Dissemination: Internet & Multimedia

Phil Cash Cash

Jeremy Meerkreebs

https://web.archive.org/web/20150424032216/https://idrh.ku.edu/colang-workshops

Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Week 2: 25 - 28 June 2012

Meeting Location: 455 Watson Library

Art and multimedia are powerful vehicles for language and cultural maintenance as they enable people to explore, express and reaffirm traditional knowledge, to restate where traditional strengths lie. By taking advantage of the ubiquitous digital technologies with which community advocates and fieldworkers/linguists interact, we can create multimedia products that are a blend of cultural continuity, innovation and transformation; products that excite, inspire, document and promote language and Indigenous ecological knowledge. The workshop is aimed at both ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’- that is, both language activists and also fieldworkers/linguists who are external to the language community. It will be a mix of hands-on activities, mini lectures and discussions. We will offer a series of hands-on tasters in:

• Making Talking Books

• Creating Animations

• Ethnographic Film Making

For each taster session we will also present and discuss example projects, whereby we will investigate the effectiveness of combining elders, youth, media and art practices with respect to cultural knowledge preservation and language documentation. The discussions will consider:

• Issues of sustainability and viability in a community-based approach

• Issues in building language documentation in collaborative teams

• Cultural control

• Natural language use

• Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights

• Consultation and negotiation

• Benefits of a collaborative approach to intergenerational knowledge transfer

• Benefits of interdisciplinary fieldwork

The workshop series will be suitable to beginners and intermediates.