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Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann
To link to this page, please use the following URL: Biography/ Background‘I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.’ John Adams (second President of the United States in 1797–1801) to Abigail Adams [post 12 May 1780] Adams Family Correspondence, 3:342) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/linguafranca/2012-10-20/4320276 http://www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/issues/45921/news45962.html http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news51861.html
Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann, DPhil (Oxon), PhD (Cantab) (titular), is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide. He is a leading expert of (1) Revivalistics, Revivalomics and Revival Linguistics, (2) multiple causation, cross fertilization and horizontal (linguistic) gene/meme transfer, (3) sources of lexical expansion and camouflaged borrowing, (4) contact linguistics, and (5) the study of language, culture and identity. Professor Zuckermann is Distinguished Visiting Professor and Oriental Scholar at the Institute of Linguistic Studies at Shanghai International Studies University (China), Visiting Professorial Scientist at the Pilpel Genomics Lab, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Visiting Professor at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (Hebrew University of Jeruslaem). He serves as Editorial Board member of the Journal of Language Contact. After studying at the United World College (UWC) of the Adriatic (Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico; Duino, Trieste) and performing several years of military service, he was selected for the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University, where he studied philosophy, psychology, classics, literature, law and mathematics, and specialized in linguistics, receiving his M.A. (summa cum laude) from the Department of Linguistics in 1997. As Scatcherd European Scholar of the University of Oxford and Denise Skinner Graduate Scholar of St Hugh's College, Oxford, he gained his D.Phil. (Oxon.) in 2000. In 2000-2004 he was Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and was affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Studies, University of Cambridge.
Prof. Zuckermann has taught various undergraduate and graduate courses in four continents, e.g. at the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Oriental Studies, now known as Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), National University of Singapore, University of Miami, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (Košice, Slovakia), The University of Queensland (Associate Professor 2006-2010), and Shanghai International Studies University. Professor Zuckermann has been consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Oxford University Press (OUP), Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies (University of Miami), and Leyvik House, The Israeli Center for Yiddish Culture, Tel Aviv. He is Editorial Board Member of Journal of Language Contact, Jewish Contemporary Review, Mizrekh: Jewish Studies in the Far East, Israeli Journal of Humor Research, The Open Applied Linguistics Journal; Scientific Committee Member of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE); Academic Committee Member of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA); Thought Leader of Creativity Australia, Melbourne; and Advisory Board Member of Gifted Speech. He has delivered hundreds of keynote speeches, plenary conference papers and invited public lectures, for example in Adelaide, Ann Arbor (Michigan), Armidale (New South Wales), Atlanta (Georgia), Auckland (NZ), Austin (Texas), Bangkok (e.g. Chulalongkorn University), Beer Sheva, Beijing (e.g. Peking University, Capital Normal University), Bellagio (Italy), Bergamo, Berkeley (California), Bloomington (Indiana), Boston (Massachusetts), Boulder (Colorado), Brisbane, Bristol, Cambridge (UK), Canberra (e.g. AIATSIS), Chongqing (China), Christchurch (NZ), Duino (Trieste, Italy), Dunedin (NZ), Duyun (Guizhou, China), Eilat (Israel), Gainesville (Florida), Gedera (Israel), Haifa, Hamilton (NZ), Hangzhou (China), Heidelberg (Germany), Hod HaSharon (Israel), Hong Kong (e.g. Hong Kong University), Honolulu (Hawai'i), Istanbul, Jerusalem (e.g. Hebrew University), Jinan (Shandong University, China), Kaifeng (China), Kfar Saba, Košice (Slovakia), Kunming (e.g. Yunnan University), London (e.g. SOAS and UCL), Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Miami (Florida), Moscow, Munich, Nanjing (China), New Brunswick (New Jersey), New York City (e.g. NYU), Norfolk Island (Pacific Ocean), Orlando (Florida), Oxford, Port Lincoln (Australia), Poznan (Poland), Princeton (New Jersey), Ramat Gan (Israel), Rehovot (e.g. Weizmann Institute of Science), Rishon LeZion (Israel), Roehampton (UK), Rosh HaNikra (Israel), San Diego (California), Santiago de Cuba, Shanghai (e.g. Jiao Tong University), Shenzhen (China), Singapore, Stanford (California), Sydney, Tampa (Florida), Tel Aviv, Tempe (Arizona), Tianjin (e.g. Nankai University), Tiv'on, Toowoomba (Queensland), Trieste (Italy), Tucson (Arizona), Tokyo (e.g. Tokyo University), Vilnius (Lithuania), Wellington (NZ), Whyalla (Australia), Xi'an (China), Yinchuan (Ningxia, China) and Zikhron Yaakov (Israel).
