Public lectures

Whenever possible the Research Unit for Indigenous Language record our public lectures and make them available for you to watch. Enjoy!

May 2023

Uncle Michael Jarrett, ‘Teaching and Learning Gumbaynggirr in a modern world’

Video recording created by Arts Unimelb and hosted on Vimeo.

May 2022

Wunungu Awara Director, Associate Professor John Bradley ‘Yanyuwa song poetry: an intimate window into kin and country’

Please note this is video is presentation slides and audio only.

Video recording created by Arts Unimelb and hosted on Vimeo.

December 2019

Jack Kanya Buckskin and Associate Professor Robert Amery ‘Re-Awakening Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains’

Video recording created by Arts Unimelb and hosted on Vimeo.

April 2019

Dr Lou Bennett AM ‘Sovereign Language Repatriation: Through Song Pedagogy’ – public lecture video is currently unavailable.

June 2018

RUIL Director Rachel Nordlinger ‘The genius of Australian Indigenous languages and why they are important for all of us’

Video recording created by Arts Unimelb and hosted on Vimeo.

November 2017

Sam Osborne and Karina Lester: ‘Our Languages Matter, Kulinin? Reimagining remote education through Red Dirt Thinking’

Video recording created by Arts Unimelb and hosted on Vimeo.

May 2017

Greg Dickson and Grant Thompson: ‘Something lost, something found: Kriol of Northern Australia’

Video recording created by Arts Unimelb and hosted on Vimeo.

May 2016

Associate Professor Nicholas Reid: ‘Aboriginal memories of inundation of the Australian coast’

Video recording created by Arts Unimelb and hosted on Vimeo.

October 2015

Victorian Aboriginal Corporation of Languages: Paul Paton and Mandy Nicholson: ‘The revival of Victorian Aboriginal Languages’

Video recording created by Arts Unimelb and hosted on Vimeo.