Former Research Colloquia

Programmes of Former Research Colloquia (since 2002) can be found below:

08.11.22	Recalibrating Afrikanistik Reading Group: Vincent Magugu (Moi University): Contextualising the Translation of Caitaani Mutharaba-ini (Devil on the Cross) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o". Please note: starts at 17h00！
15.11.22	Linguistic Colloquium (16h00): Thorsten Brato “Towards a Diachronic Corpus of African Newspapers (DiaNewspapers)“.
22.11.22	Programme moderator meeting with MA students (includes information and discussion on presenting in the colloquium)
06.12.22	Recalibrating Afrikanisitk Reading Group: Andrew Harvey (UBT): "Documenting Hadza 2019-2021: A retrospective"
13.12.22	Sazzad Hossain (MA AVVA). "Traditional Art Forms in Bangladesh"
20.12.2022	Meeting with BA Students
10.01.23	Alena Rettová, Emiliano Minerba, Benedetta Lafranchi, Chantal Gishoma: "Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy" - a State of the Art Update
24.01.23	Alena Rettová, Albert Kasanda, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Michelle Clarke (University of Bayreuth, University of Warwick): "Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy" - a State of the Art Update (Part II)

Summer Term 2022 Hide

03.05.22	RecAf Reading Group (17h00 s.t.)
10.05.22	Oladapo Ajayi (Bayreuth) Fuji: The Contemporary Yoruba Urban Space and the Performance of Gbajumo or the Bigman
17.05.22	Linguistic Colloquium (in German) Dr. Susanne Kabatnik (Greifswald) Helfende Instruktionen am Beispiel von Depression auf Twitter und der Gruppenpsychotherapie
31.05.22	Q&A Bachelor Thesis
21.06.22	Linguistic Colloquium (in English) PD Dr. Marie-Luise Pitzl (Österreichische) Emergent multilingual practices in Transient International Groups (TIGs): Micro-diachronic analysis of ELF interactions in VOICE.
28.06.22	Abibatou Diagne (Dakar), Monika Rohmer (Bayreuth) Conceptualisations of WATER on the Senegalese Coast
05.07.22	RecAf Reading Group (17h00 s.t.)
12.07.22	Irina Turner (Bayreuth) En(l)abe(l)ing isiXhosa

Winter Term 2021/2022 Hide

26.10.21	Alena Rettova and Team (Bayreuth) Philosophy and Genre- Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy
02.11.21	Liliana Santos (Munich) Silence, Voice, Gender and Racial Representations in African American Children's Literature Maxime Boeuf (Munich) Koloniale Jugendliteratur
09.11.21	Ajibade Olusola (Ile-Ife) Spiritualizing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impulsion from Oral Genres Produced during COVID-19 in Nigeria
23.11.21	Maureen Karanja (Bayreuth) Code-switching and code-mixing in Kenyan Rap Music- Analysing the works of Kennedy Ombima aka King Kaka
30.11.21	Jannis Kostelnik (Bayreuth) Metaphorical Conceptualizations of DEATH and DYING in Chadic Languages- Examples from Hausa and Mofu-Gudur Agnes Dietrich (Bayreuth) The Conceptualization of Women in Kiswahili Proverbs
07.12.21	Susanne Mohr (Trondheim) ‘Kwa quotes nzuri za kiswahili kuhusu mapenzi na maisha follow hapa’- Inspirational quotes as advice activity in the digital (tourist) space of Zanzibar
21.12.21	Paul Okoro Ewoma (Bayreuth) The Significance of Osun-Osogbo Festival Moses Anifowose (Bayreuth) Ijala Artist as the Memory of the Society - A Case Study of Alabi Ogundepo's works
18.01.22	Vuyelwa Jacobs (Gqeberha) The City Press Representation of Citizen Action in Housing Delivery in South Africa: 2005-2015
02.02.22	Irina Turner (Bayreuth) En(l)abelling isiXhosa at the University

Summer Term 2021 Hide

27.04.21	Dyoniz Kindata (Bayreuth) A Critical Thematic Analysis of Selim bin Abakari Travelogue
04.05.21	Emiliano Minerba (Bayreuth) Stylistic analysis in African literature: some theoretical considerations
11.05.21	Maureen Karanja (Bayreuth) (TBC)
01.06.21	Abibatou Diagne (Dakar) Languages Terminologically Undeveloped: How to Express Science and Technology
08.06.21	Patrick Onuh (Bayreuth) Voices of Disruptions: The Artistic Portrayal of Systemic Violence against Nigerian Youths
22.06.21	Saheed Bello (Bayreuth) “Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy”: An African Philosophy through Cinematic Storytelling
29.06.21	Annmarie Drury (Bayreuth) "Omar Khayyam kwa Kiswahili": Re-Imagining a Travelling Text in an East African Context
06.07.21	Alena Rettová and Team (Bayreuth) Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy

