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What? BantUGent research seminar
When? February 23, 2023
Where? Camelot, Blandijn, Blandijnberg 2, Gent
Who? Sara Pacchiarotti & Heidi Goes on The reconstruction of Proto-WCB independent and possessive pronouns for speech act participants: does morphological evidence support lexicon-based phylogenetic groupings?

We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online through MS Teams. Ask Sifra Van Acker to get the link.

What? BantUGent research seminar
When? January 26, 2023, 3pm
Where? Faculty Room (first floor Blandijnberg 2)
Hilde Gunnink (UGent) will give a talk on Auxiliary constructions in Southern Bantu.

We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online through MS Teams. Ask Sifra Van Acker to get the link.

We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online through MS Teams. Ask Sifra Van Acker for more information.

What? BantUGent research seminar
When? November 24 2022, 14am
Where? Faculty Room (first floor, Blandijnberg 2)
Who? Lorenzo Maselli will share notes on labial-velar consonants in Sakata. There is room for one more communication.

We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online through MS Teams. Ask Lorenzo Maselli for the link.

We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online. Ask Lorenzo Maselli for the link.

On September 6, 2022 (4pm CET), Mandela Kaumba Mazanga (BantUGent, ULB, UNILU) defends her PhD dissertation titled “Production et circulation de la céramique des trois derniers siècles dans l’aire kongo : une approche combinée des données ethnographiques, muséales et archéologiques”, which she wrote under the co-supervision of Prof. Koen Bostoen (BantUGent), Prof. Pierre de Maret (ULB) and Prof. Olivier Gosselain (ULB). The jury members are Prof. Placide Mumbembele (Université de Kinshasa, Institut des Musées Nationaux du Congo), Prof. Inge Brinkman (UGent), and Prof. Alexandre Livingstone-Smith (RMCA, ULB). The joint UGent-ULB PhD research of Mandela Kaumba Mazanga was financed by the ERC-SG KongoKing project. To attend the defense online, please click here.

Le 6 septembre 2022 (16h CET), Mandela Kaumba Mazanga (BantUGent, ULB, UNILU) soutiendra sa thèse de doctorat intitulée “Production et circulation de la céramique des trois derniers siècles dans l’aire kongo : une approche combinée des données ethnographiques, muséales et archéologiques”, qu’elle a rédigée sous la co-directeurs des Professeurs Koen Bostoen (BantUGent), Pierre de Maret (ULB) et Olivier Gosselain (ULB). Les membres du jury sont le Prof. Placide Mumbembele (Université de Kinshasa, Institut des Musées Nationaux du Congo), la Prof. Inge Brinkman (UGent), et le Prof. Alexandre Livingstone-Smith (RMCA, ULB). La recherche doctorale de Mandela Kaumba Mazanga a été faite en co-tutelle entre l’UGent et l’ULB et a été financée par le projet ERC-SG KongoKing. Pour participer à la soutenance en ligne, veuillez cliquer ici.

On September 6, 2022,  Mandela Kaumba Mazanga defended her PhD dissertation at Brussels University. It was the completion of her joint PhD project between UGent and ULB as part of the KongoKing project. At the occasion of her PhD defense, BantuGent and CARAM co-organized a Meet the PhD Jury event with Prof. dr. Placide Mumbembele (IMNC-UNIKIN, Kinshasa), one of the jury members. He talked on the Congolese mask that was recently brought back to the DRC as part of the royal mission of Belgium’s King Philippe. The recording of this talk is available below in two parts.

Part 1

Part 2