ALIA Multicultural

ALIA Multicultural Committee Meeting May
2025-05-30 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom Meeting

ALIA Multicultural Committee Meeting June
2025-06-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Meeting

Amplifying Multicultural and Multilingual Initiatives
2025-07-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Meeting
This webinar will explore initiatives that celebrate and acknowledge the multilingual and multicultural landscape at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). It highlights the Say My Name campaign – a decolonial approach into celebrating and acknowledging names deemed ‘tricky’, ‘unfamiliar’ or ‘foreign’ in Anglo linguistic contexts.
The presentation also discusses the campaign’s research extension, Say Our Names, which gathers data on multicultural workforce experiences and offers tools for fostering culturally inclusive environments. Additionally, the AoC (Acknowledgement of Country) project will be discussed, focusing on connecting Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and Culturally and Racially Marginalised (CARM) communities with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander reconciliation efforts through a translation project wherein the AoC was translated into 37 languages and spoken out loud and recorded by the translators.
Through such language and cultural engagement, the project aims to build meaningful connections, support reconciliation and celebrate linguistic diversity. These efforts resonate with multicultural library services and library staff across Australia and will soon be made available online for everyone to use.

Speaker:Dr. Elaine Laforteza, UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion. Dr Elaine Laforteza is a Filipino migrant to Australia. She has a PhD in Cultural Studies and is the Equity and Diversity Project Officer (Cultural Diversity) at the UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion. She has held academic positions at Macquarie University, Charles Sturt University, and UTS. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals and community media, and her book The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race is available through Routledge. Elaine hosts SBS’s award-winning podcast, My Bilingual Family, and is also an emerging playwright, producing plays for various festivals in Sydney. She recently sold one of her plays to Fae Pictures, a TV and film production company that aims to decolonise Hollywood. She is currently working on a TV script with Fae Pictures on a comedy series.

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2025-08-22 11:00 - 12:00

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2025-10-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Meeting

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2025-10-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Meeting

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ALIA Multicultural Meeting
2026-02-27 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-03-27 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-04-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-06-26 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-07-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-08-28 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-10-02 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-10-30 11:00 - 12:00 and 1 more date | Teams

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