Summer Term 2020 Hide

29.04.20	Johnson Segun Ige (Washington, D.C.) Beauty from Ashes: Witnessing Economic and Political Transformation of Rwanda’s Politics and Social Relations from its Genocidal Past
14.05.20	Susanne Mohr (Bayreuth) Language learning in the Zanzibari tourist space: Some considerations on the concept of 'grassroots'
19.05.20	Taofik Olasunkanmi Adesanmi (Ondo) Investigating the Nexus between Animals and Basotho's Identities in Epitaphs as Death Discourse (Linguistic Colloquium)
09.06.20	Hanna Nieber (Bayreuth) Drinking the Written Qur’an – writing a diffractive ethnography

Winter Term 2019/2020 Hide

22.10.19	Pierre Sambou (Dakar) Non verbal Predication in Joola Karon, an Atlantic Language of Senegal
05.11.19	Jaouad Serghini (Rabat) La Coproduction Cinématographique Sud-Sud: État des Lieux, Défis et Enjeux
26.11.19	Nathalie Koenings (Amherst) “We have rukya, and we have mumian”: contemporary trends in the mystical realms of Pemba, Zanzibar
03.12.19	Monika Rohmer (Bayreuth) Representing No-Man’s Land? Stories from Senegal from those ‘left behind’ by migrants
10.12.19	Zra Kodji (Bayreuth) Tiernamen in der Kapsiki-Bibel: eine translatorische und semantische Analyse
14.01.20	Melissa Deiß (Bayreuth) An introduction to the 'utendi wa sayyidina Ali na Mudhari bin Darimi' and the 'utendi wa Barasisi'
28.01.20	Ninja Steinbach-Hüther (Leipzig) The circulation of African knowledge or One-Way-Ticket to Europe? New methods for the research of the reception of Africana with Digital Humanities

Summer Term 2019 Hide

30.04.19	Eliane Kamdem (Bayreuth) Tense-Aspect Categories and Standard Negation in Five Bamileke Languages of Cameroon: Ngiemboon, Feʔfeʔ, Ghomalaʔ, Ngombale, and Medumba: A Descriptive and Comparative Study
14.05.19	Dikko Muhammad (Bayreuth) Beyond "the Women Talk": Political Activism and Space Contestation in Female Poetry in Northern Nigeria
21.05.19	Anne Schröder (Bielefeld) Approaching the Dynamics of English in Namibia – Focus on the Pragmatics of Namibian English (= Linguistic Colloquium)
28.05.19	Gabriele Sommer & Michael Broß (Bayreuth) Introduction to the Online-Course IsiXhosa
04.06.19	Sheena Shah (Hamburg) SiPhûthî, a highly endangered Tekela-Nguni language spoken in rural Lesotho
18.06.19	Valentina Serreli (Bayreuth) Arabic L2 in Siwa Oasis – A Berber-speaking Enclave of Egypt (= Linguistic Colloquium)
25.06.19	Oshita Oshita (Abuja) Elections as a Metaphor in the Democratic Process
02.07.19	Eloisa Ruppert (Kiel) Negation in Ruuli
16.07.19	Salem Ejeba (Port Harcourt) A Discourse-Structural Analysis of Ígálâ Names Gideon Sunday Omachonu (Keffi) Sound, Structure and Semantics of Igala Personal Names: A Legacy of Tripartite Beauty

Winter Term 2018/2019 Hide

23.10.18	Masresha Fetene (Addis Abeba) African Knowledge Systems − The imperative for African Universities
30.10.18	Jacqueline Lück (Port Elizabeth) Decolonizing the University Curriculum: Developing a Bottom-Up Transformative African-Centred Model for Linguistics (= Linguistic Colloquium)
13.11.18	Oyèníyì Okùnoyè (Ile-Ife) Women's Voices and Dreams of Change in Nigerian Short Story in English
27.11.18	Susann Ludwig (Leipzig) La Chance - or University Graduates Making Sense of Uncertainty in Bamako, Mali
22.01.19	Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (Berlin) The Elderly and Performative Actions in African Drama and Theatre
29.01.19	Chapane Mutiwa (Hamburg) Bridging the land to the sea: tenzi literature, oral historiography and the construction of identities from late 19th century Angoche

Summer Term 2018 Hide

24.04.18	Gratien Atindogbe (Buea) Achieving the SDGs through Documentary Linguistics
15.05.18	Kithaka wa Mberia (Nairobi)
29.05.18	Duncan Tarrant (Bayreuth) A comparison in the themes of two Swahili Free verse poets
05.06.18	Nikitta Adjirakor (Bayreuth) On being Swahili and Tanzanian’: (re)exploring questions of self and nation through poetry and hip-hop in everyday life in Dar es Salaam
12.06.18	Ajibade Olusola (Ile-Ife) The Yoruba Christians Rewriting the Bible: Illustrations from their Songs
19.06.18	Linguistic Colloquium
26.06.18	Buata Malela (Mayotte) L’Afrique centrale comme concept d’écriture dans le discours littéraire de la diaspora afrodescendante

