Dear all,
Please find attached the semester programme for Risk and Renewal in
the Pacific, an interdisciplinary network hosted at the Centre for
Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University
of Cambridge, which explores global existential risk from the point of
view of the Pacific.
Our first seminar will be:
Yolngu Naming and Forgetting — Managing Risk?
Professor Howard Morphy (Australian National University) & Frances
Morphy (Australian National University)
14 October 2019, 17:00 - 19:00
Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building
Abstract:
Personal names and place names are integral to the Yolngu sense of
being in the world. Place names are bestowed as personal names. They
are implicated in all aspects of life, from structuring connubial
relationships between sets of clans to ensuring enduring relationships
between people and place. Our recent research has demonstrated the
strength of memory, showing that some names have been in use as place
names and so possibly also as personal names for at least 3000 years.
But names can be painful or dangerous; some are highly restricted in
their use. Names need to be retained, but in many contexts they must
also be unspoken in the everyday, and may remain so for many years. In
this paper we will talk about the process of remembering and how
digital technology is being seen as a tool for recording names in
place – minimising the possibility of loss. But is this managing risk?
Yolngu have no word for risk, and we will question whether or not
‘risk’ is indeed a cross-cultural category. We need to understand how
Yolngu conceptualise and talk about probability, possibility, danger
and loss before asking if ‘risk’ is the appropriate way to frame the
analysis.
We hope to see you there.
For more information on the series, see:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/risk-and-renewal-in-the-pacific
[image: CRASSH Risk and Renewal Michaelmas poster .jpg]
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