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OCSEAN Third International Conference to be held in Bali 21-23 July 2025
OCSEAN consortium cordially invites our partners to share the results from their projects and discuss with other researchers in the...


Exploring Rokodavutu shell deposits along the Bua River and Nakorovatu in Otubelu Bay July - August , 2024, Fiji
Between July 20 and August 2, 2024, a team from the University of the South Pacific and The Fiji Museum took part in archaeological...


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...


Local heritage and language preservation and presentation - a field trip 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...

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