Winter Term 2017/2018 Hide

17.10.17	Baba Mai Bello (Maiduguri) The construction of fear in Boko Haram’s propaganda messages Mimboabe Bakpa (Kara) A study of Hausa borrowed connectors in Moba language (Gur, Togo)
14.11.17	Duncan Tarrant (Bayreuth) A comparison in the themes of two Swahili free verse poets
21.11.17	Abraham Olivier (East London) The facticity of freedom
05.12.17	John Lamola (East London) Das Kapital and the postcolonial ontology of the African Self
12.12.17	Danillo Barata (Salvador da Bahia) Afro Brazilian art
19.12.17	Klaudia Dombroswky-Hahn (Bayreuth) Relative clauses in Senufo languages and linguistic typology (= Linguistic Colloquium, 16 c.t., S 68 RW I)
09.01.18	Julian Wenger (Bayreuth) Rewriting: Albert Camus 'The Stranger' and Kamel Daouds 'The Meursault Investigation'
16.01.18	Sam Naidu (Grahamstown) Book launch - A survey of South African crime fiction (2017)
23.01.18	Chijioke Uwah (East London) Exploring the prophetic discourses on the realities of post-apartheid South Africa in the plays of Zakes Mda
30.01.18	Susanne Mohr (Bonn) Of jambo and hakuna matata. Language as a commodity in tourist-host interactions in Zanzibar

Summer Term 2017 Hide

109.05.17	Crispin Maalu-Bungi (Kinshasa) Un nouveau-né en lexicographie congolaise
16.05.17	Oyeniyi Okunoye (Ile-Ife) A Distant View of the Homeland: Representations of Nigeria in Selected Short Fiction from the Nigerian Diaspora
23.05.17	C.J Odhiambo (Moi) & Loreen Maseno (Maseno) Satiric and Comic Irony: Framing intervention in Luo Popular culture and Media in two films, Kalausi and Cleansing
30.05.17	BIGSAS Alumni Workshop
13.06.17	Nassur Attoumani (Mayotte) Écrire en milieu d’illettrisme
11.07.17	Nico Nassenstein (Cologne) Kikongo Facile: On mediatized language, metalinguistic chic and translanguaging practices among youths from Matadi, Kinshasa and beyond
18.07.17	Georg Ziegelmeyer (Vienna) From the Chadic-Kanuri Contact Zone to the Wider Lake Chad Area

Winter Term 2016/2017 Hide

18.10.16	Eliane Kamdem (Bayreuth) A description and comparison of the tense-aspect systems in Bamileke languages
25.10.16	Angiachi Demetris Esene Agwara (Bayreuth) Assessing oral rural multilingual competence in lower Bafut, North-West Region of Cameroon
11.08.16	Nomsa Satyo (Fort Hare) IsiXhosa Riddles: A contribution to real learning in the Foundation Phase
22.11.16	Chapane Mutiua (Maputo) Typology, Style, and Materiality of the nineteenth century northern Mozambique ajami correspondence: the case of the collection of Bwana Shaki ibn Abdulatifo al-Mafazy
29.11.16	Abraham Olivier (Fort Hare) Racism, speciesism, and suffering
13.12.16	Dianne Shober (Fort Hare) History of South African Literature: Literary Footprints
10.01.17	Anja Oed (Mainz) Detective novels in African languages
24.01.17	Davids Boakye (Bayreuth / Accra) tbc
31.01.17	Georg Ziegelmeyer (Vienna) Language contact between Chadic and Nilo-Saharan Languages

Summer Term 2016 Hide

26.04.16	Mary Zacharia Charwi (Bayreuth) The analysis of verb extensions, arguments relations and their semantic scope in Kuria
10.05.16	Flora Amabiamina (Douala) L’éthos de femme libérée dans la chanson féminine camerounaise
31.05.16	Michael Kasombo (Lubumbashi) The Swahili of Lubumbashi: between tone and stress or the dynamics of the lexicon
07.06.16	Klaudia Dombrowsky (Bayreuth) Book Launch: A grammar of Syer (Western Karaboro, Senufo): phonology, morphology, argument realization. Köln: Köppe, 2015
14.06.16	C.J Odhiambo (Moi) & Loreen Maseno (Maseno) Satiric and Comic Irony: Framing intervention in Luo Popular culture and Media in two films
28.06.16	Alexandra Verezemskaya (Frankfurt) The typology of verbal imperfective paradigms in West Chadic
12.07.16	Fabienne Loureiro (Cologne) The influence of Kimbundu and Kikongo as a major factor in the development of Angolan Portuguese

