HUMAN JOURNEYS IN THE GLOBAL ERA · UNESCO, Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme (UA/DAAD), Australian National Maritime Museum, Edith Cowan University Centre for Global

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HUMAN JOURNEYS

IN THE GLOBAL ERA

This event is part of a national series of workshops sponsored by the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme (UA/DAAD), Australian National Maritime Museum, Edith Cowan University Centre for Global Issues, and the ANU Centre for European Studies Jean Monnet Network on Migration and Integration.

SYDNEY WORKSHOP MIGRANT CULTURAL HERITAGECONVENOR Paul Arthur, Edith Cowan University

DATE 13–14 August 2018

VENUE Waterside Studio, National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney

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MONDAY 13 AUGUST 20188.45am Registration – light breakfast on arrival

9:30am Welcome and Workshop Overview Kevin Sumption (Director, Australian National Maritime Museum) Kim Tao (Curator of post-Federation immigration, Australian National Maritime Museum) Paul Arthur (workshop convenor, Edith Cowan University)

10:00am Introductions

10:30am SESSION 1: KEYNOTEMigrating Words: Mapping Language and Culture Rachel Hendery (Western Sydney University)

11:15am Break

11.45am SESSION 2 Migrant Cultural Heritage at the Australian National Maritime Museum Kim Tao (Australian National Maritime Museum) Including tour of the Welcome Wall and ANMM

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm SESSION 3 Dutch-Australian Migrant Heritage Marijke van Faasen (Huygens ING, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Rik Hoekstra (Huygens ING, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Nonja Peters (University of Amsterdam / Curtin University)

3:30pm Break

3:45pm SESSION 4 German-Australian Migration: GLAM, Digital Collections and Mapping Our Heritage Kristy Kokegei (History Trust of South Australia)

4:15pm Discussion

TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 20188.45am Registration – light breakfast on arrival

9:30am Discussion / Recap on Day 1 Workshop participants / Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan University)

10:00am SESSION 5: KEYNOTEThe Museum Without Objects Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard University)

10:45am Break

11:00am SESSION 6Migration Records: Access, Use and Re-use Gina Grey (National Archives of Australia) Michelle Hughes (National Archives of Australia)

12:00pm SESSION 7Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Collecting at the State Library of New South Wales Sally Hone (State Library of New South Wales)

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm SESSION 8Key Issues and Next Steps

3:30pm Final remarks and workshop close

PROGRAM

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERSKEYNOTE ONE

Assoc/Prof. Rachel Hendery (Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Western Sydney University)

TITLEMigrating Words: Mapping Language and Culture

ABSTRACTWhy are some parts of the world full of linguistic diversity while others are much more homogeneous? For example, Vanuatu and New Guinea are linguistically extremely diverse, while Polynesia is a string of islands with languages so similar they are almost dialects of a single variety. Australia’s north is very diverse, while the numerous languages of the south seem to have resulted from a very recent spread of a single ‘mega-language family’. In the process of uncovering the reasons for why linguistic diversity in Oceania patterns the way it does, we must consider several important issues.

First, traditional maps do not tell the whole story. Maps are not neutral, and they can often be misleading. Secondly, although linguists speak of language ‘transmission’, this metaphor belies the complexity of the process. Language is not a virus. We must attend to the ways in which the spread of language is wrapped up in issues of identity and culture, how it is mediated by human relationships, and consider the points at which organic or mechanical metaphors break down. These layers of complexity can easily evade us when we try to pin language and culture to a map. One of the steps towards a solution is to use new digital tools to ‘thickly map’ different lenses through which we can view a more nuanced whole. In this talk I will illustrate this use of digital tools with some examples from various linguistic and anthropological projects I have recently been involved with.

BIOGRAPHYI am Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Western Sydney University. My work in recent years has included a number of projects to better understand language contact and change, particularly in Australia and the Pacific, both from a macro and micro perspective. These include an archival and fieldwork-based project on Palmerston English, a creole spoken in the Cook Islands, as well as work on Australian kinship terms as part of the AustKin project at the Australian National University, and, more recently, work on the archives of A. W. Howitt and Lorimer Fison and what they can tell us about languages of Victoria. I also now lead an interdisciplinary ARC-funded project Waves of Words, on bringing together linguistic, anthropological and archaeological evidence for pre-colonial contact between the Pacific and Australia. As part of my digital humanities work, I also consult to industry and educational organisations on data visualisation and teaching computational thinking. I am particularly interested in simulation, modelling, mapping, and virtual reality.

