On May 25, 2021, Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen gave an online talk titled “The West-Coastal Bantu Velar Merger and its Evolutions: Genealogical Diagnosticity and Lexical Diffusion” at the 15th International African Studies Conference in Moscow.
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Koen Bostoen gives a talk for Belgium’s Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences
On May 18, 2021, Koen Bostoen presented the invited talk “Population collapse in the Congo rainforest around 1500 years ago” for the Section of Human Sciences of Belgium’s Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences.
Koen Bostoen talks at DDL in Lyon
On May 17, 2021, Koen Bostoen presented the invited talk “Lost Paths in the Rainforest” for the “Origins of Linguistic Diversity” seminar at the ‘Dynamique Du Langage’ (DDL) research lab in Lyon.
Koen Bostoen talks for the Kalahari Basin Area network
On April 22, 2021, Koen Bostoen presented the talk titled “Spread-over-spread events in Bantu language history: New cross-disciplinary insights from Central Africa” for the Kalahari Basin Area network.




Hilde Gunnink talks for the Kalahari Basin Area network
On April 29, 2021, Hilde Gunnink presented the talk titled “The genealogical classification of Southern Bantu languages and its implications for population history” for the Kalahari Basin Area network.