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School of Culture, History & Language

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: 256364

Address: Coombs building and Coombs Extension, ANU 2601 Canberra, ACT, Australia

Website: http://chl.anu.edu.au/

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25.01.2022 Interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the significance of cultural landscapes in contemporary society? Join CHL and Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative Researcher Dr Ben Shaw for an archaeology and cultural heritage field school in the Mornington Peninsula this September - applications close 5 April!

25.01.2022 Crosscurrents: 18 September 2020 - CHL Tales, ANU Recovery Plan, new book releases and more. https://mailchi.mp/9823310ed55a/crosscurrents-29-may-4844074

21.01.2022 New podcast is UP! This week on the panel we welcome guest Luke Corbin and TFS founder Jodie for a chat about culture shock, storytelling, pungent masculinity and rule based imaginations. Intrigued? https://thefamiliarstrange.com/2020//21/ep63-culture-shock/

21.01.2022 Teaching South Asian Languages in 2020 is a two part webinar series as part of the Global Festival of Asia Pacific Language and Culture Education that explores how university language and culture education programs are responding to the impact of COVID-19. Visit https://globallanguagefest.eventbritestudio.com/ for details on all upcoming events.

21.01.2022 Join Professor Kate Henne and Assistant Professor Katie Pine as they present on "Navigation practices in times of extended crisis: Preliminary findings from a comparative study" this Tues 15 Sept at 12.30pm (AEST) Register now: http://bit.ly/32XUx3s

20.01.2022 Michael Dunford and Dinith Adikari explore the role of the aphyaw hsayar (mix master) in Myanmar and the challenges they face in today’s tea market. https://bit.ly/2Zz4Iuc

15.01.2022 Master of Asia Pacific Studies (MAPS) student Anna Kirk talked to us about her interest in and passion for the Pacific, what led her to enrol in the MAPS program and her hopes to build camaraderie amongst the student community during this challenging time. https://bit.ly/35qo9sv

14.01.2022 Who were the Baptists and why are they important to Burmese history? Dr Alexandra Kaloyanides from the University of North Carolina joins CHL's Luke Corbin to talk about the nineteenth-century American Baptist mission to Burma, in the 50th episode of Myanmar Musings podcast. https://bit.ly/32g4Xw6

12.01.2022 Want to check out the research of CHL's Ari Heinrich through the lens of an artist's mural? Head over to the aMBUSH Gallery Kambri, Cultural Centre Kambri, ANU Building 153 Level 2, on Thursday 11 March from 6pm to 8pm for the launch of INSIGHT OUT, presented by the ANU Murals Initiative @Eventbrite @ambushgallery https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/insight-out-exhibition-open

11.01.2022 Join us for the next webinar in the Learning from Asia & the Pacific Virtual Symposium. Industry in Asia and the Pacific, through and past Coronavirus: Social Science Perspectives starts 10am Thursday 24th September (AEST). This panel draws on decades of social science research into key industrial sectors across Asia to assess the emerging opportunities and potential pitfalls emerging in the wake of the global pandemic. Presenters apply a multidisciplinary analysis and fieldw...ork experience to understand the coronavirus-effect across sectors. Visit https://lfap.eventbritestudio.com/ for more details.

10.01.2022 Lara and Elsie met in ANU O-Week! They are both studying a Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Affairs and are excited to see where their studies take them. I’m really e...xcited to meet all the other students doing our course because there’s not that many of us and I think it will be really interesting to get to know all of them. #StudentsofCAP ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs

10.01.2022 A groundbreaking study has found evidence of extensive land management and fire-stick farming by Aboriginals in the North-West prior to the arrival of Europeans.