He has featured in dozens of newspaper articles in the United Kingdom (e.g. Reuters), USA (e.g. The Forward), Canada (e.g. Globe and Mail), Israel (e.g. Haaretz, Maariv, Yediot Aharonot, Jerusalem Post, English Haaretz, Ynet, NRG, Time Out, Makor Rishon, Erev Erev, HaIr), the Netherlands (e.g. Trouw), Spain (e.g. Terra), Sweden (e.g. Språktidningen), New Zealand (e.g. Waikato Times, Otago Daily Times, New Zealand Jewish Chronicle), Germany (Jüdische Zeitung), Norfolk Island and Australia (e.g. The Australian (1) (2), Courier Mail, Australian Jewish News, Rhapsody, E-ton, Galus Australis). Short clips from recent BBC interviews of Professor Zuckermann by Stephen Fry (on Fry's Planet Word) can be found at http://vimeo.com/channels/357807/44019045 (Hebrew Revival) and http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ksqzk (The Politics of Language). Further information can be found at http://www.zuckermann.org/ http://www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/issues/45921/news45962.html
QualificationsD.Phil. (Oxon.), University of OxfordPh.D. (Cantab.) (titular), University of CambridgeM.A. (summa cum laude), Tel Aviv UniversityAwards & Achievements
2012-present Special Guest, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2011-present 'Oriental Scholar' Distinguished Professorial Fellowship, Shanghai, China.
2013 Visiting Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2010-12 Project 211 Distinguished Professorial Fellowship, China.
2007-11 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellowship (DP0770414).
2002 British Academy Research Grant.
2000-1 Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship (New York).
2001 Dorot Postdoctoral Fellowship.
1997-2000 Scatcherd European Scholarship, University of Oxford.
1997-2000 Denise Skinner Graduate Scholarship, St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
1997-2000 Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Doctoral Scholarship (New York).
1997-8 Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship (London).
1996-7 British Chevening Scholarship, British Foreign Office.
1993-7 Scholarship at the Interdisciplinary Programme for Fostering Excellence (later known as the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students), Tel Aviv University.
OTHER MERIT AWARDS
2012-present Indigenous Languages Support (ILS) grant: Barngarla Aboriginal language reclamation workshops.
2012-15 Indigenous Languages Support (ILS) grant: Mobile Language Team (collaborator) (1,050,000 AUD)
2012-present The University of Adelaide Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Grant.
2011-12 The University of Adelaide Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Grant.
2010 The University of Queensland Travel Award for International Collaborative Research for 2010 – Category 2.
1999 Taylor Institute Grant (University of Oxford) – for academic work at Stanford University and at the University of California at Berkeley.
1998 Barbinder Watson Grant (St Hugh’s College) – for studying advanced Yiddish at Vilnius University.
1997 Ian Karten Fund (London).
1996-7 Porter School of Culture Award, Tel Aviv University.
1996-7 Outstanding Students Grant for Special Projects, Tel Aviv University.
1995-6 Adi Lautman Scholarship, Tel Aviv University.
1995 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship, German Foreign Ministry – to undertake a 2-month course in advanced German at the Goethe Institute in Germany.
1987-9 United World College (Adriatic) Scholarship for Israel. Teaching InterestsLanguage Revival
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Adelaide University Linguistics Research Colloquium 2013
Convener: Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann, ghilad.zuckermann@adelaide.edu.au
THURSDAYS 3pm, Napier 205
FIRST SEMESTER 2013
7 March: Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Adelaide: Aboriginal Language and Education
14 March: Dr Rob Amery, Adelaide: A Matter of Interpretation: Working with Historical Linguistic Material
21 March: Dr Ian Green, Adelaide: Daly River Languages: A Verbal History
28 March: Dr Peter Mickan, Adelaide: Book Launch ‘Language Curriculum Design and Socialisation’ (Multilingual Matters) --- with the Hon. Christopher Pyne MP.
