From June 5, 2024, to June 12, 2024, an intensive fieldwork mission was conducted in the villages of Bunggeta in Mataru Utara, Kilakawada in Mataru Timur, Pelman, and Mobyetang in Kelaisi. This research was led by Adolfina M.S. Moybeka, with the dedicated assistance of Daniel S. Lanma and Benediktus Delpada. The team operated under the expert supervision of George Saad and the late Dra. June Jacob. The primary focus of this fieldwork was twofold: the collection of comprehensi

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 summer of 2023 brought hard labor and excitement for OCSEAN secondee Dr Hugo Reyes-Centeno (University of Tübingen and University of...

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

The second OCSEAN International Conference took place from June 5th to 10th in 2023 in the Philippines, in southern Mindanao between the...

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

The important part of OCSEAN is to create videos that record the course of the project, explain the ideas and show the results. Here we proudly present the first, capturing the linguistics practice sessions of trainee linguists from Indonesia and Philippines during the Summer School 2022 in Sweden. In this video we learn how word lists are collected, put into practice in linguistics and used in studying human population movements. Why is it partictularly applicable for the Au

The 1st international conference of the OCSEAN consortium was sucessfuly held for three days at the Hall IV of the University...

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...