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The UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent) stands for a transdisciplinary approach to the past and present of Bantu languages, Bantu speech communities and their (im)material worlds, both in Africa and in the diaspora.
Our research starts from the data-driven study of language and/or (im)material culture and relies on methods and theoretical insights from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, (art) history, botany, zoology, genetics, etc.
Within the field of Bantu linguistics, which is BantUGent’s centre of gravity, we strongly focus on historical linguistics, including language contact, and corpus linguistics and lexicography, which we strive to combine.
Our research is also integrated in several courses of the UGent BA in African Languages and Cultures and MA in African Studies, such as Introduction to African Linguistics, Language Documentation and Description in Africa, African Historical Linguistics, Bantu Corpus Linguistics and Lexicography, Comparative Bantu Grammar, and African Archaeology.
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Activities

  • Mon
    28
    Apr
    2025

    BantUGent research seminar on with Dana Louagie (KU Leuven) and colleagues: Kwakum nominal expressions: constructional exuberance

    2:00 pmRoom 0.3, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren

    What? BantUGent research seminar
    When? 28 April 2025, 2pm
    Where? Room 0.3, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren

     

    Dana Louagie (presenter), Elisabeth Njantcho Kouagang & Mark Van de Velde (LLACAN, Paris)

     

    Nominal expressions in Kwakum (Bantu, A91): constructional exuberance

     

    To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt (Nina.vanderVlugt@UGent.be) and/or Paulin Baraka Bose (Paulin.BarakaBose@UGent.be)

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  • Wed
    07
    May
    2025

    BantUGent research seminar with Elisabeth Kerr: “FWO-MBAM: Preliminary Fieldwork Findings”

    10:30 am Room 2.23 (Panopticon), Blandijn, Campus Book Tower
    What? BantUGent research seminar
    When? 7 May 2025
    Where? Room 2.23 (Panopticon), Blandijn, Campus Book Tower
    Time: 10.30 - 12.00
    Elisabeth Kerr
    “FWO-MBAM: Preliminary Fieldwork Findings”
    To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt (Nina.vanderVlugt@UGent.be) and/or Paulin Baraka Bose (Paulin.BarakaBose@UGent.be).
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  • Mon
    12
    May
    2025

    BantUGent research seminar with Margot Luyckfasseel (UAntwerp) & Nicolas Mombaya (UKisangani): Rethinking slavery in Tshopo (D.R.Congo) through linguistic data

    2:00 pmRoom 0.3, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren
    What? BantUGent research seminar
    When? 12 May 2025, 2pm
    Where? Room 0.3, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren

     

    Margot Luyckfasseel (Antwerp University) & Nicolas Mombaya (Université de Kisangani)

     

    Repenser l'esclavage à Tshopo (R.D.Congo) à travers des données linguistiques

    Rethinking slavery in Tshopo (D.R.Congo) through linguistic data

     

    To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt (Nina.vanderVlugt@UGent.be) and/or Paulin Baraka Bose (Paulin.BarakaBose@UGent.be)

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