4 April: Dr Christine Nicholls, Flinders University: Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory’s Aboriginal Schools -- Noble Dream, Comparative Educational Success, and Policy Failure
11 April: Arianna Dagnino, University of South Australia: Polyglossia and Translingualism in Transcultural Novels
MID-SEMESTER BREAK
2 May: Handoyo Puji Widodo and Hasti Rahmaningtyas, Adelaide: Exploring Visual and Verbal Artifacts -- Language Material Design
9 May: Revd Dr Matthew Anstey, Principal of St Barnabas’ Theological College: Lost in Translation -- The Word ‘Word’ in Classical Hebrew
16 May: Christine Lockwood, History and Politics, Adelaide: Why Not Use English? The Dresden Lutheran Missionaries’ Use of the Mother Tongue
23 May: Dr Joshua Nash and Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, Adelaide: Toponyms in Revival Linguistics
30 May: Revd Dr Bill Edwards, University of South Australia: A Personal Journey with Pitjantjatjara Language
6 June: Kateryna Katsman, Adelaide: Barossa German
25-27 July: AUSTRALEX 2013 --- Endangered Words, Signs of Revival: http://www.australex.org/a13.html
If you are interested in presenting your research in the SECOND SEMESTER 2013 (ALSO THURSDAYS 3pm, Napier 205), please contact Professor Zuckermann ASAP. Interstate and overseas visitors are most welcome!
E.g.:
1 August 2013: Dr Wolfgang Haak and Professor Alan Cooper, Adelaide
8 August 2013: Dr Felicity Meakins, The University of Queensland
15 August 2013: Dr Mark Clendon
22 August 2013: Dr Li Ya
5 September 2013: Isabel O'keeffe
12 September 2013: Zaid Shihab Alamiri, Adelaide: Ellipsis in the Quranic Narratives: Textual Perspective and Approach
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Call for Papers – Australian Association of Jewish Studies
The 26th AAJS Conference, 9-10 February 2014
The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, CBD, Adelaide, South Australia
Jews, Judaism and Hybridity
From its very beginning the people of Israel has been characterized as 'a people that dwells alone' and one that 'is not reckoned among the nations' (Numbers 23:9). Indeed, the ancient Israelite religion was different from all other religions in that it worshipped one God, believing him to be the source of all creation and professing that he could not possess any physical manifestation.
However, looking at the history of Israel and at its spiritual development, one can see that, both practically and conceptually, the Jewish people maintained close reciprocal relationships with other groups and ideas, resulting in fascinating and multifaceted cross-fertilizations and multiple causations. The theme of AAJS Adelaide (9-10 February 2014), Judaism and Hybridity, aims to explore Jewish cross-fertilization, synthesis and syncretism from any perspective.
Extensive study of the Jewish faith, method of scriptural interpretation, Jewish identity, society, literature, art, philosophy and language throughout history, demonstrates that they were all heavily influenced by diverse cultures and religions, and by no means can they be satisfactorily explained as being the outcome of their Jewish or Hebrew classical origins alone. Judaism and Hybridity aims to explore the intriguing Jewish phenomenon from various angles, stressing the unique combination of sources that enabled its endless creativity and its seemingly miraculous renaissance after undergoing major crises.
While being 'hybrid' is typically perceived as an inferior quality, papers may debate whether or not it is a universal trait that ought to be acknowledged, embraced and celebrated. As John Donne wisely wrote, 'no man is an island'. Every cultural phenomenon is necessarily related to multifaceted human experiences. Thousands of years ago, Judaism introduced monotheistic faith into human society, thus changing history for years to come. Papers could propose or reject the idea that whilst monotheism is important, it has also taken its toll, leading philosophers and scientists to believe mistakenly that there is one cause for each phenomenon rather than many. Papers could demonstrate or deny the hybridic nature of the Jewish experience and indeed of the monotheistic religion itself, and open up a novel perspective on society, religion and culture in general.
Submissions to present papers (Deadline: 1 September 2013)
Submissions to present papers must be made via email by 1 September 2013 to Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, email: ghilad.zuckermann@adelaide.edu.au . The subject of the email message should be ‘AAJS Adelaide 2014 Proposal’. (Acceptance of papers will be notified by email no later than 30 October 2013.) Submissions must include the following:
~ Author’s full name,
~ Postal and email address,
~ Institutional affiliation,
~ Abstract of the paper to be presented (no more than 250 words)
~ Short biographical note (no more than 50 words).