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KEYNOTE TWO

Prof. Jeffrey Schnapp (founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University / Carl A. Pescosolido Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences)

TITLEThe Museum Without Objects

ABSTRACTThe talk details two Italian experiments in the repurposing of physical sites with ‘haunted’ histories as experimental/participatory spaces: a series of abandoned highway tunnels (the Trento Tunnels) and the mausoleum under the first official monument built by the Italian fascist regime (BZ ‘18-‘45). Each was reimagined as a museum-like experience designed to heal longstanding social wounds within the setting of a contentious border region where problems of politics, migration and cultural memory are a given. The role of critical site interventions, the abundant use of reproductions, the opening up of visitor activity spaces, and the construction of bottom-up participatory archives are highlighted in the course of the presentation.

BIOGRAPHYJeffrey Schnapp is the founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He holds the Carl A. Pescosolido Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is on the teaching faculty in the Department of Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design .

Originally trained as a medievalist, his recent publications concern the modern and contemporary eras with a focus on media, technology, architecture, design, and the history of the book. They include The Electric Information Age Book (Princeton Architectural Press 2012); an anthology of essays on 20th century Italian art, literature, design, and architecture entitled Modernitalia (Peter Lang 2012); The Library Beyond the Book (Harvard University Press 2014), co-authored with Matthew Battles; Digital Humanities (Egea 2015), an essay on cultural heritage management published in Italian in the Meet the Media Guru series; and Blueprint for Counter Education — Expanded Reprint, a reprint edition of Maurice Stein and Larry Miller’s 1970 work of radical pedagogy. His latest book is FuturPiaggio: Six Italian Lessons on Mobility and Modern Life, published in both English and Italian by Rizzoli International (2017). After three years of service as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Piaggio Fast Forward, a Boston-based robotics company, Schnapp assumed the new position of Chief Visionary Officer effective mid-June 2018.

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AUSTRALIA

Prof. Paul Arthur (Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences / Director, Centre for Global Issues, Edith Cowan University)

Dr Jamal Barnes (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Global Issues, Edith Cowan University)

Elise Bohan (Research Associate in Digital Humanities, Edith Cowan University / PhD Candidate, Macquarie University)

Frank van Beuningen (Consul General of the Netherlands in Sydney, Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

Gina Grey (Assistant Director of Reference Services, National Archives of Australia)

Irene Grootendorst (Senior Management Assistant, Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

Fran Haynes (PhD Candidate, Centre for Global Issues, Edith Cowan University)

Dr Lydia Hearn (Research Coordinator, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University)

Assoc/Prof. Rachel Hendery (Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Western Sydney University)

Sally Hone (Collection Development Coordinator, State Library of New South Wales)

Michelle Hughes (Assistant Director Learning and Visitor Experience, National Archives of Australia)

Dr Kristy Kokegei (Manager, Digital Engagement, History Trust of South Australia)

Dr Nonja Peters (Visiting Professor, Institute Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam / Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University)

Tamara Swann (Centre Officer and Project Manager, Centre for Global Issues, Edith Cowan University)

Kim Tao (Curator of post-Federation immigration, Australian National Maritime Museum)

GERMANY

Vicky Herche (Post-doctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Department of English, University of Cologne)

Prof. Alfred Hornung (Research Professor of American Studies and English, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

David Kern (Research Assistant, Lecturer and PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Cologne)

Prof. Beate Neumeier (Chair, Department of English, University of Cologne)

NETHERLANDS

Marion Bregman (Guest Researcher, Huygens ING, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Dr Marijke van Faassen (Senior Researcher, Department of History, Huygens ING, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Dr Rik Hoekstra (Digital Historian and ICT Project Manager, Huygens ING, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

USA

Prof. Maria Gough (Distinguished Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University)

Prof. Jeffrey Schnapp (founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University / Carl A. Pescosolido Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences)

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

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