Winter Term 2015/2016 Hide

20.10.15	Ines Fiedler (Berlin) Information structure and the verb system of Oti-Volta languages
03.11.15	Ajibade Olusola (Ile-Ife) Body no Be Wood: A Literary and Socio-cultural Analysis of Sexuality among the Yoruba Deities
10.11.15	Gregorio Firmino (Maputo) Portugese Orthography
24.11.15	Chukwuma Okoye (Ibadan) Nigerian Music Videos
01.12.15	Jean-Pierre Boutche (Bayreuth) Linguistic socialisation and performance: featuring non-ethnic Fula in Northern Cameroon
08.12.15	Alioune Niang (Bremen) Sprache und Identität. Das Beispiel Wolof im Senegal und die Frage des Identitätsbewusstseins der Senegalesen angesichts des Kolonialismus
22.12.15	Francisco da Silva Xavier (Sao Paulo) Phonology and morphology of modern Kimbundu
12.01.16	Marie Ngom (Frankfurt am Main) The impact of foreign verbs on the use of the antipassive marker-it in Seereer (an Atlantic language)
19.01.16	Rudolph Botha (Alice) tbc

Summer Term 2015 Hide

05.05.15	Roberto Gaudioso (Bayreuth/Naples) The written voice: a new aesthetics of Swahili literature. The poetics of Euphrase Kezilahabi
12.05.15	Stephanie Rudwick (Leipzig) Vernacularization at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: chances and challenges
09.06.15	Nikitta Adjirakor (Bayreuth) Language and Identity in Hip-hop from Ghana (Hiplife) and Tanzania (Bongo Flava)
16.06.15	Niyi Okunoye (Ile-Ife) The Nigeria Literature Prize and the Canonization of New Nigerian Writing
23.06.15	Crispin Maalu Bungi (Kinshasa) Pour ou contre Claude Bremond: la néo-oralité en Rd Congo
30.06.15	Abraham Olivier (Alice) In Search of Identity – Amo’s worlds
14.07.15	Billy Kahora (Nairobi) The Story of Kwani: Between Creative Intervention and a Social 'Creative Content' Contract

Winter Term 2013/2014 Hide

28.01.14	Rainer Voßen (Frankfurt) Research in Khoisan Linguistics - The State of the Art
14.01.14	Christiana Chimezie (Bayreuth) Body Parts and Their Cultural Perception and (Role) according to Igbo Proverbs
07.01.14	Anthonia Dugga (Bayreuth) Cross-Lingual Households and the Future of Minority Languages in Urban Central Nigeria
17.12.13	Rosanna Tramutoli (Bayreuth) Swahili body terminology: a linguistic analysis
10.12.13	Sara Marzagora (London) Deceit and divination in Amharic and Swahili drama: the prophecy of national liberation in Mengistu Lemma's “Anticolonialist” and Ebrahim “Kinjeketile” Hussein's
03.12.13	Albert Kasanda (Bayreuth) The Representation of the Other One in Africa
26.11.13	Serena Talento (Bayreuth) The Conceptualisation of Translation in Classical Swahili Poetry
12.11.13	Mary Charwi (Bayreuth) Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Verb Extension Systems in Bantu Languages: A Case Study of Kuria and Swahili in Tanzania
05.11.13	Magdaline Wafula (Bayreuth) Narrative Voice and Focalization in the Narration of Generational Conflicts in Selected Kiswahili Novels
29.10.13	Claudia Böhme (Leipzig) The Making of Swahiliwood

Summer Term 2013 Hide

02.07.13	Iscah Biwott (Bayreuth) Features of Modernism and Post Modernism in the Swahili novel
25.06.13	Michael Kasombo (Lubumbashi) A little story of final vowel deletion in Ruwund L53
11.06.13	Clarissa Vierke (Bayreuth) Beautiful South. On the Swahili Languages in Mozambique
04.06.13	Irina Turner (Bayreuth) Businified Political Discourse on the State of the South African Nation: A Dialogue between Presidential Speeches and Newspaper Reports
28.05.13	Daniel Künzler (Freiburg) Transnational collaborations in Kenyan rap music as strategies of cultural entrepreneurs?
14.05.13	Andreas Wetter (Berlin / Addis Ababa) Language contact in Argobba
30.04.13	Samuel Ndogo (Moi) Narrating the self and nation in post-colonial autobiographical writings from Kenya
23.04.13	Alain Ricard (Bordeau) From Fekisi to Segilola: The novel as a new genre?

