From: Recovering Voices <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 3:15 PM
Subject: 2024 Smithsonian Recovering Voices Community Research Program - Call for Proposals Open Nov 15, 2023 - Jan 15, 2024
Dear Colleagues,
We look forward to receiving your proposals.
Founded in 2009, Recovering Voices (RV) is a collaborative program of the National Museum
of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the Asian Pacific American Center that partners with communities around the world to revitalize and sustain endangered languages and knowledge.
Through interdisciplinary research, community collaboration and public outreach, we strive to develop effective responses to language and knowledge loss. Our research program strives to understand the dynamics of intergenerational knowledge transfer and recognizes
that language communities and scholars have a mutual interest in documenting, revitalizing and sustaining languages and the knowledge embedded in them.
The Recovering Voices Community Research Program (CRP) supports communities in their
efforts to save, document, and enliven their languages, cultures and traditional knowledge. This funding program supports groups of community researchers from around the world to travel to the Smithsonian to examine objects, specimens, and documents related
to their heritage, and to engage in a dialogue with Smithsonian staff.
Access to collections is central to the recovery and regeneration of knowledge. The National Museum of Natural History alone holds
145 million biological and mineral specimens and cultural artifacts. These objects embody knowledge of natural resources, the environment, history, social structures, and collective memory. We work closely with collections and archives staff to connect community
researchers with Smithsonian collections and archives both through on-site visits and through digitization of materials.
Recovering Voices understands that knowledge and information are embodied in material culture - interaction
with an object can bring back a memory or a story of how it was used or made. Likewise, group archival research allows for the sharing of stories or conversations about materials and photographs discovered. CRP visits are video recorded to assist both the
group and Recovering Voices in remembering what was learned in a medium that can be returned to the community. These audiovisual materials are high definition and can be used to create educational materials for use in community-based revitalization efforts.
Each year, the CRP funds projects that are submitted via an annual Call for Proposals. Any community whose linguistic and/or cultural
traditions are represented in the Smithsonian’s collections or archives are eligible to apply for research funding. Funding ranges up to $10,000 to cover the costs of travel, accommodations, and research. Research can be conducted in any Smithsonian repository.
The most frequently accessed are the National Anthropological Archives, NMAI Archive Center, NMAI and NMNH object collections. See our blog to read about past research visits. Contact us at [log in to unmask] for more information.
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