Welcome. Pro Vice-Chancellor John Germov, Faculty Education and Arts

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3 Welcome Pro Vice-Chancellor John Germov, Faculty Education and Arts

4 Welcome Director Prof Ros Smith, Centre for 21 st Century Humanities

5 Project 1. Colonial Frontier Massacres Lyndall Ryan and Bill Pascoe

6 Project 2. Certified Corethics The App Melissa McCabe

7 newcastle based international development not-for-profit

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15 an exclusive partnership

16 we re ready are you?

17 Project 3. Preserving an Endangered Torres Straits Language Bill Palmer

18 Preserving an endangered Torres Strait language Bill Palmer

19 A global extinction event 7000 languages 7 billion people = 1 million people per language, right? Wrong! A few giant languages Many tiny languages 1 billion speakers: 1 language 1 billion humans million: 9 languages 2.5 billion humans million: 379 languages 3.6 billion humans 0-1 million: 6711 languages 400 million humans (6%) Small Indigenous languages are vulnerable in the face of globalisation Every fortnight a language dies 50%-90% of all languages will die by the end of this century

20 Indigenous Australian languages Australia - world s worst record for Indigenous language death In 1788: Around 400 separate languages spoken Today: Perhaps 80 are still spoken Half have fewer than 10 speakers A quarter have only 1! Only 18 are being learnt by children

21 Indigenous Australian languages Australia - world s worst record for Indigenous language death In 1788: Around 400 separate languages spoken If current trends continue no Indigenous language will be spoken by 2050 National Indigenous Languages Survey Report 2005 Today: Perhaps 80 are still spoken Half have fewer than 10 speakers A quarter have only 1! Only 18 are being learnt by children

22 Why care? The death of a language means loss of accumulated knowledge of environmental management, natural resources, plantbased medicines a people s history, culture and world-view individual and community cultural identity Speakers of Indigenous languages have Higher rates of: wellness (on defined measures) high school completion Enhanced: Identity and self-esteem Social cohesion Empowerment (Studies in Australia, NZ, USA & Canada) Lower rates of: youth suicide violence victimization incarceration diabetes poor health (on defined measures) smoking illicit drug use excessive alcohol use

23 Kala Lagaw Ya Endangerment rating: Critically Endangered NILS A worrying trajectory: How many speakers? 1984: 2006: around Today: about 1000 Some islands no longer use it Kids are switching to English & creole! Under 20yrs 3/10 Hopeful signs: Many kids are still learning the language Young people text in the language yrs 4.5/10 Over 60 yrs 7/10

24 We will work with the community to document and help preserve Kala Lagaw Ya for future generations language documentation language description Maintenance and revitalization needs language materials language apps literacy materials dictionaries video recordings digital archiving books of traditional culture & knowledge

25 We need Support for 1 student stipend (3.5 years for PhD research program) $28,000pa (total $98,000) We will provide Tuition fee scholarship ($21,000pa (total $74,000)) Fieldwork equipment Fieldwork expenses We will produce PhD thesis description of Kala Lagaw Ya (published as a book) A video corpus digitally archived in perpetuity Maintenance materials in consultation with the community

26 Project 4. Deep Time 2.0 Amir Morgadam and Gaute Rasmussen

27 DEEP TIME 2.0 DEMOCRATISING HISTORY Dr. Amir Mogadam University Conservator Cultural Collections Expert in historical preservation Gaute Rasmussen Innovation Specialist IT Services Expert in technology and software development

28 THE PROBLEM Development in Newcastle destroys a lot of information about Newcastle s past, but also generates archaeological data Some information is captured, but no cohesive approach to storing it Novocastrians don t have easy access to the information that is uncovered

29 DEEP TIME 1.0 Developed by UON as a collaboration between Cultural Collections and IT Innovation Team ~$200k spent on developing the prototype Focused on the 2009 excavation of the KFC / Palais Royale site

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31 WHAT WE VE ACHIEVED Novel way of presenting archaeological data Fun and engaging Established Work Integrated Learning program to scan artefacts

32 REMAINING PROBLEMS Single Site (KFC) Missing big picture Scanning of artefacts is a slow process Not publicly available

33 NEXT STEPS Create a platform where similar data from all archaeological sites can be added Develop a map view to see sites in context Add support for simpler forms of data (text / images) to speed up data entry Add two more sites Make the data available to a wide audience

34 THE MONEY Year 1: $330k $80k turn the prototype into a product (includes support for multiple sites) $80k Add map component $30k Data Storage $10k Establish public facing website 2X $65k pa per person Archaeological data entry Year 2: $85k $65k pa per person Archaeological data entry $20k ongoing running costs Total: $415k All numbers are estimates only and may change during development

35 VISION FOR THE FUTURE More sites added More types of content More functionality Take over the world

36 ACT NOW Lots of development happening in Newcastle If we don t act now we might lose important information

37 DEEP TIME 2.0 DEMOCRATISING HISTORY THANK YOU Dr. Amir Mogadam & Gaute Rasmussen

38 Project 5. Kawa Translation Hub Bill Pascoe

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42 The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. Tim Berners-Lee

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44 Kawa is an interactive crowd sourced web map of the history of world poetry in any language.

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47 SUSTAINABLE PLAN

48 BUDGET Development $5,000 IT Requirements $200 User testing and post launch support $3,800 Promotions 1,000 $10,000

49 Project 6. Future of Humanities Hugh Craig

50 THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY A NEWCASTLE-HOSTED CONFERENCE

51 OUR FUTUREPHILIC JOURNEY The future of humanity is suddenly looking a lot different. It used to seem assured, highly positive, a continuation of trends already happening towards longer lives, better health, more fun jobs, more available (cheaper, better, lighter) everything. Australians in particular were known as futurephilic we were in love with a vague wonderful future.

52 UNPRECEDENTED RATE OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT We still live in a world where technology is developing at an unprecedented rate, and yet it now seems clear that these advances also bring new threats to the survival of humanity. The most obvious is the uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence towards autonomous robots with superior mental capacity to humans. There are also more familiar threats that now seem much closer and more real like.

53 NUCLEAR WAR

54 CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE

55 SYSTEMIC GLOBAL INEQUITY OF OPPORTUNITY

56 MEET NICK BOSTROM One person who has done a huge amount to advance thinking about existential threats to the future of humanity is the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom. The hypothetical invention of the super-destructive, easily constructed weapon comes from him. So does the idea that AI is the greatest threat to the survival of humanity. He says our attitude to AI is like a child playing with an armed atom bomb, and hearing a faint ticking. He runs the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford and is famous for promoting the idea of philosophy with a deadline.

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58 SPONSOR OUR NEWCASTLE- BASED CONFERENCE The event would bring together a panel of speakers including Professor Bostrom to discuss how the humanities can contribute to a better future for humanity and to managing existential risks to humanity. Other speakers would come from areas like critical computer science, environmental humanities, the history of violence, political science, and development studies. The duration would be one day. A final session would focus on short and medium term avenues for action in the local context (City of Newcastle, Hunter region, State of NSW, and Commonwealth of Australia). The supporter would have their name attached to the meeting alongside that of the University of Newcastle and would be credited with an engagement with questions of national and global importance.

59 THANK YOU Proposed funding: $18,200 Fares, accommodation and a fee for Prof Bostrom ($3500; $900; $2000 = $6400 total) Fares and accommodation for 3 invited speakers from within Australia and NZ ($1500; $1800) Venue hire $1500 Pre-publicity $1500 Administrator $1000 Catering $1000 Videographer $3500

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