Where will the conference be held?

The conference will be held in the Refectory lecture theatre of the Quadrangle (H113). To access the venue go to Lobby G of the Main Quadrangle, then down one flight of steps: https://studentvip.com.au/usyd/main/maps/143261

Can I attend for one day only?

Yes, there are options in the registration to attend for one day, a single session or just the Keynote.

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Monday, 2 December

Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia Conference

A two-day conference to explore historical materials from national and international collections in languages other than English

By Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia

Date and time

Mon, 2 Dec 2024 9:00 AM - Tue, 3 Dec 2024 4:30 PM AEDT

Location

The University of Sydney

The University of Sydney Camperdown, NSW 2050 Australia

Agenda

Program Day 1

Program Day 2

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote by Professor Joy Damousi: Digitising Migrant Archives

Digitising Migrant Archives: Creating New Histories of Community, Activism and Empowerment. This keynote will examine the creation of new histories about migrant communities and their activism and ad...

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Panel 1

1. Antonia Rubino, Heritage language development and identity amongst third generation Australian Italian youth. 2. Eva Boleti, Comparative Perspectives on the Greek and Jewish Communities in Harbin;...

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Morning Tea

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Student Panel "Teaching the Archives"

“Teaching the Archives”: Embracing Multilingual Narratives and Reframing Australian History and Identity in Higher Education Pedagogy Settings. Student presentations will be moderated by Benjamin Nic...

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

A light lunch will be served outside the Refectory

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Panel 2

1. Andonis Piperoglou, Dispersed and Differed: Archiving Australia’s Many Greek Diasporas 2. Xulong He, Poems written by Chinese Australian authors from the 1910s to the 1930s

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Afternoon Tea

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Panel 3

1. Giorgia Alù, “Things Made from Other Things”: Salvaging, Re-making and Re-naming WWII life Stories 2. Sonia Wilson, Skin in the game: identification and francophone convict bodies in nineteenth-ce...

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Launch of Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archive

This special issue of Australian Historical Studies asks what difference language and translation make to Australian history-making: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1031461X.2024.2390216

About this event

Event lasts 1 day 7 hours

The Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia (OMAA) Conference will explore themes of ‘Multilingual archives and histories’ and ‘Multilingualism in translation’. The Conference will be held over two days at the University of Sydney and is free to attend, however registration is required for catering purposes.

For more information about the OMAA project visit: Home - Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia (OMAA) (sydney.edu.au)

Registrations close 10 November 2024.

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Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia