LINGUIST List 21.2715 Thu Jun 24 2010 Calls: Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics/UK Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Imogen Gunn, Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities Message 1: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities Date: 22-Jun-2010 From: Imogen Gunn <ilg22cam.ac.uk> Subject: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities Date: 10-Dec-2010 - 11-Dec-2010 Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom Contact Person: Imogen Gunn Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.oralliterature.org/research/workshops.html Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 30-Jul-2010 Meeting Description: This workshop explores key issues around the dissemination of oral literature through traditional and digital media. Funding agencies, including the World Oral Literature Project's own Supplemental Grants Programme, now encourage fieldworkers to return copies of their work to source communities, in addition to requiring researchers to deposit their collections in institutional repositories. But thanks to ever greater digital connectivity, wider internet access and affordable multimedia recording technologies, the locus of dissemination and engagement has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a diverse constituency of global users, such as migrant workers, indigenous scholars, policymakers and journalists, to name but a few. Professor John Miles Foley (W.H. Byler Chair in the Humanities; Curators Professor of Classical Studies and English; Director, Center for Studies in Oral Tradition; Director, Center for eResearch and Editor, Oral Tradition) from the University of Missouri has kindly agreed to be our keynote speaker and principal discussant. Call for Papers When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital archives holding linguistic and cultural content, their involvement raises interesting practical and ethical questions. We welcome proposals that address some of the following issues: - What kinds of political repercussions may result from studying marginalised languages or from working with the custodians of endangered oral traditions? - How can online tools help ensure responsible access to sensitive cultural materials? - Who should control decisions over how digitised heritage material is to be accessed, curated and understood? - How can researchers remain true to the fluidity of performance over time and avoid fossilisation in the creation of their digital documents? - When archives become primary sites for interaction and discussion rather than static repositories of heritage data, how do relationships between collections and their users change? Building on discussions around orality and textuality, we hope that participants will reflect on the politics of ownership of cultural recordings that are increasingly born digital or even birthed directly into an archive. We welcome ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians and our project's own grantees to exchange ideas at this second workshop. Submission Guidelines and Considerations: If you are interested in presenting at the workshop, please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biography, in Word, RTF or PDF format, to Imogen Gunn (ilg22cam.ac.uk) by Friday, 30 July 2010. Abstracts will be reviewed and assessed, with notification of acceptance by 31 August 2010. Accepted abstracts will be included in the conference programme which will be made available online. Abstracts and presentations should be in English. Individuals may submit no more than one proposal each. Registration fees will be waived for participants whose abstracts are accepted and who present at the workshop, and the costs of two lunches and one dinner will be covered by the organising committee. Please note that presenters are responsible for their own travel and accommodation fees. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 24-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.