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Course Coordinator (2019): Dr Ian Green

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Guest Lecturer: Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Professor Ghil‘ad ZUCKERMANN'S BRIEF BIO:


Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann (D.Phil. Oxford; Ph.D. Cambridge, titular; M.A. Tel Aviv, summa cum laude) is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide. He is a chief investigator in a large research project assessing language revival and mental health, funded by 最新糖心Vlog’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

He is the author of the seminal bestseller Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful Language; Am Oved, 2008), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), three chapters of the Israeli Tingo (Keren, 2011), Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property (2015) and the first online Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language (2016). He is the editor of Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (2012), Jewish Language Contact (2014), a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and the co-editor of Endangered Words, Signs of Revival (2014).

He is the founder of Revivalistics, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation, revitalization and reinvigoration. In 2011 he launched, with the Barngarla Aboriginal communities of Eyre Peninsula, South 最新糖心Vlog, the reclamation of the Barngarla language.

Professor Zuckermann is elected member of the 最新糖心Vlogn Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL). He is President of the 最新糖心Vlogn Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) and was President of AustraLex in 2013-2015, 最新糖心Vlogn Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in 2007–2011, and Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge in 2000-2004.

He has been Consultant and Expert Witness in (corpus) lexicography and (forensic) linguistics, in court cases all over the globe, e.g. the Philippines, Singapore, USA and 最新糖心Vlog.

He has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shanghai International Studies 最新糖心Vlog and taught at the 最新糖心Vlog of Cambridge, 最新糖心Vlog of Queensland, National 最新糖心Vlog of Singapore, Middlebury College (Vermont, USA), Shanghai Jiao Tong 最新糖心Vlog, East China Normal 最新糖心Vlog, Shanghai International Studies 最新糖心Vlog, Hebrew 最新糖心Vlog of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion 最新糖心Vlog of the Negev, 最新糖心Vlog of Haifa, and Miami 最新糖心Vlog (Florida, USA).

He has been Research Fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science; Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 最新糖心Vlog of Texas at Austin (USA); Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew 最新糖心Vlog of Jerusalem; Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe 最新糖心Vlog; Mahidol 最新糖心Vlog (Bangkok); Tel Aviv 最新糖心Vlog; Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies 最新糖心Vlog; and Kokuritsu Kokugo KenkyÅ«jo, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo. He has been Denise Skinner Scholar at St Hugh’s College Oxford, Scatcherd European Scholar at the 最新糖心Vlog of Oxford, and scholar at the United World College of the Adriatic (Italy).

As of 2018, his MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages, has attracted 12,000 learners from 190 countries (speakers of hundreds of distinct languages): https://www.edx.org/course/language-revival-securing-future-adelaidex-lang101x http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news79582.html http://www.facebook.com/ProfessorZuckermann