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The UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent) stands for a transdisciplinary approach to the past and present of Bantu languages, Bantu speech communities and their (im)material worlds, both in Africa and in the diaspora.
Our research starts from the data-driven study of language and/or (im)material culture and relies on methods and theoretical insights from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, (art) history, botany, zoology, genetics, etc.
Within the field of Bantu linguistics, which is BantUGent’s centre of gravity, we strongly focus on historical linguistics, including language contact, and corpus linguistics and lexicography, which we strive to combine.
Our research is also integrated in several courses of the UGent BA in African Languages and Cultures and MA in African Studies, such as Introduction to African Linguistics, Language Documentation and Description in Africa, African Historical Linguistics, Bantu Corpus Linguistics and Lexicography, Comparative Bantu Grammar, and African Archaeology.
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  • Mon
    04
    Nov
    2024

    BantUGent seminar: introducing Lis Kerr and Arnaud Bizongwako; reporting on the CongUbangi project

    2:00 pm Lokaal 3.30 - Camelot, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren

    What? BantUGent research seminar
    When? 4 November 2024
    Where? Lokaal 3.30 - Camelot, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren
    Time:
    14.00-14.15: introductions by Lis Kerr and Arnaud Bizongwako
    14.30-16.00: CongUbangi project
    Sara Pacchiarotti - The CongUbangi project: overview and first joint fieldwork mission (April-May 2024)
    Peter Coutros - Archaeological results from the 2024 CongUbangi mission
    Crisnah Mfouhou - Part 1: A Grammar of Ndunga-le [ndt]: overview and first fieldwork mission (July-August 2024)
    Part 2: Preliminaries on Kpala [kpl], an "Ubangi" (Mundu-Baka) language of the Democratic Republic of Congo
    Paulin Baraka - First Fieldwork mission in North Ubangi, preliminary results on Mbanza ("Ubangi'', Bandaic) and Furu (Central
    Sudanic).

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