AAJS encourages students engaged in academic research to submit proposals based on their work to the conference committee. Authors should clearly indicate their student status on their submission.
Presenters are also invited to submit written articles for consideration for publication in the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies.
Communication about the conference should be sent electronically to Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, email: ghilad.zuckermann@adelaide.edu.au
Conference Committee
As this Conference addresses a small community of scholars, it is imperative that we all support the Association. Thus, it is a requirement that all presenters at this conference will have paid by 10 January 2014 the conference registration fee, which includes the AAJS membership for 2014.
Research interests include:
§ Revival linguistics, contact linguistics, lexicology, historical linguistics, Jewish languages, language and identity, sociolinguistics, lexical and grammatical borrowing, language genesis and evolution.
Current research includes:
§ Reclamation, maintenance and empowerment of indigenous or minority languages, dialects and cultures, Native Tongue Title, language rights, linguistic revival and survival, multiple causation, hybridity, the genesis of the Israeli language, Australian Aboriginal languages, Barngarla (Parnkalla) (Aboriginal language of Port Lincoln, Whyalla, Port Augusta...), Maori, lexical expansion in Mandarin Chinese, alternative language teaching methods, language planning, language academies, language and religion, internationalization of China's linguistics.
Current:
2012-present Indigenous Languages Support (ILS) grant: Barngarla Aboriginal language reclamation workshops.
2012-15 Indigenous Languages Support (ILS) grant: Mobile Language Team (collaborator) (1,050,000 AUD).
2012-present The University of Adelaide Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Grant.
Past (selection):
2007-11 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellowship DP0770414: Language Revival in the Middle East: The Genesis of Israeli ('Modern Hebrew') – Lessons for the Revival of No-Longer Spoken Australian Languages.
2010-12 Project 211 (China): Internationalizing China's Linguistics.
2011-12 The University of Adelaide Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Grant.
2002 British Academy Research Grant: The Camouflaged Lexical Influence of English on the World’s Languages.
§ Language Revival and Multiple Causation (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
§ Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan 2003).
§ The bestseller Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful Language) (Am Oved 2008).
§ Numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters in 10 languages on revival linguistics, contact linguistics, language, culture, religion and identity, English as the world's language, borrowing, multisourced neologization, lexical engineering, linguistic hybridity, lexicography, second language acquisition, mnemonics, psychometrics, Israeli, Yiddish, Hebrew, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, Estonian, Icelandic, German, Italian, Maori and Aboriginal languages.
For example:
Zuckermann, Ghil'ad 2009. 'Hybridity versus Revivability: Multiple Causation, Forms and Patterns', Journal of Language Contact Varia 2: 40-67.
Zuckermann, Ghil'ad and Walsh, Michael 2011. 'Stop, Revive, Survive: Lessons from the Hebrew Revival Applicable to the Reclamation, Maintenance and Empowerment of Aboriginal Languages and Cultures', Australian Journal of Linguistics 31.1: 111-127.
Various other articles are available at the following two websites:
http://www.zuckermann.org/articles.html
Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann is Vice President of the Australasian Association for Lexicography (AUSTRALEX), and member of the Philological Society, Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Centre for Research on Language Change (CRLC), Antipodean East European Study Group, European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX), Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society (IALS), Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee (AILA), National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH), Australian Linguistic Society (ALS), Australian Association of Jewish Studies (AAJS), Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL), Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics (SAAL), Cambridge Institute of Language Research (CILR).
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CALL FOR PAPERS
AUSTRALEX (Australasian Association for Lexicography)
Australex 2013: Endangered Words, and Signs of Revival
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Organizers: Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann and Dr Julia Miller
WHEN: Thursday-Saturday 25-27 July 2013
WHERE: The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide City Centre,
Australia
Webpage: http://www.australex.org/
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 1 December 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 1 February 2013
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Luise Hercus, Australian National University: A Fifty Year Perspective on
Endangered Words and Revival: A Golden Jubilee?
Professor Christopher Hutton, The University of Hong Kong: Reclaiming
Socio-Cultural Memory: Creating a Reference Dictionary of Hong Kong Cantonese
Slogans and Quotations.
