AIATSIS Seminars

Special Seminar, 28 May 2013

There will be a special seminar held in The Mabo Room, AIATSIS, Lawson Crescent, Canberra ACT 2601

At 12:30pm,Tuesday 28 May 2013

 

What can we learn from younger speakers in endangered language contexts? A case study of Light Warlpiri speakers


Carmel O’Shannessy
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan

In this seminar I will discuss a case study of a complex language endangerment situation in a Warlpiri community in northern Australia. I will talk about how the younger language speakers are the agents in creating a new language, Light Warlpiri.

Carmel O’Shannessy has been working in Indigenous languages and education in the Northern Territory since 1996, after spending several years as an ESL (English as a second language) teacher. She has worked in teacher education at Ngukurr with Batchelor College (now BIITE) and as Executive Teacher, Two-way Learning in the Department of Education and Training (DET) bilingual education program at Lajamanu School. After completing her PhD in linguistics she returned to DET in 2006–07 as a linguist in Central Australia, then joined the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor in Linguistics in 2007. She researches the language varieties spoken by young adults and children in the Lajamanu community, including the children’s acquisition of Warlpiri and a new mixed code, Light Warlpiri, and returns to Lajamanu annually.

 

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AIATSIS seminar series, semester 1, 2013

The contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives to Australia’s healthcare system

In its first seminar series for 2013 AIATSIS is proud to showcase Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing and midwifery workforce.

The series will highlight the significant work currently being undertaken across Australia by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives, together with their non-Indigenous counterparts. Presenters in the series come from a range of backgrounds—academia, policy, workforce development and community based program delivery.

The series will begin with history and the development of Indigenous nurse training schemes in Queensland during the 1940s and then discuss more recent developments in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing and midwifery workforce, including barriers and enablers for students in undergraduate nursing studies.

In the second half of the series we will be privileged to hear from eminent nurses about their personal experiences in nursing and midwifery and about the important contribution to Australia’s healthcare system that they and their colleagues have made.

SERIES PROGRAM

Next seminar: 12.30 pm, Monday, 27 May 2013, Mabo Room
Indigenous health: a contemporary Australian nursing specialty

Ali Drummond
Director, Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses

New Zealand and Canada have made significant contributions to the health of their respective Indigenous nations through the establishment of Indigenous health as a nursing specialty. Each has developed undergraduate and postgraduate curricula to support a nursing education pathway in Indigenous health. Indigenous health is not identified as a nursing specialty in Australia.

The New Zealand and Canadian experiences have shown that unique knowledge and other attributes are required to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples, including an understanding of the historical, intergenerational and sociocultural factors that lead to and maintain health inequalities.

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AIATSIS
Lawson Crescent, Acton ACT 2601 (Map of our location)
Seminars are free and open to the public. Free parking is available.

If you are unable to attend the seminars in person, you can access audiovisual recordings, which are made available shortly afterwards.

Webcasts of the seminars have resumed and can be accessed through this link - View webcasts.

Seminars are free and open to the public. Free parking is available.