Winter Term 2012/2013 Hide

05.02.13	Said Khamis (Bayreuth) Creative Writing and Linguistic Knowledge
22.01.13	Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn (Bayreuth) Tone in Syer, a Senufo Language of Burkina Faso (Gur)
08.01.13	Ricarda de Haas (Bayreuth) Spoken Word goes digital. Aesthetics in Performance and New Media in Harare (Zimbabwe) and Johannesburg (South Africa)
11.12.12	Dan Omanga (Bayreuth) 'Raid at Abbottabad': Editorial Cartoons and the Terrorist Almighty Frame in Kenyan Newspapers
04.12.12	Buata Malela (Kinshasa) Posture controversée et Discours Littéraire. L’écrivain Francophone dans le Dispositif Médiatique
27.11.12	Jean Pierre Boutche (Bayreuth) Fulfulde spoken by non ethnic Fulani in the city of Maroua (Northern Cameroon)
13.11.12	Marie-Laure Bonson Kozi (Bayreuth) Comparative Description of Northern Bia Languages: Agni, Baule, and Anufo
06.11.12	Iscah Biwott (Bayreuth) Features of Modernism and Post Modernism in the Swahili novel: Case study of Babu Alipofufuka Christiana Chimezie (Bayreuth) The Meronymy of the Human Body Parts: Igbo as a case study
30.10.12	Gabriele Sommer (Bayreuth) African Linguistics and the Issue of Language Diversity - examples from a Southern African Context

Summer Term 2012 Hide

17.07.12	Crispin Maalu-Bungi (Kinshasa) L'engagement dans la littérature écrite en langues congolaises. Le cas de la poésie luba moderne
03.07.12	Lena Kostial (Bayreuth) Translating Swahili Novels into German: An Attempt to Outline and Systematize Translatory Peculiarities
26.06.12	Jean Pierre Boutché (Bayreuth) Language Contact and Linguistic Change: The Case of Fulfulde Spoken by the Youth in Maroua (Northern Cameroon)
12.06.12	Nina Pawlak (Warsaw) The Notion of SELF in Hausa
05.06.12	Abel Lupapula (Bayreuth) Basukuma Greetings as Source for History Mashaka Henrick Kahindi Ng'waje (Bayreuth) A Study on Sukuma and Nyamwezi Traditional Kitchen Utensils:A Taxonomic Approach to their Classification
22.05.12	Afonso Teca (Bayreuth) Study of the Verbal Voice in Kizombo (H.16) in a Translation Studies Perspective
08.05.12	Adams Bodomo (Bayreuth) The Structure of Ideophones
24.04.12	Katharina Greven (Bayreuth) Language as Identity Marker for Urban Communities as Shown by the Song Texts Tokelezea and Kariobangi South of Abbas Kubaff

Winter Term 2011/2012 Hide

07.02.12	Shigeki Kaji (Kyoto) Social-linguistic Situation in Uganda
24.01.12	Shaban Mayanja (Nairobi) The transition from philological to cultural translation: "The Translation Turn" and its role in enhancing intercultural dialogue
10.01.12	Britta Neumann (Hamburg) "Let' s support our children that they should see spirits" Attitude towards education in public speeches of the chief of Isu
13.12.11	Jean-Pierre Boutché (Maroua) From Fulfulde to Ganoore: A structural and sociolinguistic Study of the Fulani Youth-Language as spoken in Cameroon
06.12.11	Paulo J. Pilar (Sao Paulo) How to characterize a predicative possessive construction (in Bantu): An examination of typological ties to existential, locative and associative constructions
29.11.11	Abel Lupapula (Bayreuth) Terms and divisions of cow body parts in Sukuma - with particular reference to butchers and traditional slaughters Henrick Mashaka (Bayreuth) The Folk taxonomy of Sukuma traditional kitchen utensils
22.11.11	Katharina Greven (Bayreuth) Language as identity marker for different communities in Kenya with particular reference to Swahili and Sheng
08.11.11	Gastor Mapunda (Dar es Salaam) Parents' attitude towards children's use of Kingoni in beginner classes

Summer Term 2011 Hide

12.07.11	Christoffel Rudolf Botha (Alice) The implementation of a policy of multilingualism in the South African higher education sector: some of the challenges
05.07.11	Geoffrey Kitula King’ei (Nairobi) Language provision in Kenya’ new constitution and their impact on Language Policy
28.06.11	Tina Sakkos (Bayreuth) Male and female representations in classical Swahili poetry Frank Fessler (Bayreuth) Mood in Southern African Bantu languages
07.06.11	G. Olusola Ajibade (Ile-Ife) Same-sex relationships in YORÙBÁ culture and orature
31.05.11	Paul Newman (Indiana) Greenberg’s classification of African Languages: An insider’s view of his style, logic, and lasting accomplishments
10.05.11	Lustina Kyando (Bayreuth) Aptronymic names of characters in Robert’s KUSADIKIKA and Kezilahabi’s KICHWAMAJI Genoveva Mbilinyi (Bayreuth) Changes of Swahili Poetry: From prosodic poetry to free verse

