Text by: Monika Karmin, Catherine Upex and Rachel Wood   The visiting researchers from University of Udayana (UNUD), Davao Medical School Foundation Incorporation (DMSFI) and University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) arrived in Bristol in summer 2025. They came to an intensive ‘Data Camp’ to first learn quantitative methods, then apply these to OCSEAN linguistic dataset while in Bristol and then take the skills back home to apply in their research projects.   The linguistic datas

Between July 20 and August 2, 2024, a team from the University of the South Pacific and The Fiji Museum took part in archaeological research on Vanua Levu (Fiji) in the Provinces of Bua and Macuata. The project is a collaboration funded by the University of the South Pacific Research Office and European Commission via OCSEAN. The project was designed to address questions related to two shell midden deposits and to train local students in archaeological methods during the fiel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 the home of the Kissing Students, and the City of Good Thoughts. Summer School will be hosted by the University of Tartu , the oldest university in Estonia. We invite all OCSEAN members to join. Summer School 2024 will be yet another capacity building event covering topics of Heritages Studies: Folkloristics; Ethnobotany & Biocultural Diver

In October 2023 a distinguished OCSEAN secondee - Dr George van Driem, Prof Emeritus from the University of Bern, gave a series of...

In October 2023 Dr Merili Metsvahi from the University of Tartu was busy building bridges between the heritage studies of Philippines and...

The workshops are led by Dr George Saad of Palacký University Olomouc in both Indonesia and the Philippines, in co-operation with Dr Owen...

OCSEAN Workshop on modelling archaeological data brought together researchers from archaeology, genomics, and data modelling to explore...

A population genetics workshop was held in Uppsala University to give the Summer Training course participants a comprehensive overview...

A section of the Summer Training Course on Interdisciplinary Methods in Probing the Human Past held in Uppsala University is a workshop...

The participants for the Summer Training course arrived in Uppsala, Sweden on June 15, 2022. A total of 50 participants from the...

In June-September 2022, OCSEAN organises a 3-month capacity building Summer Training Course, which will include a training on linguistic data collection, management and archiving and workshops on archeology, anthropology, heritage conservation, and population genetics. Fifty participants including indigenous representatives, cultural workers, and academics from the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea were invited. The course will take place in Uppsala University, Swe