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- View the interview with anthropologist and LCRC Adjunct Research Fellow Mario Arrien in the television program Sociedad Abierta [Open Society], presented by the journalist Enrique Fernández. The topic of the program was the concept of ‘Culture’.
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- Interview with Luca Ciucci (LCRC), José Chuvé, Brittany Hausen, Andrey Nikulin and Claudia Vaca, organizers of the conference Bobikíxh - I Encuentro de lenguas originarias de la región chiquitana [First meeting on the languages of the Chiquitania region] in the program Voces Indígenas Urbanas, Radio Santa Cruz 92.2. November 14, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/501027686592949/videos/850250069078495
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- Further information from Péter Maitz about the Unserdeutch Project and reference to the website at https://www.germanistik.unibe.ch/research/projects/unserdeutsch_rabaul_creole_german/index_eng.html
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- INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN DAY, 11 December 2020 - From Pema Wangdi (Linguistics PhD candidate at JCU, Language and Culture Research Centre) - who tells us more about growing up in a country with some of the tallest mountains in the world, how people used to find love and why prayer flags matter during . See this article "Bhutan: Preserving the languages of the mountains" written by Bianca de Loryn, College of Arts, Society and Education, JCU: https://www.jcu.edu.au/this-is-uni/people-and-societies/articles/mountains-of-bhutan
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- Women in Research - More than 300 women in academia registered for the Resilience in Research webinar in the "Women in Research 'Small Wins' series," and 100+ women joined live! ARC Laureate Fellow, Distinguished Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald participated with others in the panel, sharing their practical tips on resilience. See more about the webinar here.
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- Luca Ciucci - In Memoriam Gabriella Erica Pia (access here)
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- Helping the Aussie Hmong language survive: Professors Alexandra Aikhenvald, Professor RMW Dixon from JCU, and Associate Professor Nerida Jarkey from the University of Sydney have received nearly $500,000 in Australian Research Council Linkage funding to study how the language and culture of the Hmong people can better survive in Australia – several decades after the ethnic group came here as refugees following the Vietnam war (JCU media Release Friday 20 Oct 2020) (see more about the project here)
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- From Sasha Aikhenvald and Simon Foale - a link to a fascinating film "Guardianes de la Lengua", also a note from the Pacific Librarian at ANU, Tom Foley
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- Access a recording (and presentation material) of a plenary presentation by Distinguished Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald at Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Health and Well-being in Asia & the Pacific (25-27 November 2020) The languages of well-being: A view from the Pacific
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- Luca Ciucci interview by Voces Indígenas Urbanas on Radio Santa Cruz 92.2 about the online conference we are organizing (Bobikíxh - I Encuentro de lenguas originarias de la región chiquitana).
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- Homage to Lucy Seki from Sasha Aikhenvald Please access the YouTube link https://youtu.be/zuI9R1nfOdY - A short video, Homage to Lucy Seki, a great Brazilian linguist, from Sasha Aikhenvald Find out more about JCU: https://www.jcu.edu.au/
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- ‘There are no words’: As coronavirus kills Indigenous elders, endangered languages face extinction. An article by Terrence McCoy and Heloísa Traiano in the Washington Post Oct.7 2020
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- From Péter Maitz - News on Unserdeustch in Frankfurter Allgemeine, one of the major newspapers in Germany (September 2020)
- On-line Conference in La Paz with Dr Luca Ciucci (16:40 to 17:20 Bolivian hour 9-25-20) (06:40 to 07:20 Australia hour 9-26-20) "Seminario fonéticos-fonológicos y morfosintácticos de las lenguas originarias" SEE DETAILS AND YOUTUBE LINK HERE
- Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Pacific (TILP) series is a supplement to Language and Linguistics in Melanesia. CALL FOR PROPOSALS (See details here)
- Congratulations to Dr Junwei Bai (Abe) for being awarded the Medal for Excellence for his outstanding PhD thesis awarded a ‘cum laude’
- From Felix Ameka - "You are invited to join me for a lecture in the Abralin Linguists Online series on July 7, 2020 at 10 am BRT ( = -3 UTC), that is 13 hours GMT; 15 hours CET."
- Zoom meeting and talk by Prof Alexandra (Sasha) Aikhenvald: ‘The grammar of well-being: how to talk about health and illness in tropical societies’ ou A gramática do bem-estar: o discurso de saude e doença nas sociedades tropicais’ - Friday, May 22 at 8PM (BRT: Brazil Time; UTC -3), Saturday 9 am Cairns time (Australia)
- Robert Bradshaw's Book Review of "A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea by Hannah S. Sarvasy" (access the download from here)
- SBS radio interview with Nathan White (LCRC) on Hmong grammar book and medical corpus (24/11/19)
- A message from Prof Craig Volker inviting reviews of recently published books for Language & Linguistics in Melanesia
- Firew Worku farewell lunch - photos
- Junwei Bai (Abe) farewell lunch - photos
- Photos from Santa Cruz de la Sierra and San Javierto (courtesy of Luca Ciucci)
- Chris Holz Piano recital
- News from Luca Ciucci, from Bolivia
- JCU Cultural Diversity
- Visitors to LCRC 2019
- LCRC 2019 Bulletin
- ALS August 2019 Newsletter
- Luca Ciucci makes Headlines "Da Livorno all’Australia «Come Indiana Jones scopro le lingue più antiche del mondo» "(Francesca Suggi: Il Tirreno 5 August 2019 viii)
- Luca Ciucci television interview May 2019
- Townsville Bulletin review of Prof Bob Dixon's 'Australia's original languages'
- PhD Scholarship opportunities for 2019 academic year
- Murui oral literature collection project
- Dr Katarzyna Wojtylak awarded PhD