Additional Scholarly Work (Performances, Podcasts and Recorded Presentations)

Galla, C.K. (2019, June). He pūkoʻa kani ʻāina: creating pathways for Indigenous language vitality. TEDxJIBC presentation for Small Ripples, Big Waves. New Westminster, BC, Canada

• This is a story that reflects upon the small ripples that were generated at the birth of the Hawaiian language revitalization movement. The tide and current have generated waves that are now thousands of Hawaiian language speakers, and has inspired many other Indigenous language communities around the world. This is a story of hope, possibility, passion, and commitment!​

Galla, C.K., Harper, L., & McKenny, D. (2016, February 25). Creating new worlds from old sounds [Led by M. Ernest]. Sounding Out! Podcast #51. Podcast retrieved from https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/02/25/sounding-out-podcast-50-creating-new-words-from-lost-sounds/

• This podcast looks at how ancestral languages are spoken in today’s changing environment of technology and popular culture. Here, Marcella Ernest leads a discussion considering how Indigenous people are adapting heritage languages to modern times. With an open mind and creative methodologies, Native language communities, activists, scholars, and educators are working to integrate and inspire our heritage languages to continue into the 21st century and beyond. Finding new words with old sounds is intended as a means of both preserving language and helping people to learn it. How do heritage languages change to accommodate new things like computers, cell phones, and popular culture? Can ancestral sounds be translated to create new words?

Turin, M., Zuckermann, G., & Galla, C.K. (2016, January 24). Reawakening languages [Led by B. Kendall]. BBC – The Forum. Podcast retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03fslbj

• Many of us are fluent in at least one language and some people are proficient in two, three, four or even more. But not all languages around the world are in good health. In fact it is thought that at least half of the languages that are alive today could cease to be spoken by the end of this century. What can we do about it? How do you re-awaken hibernating or dying languages and the cultures that go with them? Or, is some extinction inevitable? Bridget Kendall discusses the positive things that are happening with some minority languages, focusing on Australia, Nepal and Hawaii with linguists Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann and Dr. Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla and anthropologist Dr. Mark Turin.​
• Each episode of The Forum brings together three thinkers, leading figures from different academic and artistic disciplines. A typical line-up might include a scientist, a writer or other artist, and a philosopher or cultural thinker. Each guest is questioned by the presenter about their latest big idea, a topic area which is of particular interest to them and in which they are a particular expert. During the course of each section the other guests are invited to contribute with criticisms, insights and support of their own.

Galla, C. K., Nathan, D., Turin, M. & Tallio, C. (2013, September). On Endangered Languages, Digital Technologies, and Archives [Led by K. Hennessy [chair]. Roundtable for On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice Symposium, Vancouver, BC, Canada (VIDEO to the right)

Galla, C.K. (2013, June). Display case, Living Our Indigenous Languages, for the Second annual Aboriginal (Un)History Month. Irvin K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Retrieved from http://about.library.ubc.ca/2013/06/14/indigenous-scholars-installation/

• The (Un)History month activities introduce ways UBC Indigenous scholars are bridging communities and transforming academic spaces through Indigenous approaches to research, pedagogy, and governance. It aims to educate and invite dialogue about (inter)relationships between place, recognition, and memory.
• The June 2013 gate traffic at the IKBLC was 69,261. ​

Galla, C.K. (2013, April 19). West coast hukilau [Led by F. Czeschel). UBC Faculty of Education Down the Hall Episode 57. Podcast retrieved from http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/down-the-hall-episode-57-west- coast-hukilau/ 

• This week’s episode has a cornucopia of indigenous content, with two great interviews as well as a look at what has been going on in the Faculty of Education’s “Year of Indigenous Education.” Fiona talks to Dr. Candace Galla about language revitalization, the different means of storytelling, her recent research grant, and her preparation for the Aboriginal Language & Literacy summer institute. At the time of their conversation, Candace was getting ready for the Living Our Indigenous Languages Through Multimedia Technology event that took place on April 13. It’s a fascinating interview that we’re sure you’ll enjoy.

Galla, C. K. (2012, July 20). E ola ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi ma o ka hula, mele, a oli (Living the Hawaiian language through Hawaiian dance, song, and chant). Hō‘ike performance as part of LLED 565 course requirement, Living our Indigenous languages through performative arts. Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Canada (VIDEO to the right)

• Students from LLED 565D “Living Our Indigenous Languages through Performative Arts”, which was a part of the Summer 2012 Indigeneity Educational Institute at UBC shared hula, mele and oli learned in class. They unveiled culture, language, and stories of Hawaiʻi's history, royalty, landmarks, landscapes, with their hand motions, foot movements, instruments and voices. Hula, mele and oli are a tribute to what has been carried forward from generations past that withstood the factions of colonization and is a reminder of the many facets of language and culture that are deeply embedded in the hula, mele and oli that are often overlooked and under utilized as a form of education. 

Galla, C. K. (2012, July 10). Indigenous language revitalization and the role of technology. Invited Presentation for the UBC/SFU Summer Institute on Recurring Questions of Technology: A Brief History of Consciousness and Learning, Public Lecture Series, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Retrieved from http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/2012-recurring-questions-of-technology/ (VIDEO to the right)

• The 5-day UBC/SFU summer course was offered as an open institute with leading scholars to explore how technology, as a particular regard for tools and techniques, reflects a state of consciousness that bears on our ideas of learning. These questions involve educational issues of 1) culture and history, 2) language and knowledge, and 3) identity and difference.
• Instructors: Mary Bryson, Teresa Dobson, Don Krug, William Pinar, Stuart Poyntz, and John Willinsky
• Public Lecture Series: Richard Cavell, Peter Cole, Andrew Feenberg, Candace K. Galla, Pat O’Riley, and Richard Smith

Galla, C. K. (2012, July 4). Hula power: Traditional dancing connects researcher to her language [Interview by H. Amos]. UBC Reports, 58(7), 12-13. Retrieved from http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2012/07/04/hula-power/ (VIDEO to the right)

• Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla’s emails begin with Aloha and end with na’u—literally meaning ‘mine’ or equivalent to ‘yours’ in Hawaiian - or Mahalo - thank you. “It’s about finding spaces to use the language,” says Galla, who studies indigenous language revitalization in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at UBC’s Faculty of Education.