Focus Speakers:
Professor Peter Mühlhäusler, The University of Adelaide: Producing a Dictionary
for an Unfocused Language: The Case of Pitkern and Norf’k.
Dr Michael Walsh, The University of Sydney: Endangered Words in the Archive:
The Rio Tinto / Mitchell Library Project.
Australex 2013 will feature scholarly and emotional celebrations, marking for
example Dr Luise Hercus’s 50-year work on Aboriginal languages and Professor
Peter Mühlhäusler’s 20-year scholarship at the University of Adelaide. On Saturday 27 July 2013 we shall
explore the beauty of the Adelaide Hills.
Call for Papers
The theme for Australex 2013 is ‘Endangered Words, and Signs of Revival’.
Papers may address a wide range of areas associated with lexicography,
lexicology, endangered languages, Revival Linguistics, semantics, endangered
meanings, extinct concepts, contact linguistics, social empowerment through
language, and words, culture and identity. Topics may include dictionaries in
Indigenous, minority and other endangered communities, dialectal lexicons, the
educational and cultural roles of dictionaries, talknological dictionaries,
dictionaries and Native Tongue Title, lexical engineering, and language policy
and lexicography. Papers can address controversies such as the ‘Give us
authenticity or give us death’ argument and the descriptive/prescriptive
debate. Other topics may include learners’ dictionaries, specialist
dictionaries, phraseology, proverbs, onomastics and terminology. All welcome.
If you would like to propose a panel or submit a paper or a poster, would you
please email an abstract of no more than 400 words in a Word document tojulia.miller@adelaide.edu.au by 1 December 2012. Abstracts may include up
to 5 references. Notification of acceptance will be sent out BY 1 February 2013.
Up to two student bursaries are available to assist full-time students from
Australia and New Zealand to attend the conference and present a paper.
Please see http://www.australex.org/bursary.htm for
further details.
2004-present Editorial Board Member, Journal of Language Contact.
2009-present Editorial Board Member, Jewish Contemporary Review.
2010-present Editorial Board Member, Israeli Journal of Humor Research.
2007-present Editorial Board Member, Mizrekh: Jewish Studies in the Far East.
2007-present Editorial Advisory Board Member, The Open Applied Linguistics Journal.
1998-present Consultant, Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
2002-present Consultant, Oxford University Press (OUP).
2009-present Consultant, Cambridge University Press (CUP).
2007-present Consultant, Yale University Press (YUP).
2005-present Consultant, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami.
2008-present Organizer, Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (AWAAL).
2002-present Annual Conference Organizer, Consultant, Leyvik House, The Israeli Center for Yiddish Culture, Tel Aviv.
2011-present Scientific Committee Member, International Morphology Meeting (IMM).
2009-present Scientific Committee Member, Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE).
2005-present Advisor, International Academic Board, The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
2012-present Referee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
2011-present Referee, The Leverhulme Trust.
2011-present Referee, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP).
2010-present Referee, Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
2009-present Referee, Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) Annual Conference.
2008-present Referee, Academic Research Fund, National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore.
2010-present Referee, The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
2005-present Referee, Languages in Contrast.
2005-present Referee, Australian Journal of Linguistics.
2004-present Referee, Balshanut Ivrit (Hebrew Linguistics).
2004-present Referee, CamLing (Conference in Language Research, University of Cambridge).
2002-present Referee, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.
2001-present Referee, International Journal of Lexicography.
2008-10 Mentor, Griffith Industry Mentoring Program, Griffith University. 2011-12 Examiner, Ph.D., Waikato University, New Zealand.
2008 Examiner, Ph.D., Griffith University, Australia.
2007-8 Thesis Supervisor, Amirim Programme for Outstanding Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2003-4 Thesis Supervisor, Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London.
2001-3 Examiner, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge.
2000-04 Governing Body Member, Churchill College, Cambridge.
2008-present Thought Leader, Creativity Australia, Melbourne.
2005-present Invited Speaker, Limmud Oz (Annual Festival of Jewish Learning & Culture), Sydney/Melbourne.
2006-present Invited Professor, Leyvik House, The Israeli Center for Yiddish Culture, Tel Aviv.
2004-present Invited speaker on various TV programmes: in the UK (e.g. BBC), Israel (e.g. Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 10, YES, YES DOCO)...
