Creatives Get Cooperative - Seminar

Catalyst and co-founder of Enspiral

Joshua is an entrepreneur and programmer with a passion for business, technology and social change. He has been running technology businesses for the last dozen years and launched Enspiral in 2010. In 2013 he co-founded Enspiral Dev Academy and is currently serving as a Catalyst of the Enspiral network while launching of a new livelihood pod called Golden Pandas.

Claire Marshall has a love for stories, technology and social good. An award-winning creative and experienced speaker and facilitator, she has presented at conferences such as Ouishare (Paris), Re:publica (Berlin) and Disrupt (Sydney). With a focus on helping people think creatively about disruptive technologies, she has co-developed (with Dr Ele Jansen) a facilitated co-design card game that has been played with organisations worldwide including Google, and run experimental workshops for organisations such as UTS (the University of Technology Sydney) on topics like Blockchain and Virtual Reality. She is a passionate advocate for the sharing economy and sits on the board of Mercury Co-operative, as well as on the advisory team for The Studio a media technology incubator.

Curator Creatives Get Cooperative, Principal, Social Enterprise Services Australia & Chair Mercury Co-op Ltd.

Belgian born Michel Bauwens is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives, a member of the Board of the Union of International Associations (Brussels), advisor to Ouishare (Paris) and Shareable magazine (San Francisco).  He will provide opening remarks for the Creative Get Cooperative - Seminar

Dr Natalia Nikolova has a PhD in economic and political sciences (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Cologne, Germany. She is a Senior Lecturer at UTS Business School and UTS Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation. Natalia researches organisational and management practices, strategy and innovation in a range of contexts, such as project-based organisations, professional services and creative industries. She is passionate about alternative and innovative models of value creation and is currently researching how to cultivate practices based on the concept of stewardship of public trust. Natalia has worked on several projects with industry partners including Second Road, Spencer Stuart, Mercer and the Australian Government Creative Industries Innovation Centre.

Brief Bio:

Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann (DPhil Oxford; PhD Cambridge, titular; MA Tel Aviv, summa cum laude) is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide. He is currently a chief investigator in a large research project assessing language revival and mental health, funded by Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).  

His recent work includes Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property (2015), and the first online Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language (2016). His MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages, has attracted more than 7,500 students from more than 150 countries. 

Extended Bio:

He is the author of the seminal bestseller Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful Language; Am Oved, 2008), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), three chapters of the Israeli Tingo (Keren, 2011), Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property (2015) and the first online Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language (2016).

He is the editor of Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (2012), Jewish Language Contact (2014), a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and the co-editor of Endangered Words, Signs of Revival (2014). He is the founder of Revivalistics, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation, revitalization and reinvigoration. He has launched, with the Barngarla Aboriginal communities of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, the reclamation of the Barngarla language.

Professor Zuckermann is elected member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), and the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL). He was president of AustraLex from 2013 to 2015, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow from 2007 to 2011, and Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge from 2000 to 2004. He has been consultant and expert witness in (corpus) lexicography and (forensic) linguistics, in court cases all over the globe.

He has been distinguished visiting professor at Shanghai International Studies University and taught at the University of Cambridge, University of Queensland, National University of Singapore, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East China Normal University, Shanghai International Studies University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Miami University. He has been research fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science; Tel Aviv University; Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University; Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University; and Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo.

He has been Denise Skinner Scholar at St Hugh's College Oxford, Scatcherd European Scholar at the University of Oxford, and scholar at the United World College of the Adriatic (Italy). His MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages, has attracted more than 7,500 students from more than 150 countries.

Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxon.), Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages, Department of Linguistics, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.