BantUGent was represented at the 54th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL54) held 25th–27th August at Leiden University and the 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE58) held 26th –29th August at Université Bordeaux Montaigne, with the following presentations:
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Elisabeth Kerr: ‘Optional’ vowel harmony and the phonological word. (CALL54)
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Nina van der Vlugt: A diachronic typology of diminutives in Shona varieties. (CALL54)
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Elisabeth Kerr: Mbam wordhood and Niger-Congo morphosyntactic reconstruction. (SLE58)
- Maud Devos, Rasmus Bernander, and Jacky Maniacky: Bantu connective negation in the shadow of main clause negation (SLE58)

