AIATSIS Seminar 10
12.30 – 2.00pm, Monday 18th June 2012
The Mabo Room, AIATSIS, Lawson Crescent, Canberra ACT 2601
Dr. Patrick Sullivan
Senior Research Fellow, AIATSIS
Belonging Together: How Australian National Identity Depends on Social and Economic Development of Aboriginal Settlements.
In this seminar Dr. Patrick Sullivan outlines the basis of his book Belonging Together and then describes two employment projects he has recently been working on to suggest a way forward for remote area social and economic development.

AIATSIS Special Seminar
12.00 – 3.00pm, Wednesday13th June 2012
The Mabo Room, AIATSIS, Lawson Crescent, Canberra ACT 2601
Dr Jakelin Troy discusses findings from her time in Israel as a Yachad Scholar
Dr Jakelin Troy is the Director of AIATSIS Research, Indigenous Social and Cultural Wellbeing).
Jakelin is a Ngarigu woman whose country is the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Jakelin’s academic research is diverse but has a focus on languages and linguistics, anthropology and visual arts. She is particularly interested in Australian languages of New South Wales and ‘contact languages’. Her doctoral research was into the development of NSW Pidgin. Since 2001 Jakelin has been developing curriculum for Australian schools with a focus on Australian language programs.
Her most recent project is to co-write the National Languages Curriculum framework document for ACARA. She previously worked on major government initiatives in Indigenous affairs including developing and writing the Native Title Act, managing Commonwealth land rights legislation, and, managing national languages and broadcasting programs. She began life as an academic researching Indigenous anthropology and linguistics.

AIATSIS Special Seminar
12.00 – 3.00pm, Wednesday13th June 2012
The Mabo Room, AIATSIS, Lawson Crescent, Canberra ACT 2601
Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann
Revival Linguistics: language reclamation, cultural empowerment, intellectual property and Aboriginal well being
This lecture will analyse the ethical, aesthetic and utilitarian benefits of language revival, and will propose the establishment of Revival Linguistics, a new discipline studying comparatively and systematically the universal constraints, global mechanisms and local peculiarities and idiosyncrasies apparent in revival attempts across various sociological backgrounds, all over the world. A branch of both linguistics and applied linguistics, Revival Linguistics combines scientific studies of native language acquisition and foreign language learning (language reclamation is the most extreme case of second language learning).

This Extract from Fry's Planet Word contains the segment with Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann. (taken from Episode 2, Identity, Fry's Planet Word, 2011, TV Series, BBC Two)
This video relates to his seminar and panel presentation "Revival Linguistics: language reclamation, cultural empowerment, intellectual property and Aboriginal well being" which was held at AIATSIS on the 13/06/2012 from our Seminar Series 2012 - 1, Special Seminar.
We have been given permission (through Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann) to host this segment only, from the episode.

AIATSIS Seminar Series 2012/1
12.30pm, Monday 21 May 2012
Threads and Secrets: Black Women re-writing history through fiction
Dr Jeanine Leane - Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Australian National University

This presentation will explore the important and invaluable role of Aboriginal women in pre and
post contact Australia as both custodians of culture and experience and in the re-writing and representing
of the nation’s history. I will draw on my first work of prose Purple Threads (2011)
which is an episodic novel. Set in the shifting socio-historical landscape of the 1960s and 70s in
rural Australia, the narrative re-visits different historical eras, such as first contact between settlers
and Aborigines in the Wiradjuri lands, the assimilation policy and the 1967 referendum to provide
an alternative perspective on the nation’s history. With particular focus on three generations of
Aboriginal women, who tell their unique stories in the different historical contexts in which they
lived, national myths such as equality, freedom and the ‘workers’ paradise’ are re-written and represented
to readers from an Aboriginal perspective. The presentation will include readings from
Purple Threads.