Winter Term 2010/2011 Hide

01.02.11	Aishatu Iya Ahmed (Bayreuth) What about Passive in Hausa and Warji
25.01.11	Uta Reuster-Jahn (Mainz) Sex and relationship advice in the popular press and magazines
11.01.11	Juliana Macek (Sao Paulo) An evolutionary approach to language change based on interactive creations in Sheng (Kenya) and Lugha ya Mitaani (Tanzania)
14.12.10	Dmitri Bondarev (London) Converbs in Saharan (old Kanembu, Kanuri, and Beria): Dependancy, Multiple and Single Events
07.12.10	Tiina Sakkos (Bayreuth) Reflections on the interpretation and criticism of utendi wa Mwana Kupona Genoveva Mbilinyi (Bayreuth) Language and Culture Discourse Convention in Hehe and Kinga Greetings
30.11.10	Marie-Laure Kozi (Bayreuth) Aspect verbal et negation dans les langues du Bia nord
23.11.10	Frank Fessler (Bayreuth) Past systems of Bantu languages in southern Africa Lustina Kyando (Bayreuth) Metaphorical usage of colour terms in Kinga
09.11.10	Daoda Traore (Bayreuth) Le senar (langue senufo du Burkina Faso): éléments de description et d'influence du dyula véhiculaire dans un contexte de contact de langues
02.11.10	Magdaline Wafula (Bayreuth) Narration of generational conflicts in Tumaini: a Swahili novel by Clara Momanyi

Summer Term 2010 Hide

06.07.10	Sule E. Egya (Berlin) Metonymic Outbursts: A Critique of the Images of Military Despotism in Recent Nigerian Poetry in English
29.06.10	Eva Rothmaler (Bayreuth) Can we speak of 'converb' in Kanuri?
22.06.10	Edith Bwana (Bayreuth) Establishment and Maintenance of Masculinity in Swahili Poetry
08.06.10	Pierre Malgoubri (Ouagadougou) Point sur les recherches dialectologique et dialectométrique nuni
01.06.10	Mimboabe Bakpa (Bayreuth) Nominal classes in Gangam (Koumongou)
11.05.10	Marie Laure Kozi (Bayreuth) Comparative Description of Northern Bia Languages: Agni, Baoulé and Anufo
04.05.10	Alain Ricard (Berlin) Le Principe d'Asihu - The Taxi Principle
27.04.10	Natascha Bing (Mainz) Language and Nation in Africa. Monolingual Model in Multilingual Societies. Language and Nation Building in Kenya

Winter Term 2009/2010 Hide

09.02.10	Jouni Maho (Gothenburg) Comparative Morphosyntax and what it can tell us about the Historical Classification of Bantu Languages
26.01.10	Doris Löhr (Hamburg) How much of discontinuity can a dialect continuum stand? Examples from four Kanembu varieties
12.01.10	Annekie Joubert (Berlin) Memory Embroidered: Craft Art as Intermedial Space of Expression
22.12.09	Mandy Walker (Bayreuth) Colour terms in Éwé and Kabiyè idioms
08.12.09	Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn (Bayreuth) Noun Morphology in Karaboro (Senufo, Gur), a Language Group of Burkina Faso
01.12.09	Matthias Krings (Mainz) Turning Rice into Pilau. Dubbing Culture in Tanzania
24.11.09	Leo Sibomana (Regensburg) VP-Expansion in Zama
10.11.09	Olajumoke Oyedele (Ile-Ife) An Error Analysis of Written and Oral Texts of Yoruba Students of German in Two Nigerian Universities
03.11.09	Edith Bwana (Bayreuth) From Zilipendwa to Bongo Fleva: An Analysis of Style

Summer Term 2009 Hide

14.07.09	Marie-Hélène Gutberlet (Frankfurt) Zerzaust, afrikanisches Kino heute
30.06.09	Said El-Gheithy (London) Behind the Veil of History: The Life and Writings of Princess Salme bint Said bin Sultan (1844-1924)
23.06.09	André Mangulu Motingea (Kinshasa) Considérations sur la conjugaison périphrastique en bantou: cas des langues du bassin central congolais
09.06.09	Oyeniyi Okunoye (Bayreuth) Lánréwájú Adépòjù and the Making of Modern Yorùbá Poetry
26.05.09	Austin Bukenya (Kampala) Proverbial Depth: a Semiotic Approach
19.05.09	Judith Böhm und Gabriele Sommer (Bayreuth) Anredeverhalten in afrikanischen Sprachen am Beispiel medialer Inszenierungen im Zulu, Bambara und Swahili
12.05.09	Maria Schubert (Bayreuth) Fahrzeuge und Transportmittel in Nigeria. Eine kognitiv-semantische Untersuchung
05.05.09	Henrike Stühring (Bayreuth) Temperature Terms in African Languages
29.04.09	Elisabeth Reber (Potsdam) Affektgeladene Rezipientensignale in der sprachlichen Interaktion: Lautobjekte im Englischen
28.04.09	Laré Kantchoa (Kara) Vers la disparition des classes nominales en moba?

