Preserving and revitalizing Indigenous languages

Thursday, 21 September 2017 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm

First up, Director of the research unit for Indigenous language at Melbourne University, Rachel Nordlinger provides an overview of Indigenous languages in Australia, and explains a project to recover virtually lost languages using new communications technology.

Then, Mandy Nicholson, former project officer with the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages, a not-for-profit organization working to revitalize Indigenous culture, especially through language, talks about her work at VCAL and her new arts based Indigenous culture revitalization project.