Conveners
Dr Mark Turin and Imogen Gunn (World Oral Literature Project, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
This workshop explores key issues around the dissemination of oral literature through traditional and digital media. Funding agencies, including our 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.
Building on discussions around orality and textuality, presenters will discuss some of the following issues:
· What kinds of political repercussions may result from studying marginalized 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 digitized heritage material is to be accessed, curated and understood?
· How can researchers remain true to the fluidity of performance over time and avoid fossilization 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?
We welcome ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians and our project's own grantees to exchange ideas at this second workshop.
Programme and Registration
Please use the links at the right hand side of the page to view the provisional programme and to book online. The standard fee is £36 with a reduced fee of £18 for students (includes lunch and refreshments). The deadline for booking is Monday 6 December 2010.
The workshop convenors are grateful to CRASSH, the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) and the Department of Social Anthropology for providing logistical and financial support, and for the cooperation of the new NWO Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres network.
Administrative assistance: Michelle Maciejewska (CRASSH)
Provisional Programme
Location : CRASSH Date : 10-11 December 2010
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
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)
Friday 10 December |
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9.00 - 9.30 |
Registration |
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9.30 - 9.45 |
Welcome and Introduction |
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9.45 -11.30 |
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11.30 - 12.00 |
Tea/coffee break |
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12.00 - 13.00 |
Keynote Address
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John Miles Foley (University of Missouri) Oral Tradition and the Internet Introduction: Alan Macfarlane (University of Cambridge) |
13.00 - 14.00 |
Lunch |
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14.00 - 15.15 |
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15.15- 15.45 |
Tea/coffee Break |
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15.45 - 17.00 |
Panel Three: Revitalisation and Renewal Margaret Field (San Diego State University) John Shaw and Tiber Falzett (University of Edinburgh) Chair: Peter Austin (SOAS) |
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17.00 - 17.30 |
General discussion and Logistics Chair: Mark Turin |
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17.30 - 19.00 |
Reception at CRASSH (open to all) |
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19.30 |
Dinner at St Catharine's College (for those who have pre-booked) |
Saturday 11 December |
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9.15 -11.00 |
Panel Four: The State and the Politics of Ownership Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation) Jorge Gomez Rendon (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Rahile Dawut (Xinjiang University) 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) 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) Sachindev P.S. (Mudugar-Kurumbar Research Centre) Ha Minzong (Charles University) 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) Henri Aalders (Voices of Africa Media Foundation) Elizabeth Wickett (Independent Researcher) 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) |