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Project News
August 2010: The project and one of its grantees is profiled on the BBC Radio 4 series Word of Mouth, click here to listen. Project grantee Dr Stephen Leonard's forthcoming work with the Inughuit in remote north-west Greenland is widely covered in the UK and international media, including the Guardian and the BBC Today Programme. The University of Cambridge has issued a press release on Dr Leonard's research project.
July 2010: The project is part of an Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)-funded cooperation network entitled 'Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres' led by Dr Daniela Merolla at Leiden University and is covered in the Cambridge News on 27 July 2010 [see PDF].
May 2010: Project team invited to talk at La Maison René Ginouvès de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie in Nanterre (Paris X), the Musée du quai Branly, the Asien-Afrika-Institut at Universität Hamburg and at arcadia@cambridge.
April 2010: Short video about the project released by Cambridge Ideas (also featured on YouTube and iTunes), project featured on the Archival Platform Blog and in the University of Cambridge 2009 Annual Report (HTML/PDF).
March 2010: Project team interviewed by Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon, Radio New Zealand, on 24 March 2010 (3MB); also involved in establishing the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (CELC), featured in the Cambridge Alumni Magazine and present at the Cambridge Science Festival.
19-21 February 2010: The project is covered by Radio Free Europe on 19 February and 21 February.
19 February 2010: Project receives a British Academy Small Research Grant to continue work on a database of endangered languages.
15 February 2010: Radio interview with Anna Kovacs on Hungarian Public Radio MR1-Kossuth (15 February 1.4 MB, MP3 file).
23 January 2010: Radio interview with Elizabeth Alcock on FM4 ORF Austrian Radio (22 January 2 MB, MP3 file and 23 January 8.5 MB, MP3 file).
12 January 2010: The project team present at the Department of Linguistics Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
30 December 2009: Radio interview with Sean Moncrieff on Newstalk (16 MB, MP3 file).
December 2009: The project is profiled in PhysOrg, WorldHum and OurFuturePlanet, and covered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation show As It Happens.
17 December 2009: The project is profiled in La Repubblica, click here to read the PDF.
13 December 2009: The project is profiled in the Independent on Sunday, click here to read the PDF.
26 November 2009: David Jefferies discusses the project in The Cambridge Student, click here to read the PDF.
13 November 2009: The project is profiled in the Cambridge University Newsletter, click here to read the PDF.
9 November 2009: The project team is invited to present at the Golden Web Living Traditions Programme 2009, Clare College, Cambridge.
3 November 2009: The project team is invited to present at Recovering Voices: Science Frontiers in Endangered Languages and Indigenous Knowledge Research, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
29 October 2009: The project team is invited to present at Histories from the North: environments, movements, narratives, BOREAS Final Conferences 2009, Arktikum building, Rovaniemi, Finland.
8 October 2009: The project team is invited to present at the Centre for Anthropology, British Museum, London.
August-September 2009: The project receives widespread international media coverage, in the Guardian, the MailOnline, the Telegraph, the Irish Examiner, La Jornada, Cambridge News, TeleText, Yahoo, AFP, Liverpool Daily Post, ResourceShelf, Vesti, the Asian Age (click here for a PDF), Western Morning News, Cambridge Network and the Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter. Radio interviews on 25 August with BBC Radio Ulster: Talk Back (5.7 MB, MP3 file), and on 26 August with BBC Radio Wales: Good Morning Wales (2.5 MB, MP3 file) and BBC Radio Guernsey: Gary Burgess (4.7 MB, MP3 file). University Office of External Affairs and Communications releases a press statement about the project on 27 August 2009 and the University of Cambridge Research Horizons profiles the project in its Autumn 2009 issue, click here for HTML or PDF.
27-29 August 2009: Project staff invited to attend and present at a workshop on Documenting Oral Traditions in the Non-Western World, Leiden University.
27 August 2009: The project features on the American Anthropological Association (AAA) blog.
6-7 August 2009: World Oral Literature Project staff invited to attend and present at a conference on Archiving Culture in the Digital Age at the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) in Bangkok.
9 July 2009: Professor Peter Austin, Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics and Director of the Endangered Languages Academic Program at SOAS, writes about the World Oral Literature Project on his blog.
1 July 2009: The project website is launched.
June 2009: The World Oral Literature Project features on the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
February 2009: The Onaway Trust agrees to be the principal funder for our first workshop later this year.
January 2009: The World Oral Literature Project Supplemental Grants Review Board starts accepting small grant proposals for field-based documentation projects in oral literature.