Activities

  • Tue
    17
    Sep
    2024

    BantUGent research seminar with talks by Ernest Nshemezimana and Sofia Mateus

    3:00 pmCamelot, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren

    What? BantUGent research seminar
    When? September 17, 2024
    Where? Room 3.30 - Camelot, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren
    15:00-16:00: Ernest Nshemezimana - "The Expression of Mirativity in Kirundi (DJ62)"
    16:00-17:00: Sofia Mateus - TBA
    To join the meeting online by MS Teams, click here.

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  • Wed
    25
    Sep
    2024

    Prof. Dr. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University) "Against Decolonization: Africa’s Place in the Global Circuit of Ideas"

    10:30 amCampus Boekentoren, Vandenhove pavilion, Rozier 1, 9000 Gent

    Prof. Dr. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University) will present the talk titled "Against Decolonization: Africa’s Place in the Global Circuit of Ideas" upon invitation of Prof. Olorunshola Adenekan and Prof. Koen Bostoen, . It is the joint opening lecture for their Master of African Studies courses "Literature, Media and the Arts in Central and Eastern Africa" and "Language, History and Identity in Central and Eastern Africa".

     

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Past activities

Camille Mbulu N’fuka-Malendji (Alliance Française Cabinda) & Heidi Goes (BantUGent) at a language planning conference in Cabinda, Angola, October 25, 2019 (© Edições Novembro)

           Visiting the then recently renovated AfricaMuseum in Tervuren during  the International Conference on Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar,  November 21, 2018, from left-to-right: Claire Grégoire, Jean-Georges Kamba Muzenga, Larry Hyman, Thilo Schadeberg & Gérard Philippson (© Gilles-Maurice de Schryver)