All who can make it to Canberra are welcome to attend our workshop next week.
Garbled voices from the archives: A workshop on restoring Aboriginal words and meanings in historical sources.
Date and time: 9am-4pm, 15-16 April 2014 Lunch provided (There is no obligation to attend all sessions)
Location: Room W3.03, Level 3, Baldessin Precinct Building (110), The Australian National University
How do we make sense of Aboriginal words recorded in early sources when the language cannot be identified? What if the language is known, but no speakers remain?
Our workshop seeks to bring together scholars who routinely work with old sources on Australia’s indigenous cultures, from Aboriginal people investigating their heritage, to linguists, archivists, anthropologists and historians. The standing challenge of working with historical documents is that individual scribes applied their own personal spelling conventions, and may not have heard the sounds accurately to begin with. As a result, many of the most important ethnographic, linguistic and historical materials are accessible only to specialist scholars who have knowledge of Aboriginal sound systems and long experience working with archival sources.
Over two days, the workshop will hear presentations from a range of practitioners who will describe informative case studies and offer practical interpretive techniques. Plenty of time is given for discussion between each session. Feel free to bring your own archival conundrums for analysis by the group.
No registration is required but please RSVP to Piers Kelly (Piers.Kelly @ anu.edu.au) for catering purposes.
More details here: http://slll.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/garbled-voices-archives-restoring-aboriginal-words-and-meanings-historical
A copy of the workshop program can be downloaded here.
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