9.00 - 9.30

Registration

9.30 - 9.45

Welcome and Introduction
Mark Turin

9.45 -11.30

Panel One: Archives and Access

Thomas Widlok (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Digital Archiving of Spoken Language: Changing Data Formats and Continuing Access Problems

David Nathan (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Archive Access and Accessibility: A Progress Report on Social Networking at Work

Judith Aston and Paul Matthews (University of West England)
Multiple Audiences and Co-Curation: Linking an Ethnographic Archive to Contemporary Contexts    

Chair: Mark Turin

11.30 - 12.00

Tea/coffee break

12.00 - 13.00

Keynote Address

John Miles Foley (University of Missouri)
Oral  Tradition and the Internet

Introduction: Alan Macfarlane (University of Cambridge)

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 15.15

Panel Two: African Oral Genres

Daniela Merolla (Leiden University)
Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Reflections on Partnership 

Jan Jansen (Leiden University)
Kumabali Ye Horon Di' (The Person Who Doesn't Speak is Free): On the Social Construction of Copy Rights      

Chair:  Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Fund)

15.15- 15.45

Tea/coffee Break

15.45 - 17.00

Panel Three: Revitalisation and Renewal

Margaret Field (San Diego State University)
Recording Oral Tradition in American Indian Communities: Some Basic Considerations

John Shaw  and Tiber Falzett (University of Edinburgh)  
Stòras a’ Bhaile: digital archives and community-based language renewal in the Cape Breton Gàidhealtachd

Chair: Peter Austin (SOAS)

17.00 - 17.30

General discussion and Logistics

Chair: Mark Turin

17.30 - 19.00

Reception at CRASSH (open to all)

19.30

Dinner at St Catharine's College (for those who have pre-booked)

9.15 -11.00

Panel Four: The State and the Politics of Ownership

Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation)
Cultural Bureaucracy and the Manufacture of Ifugao Oral Literature

Jorge Gomez Rendon (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
New Approaches to Orality: The Ecuadorian Experience

Rahile Dawut (Xinjiang University)
Documenting the Epic Oral Narratives of Uyghur in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China    

Chair: Stephen Hugh-Jones (University of Cambridge)

11.00 - 11.30

Tea/coffee Break

11.30 - 12.45

Panel Five: Collaborations and Partnerships

K Inyani Simala (Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology)
Archiving Nganyi Weatherlore and Connecting with Modern Science of Rain Prediction: Challenges and Prospects 

Disappearing Horchin Mongolian Narrative Songs

Chair: Anita Herle (University of Cambridge)

13.00 - 13.45

Lunch 

13.45 - 15.00

Panel Six: World Oral Literature Project Grantees

Madan Meena (Freelance Researcher)
From Shrine to Stage: the challenges of archiving ritualistic performances with reference to the Tejaji Ballad of Rajasthan

Sachindev P.S. (Mudugar-Kurumbar Research Centre)
Challenges of Fieldwork and Documentation: A Case Study of Mudugar-Kurumbar Research Centre, Attappady                       

Ha Minzong (Charles University)
Digital Documentation of the China Mongghul Ha Clan Oral History

Chair: John Miles Foley 

15.00 - 15.30

Tea/coffee break

15.30 - 17.15

Panel Seven: Oral Performance and Patrimony

Carole Pegg (University of Cambridge)
Musical Improvisations and Tradition in 'Ak Jang' Rituals in the Hidden Mountain Temples of Central Altai

Henri Aalders (Voices of Africa Media Foundation)
Recording  Verbal Art Performance with Handheld Equipment: the Preparatory Phase in Africa

Elizabeth Wickett (Independent Researcher)
Patronage, Commodification and the Dissemination of Performance Art: The Shared Benefits of Web Archiving

Chair: Sara Shneiderman (University of Cambridge)

17.15 - 18.00

Summation and Good-byes

Chair: Stephen Hugh-Jones

18.00 - 19.15

CRASSH Reception (open to all)