Presentations and Media
Panels and invited talks
2023 - “Not our show”: Interpreting, coloniality, and justice in remote Indigenous communities. Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre Partnership Seminar Series, 27 July 2023, University of the Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.
2022 - Bonotti, M., Dunnolly-Lee, H., Rusho, D., Willoughby, L., Xu, M., 'Language and social inclusion panel'. Presented as part of Social Sciences Week, 6 September 2022, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Recording:
2022 - ‘Indigenous language interpreting in Australia’s justice system’. Language Talks Seminar Series, 31 March 2022, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
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2021 - ‘Alice Gaby in conversation with Dima Rusho: The unheard voices of language & culture education and research – Roundtable’. Identity and Ways of Knowing flagship of the School of Culture, History and Language (CHL) in the College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), 8-9 November 2021, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2020 - ‘Plenary - Professor Diana Eades in conversation with Dima Rusho’. Forum on Englishes in Australia, 9 October 2020, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Language and social inclusion (SSW 2022)
Peer Reviewed Conference Presentations
Rusho, D. (2022). 'Critiquing neutrality and impartiality in First Nations language legal interpreting'. Presented at the Australian Linguistics Society Conference, 30 November - 9 December 2021, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Rusho, D., Bradley, J. (2021). ‘The Kriol Holi Baibul – A tool of coloniality or an act of plurality?’. Presented at the Australian Linguistics Society Conference, 7-9 December 2021, Latrobe University, Australia.
Rusho, D. (2021). 'Incorporating Indigenous conceptualizations into legal interpreting in Australia’s justice system'. Presented at the Cultural Constructions Conference, 4 March, University of Texas Arlington, Texas.
Awarded the 'Excellence in Academic Achievement for Outstanding Presentation Award'.
Rusho, D. (2020). ‘“I didn't have my rights 'cos we were at his uncle's house” The interpreter as language expert and cultural broker'. Presented at the Australian Languages Workshop, 1 March 2020, Minjerribah, Australia.
Rusho, D. (2019). ‘(Un)translatability in Indigenous Language Interpreting in Australia’s Justice System’. Presented at the International Association of Forensic Linguists Conference, 4 July 2019, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Rusho, D. (2019). ‘Ascertaining the need for Kriol interpreting: Some linguistic considerations’. Presented at the Language and the Law Conference III. 6 April 2019, Northern Territory Supreme Court, Alice Springs, Australia.
Gaby, A., Bradley, J. & Rusho, D., and Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg, G. (2019). ‘When is a metaphor not a metaphor? Yanyuwa connections between country and kin’. Presented at the Australian Languages Workshop. 17 March 2019, Marysville, Australia.
Rusho, D. (2018). ‘Accessing interpreters along the continuum: Kriol in the justice system’. Presented at the Forum on Englishes in Australia. 2 November 2018, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Other Presentations
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Cho, E. & Rusho, D (2022). 'Korean and Indigenous language interpreting: A comparison'. Presented at the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Seminar Series. 24 August 2022, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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Rusho, D. (2021). ‘Decolonial perspectives on the Holi Baibul translation’. Presented at the Linguistics, Literatures, Cultures, and Languages HDR Colloquium, 1 October 2021, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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Rusho, D. (2019). ‘Kriol interpreting in Australia’s justice system’: Presented at the Linguistics, Literatures, Cultures, and Languages HDR Colloquium, 28 October 2019, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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Rusho, D. (2017). ‘Language as Sacred in Aboriginal Australia’. Presented at the Language, religion, and spirituality: A symposium in memory of Prof. ‘Tope (Sky)Omoniyi. 20 October 2017, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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Media
3CR Community Radio Interview. 2nd January 2024 - Interviewed by Frances Egan