Plants, animals, words: a multidisciplinary workshop
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED

Date: 19 September 2013Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 21 September 2013Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: L67
Type of Event: Workshop
This workshop is designed to encourage interdisciplinary research in the areas of linguistics and ethnobiology by bringing together researchers from these fields and others. Through a sharing of perspectives and theories, followed by hands-on skills workshops and a series of presentations and case studies, participants will learn how to make their research truly useful to a multi-disciplinary audience. The aim of this workshop is to open discussion between researchers, developing opportunities for future collaboration and providing a platform for learning about each other’s methods and requirements.
By bringing together researchers from the relevant disciplines, namely linguists and ethnobiologists, this workshop will be a space for engagement and exchange, increasing support networks and informing future research.
Students from anthropology, ethnobiology, linguistics, and other relevant disciplines are strongly encouraged to participate.
Programme
Day/Time | Description | |
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Thursday, 19 September | ||
09:00-10:00 | Welcome and Rationale | Candide Simard (SOAS) and Lydia Green |
10:00-13:00 | Interdisciplinary Ethics Workshop |
Interactive exercises and group work while planning and designing a project as we explore:
Round table discussion: Raj Puri |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00-17:00 | Linguistics Workshop |
2 x 2 hour sessions(CS, LG, ED, SM, KC)
Why this is important, what constitutes documentation in linguistics; showcase ethnobotanical language documentation projects held in the archive; discuss the importance of metadata for making primary data relevant for cross-disciplinary audiences; access protocols |
Friday, 20 September | ||
09:00-09:30 | Welcome, Feedback session | Review of previous day |
09:30-09:40 | Introduction of speakers | |
09:40-10:50 | Linguistics | Serge Sagna: Research in Senegal on Gújjolaay Eegimaa (Serge’s own language) Link between linguistic enquiry and biology; noun classifiers and biological classification |
10:50-11:50 | Ethnozoology/placenames | Thomas F. Thornton, Director, MSc Environmental Change & Management & Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Christ Church |
12:00-13:30 | Ethnozoology/bird identification | Bob Gosford, Darwin-based writer, lawyer and ethnobiologist, Pacific & Oceania representative for the International Society of Ethnobiology, and moderator of the web-based Ethnoornithology Research & Study Group |
13:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00-17:00 | Ethnozoology Workshop |
2 x 2 hour sessions
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Saturday, 21 September | ||
09:00-09:30 | Welcome, Feedback session | Review of previous day |
09:30-13:30 | Ethnobotany Workshop |
Raj Puri, others TBC
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13:30-14:30 | Lunch | |
14:30-16:00 | Round Table | Round table discussion “lessons learnt” from previous days. Ask participants (teams) to produce a diagram (or flipchart) of everything they have learned throughout the three days. This will help identify gaps in the workflow and provide a visual interpretation. Where do we go from here? |
16:00 | Closing Session | A wrap-up/feedback session of the conference |
Organisers
This workshop is jointly organized by the linguists Lydia Green (PhD candidate, University of Newcastle, Australia), Sophie Mu and Ebany Dohle (PhD students, SOAS, University of London) and Dr Candide Simard (post-doctoral researcher, SOAS, University of London).
Partners
Ethnobotany
Rajindra K. Puri, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology
Centre for Biocultural Diversity, School of Anthropology and Conservation, Marlowe Building
University of Kent at Canterbury
Ethno-ornithology/ethnoozoology
Andrew G. Gosler
University Research Lecturer in Ornithology & Conservation
Fellow in Human Sciences, Mansfield College Oxford, Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology & Institute of Human Sciences, Oxford
Endangered Languages ARchive (ELAR)
Data Management and Archiving
Tom Castle, Kakia Chatsiou, Andrew A Clark, Frances Simmons
Endangered Languages ARchive (ELAR)
SOAS, University of London
Organiser: Centres & Programmes Office
Contact email: ethnobiology@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: 020 7898 4892/3
Sponsor: We are grateful for the support of ELAR, ELAP and the Faculty for the organsiation of this event