Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Biography/ Background

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Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide. He is an expert of revival linguistics, contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor and Oriental Scholar at Shanghai International Studies University (China) and Visiting Scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), and 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.

He has published in English, Israeli ('Ivrit'), Italian, Yiddish, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. His revolutionary bestseller book Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli - A Beautiful Language) (ISBN: 978-965-13-1963-1) was published in 2008 by Am Oved (Tel Aviv), and his book Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (ISBN: 1-4039-1723-X) came out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2003. He is currently preparing five further volumes: (1) Language Revival and Multiple Causation (Oxford University Press), (2) You Already Know Hebrew/English! (An innovative tool for foreign language learning/teaching), (3) Afro-Asiatic Languages and Cultures, (4) Language, Religion and Identity, and (5) Jewish Language Contact.

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.

He has been research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center (Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy), Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT) (Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University), Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin) and Kokuritu Kokugo Kenkyuuzyo (National Language Research Institute, Tokyo). He has held a range of fellowships and scholarships, including a 5-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellowship, Project 211 Fellowship (China), "Shanghai Oriental Scholar" Professorial Fellowship, British Academy Research Grant, Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship, British Chevening Scholarship and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Scholarship.

On 11-13 September 2009 he organized the first Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (AWAAL). Held at the Brisbane Writers Festival (State Library of Queensland) and at the University of Queensland, the conference attracted scholars from 18 countries.

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 been referee for Yale University Press (YUP), Cambridge University Press (CUP), Oxford University Press (OUP), Languages in Contrast, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Balshanut Ivrit (Hebrew Linguistics), Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, International Journal of Lexicography, CamLing (Conference in Language Research, University of Cambridge), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), and the Academic Research Fund of Singapore's National Institute of Education (NIE). In 2008 he was President of the Jury of the BIFF Interfaith Award for Promoting Humanitarian Values, Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF).

He has delivered hundreds of keynote speeches, plenary conference papers and invited public lectures, e.g. 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), 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), Orlando (Florida), Oxford, 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), Xi'an (China) and Zikhron Yaakov (Israel).

Professor Zuckermann has featured in various TV programmes in Israel (e.g. Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 10, Channel 23, YES, YES DOCO), United Kingdom (e.g. BBC2) and Australia (e.g. ABC1 Midday Report, NITV Evening News), and in different radio programmes in Australia (e.g. several ABC Lingua Franca programmes, an ABC Encounter programme with David Rutledge, an ABC Big Ideas panel broadcast on 15 April 2010, an ABC Life Matters interview with Richard Aedy on 19 July 2011, numerous SBS interviews in Israeli, Yiddish, Italian and English, 6PR Perth, 3ZZZ Melbourne, Noongar Radio Perth, CAAMA Alice Springs, The Wire, Radio Adelaide, Cairns...), Israel (e.g. Galey Tzahal, Reshet Bet, Kol Israel), UK (e.g. BBC World Service), Spain (e.g. Radio Sefarad), New Zealand, South Africa and Germany.

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. New Zealand Jewish Chronicle), Germany (Jüdische Zeitung), and Australia (e.g. The Australian (1) (2), Courier Mail, Australian Jewish News, Rhapsody, E-ton, Galus Australis).

A very short clip from recent BBC interviews of Professor Zuckermann by Stephen Fry (on Fry's Planet Word) can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ksqzk (The Politics of Language).

In 1993-6 Professor Zuckermann taught preparatory courses for various psychometric examinations (e.g. GMAT) at Kidum Institute, Tel Aviv, and co-authored four books in this field. Other interests include opera (in particular Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti and Mozart), film, photography, constrained literature, poetry, paleo-anthropology and human migration, cultural immersion through travel, and world politics.

Further information can be found at http://www.zuckermann.org/

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Qualifications

D.Phil. (Oxon.), University of Oxford

Ph.D. (Cantab.) (titular), University of Cambridge

M.A. (summa cum laude), Tel Aviv University

Awards & Achievements

2011-present 'Shanghai Oriental Scholar' Professorial Fellowship, China.

 

2010-present Project 211 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 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 Interests

Language Revival

Language Contact

Lexical Expansion

Borrowing

Semantics

Multiple Causation

Linguistic Research Writing

 

Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann teaches inter alia the following courses:

LING 2049: Languages in the 21st Century: Cultural Contact and New Words (February-June 2012)

LING: Languages in a Global Society (July-November 2012)

LING: Morphology and Syntax (July-November 2012)

 

LING: Linguistics Research Seminar (February-November 2012)

LING 1102: Language and Ethnography of Communication (July-November 2012)

LING 1101: Foundations of Linguistics (July-November 2012)

LING 2039: Language and Learning 

 

LING 2038: Cross-Cultural Communication

LING 2039: Reclaiming Languages

LING 2040: Phonology and Phonetics

LING 5004: Language and Meaning

 

Professor Zuckermann also serves as Postgraduate Coordinator and Linguistics Honours Coordinator.

 

Please contact Professor Zuckermann if you would like to give a lecture on a linguistic topic at the University of Adelaide.

 

 

Here are some of our forthcoming lectures:

 

THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

LINGUISTICS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM 2012

Convener: Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann

ghilad.zuckermann@adelaide.edu.au, 08 8318 5247, 0423 901 808

(Please contact Prof. Zuckermann if you would like to give a lecture/presentation)

SEMESTER ONE ---- All welcome!