Winter Term 2008/2009 Hide

27.01.09	Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst (Cologne) Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit – Ausstellungen als Medium der Wissenschaftskommunikation
20.01.09	Gratien G. Atindogbé (Cologne) Pronoun serialisation in Kamtok (Pidgin English): the syntax-semantic interface
13.01.09	Lutz Diegner (Berlin) Expert Interviews as a Method of Research in African Language Literatures
09.12.08	Mimboa Bakpa (Bayreuth) Le parler Gangam de Koumongou - description en relation au Gangam de Gando et les langues Gurma
02.12.08	Marie-Laure Kozi (Bayreuth) Baule, Anyi, Anufo - un groupe Tano
25.11.08	Said Khamis (Bayreuth) The Notion of Standard Swahili in Swahili Literature
11.11.08	Baba Mai Bello (Bayreuth / Maiduguri) Language, Ethnicity and the Intergenerational Continuity in North-eastern Nigeria
04.11.08	Eva Rothmaler (Bayreuth) Auswirkungen von Globalisierung auf die Ernährung im Tschadseegebiet
14.10.08	Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer (Mainz) Klassensprachen im Zentralen "Adamawa". Voko, Koma- und Veregruppe

Summer Term 2008 Hide

08.07.08	Flora Veit-Wild (Berlin) Zimbolicious? The Creative Potential od Linguistic Innovation: The case of Shona-English in Zimbabwe
01.07.08	Naomi L. Shitemi (Moi) The Language Issue in Kenya's constitutional review processes
24.06.08	Manfred von Roncador (Bayreuth) Remarks on noun-classes in Oti-Volta
10.06.08	Philip Jaggar (London) In situ wh-expressions and in situ focus in Hausa (Chadic): another feature we completely overlooked!
03.06.08	Pierre Malgoubri (Ouagadougou/Bayreuth) Conséquences d'un phénomène de contact de langues : Le Zaoore?
27.05.08	Bassey Antia (Maiduguri / Bielefeld) Corpora and Language Technologies: Strategic Management Options for African Higher Education
06.05.08	Gudrun Miehe (Bayreuth) Zum Adjektiv im Cerma
22.04.08	Gratien Atindogbe (Cologne/Buea) Ablaut/Umlaut in Bantu languages of Zone A

Winter Term 2007/2008 Hide

05.02.08	Doris Löhr (Leipzig) Redezugwechsel (turntaking) in Kanuri
29.01.08	Christian Rapold (Zürich) Typologische Rara und Rarissima im Benchnon (Omotisch)
15.01.08	Lutz Diegner (Cologne) Expert Interviews as a Method of Research in African Languages Literatures
08.01.08	Helma Pasch (Cologne) Competing scripts
11.12.07	Henning Schreiber (Frankfurt) Variation und Diffusion: soziolinguistische Aspekte des Sprachwandels im Nord-Samo (Ost-Mande)
04.12.07	Angelika Jakobi (Bayreuth) Semantics and Syntax of Motion Verbs in Beria (Saharan)
27.11.07	Shahrokh Raei (Göttingen) Die afrikanische Minderheit und ihr Besessenheitsritual Zar im Südiran
13.11.07	Eric Anchimbe (Bayreuth) Mutual cross-fertilisation between Cameroonian languages and English

Summer Term 2007 Hide

10.07.07	Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn (Bayreuth) Semantik und Syntax von Bewegungsvorgängen im Senufo und Mande
03.07.07	Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer (Marburg) Sprachwandel durch Kontakt. Veränderungen in der Morphologie des Bogong in Ghana
19.06.07	Uwe Seibert (Dillenburg) "Weblog, Wiki, Podcast, etc. Welche Möglichkeiten bietet das Web 2.0 für Afrikanisten?"
12.06.07	Oumarou Bukari (Bayreuth) De la pluralité des manifestations d'une function connective: cas du marqueur de discourse to' dans le Songhay-Zerma
05.06.07	Michael Gromov (Moscow) Swahili literature in the beginning of the new century
22.05.07	Robert Oduori (Moi) Contextualizing Discourse (English in Kenya): A Critical Analysis
15.05.07	Claude Rilly (Paris) Le rayonnement de Méroé en Afrique noire: quelques pistes

Winter Term 2006/2007 Hide

06.02.07	Abubakar Girei (Maiduguri) Progress in research on Fulfulde dialects in Nigeria
30.01.07	Manfred von Roncador (Bayreuth) Adjektive in Oti-Volta-Sprachen
12.12.06	Said Khamis (Bayreuth) The Power of 'Strangeness' in the New Swahili Novel
05.12.06	Kitula King'ei (Nairobi) The Theme of Nationalism in East Africa's Popular Swahili Songs (150-200): A Tentative Research Proposal
28.11.06	Norbert Nikièma (Ouagadougou) Topicalisation et focalisation en moore
14.11.06	Karsten Brunk (Bayreuth) Kartographie afrikanischer Sprachen und linguistischer Merkmale mittels eines geographischen Informationssystems (GIS).
31.10.06	Pierre Malgoubri (Ouagadougou/Bayreuth) Nasales et nasalisation dans deux dialectes moore: le sare et le dialecte du centre