10.01.2022 Why do people care so much about the US election? CHL PhD candidate Dinith Adikari joins The Familiar Strange and Hanne Worsoe to discuss election spectacle, identity politics, face ownership and curated preferences. https://thefamiliarstrange.com//11/16/ep-67-face-ownership/

09.01.2022 How can we reduce ANU contributions to climate change? We are seeking ideas from all ANU students, staff and our community to transition the university to belo...w zero emissions The ANU Below Zero public consultation process launches today. Areas we are looking at include: Leadership & targets Energy & buildings Travel Behaviour change Removing atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions Finance, investment & purchasing Integrating below zero operations, research & teaching Share your ideas online or join a workshop: bit.ly/BZlp1

09.01.2022 New paper by Alex Broom and Assa Doron out now: Antimicrobial Resistance, Politics, and Practice in India. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1049732320919088

09.01.2022 Congratulations to Prof Margaret Jolly for receiving the University's highest accolade, the Peter Baume Award 2020! Thank you for your contributions in Pacific studies, gender and climate change and your role as a teacher, a mentor and a leader. https://services.anu.edu.au//achieve-rec/peter-baume-award

08.01.2022 In the lead up to the Myanmar elections 2020, Dr Tamas Wells joins Luke Corbin to talk about the discourses of development and democracy among Burmese and international actors on the Myanmar Musings podcast.

08.01.2022 Language Diversification Through a Biogeography Lens with Dr Hannah Haynie Linguistic diversity has attracted scholarly attention throughout the history of the field. Yet many questions remain unanswered about language diversification, and especially the interaction of processes across multiple spatio-temporal scales that creates patterns of macrodiversity out of microvariation. Here I discuss the modeling of language diversity as a facet of human biogeography, and what this ...approach can reveal about one component of language diversification, namely the influence of physical and ecological conditions on linguistic processes. At a small spatial scale, geographic patterns of language diversity reflect variation in language use by speakers and the emergence of linguistic boundaries from this variation. At a large spatial scale, we typically characterise the geography of language diversity in terms of the variety of languages, families, or linguistic features found in an area. The physical environment has been invoked as a proximal influence on language variation at a small scale, and as a distal cause of language diversity patterns at a large scale. I examine ideas about environmental impacts on language diversification at these two scales using test cases from North America. Differences within and across languages of the Eastern Miwok clade in California reflect the aforementioned linguistic microvariation. I examine the role of isolation-by-distance in the generation of language and dialect boundaries among varieties of these languages, explore the characterisation of distance in human communities, and discuss how model results reveal the impacts that geography and environmental conditions do, and do not, have on language diversification. At a continent scale, the number of languages per area is a very basic measure of language diversity. Numerous theories propose causal links from physical and ecological factors to spatial patterns in this language diversity. I discuss collaborative work to develop more sophisticated tests of these hypotheses as they relate to the language diversity of North America, focusing on the non-stationarity of links between the environment and language diversity. I conclude with discussion of the challenge of bridging the gaps between the scales at which we typically study language diversity, and how integrating additional linguistic, cultural, and historical information with spatially explicit modeling may enhance our understanding of diversification processes that link micro- and macro-scale patterns. Dr. Hannah Haynie is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Hannah’s research focuses on exploring language diversification, language histories, and typological diversity in the context of space, time, ecology, and culture. She takes a special interest in languages of North America and in mining the treasures of language archives.

07.01.2022 The "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Health and Well-being in Asia & the Pacific" symposium kicks off this Wednesday 25th November. Held over three days this event features an impressive lineup of speakers. View the program and register here: https://bit.ly/3oVbSEn

07.01.2022 Calling all Thai language enthusiasts! Come join CHL's Janit Feangfu for a chat session every Monday, 12 noon at BPB Forecourt.

06.01.2022 Crosscurrents: 12 March 2021 - Come Face to Face with Creativity, CHL Student Buzz, events, opportunities and more https://mailchi.mp/2677e39b308d/crosscurrents-29-may-4933490

06.01.2022 Interesting perspectives on translation and language via The Conversation:

06.01.2022 OUT NOW Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia edited by Kathryn Robinson, featuring a chapter on 'Negotiating a Space in the Mosque: Women Claiming Religious Authority' by Eva Nisa.

