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OCSEAN Summer School Tartu 2024 - Cultural Night

OCSEAN Summer School participants from Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea gathered to share their culture and traditions....

OCSEAN 2024 Summer School Tartu Conference on LINGUISTICS & HERITAGE is approaching 15th - 16th August, 2024

OCSEAN is very glad to once again organize a conference to have an update on running projects, invite guests. Conference is mainly...

Fieldtrip to Setumaa, August - OCSEAN Summer School Tartu 2024

To learn about a small linguistically and culturally distinct group, OCSEAN Summer School participants went to a fieldtrip to Setomaa....

Linguistics data curation and analyses workshop, July-August OCSEAN Summer School Tartu 2024

The major effort of OCSEAN Summer School Tartu 2024 is to bring together again many people who started their journey in Uppsala 2022...

Archaeogenetics Workshop, OCSEAN Summer School 2024

Introduction to interdisciplinary research of human past with integration of archaeology , genetics , (and linguistics ) in the study of...

Heritage Studies - Ethnobotany - OCSEAN Summer School Tartu 2024, August

The week of Ethnobotany took participants on an intensive journey of inquiry about human's relation to plants, how they are used and how...

Heritage Studies - Folkloristics - OCSEAN Summer School Tartu 2024, June

Folkloristics module was part of the Heritage Studies during OCSEAN Summer School. Lead by Associate Professor Merili Metsvahi from the...

Welcome! OCSEAN Summer School Tartu 2024 participants

OCSEAN Summer School Tartu 2024 has brought together 48 participants from the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Summer School...

Workshop on language conservation through documentation in Davao City, the Philippines May 29 - June 2, 2023

The Oceanic and Southeast Asian Navigation (OCSEAN) project held the third linguistic workshop on 2023 in Davao City, the Philippines in...

Bunggeta, Kilakawada, Pelman and Mobyetang’s Wordlist and socilinguistics Field-work, June 2024 Indonesia

From June 5, 2024, to June 12, 2024, an intensive fieldwork mission was conducted in the villages of Bunggeta in Mataru Utara, Kilakawada...

OCSEAN Wokshop on Abui Language Orthography and the Preparation of Teaching Materials in Abui, April 2024

A Workshop on Abui Ortography was organized in April 2024 as a continuation of OCSEAN Linguistic Workshops in Indonesia. Adolfina Moybeka...

OCSEAN Linguistic Workshops in Alor May 2023

Alor has many local languages which are not well documented. According to Ethnologue, Alor island is home to a significant number of...

Documenting the Mentawai Language Through Socio-Cultural Aspects in Indonesia, May 2023

In May 2023 a team lead by Dendi Wijaya from National Research and Innovation Agency/BRIN, together with Engga Zakaria Sangian from...

Documentation of Sinama Banguingui and Yakan Languages in Southern Mindanao, the Philippines - March 2024

Mr. Almunshar A. Astarani, a member of the team of fieldworkers affiliated to Ifugao University and a part of OCSEAN Philippines...

Fieldwork on Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Sabu and Raijua Indonesia September 2023–March 2024

Mellissa E.S. Ledo lead the team that included James Ngginak, Apriliana Ballo, Mibels N. Heke, Yhersi Ndun, Berto D. Hano, Alfandi Ngede,...

Bulian Village’s Ritual Language Documentation Project in Indonesia - January to April 2024

Map of Bulian Village The initial phase of Bulian Saa project ran from January to April 2024. This project is led by Udayana University –...

Collecting new language data - fieldwork in Raijua and Kusa Manea, Indonesia April - May 2024

Thersia Tamelan from OCSEAN partner university - Universitas Kristen Artha Wacana (UKAW) lead two teams to collect new linguistic data in...

Preserving the ritual language, Udayana University fieldwork in the Loloan Timur community February - June 2024

To document the Burdah Lexicon related to the ritual of Ngelenggang, unique to the Loloan community, Udayana University researcher I...

Linguistic fieldwork to research the retention of local language in Indonesia - February to May 2024

Lead by senior lecturer Ni Luh Ketut Mas Indrawati, a team of six researcher from Udyana University journeyd up the hill in the Northern...

OCSEAN SUMMER SCHOOL 2024 is on its way - 20.06 - 18.08 2024 in TARTU, Estonia

We are very glad to announce that OCSEAN second Summer School will be held in Tartu, the European Culture Capital of 2024, also known as...