On September 7, 2021, Koen Bostoen gave a short online master class on the Bantu Expansion in the precolonial African History course of Prof. Mohammed Bashir Salau and Drs. Matthew Lempke at the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History of the University of Mississippi (USA).
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Gilles-Maurice de Schryver at online Euralex 2021 congress
As the President of Euralex, the European Association for Lexicography, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (BantUGent) attends and chairs several events at the virtual Euralex XIX congress, which is organized by the Democritus University of Thrace in Alexandroupoli, Greece (7-9 September 2021).
New corpus-driven BantUGent research on Luganda grammar
BantuFirst archaeological fieldwork mission along the Kwilu-Kasai-Loange river network (DRC)
Peter Coutros (BantUGent) and Igor Matonda (UNIKIN) left early August for a 6-week archaeological fieldwork mission along the Kwilu-Kasai-Loange river network (DRC) as part of the BantuFirst project.
Guy Kouarata’s BantuFirst fieldwork mission in the DRC and Congo
From April 16 to June 16, 2021, Guy Kouarata carried out a BantuFirst fieldwork in the territories of Mbandaka, Maluku, Kwamouth, and Kinshasa of the DRC and in the area north of Brazzaville in Congo. For a short blog post, click here.
BantuFirst linguistic and genetic fieldwork mission in the Mai Ndombe Province (DRC)
Lorenzo Maselli went on a multidisciplinary fieldwork mission in the Mai Ndombe Province of the DRC together with Prof. Jean-Pierre Donzo (ISP Gombe) as part of the BantuFirst project.
New corpus-based research on Kirundi by Manoah-Joël Misago and colleagues
Manoah-Joël Misago (Université du Burundi – BantUGent) and colleagues publish a new study on Kirundi in the journal Language in Africa using the BantUGent Kirundi corpus.
Koen Bostoen talks on population collapse in Congo rainforest at African Studies Centre Leiden
Koen Bostoen presented a talk titled “Retrieving lost paths in the rainforest after population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE” at the online ASCL Seminar in Leiden on June 17, 2021, at 3.30 pm.
BantUGent at the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics – Leiden
Maud Devos, Hilde Gunnink, Lorenzo Maselli, Ernest Nshemezimana, Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen presented ongoing BantUGent research at the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics, which was held online at Leiden University, the Netherlands, 7-12th June 2021. Their pre-recorded talks are available here.
BantUGent at the 8th International Conference on Bantu Languages – University of Essex
Maud Devos, Hilde Gunnink, Ernest Nshemezimana, Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen presented ongoing BantUGent research at the 8th International Conference on Bantu Languages, which is held online at the University of Essex, UK, 2-4th June 2021. Their pre-recorded talks are available here.