05.01.2022 It's spring! After a dry and apocalyptic summer, followed by COVID-19, enjoy this hopeful poem by Tang poet Du Fu , recommended by School of Culture, Histor...y and Language PhD student Annie Ren. An Evening Shower in Spring / Du Fu Translated by Sir J. F. Davis (1829) See how the gently falling rain Its vernal influence sweetly showers, As through the calm and tepid eve It silently bedews the flowers. Cloudy and dark th’ horizon spreads, Save where some boat its light is burning: But soon the landscape’s tints shall glow All radiant, with the morn returning. Sir J. F. Davis was a British sinologist and the second Governor of Hong Kong (1844-1848). / Share with us your favourite poem about spring!

05.01.2022 "This spring has been really strong for grass, and we've recorded some of our highest level of grass pollen, daily grass pollen, that we've ever recorded. CHL’s Professor Simon Haberle on the highest rates of pollen recorded by the The Australian National University's pollen monitoring program in over five years. Asia & the Pacific at ANU https://ab.co/2UsX1me

04.01.2022 Students worry about studying languages, cultures, and societies at times because they do not give you a clear career pathway. In fact, this is actually an incredible way of studying because it opens such a huge array of opportunities. Activist, writer and CAP alumna Kate Walton has worked across a range of international aid and development projects in Indonesia since graduating more than a decade ago. Learn more about her work on gender, human rights and social movements. https://bit.ly/2ZN5TGm

04.01.2022 Artist Sydney Farey's mural has been inspired by the research of CHL's Ari Heinrich. Don't forget to check it out, along with many other research-inspired artworks, at the launch of INSIGHT OUT, presented by the ANU Murals Initiative @Eventbrite @ambushgallery Head over to the aMBUSH Gallery Kambri, Cultural Centre Kambri, ANU Building 153 Level 2, today from 6pm to 8pm!

04.01.2022 Who owns your face? What can people do with your likeness? Find out some of the answers to these complex questions in this week's panel featuring ANSA Australia...n Network of Student Anthropologists's President Hanne Worsoe! We also feature Australian National University PhD candidate Dinith Adikari from the School of Culture, History and Language Check it out here!

04.01.2022 Covid-19 'infodemic' in Indonesia Now this is a topic that has not been discussed much in the academic sphere. Please join Ross Tapsell from ANU, Taufiq from Th...e Jakarta Post and Restu from Tirto.id in this webinar on Wednesday 25 November. They will discuss the challenge of information, journalism, and the public sphere throughout the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. As ’traditional journalism’ declines, many Indonesians get their ’news’ and information from social media, meaning much misinformation, scapegoating, and scare-mongering is being unleashed via digital platforms. The panelists will talk about how to improve the rapidly shifting ‘information society’, whether Indonesian professional journalism can survive the pandemic, and where Indonesia’s digital public sphere is headed to. As always, our events are free and open to general public. No registration is required. Webinar link : http://bit.ly/IPMediaPublicSphere Webinar ID : 821 0893 0563 Passcode : 029070 https://www.covid19indonesia.net/events/infodemic

03.01.2022 Will the upcoming 2020 elections represent a backwards step for the institutionalisation of democracy in Myanmar? Elections expert Su Mon Thant and Ben Dunant joins Luke Corbin in the latest podcast episode of Myanmar Musings.

03.01.2022 Next up in the Synapse Trans-disciplinary Series we have Associate Professor Catherine Frieman presenting her seminar on "Innovation as Process: A Social Archaeological Approach" Join us on Monday 30th November at 2pm, register now for details: https://bit.ly/322qIyV

02.01.2022 "We have seen (pollen) numbers that we have actually never recorded before in the region." Prof Simon Haberle on the worst hayfever season in more than five years. https://www.abc.net.au//la-nina-weather-outlook-r/12897042

01.01.2022 Crosscurrents: 2 October 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/cd4895524cdb/crosscurrents-29-may-4851050 CHL flagship events, teaching awards and more.

01.01.2022 Dr Janit Feangfu reads (Untitled: #14), a poem by Phu Kradat, in Thai. Storytelling is just one way by which we at CHL connect with the cultures, histories and languages in the world around us. If you wish to support this research, you can now donate to the School of Culture, History & Language fund. https://bit.ly/2PFXuPX