SEMINAR:
  UWA Linguistics Seminar
  - The challenges of community- led language and country maintenance
		
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:00 - Social Sciences Building, Room 2.63
		
Duke (Garry Earl-Spurr)
What are the realities and challenges of community-led, on-country
language-revitalisation/maintenance of Martu languages in the Western
Desert today?

After graduating from the ANU in 2015 with Honours in Language Studies,
Duke (Garry Earl-Spurr) moved to the East Pilbara in mid-2016 to work as
an applied linguist for Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa (KJ) – a Martu
organisation that aims to keep country and culture strong, and to build
sustainable Martu communities. Since then, KJ’s language program has
been steadily gaining momentum as language increasingly becomes
integrated into all facets of KJ’s work.

Duke will speak about the realities and challenges of working as an
applied linguist and a part of KJ’s Martu language team on the
revitalisation and maintenance of Martu languages in the Western Desert.
He will discuss the integral role of language in underpinning the
fundamental and amorphously intertwined Martu aspirations of strong
culture, right-way land-management, and sustainable community
development.

Key themes will include: Language policy & management; working and
learning together in a cross-cultural setting; language and caring for
country; language and cultural empowerment; language and sustainable
development in the Western Desert; intergenerational transmission;
decolonisation; and Western Desert Languages.
		
For more information:
  Maïa Ponsonnet
  maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au

Starts       : Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:00
Ends         : Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:30
		
Last Updated : Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:59