Reaching out to and collaborating with diverse communities across the world
Engaging with and integrating diverse international perspectives was central to CoEDL’s mission to transform the science of language into a more interdisciplinary and inclusive field. Many of the Centre’s international collaborations involved sharing language insights across fields and drawing new languages and perspectives into this research.
In its nearly 9 years of operation, the CoEDL community grew into an expansive international network. Eighteen international researchers joined CoEDL as Partner and Associate Investigators, whose expertise CoEDL shared with and beyond its community through various education and outreach activities. CoEDL Alumni deepened the Centre’s international engagement, with 43% of members taking positions overseas after their time with CoEDL.
CoEDL members also engaged with the international community by organising research collaborations and gatherings such as those highlighted below. These linkages allowed CoEDL to present its vision of the language sciences to the world; infused the Centre’s activities with new questions, energy and partnerships; and, through these interactions, ensured the calibre of CoEDL research remained world-leading.
Hero image: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addresses the crowd gathered at the opening of Fondation Cartier’s exhibition Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, the first solo international exhibition of an Australian Indigenous artist, for which CoEDL Director Nick Evans (pictured top centre with members of the Gabori family) advised. Image: Valentin le Cron /Fondation Cartier.
Image 1: Attendees of the ‘Revisiting the Evolution of Kinship’ workshop, gathered in Canberra in 2019. Image: CoEDL.
Image 2: Participants of the Vanuatu Languages Conference. Image: CoEDL.
Image 3: The SCOPIC team photographed in 2019. Image: CoEDL.
Image 4: Attendees gathered in the venue foyer at the bilingualism symposium. Image: CoEDL.
Evans, Nicholas, Levinson, Stephen, and Kim Sterelny. 2021. Kinship revisited. Biological Theory. 16 (3): 123–126. doi: 10.1007/s13752-021-00384-9. Thematic Issue on Evolution of Kinship Systems.
Barth, Danielle, Evans, Nicholas, Arka, I Wayan, Bergqvist, Henrik, Forker, Diana, Gipper, Sonja, Hodge, Gabrielle, Kashima, Eri, Kasuga, Yuki, Kawakami, Carine, Kimoto, Yukinori, Knuchel, Dominique; Kogura, Norikazu; Kurabe, Keita; Mansfield, John; Narrog, Heiko; Pratiwi, Desak Putu Eka, van Putten, Saskia, Senge, Chikako, and Olena Tykhostup. (2021). Language vs individuals in cross-linguistic corpus typology. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 25, Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language data: State of the art. Edited by Geoffrey Haig, Stefan Schnell, and Frank Seifart, pp. 179 – 232. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74661
Lindsey, Kate and Dineke Schokkin. 2021. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 24, Phonetic fieldwork in southern New Guinea. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. https://hdl.handle.net/10092/102825
Barth, Danielle, and Nicholas Evans. 2021. "Social cognition in Dalabon". In The Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC), 22-84. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.
Danielle Barth, and Stefan Schnell. 2022. Understanding Corpus Linguistics. London: Routledge.