Upon invitation of Peter Coutros and Sara Pacchiarotti, Dr. Étienne Zangato, affiliated with the Unité de Recherche Mixte 8068 Technologie et Ethnologie des Mondes Préhistoriques (TEMPS) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Paris, France, will give a talk titled Dynamique des communautés métallurgistes dans les marges forestières de l’Afrique centrale: Extrémité Est de l’Adamaoua. This is the first talk of the CongUbangi Lecture Series in Archaeology. The event is open to anyone interested. No registration needed. For more information, please contact Peter.Coutros@UGent.be.
Upon invitation of Prof. Dr. Olorunshola Adenekan and Prof. Dr. Koen Bostoen, Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong (Wageningen University) opened the academic year of the UGent Master of African Studies program with a talk titled “Frictions of space and embodied absences: Tourism’s intersection with slavery and colonial heritage memories“. This talk was the joint opening lecture for the 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”.
A recording of the lecture and of the documentary film shown during the lecture can be found below the poster.
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Akwasi Adu-Ampong
Documentary “The Embodied Absence of the Past: tourism’s intersection with slavery and colonial heritage memories” by Prof. Dr. Akwasi Adu-Ampong
From May 14 until May 16, 2025, BantUGent is offering a three-day Doctoral School Specialist Course on “Phonetics as a key method for language description and documentation” taught by Prof. Dr. Didier Demolin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris). Registration is required and can be done here until May 12 before midnight. This event is financed by the Doctoral School of UGent and the Flemish Government.
What?BantUGent research seminar
When? 12 June 2025, 2pm
Hilde Gunnink (BantUGent; Leiden University)
The origin of click words in Sotho (Bantu, S30)
To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt (Nina.vanderVlugt@UGent.be) and/or Paulin Baraka Bose (Paulin.BarakaBose@UGent.be)
To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt (Nina.vanderVlugt@UGent.be) and/or Paulin Baraka Bose (Paulin.BarakaBose@UGent.be)
Chrisnah Renaudot Mfouhou (BantUGent, CongUbangi research project)
The noun class system of Ndungale [Ndt], an Ubangi “Mbaic” language of the Democratic Republic of Congo
To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt (Nina.vanderVlugt@UGent.be) and/or Paulin Baraka Bose (Paulin.BarakaBose@UGent.be)
What? BantUGent research seminar
When? 28 April 2025, 2pm
Where? Room 0.3, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren
Dana Louagie (presenter), Elisabeth Njantcho Kouagang & Mark Van de Velde (LLACAN, Paris)
Nominal expressions in Kwakum (Bantu, A91): constructional exuberance
To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt (Nina.vanderVlugt@UGent.be) and/or Paulin Baraka Bose (Paulin.BarakaBose@UGent.be)