What? BantUGent research seminar
When? March 23, 2022, 2pm
Where? Simon Stevin Room, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Ghent (online through Zoom, passcode: KG14YtTh)
Angi Ngumbu (The Seed Company) visits BantUGent on Wednesday March 23 and will give a talk titled “Applied Linguistics: Stories of how linguistics is impacting the lives of the speakers of minority languages in DRC”
Angi Ngumbu has been working as a linguist and project manager in the two Congos (Brazzaville and Kinshasa) for 15 years. She will share about the different projects she has worked on during this time in applied linguistics, from picture dictionaries, language documentation, survey, and orthography development. Some of this work has been directly influenced by or done in collaboration with personnel from Ghent University.
Venue: Simon Stevin Room
Contact: koen.bostoen@ugent.be