2004-present Invited speaker on numerous radio programmes: in Israel (e.g. Galey Tzahal, Reshet Bet, Kol Yisrael), the UK (e.g. BBC), Australia (e.g. four ABC Lingua Franca programmes, an ABC Encounter programme with David Rutledge, an ABC Big Ideas panel broadcast on 15 April 2010; and various SBS interviews in Israeli, Yiddish, Italian and English, 6PR Perth, 3ZZZ Melbourne), Spain (e.g. Radio Sefarad, English Corner), Germany, South Africa, New Zealand...
1998-present Featuring in various newspaper articles in the USA (e.g. The Forward), UK (e.g. Reuters), Canada (e.g. Globe and Mail), the Netherlands (e.g. Trouw), Sweden (e.g. Språktidningen), Spain (e.g. Terra), Israel (e.g. Haaretz, Maariv, Yediot Aharonot, Jerusalem Post, English Haaretz, Ynet, NRG, Time Out, Makor Rishon, Erev Erev, HaIr), New Zealand (e.g. New Zealand Jewish Chronicle), Germany (e.g. Jüdische Zeitung), and Australia (e.g. The Australian, Courier Mail, Australian Jewish News, Rhapsody, E-ton, Galus Australis).
2009-present Advisory Board Member, Gifted Speech, New York (applied phonetics).
2008-present Keynote Speaker, Limmud Galil (Annual Festival of Jewish Learning & Culture), Rosh HaNikra, Israel.
2007-2010 Lecturer on Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible, Multi-Faith Chaplaincy Centre, The University of Queensland.
2006-2011 Elected Committee Member, Keren Heyesod – United Israel Appeal (UIA), Queensland.
2010 Keynote Speaker, Limmud Arava (Annual Festival of Jewish Learning & Culture), Sapir, Arava, Israel.
2009 Participating Chair, two panels, Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF).
2008 Juror, BIFF Interfaith Award for Promoting Humanitarian Values, Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF). (31 July – 10 August)
2008 Invited Keynote Speaker, Limmud NZ (Annual Festival of Jewish Learning & Culture), New Zealand.
2004-8 Auditor and Consultant, BurlingtonEnglish / Burlington Books (applied phonetics).
2005-6 Invited Professor, Year 11 Conference, Mount Scopus Memorial College, Melbourne.
2006 Invited Professor, Betar Australia. (September)
2006 Senior Lecturer, The Hebrew Language in its Cultural Context, The Melton Graduate Programme, The Florence Melton Adult Mini-School (A Project of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Melbourne. (May-June)
2005 Senior Lecturer, Course for the Hebrew Teachers of Victoria, The Hebrew Teachers Association of Victoria, Bialik College, Melbourne.
2004 Visiting Professor, The Birth of a Modern Language: An Introduction to the History and Culture of Israeli Hebrew, Adult Institute for Jewish Studies, Temple Beth Am, Miami, Florida. (January-March)
2002-4 Senior Treasurer, United World Colleges Society, University of Cambridge.
2002-3 International Selection Examiner, United World Colleges.
1997 President, Oxford University L’Chaim Society.
1993-4 Chairman, United World Colleges Israel: organized activities for the Alumni Association; liaison officer for all past and current UWC students/staff making contact with the Israeli branch; member of the National Selection Committee.
Summer 93 Jewish Agency Representative, Quebec (Canada).
1989-93 Writer of clues for the cryptic crossword of Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel’s largest daily newspaper).
1986-7 Chairman, B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, Eilat, Israel.
| Categories | Arts and culture, Language and literacy |
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| Expertise | Cultural contact as manifested in language; language, society and identity; language revival and survival (Hebrew, Maori, Aboriginal, indigenous languages), borrowing, new words, lexicology, historical linguistics, English as the world's language, cross-cultural communication, hybrid and mixed languages, Israel, Hebrew, Yiddish, Middle East, Jewish languages, Israeli tongue, society, and religion. |
| Notes | STOP, REVIVE, SURVIVE : LESSONS FROM THE HEBREW REVIVAL APPLICABLE TO THE RECLAMATION, MAINTENANCE AND EMPOWERMENT OF ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, language planning, lexical engineering, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language teaching, ESL, English for academic purposes, applied phonetics, prounciation enhancement, contact linguistics, revival linguistics, Italian |
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