The BlackWords 5th Anniversary
Celebration and Symposium
FIRST CALL FOR PRESENTERS
The School of English, Media
Studies and Art History, AustLit, and the University of Queensland Art Museum
are sponsoring a symposium to celebrate five years of work on the BlackWords
resource for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers.
Coinciding with the UQ Art Museum’s Desert County exhibition, this symposium will focus on written and oral storytelling
in its many manifestations; on art as storytelling; on research and teaching;
and on cultural exchange and expansion in the early 21st century.
We invite proposals for 15-20
minute papers from writers, researchers, teachers and others engaged in
relevant fields to address ideas around the place of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Writing and Storytelling in contemporary Australian education,
research and publishing.
Accepted papers will form the
basis of panel discussions on particular themes and be considered for
publication in an edited collection.
DATE:
20 October 2012
...following an evening of celebration
and readings
at Avid Reader Bookshop, West End.
VENUE: UQ Art Museum
Convenor & Chair: Dr
Anita Heiss, inaugural BlackWords National Coordinator
Papers and
presentations could explore the following questions/themes/issues:
·
How do the varied formats of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander writing and storytelling fit into the idea of Australian literature?
·
Is there such a thing as an ‘Aboriginal genre’ of
writing?
·
Protocols and methodology in researching and writing
about Aboriginal Australia.
·
Developing Indigenous literacy through literature.
·
Life writing, oral histories, and trauma texts.
·
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander texts in the
national curriculum.
·
Children’s literature and Indigenous stories.
·
What are the most appropriate ways of teaching
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature and story?
·
Post-colonial and continuing colonisation
investigations.
·
The international presence of Australian Indigenous
literature in teaching and research.
·
Translations into and out of language: English to
Indigenous languages, English and Indigenous languages to other languages.
·
What is Indigenous visual literacy?
Expressions of interest including
200-300 word abstracts are due by 10 March 2012
Contact:
Dr Peter Minter &
Kerry Kilner with your abstract and contact details, at blackwords@austlit.edu.au
The Avid Reader Bookshop in West End will host a celebration and reading event on Friday
19 October, 6-8pm.
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BlackWords is an informative website and a database of
information relating to the lives and work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander writers and storytellers. As a research project of the AustLit resource for Australian literature
BlackWords researchers and records detailed information about Indigenous story
in all its forms, poetry, oral history, life writing, and related scholarship. BlackWords
is the only database of its kind in the world.
The research for the content in BlackWords has been
undertaken by Indigenous researchers and librarians at five of AustLit’s
partner universities (UQ, UWA, Flinders, Sydney and Wollongong) and AIATSIS in
Canberra. BlackWords has grown from a base of some 700 entries relating to the
published works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, to become a
unique resource that now records details of the lives, writing and storytelling
activities of more than 4,800 people and it grows by the day.
The BlackWords team has included award-winning writers and
researchers, including Dr Anita Heiss, Dr Jeanine Leane, Dr Peter Minter,
Yvette Holt, Jake Milroy, Yaritji Green, Elizabeth Hodgson, Janine Dunleavy,
Irene Howe and has benefitted from the involvement of Uncle Sam Watson, Dr
Jackie Huggins, Dr Jaky Troy, Professor Gus Worby, and staff from the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, the School of EMSAH and the
Library at UQ; the Yunggorendi First Nations Centre for Higher Education and
Research at Flinders University; the Scholar’s Centre at UWA Library; and the
Research Division and Library at AIATSIS.
BlackWords was launched on the 6th of June 2007
by Uncle Sam Watson at the State Library of Queensland
Kerry Kilner, Director, AustLit
School of English, Media Studies and Art
History
k.kilner@uq.edu.au Ph: 07 3365 3313
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