EVERY TUESDAY AT 2PM, LIGERTWOOD (LAW BUILDING) 423

 

28 February: Introducing Ourselves.

6 March: Sally Collyns, Adelaide: From Istanbul to Adelaide – Reflections on a Career in English Language Teaching.

13 March: Professor Michael Katz, University of Haifa, Israel: Cognitive Impact of Grammatical Gender in the Israeli Language.

20 March: (A) Handoyo Puji Widodo, Adelaide: Developing English Materials for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Purposes: A Blended Principled Framework;                                                                                                                            (B) Jasmin Morley, Adelaide: The Importance of ‘Esoteric’ Functions of Language in Human Society.

27 March: Dr Amy Perfors, Psychology, Adelaide: Computational Models of Language Acquisition: What Can They Tell Us?

17 April: (A) Dr Tim Curnow, UniSA: Language education in Australian schools: Commonwealth policy versus state-level implementation.                                                             (B) Napatsinee Vichaidit, Adelaide: The Discourse of Thai Police Officers and Foreign Tourists in Thailand.

24 April: (A) James McElvenny, University of Sydney: Scientists or engineers? Academic linguists and the international language movement, 1879-1951;

          (B) Jodie Martin, Adelaide: Being jazz in student writing.

1 May: Dr Christine Nicholls, Flinders University: Warlpiri Nicknaming.

8 May: (A) Dr Rob Amery, Adelaide: Taking to the Airwaves: A Strategy for Language Revival; (B) Fiona Mariner, U Library: Smarter Search Strategies – getting more out of search tools.

15 May: (A) Aiyoub Pineh, Adelaide: Exploring the Impact of Genre-Based Pedagogy in Developing Grammatical Metaphor in Students’ Writing;                                                   

(B) Abdulrahman Alhaidari, Adelaide: Cross-cultural Setting of Language Teaching in a Saudi Arabian Context.

22 May: Professor Peter Sutton, South Australian Museum: Giving Away Language: Praxis vs Ideology in the Loss of Linguistic Diversity.

29 May: (A) Nicola Fanning, Flinders University: Speech Pathology.                                               (B) An informal talk with Antikirrinya elder Ingkama Bobby Brown and with Petter Naessan about Irrititja - the past: Antikirrinya history from Ingomar Station and beyond (Keearia Press, 2012)

5 June: Revd Dr Matthew Anstey, Principal, St Barnabas’ Theological College, Adelaide: Narratives in Biblical Hebrew: Grammatical indicators of plot.

 

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THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

LINGUISTICS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM 2012

Convener: Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann

ghilad.zuckermann@adelaide.edu.au, 08 8318 5247, 0423 901 808

(Please contact Prof. Zuckermann if you would like to give a lecture/presentation)

SEMESTER TWO ---- All welcome!

 

EVERY MONDAY AT 1PM, NAPIER LG23

 

23 July: Professor Tony Liddicoat, UniSA: The Discursive Construction of Intercultural Relationships in Language-in-Education Policy Texts.

30 July: Professor Irabinna-Lester Rigney, Dean and Professor of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Wilto Yerlo, Adelaide: Indigenous Languages and Australia's Constitution and National Curriculum.

6 August: (A) Dr Mark Clendon, Adelaide: Language shift in the West Australian arid zone: demography and prehistory;                                                                                                             (B) Ammon Stephenson, Adelaide: Constructed Languages and Revival Linguistics.

13 August: (A) Professor Andy Butcher, Flinders University:  Speaking and Hearing Australian Aboriginal Languages: Could Hearing Impairment Play a Role in the Evolution of a Phonology?;                                                                                                                                   (B) Edmond Pegge and Richard Potter, The Informing Performing Company: It’s not what you say, it’s the way you say it!

20 August: (A) Dr Mary-Anne Gale and Verna Koolmatrie, Mobile Language Team, Adelaide: The Story of the Revival of the Ngarrindjeri Language;                                                                            (B) Clara Stockigt, Adelaide: The Description of Syntax in Early Grammars of South Australian Languages.

27 August: Dr Ming Cheung, Media, Adelaide:  A Rhetorical Study of the Titles of Cantonese Pop Songs.

3 September: Margareta Rebelos, Adelaide: Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Slovak-English early bilingualism.

10 September: (A) Johanna Motteram, Adelaide: Language Testing and the Interpersonal.                 (B) Associate Professor Angela Scarino and Dr Jonathan Crichton, UniSA: ‘In-betweeness’ in the experience of language learning

8 October: (A) Fernando Marmolejo Ramos, Psychology, Adelaide:                                                          (B) Nha Tran Nguyen: An Investigation into Syllabus Negotiation in English Language Teaching in Vietnam;                                                                                                                                         (C) Fiona Mariner, UofA Library: Smarter Search Strategies – getting more out of search tools.

15 October: Professor Peter Mühlhäusler, Adelaide: Naming and Nick-Naming in Norf’k.                        (B) Katherine Tearle, Adelaide.

22 October: (A) Dr Christine Nicholls, Flinders University: Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Schools: Noble Dream, Comparative Educational Success, and Policy Failure;                                                                                                                                              (B) Handoyo Puji Widodo and Hasti Rahmaningtyas, Adelaide: The Use of Visual Text in English Material Development.

 

 

Research Interests

 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.

Research Funding

Current:

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

Project 211 (China): Internationalizing China's Linguistics

 

Past (selection):

British Academy Research Grant: The Camouflaged Lexical Influence of English on the World’s Languages (2002).

Publications

§  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://adelaide.academia.edu/zuckermann

http://www.zuckermann.org/articles.html

Professional Associations

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).

Professional Interests

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.

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. 

Community Engagement

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.

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Arts and culture, Language and literacy
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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