate Director General (Academic)
Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology
American Institute of Indian Studies
Gurgaon, India

Conference details

We will not be arranging accommodation, but see Medley Hall, and also see the list of accommodation options here.

The conference program is now available here: http://paradisec.org.au/RRRProgram.html.

Registration is closed

CALL FOR PAPERS

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• community-driven archive projects and how they might change the way archives operate;
• dialogic fieldwork, how archival materials might influence the way researchers do fieldwork;
• the reanimation of archival materials - communities breathing life into historical recordings;
• the use of archived ethnographic material for:
  • linguistic analysis
  • other scholarly research
  • building corpora from archival materials
  • unexpected uses of archived linguistic or musicological records
• benefits of textual corpora with linked media
• collections as scholarly outputs – criteria for assessment
• sharing data and metadata across archives nationally and internationally
• locating, describing and digitising analog collections, what remains to be done?

Paper abstracts due 31 May 2013, notification by 15 July 10 August 2013. Full papers will be submitted for a peer-reviewed volume hosted in an open-access online repository at Sydney University.

Paper proposals should be submitted via the Easy Chair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paradisec2013rrr

This conference will run in association with the workshop on Tools and Methods in Language Documentation.

Supported by the School of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics and the ARC-funded project Doing great things with small languages at the University of Melbourne

The Advisory Committee is:

Kevin Bradley (National Library of Australia),

Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley, California Language Archive),

Gary Holton (Alaska Native Language Center),

Nicole Kruspe (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage, Lund),

Susan Kung (Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America)

Åshild Naess (Newcastle University),

Paul Trilsbeek (MPI Nijmegen, DELAMAN),

Jane Simpson (Australian National University).

The Organising Committee is:

Linda Barwick (University of Sydney),

Amanda Harris (University of Sydney),

Simon Musgrave (Monash University),

Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne).