[ANU Pacific.Institute] Language and the anthropology of communication: a symposium in Honour of Alan Rumsey

[Katerina Teaiwa]

Language and the anthropology of communication: a symposium in Honour of Alan Rumsey



Date: 10.45am-5.00pm, Thursday, 15 August 2019

Venue: Common Room, University House, The Australian National University

Registration: Please register here<http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/rumsey-symposium/> (for catering purposes).



Dear Colleagues



Please join us in a celebration of the life and work of Professor Alan Rumsey at a symposium to explore the research themes of his long, intellectually rich and empirically wide-ranging career. The event will begin with a keynote address by Professor Tony Woodbury and includes the following line-up of speakers inspired to reflect on Alan’s work:



  *   Tony Woodbury (University of Texas, Austin): Relating a language's lexico-grammatical genius to its speakers' ideology, aesthetics, sociality, and history – Inspirations from the work of Alan Rumsey
  *   Darja Hoenigman (Université de Paris): Clearing the air – A Meakambut practice of initiating a quarrel upon arrival
  *   Debra McDougall (University of Melbourne): Structure in transformation – Reflections on the influence of Alan Rumsey’s scholarship
  *   Francesca Merlan (Australian National University): Grammar, poetics and social relations – Chicago to Sahul
  *   Ian Keen (Australian National University): Aspects of religious language
  *   Lauren Reed (Australian National University): Understanding and not-understanding among sign language users in the New Guinea Highlands





Alan Rumsey is Professor of Anthropology at the ANU School of Culture, History and Language, and a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and former President of the Australian Anthropological Society, Alan is an author and editor of eight books and numerous papers in a career spanning over four decades. His research on highland Papua New Guinea and Aboriginal Australia has focused on intersubjectivity, child language socialisation, comparative poetics, language and politics, and indigeneity and the state. It has been described as an impressive program to integrate questions of linguistic diversity with facets of human practice, cognition and art as studied within a wide range of human sciences centred around anthropology.

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