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Welcome Pro Vice-Chancellor John Germov, Faculty Education and Arts
Welcome Director Prof Ros Smith, Centre for 21 st Century Humanities
Project 1. Colonial Frontier Massacres Lyndall Ryan and Bill Pascoe
Project 2. Certified Corethics – The App Melissa McCabe
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Project 3. Preserving an Endangered Torres Straits Language Bill Palmer
Preserving an endangered Torres Strait language Bill Palmer
A global extinction event 7000 languages – 7 billion people = 1 million people per language, right? Wrong! A few giant languages 1 billion speakers: 1 language 1 billion humans 100-500 million: 9 languages 2.5 billion humans Many tiny languages 1-100 million: 379 languages 3.6 billion humans 0-1 million: 6711 languages 400 million humans ( 6% ) Small Indigenous languages are 50%-90% of all vulnerable in the face of globalisation languages will die by the end Every fortnight a of this century language dies
Indigenous Australian languages Australia - world’s worst record for Indigenous language death In 1788: Around 400 separate languages spoken Today: Perhaps 80 are still spoken • Half have fewer than 10 speakers • A quarter have only 1! • Only 18 are being learnt by children
Indigenous Australian languages Australia - world’s worst record for Indigenous language death In 1788: Around 400 separate languages spoken Today: Perhaps 80 are still spoken • Half have fewer than 10 If current trends continue speakers no Indigenous language • A quarter have only 1! will be spoken by 2050 • Only 18 are being learnt National Indigenous Languages Survey Report 2005 by children
Why care? The death of a language means loss of accumulated knowledge of environmental • management, natural resources, plant- based medicines… a people’s history, culture and world-view • individual and community cultural identity • Speakers of Indigenous languages have Lower rates of: Higher rates of: youth suicide wellness (on defined measures) • • violence victimization high school completion • • incarceration • Enhanced: diabetes • Identity and self-esteem • poor health (on defined measures) • Social cohesion • smoking • Empowerment • illicit drug use • excessive alcohol use • (Studies in Australia, NZ, USA & Canada)
Kala Lagaw Ya Endangerment rating: Critically Endangered NILS A worrying trajectory: • How many speakers? 1984: around 2800 2006: 1216 Today: about 1000 • Some islands no longer use it • Kids are switching to English & creole! Under 20yrs 20-60 yrs Over 60 yrs 3/10 4.5/10 7/10 Hopeful signs: • Many kids are still learning the language • Young people text in the language
We will work with the community to document and help preserve Kala Lagaw Ya for Maintenance and future generations revitalization needs language materials language documentation language language description apps literacy books of materials traditional video digital culture & recordings dictionaries archiving knowledge
We need • Support for 1 student stipend (3.5 years for PhD research program) $28,000pa (total $98,000) We will provide • Tuition fee scholarship ($21,000pa (total $74,000)) • Fieldwork equipment • Fieldwork expenses We will produce • PhD thesis description of Kala Lagaw Ya (published as a book) • A video corpus digitally archived in perpetuity • Maintenance materials in consultation with the community
Project 4. Deep Time 2.0 Amir Morgadam and Gaute Rasmussen
DEEP TIME 2.0 2.0 DEMOC OCRATISING NG HI HISTOR ORY Gaute Rasmussen Dr. Amir Mogadam Innovation Specialist University Conservator IT Services Cultural Collections Expert in technology Expert in historical and software preservation development
THE HE PROB OBLE LEM • Development in Newcastle destroys a lot of information about Newcastle’s past, but also generates archaeological data • Some information is captured, but no cohesive approach to storing it • Novocastrians don’t have easy access to the information that is uncovered
DEEP DEEP TIME TIME 1.0 1.0 • Developed by UON as a collaboration between Cultural Collections and IT Innovation Team • ~$200k spent on developing the prototype • Focused on the 2009 excavation of the “KFC / Palais Royale” site
WHA WHAT WE WE’VE ACHI HIEVED • Novel way of presenting archaeological data • Fun and engaging • Established Work Integrated Learning program to scan artefacts
REMAINI NING NG PROB OBLE LEMS • Single Site (KFC) • Missing big picture • Scanning of artefacts is a slow process • Not publicly available
NE NEXT STEPS STEPS • Create a platform where similar data from all archaeological sites can be added • Develop a map view to see sites in context • Add support for simpler forms of data (text / images) to speed up data entry • Add two more sites • Make the data available to a wide audience
THE HE MONE ONEY • Year 1: $330k • $80k – turn the prototype into a product (includes support for multiple sites) • $80k – Add map component • $30k – Data Storage • $10k – Establish public facing website • 2X $65k pa per person – Archaeological data entry • Year 2: $85k • $65k pa per person – Archaeological data entry • $20k ongoing running costs • Total: $415k All numbers are estimates only and may change during development
VISION ON FOR FOR THE HE FUT FUTUR URE • More sites added • More types of content • More functionality • Take over the world
AC ACT NO NOW W • Lots of development happening in Newcastle • If we don’t act now we might lose important information
DEEP TIME 2.0 2.0 DEMOC OCRATISING NG HI HISTOR ORY THANK YOU Dr. Amir Mogadam & Gaute Rasmussen
Project 5. Kawa Translation Hub Bill Pascoe
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Bill Pascoe Ali Al-Kinani Dan Price
“The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.” ― Tim B Berners-Lee
Kawa is an interactive crowd sourced web map of the history of world poetry in any language.
http://hri.newcastle.edu.au/ kawa/
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SUSTAINABLE PLAN
BUDGET Development $5,000 IT Requirements $200 User testing and post launch support $3,800 Promotions 1,000 $1 $10, 0,000 000
Project 6. Future of Humanities Hugh Craig
THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY A NEWCASTLE-HOSTED CONFERENCE
OUR FUTUREPHILIC JOURNEY The future of humanity is suddenly looking a lot different. It used to seem assured, highly positive, a continuation of trends already happening towards longer lives, better health, more fun jobs, more available (cheaper, better, lighter) everything. Australians in particular were known as futurephilic – we were in love with a vague wonderful future.
UNPRECEDENTED RATE OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT We still live in a world where technology is developing at an unprecedented rate, and yet it now seems clear that these advances also bring new threats to the survival of humanity. The most obvious is the uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence – towards autonomous robots with superior mental capacity to humans. There are also more familiar threats that now seem much closer and more real like….
NUCLEAR WAR
CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE
SYSTEMIC GLOBAL INEQUITY OF OPPORTUNITY
MEET NICK BOSTROM One person who has done a huge amount to advance thinking about existential threats to the future of humanity is the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom. The hypothetical invention of the super-destructive, easily constructed weapon comes from him. So does the idea that AI is the greatest threat to the survival of humanity. He says our attitude to AI is like a child playing with an armed atom bomb, and hearing a faint ticking. He runs the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford and is famous for promoting the idea of “philosophy with a deadline”.
SPONSOR OUR NEWCASTLE- BASED CONFERENCE The event would bring together a panel of speakers including Professor Bostrom to discuss how the humanities can contribute to a better future for humanity and to managing existential risks to humanity. Other speakers would come from areas like critical computer science, environmental humanities, the history of violence, political science, and development studies. The duration would be one day. A final session would focus on short and medium term avenues for action in the local context (City of Newcastle, Hunter region, State of NSW, and Commonwealth of Australia). The supporter would have their name attached to the meeting alongside that of the University of Newcastle and would be credited with an engagement with questions of national and global importance.
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