Summer Term 2006 Hide

25.07.06	George Olusola Ajibade (Ile-Ife) Women Voice in Women Lore: The Yorùbá Nuptial Poetry as a Pivotal for Group Solidarity
04.07.06	Jeff Opland (Leipzig) The newspaper as empowering medium of Xhosa Literature: The case of Nontsizi Mgqwelho
27.06.06	Holger Tröbs (Bayreuth) Feldforschungsbericht zum Samogo, Nord-West-Mande
31.05.06	Paulette Roulon-Doko (Paris) Les parties du corps et l'expression de l'espace
30.05.06	Loic-Michel Perrin (Paris) De la nature épistémologique des invariants sémantiques et cognitifs - le cas des marqueurs diggante et ci du Wolof
23.05.06	William Mkufya (Dar es Salaam) Atheism in the Swahili Novel
16.05.06	Balarabe Zulyadaini (Maiduguri/Bayreuth) Is Sokoto a poetic dialect?
02.05.06	Nina Pawlak (Warsaw) Conceptual metaphors within the domain of 'speaking' in Hausa

Winter Term 2005/2006 Hide

07.02.06	Carmen Eickhoff-Klouvy (Bayreuth) Typische Buschtaxis, moderne Unterhosen und falsche Zelte. Zur Wortfeldtheorie im Mina
30.01.06	Tatiana Krychkova (Moscow/Frankfurt) European loanwords in Amharic and Oromo: comparative analysis
24.01.06	Anne Storch (Cologne) Geistersprachen: Geheimsprachen und Sprachtheorie in Afrika
10.01.06	Alena Rettová (Prague/Bayreuth) The search of the future. Linguistic arguments in African Philosophy
02.12.05	Jens Peter Laut (Freiburg) Die Afrikanistik und ihre Rolle in der türkischen Sprachreform: Ist die Afrikanistik schuld an der türkischen Sonnensprachtheorie?
25.10.05	Pierre Malgoubri (Ouagadougou) Le yaadre des immigrés (yaadse) de Ouagadougou

Summer Term 2005 Hide

12.07.05	Mfuwa Ndonga (Luanda) Les langues nationales dans le système éducatif en Angola: bilan et perspectives
05.07.05	Angelika Jakobi (Bayreuth) Ergativ-Strukturen im Beria (Saharanisch)
28.06.05	Said Khamis (Bayreuth) The Language of the New Swahili Novel
14.06.05	Holger Tröbs (Bayreuth) Postpositionen als Quelle für Prädikatsmarkierer im Manding
07.06.05	Stefan Elders (Bayreuth) Feldforschungsbericht zum Teen und Loma
31.05.05	Thilo Schadeberg (Leiden) Zur Verbalstruktur des Ebang (Heiban, Kordofanian, Sudan)
24.05.05	Sa'idu B. Ahmad (Kano) The Construction of Hausa Identity in Tales
26.04.05	Ibrahim Maina Waziri (Maiduguri) The Significance of Onomastics (Toponyms, Anthroponyms, and Hydronyms) in Understanding Bole Oral Traditions of Origin and Interpreting the Migratory Processes

Winter Term 2004/2005 Hide

08.02.05	Thomas Geider (Cologne) East Africas's Oral and Written Literatures in the Discussion about World Literature: Theoretical Constellations - Literary Specimens
01.02.05	Monika Sokol (Bayreuth) Blackness - Afrikanizität - Alterität: Zur Rekontextualisierung und Reprofilierung eines zentralen Elements im globalisierten Hip Hop
11.01.05	David Massamba (Dar es Salam) New findings on the origin of Swahili
14.12.04	Abubakar Girei (Maiduguri) A survey of some selected Fulfulde dialects of Nigeria
07.12.04	Sandra Bornand (Lausanne) Der Erzähler in der mündlichen Literatur: das Beispiel der Zarma Erzählung (Niger)
30.11.04	Robert Nicolai (Nice) Typologie des charactéristiques aréales de l'espace songhay mandé
23.11.04	Brigitte Nedellec (Bayreuth) Eigenschaftskonzepte im Nateni
16.11.04	Clarissa Dittemer (Bayreuth) Utendi wa Haudaji. Analyse eines bisher unveröffentlichten Swahili-Epos
02.11.04	Crispin Maalu-Bungi (Kinshasa) Histoire événementielle à travers les chansons populaires Luba
26.10.04	Gudrun Miehe (Bayreuth) Besonderheiten im Nominalklassensystem des Cerma-Curama (Gur)

Summer Term 2004 Hide

13.07.04	Pierre Malgoubri (Ouagadougou) La situation du moore dans les centres urbains: le cas de la ville de Ouagadougou
06.07.04	Ahmed Bio Nigan (Cotonou) Signe et message pour une étude sémiologique de l'annonce du deuil chez les batombu
22.06.04	Ratisbonne Kumugo (Kinshasa) La dérivation et les sous-catégories verbales du ngbaka
08.06.04	Rotimi Badejo (Maiduguri) Reflections on the language situation in Africa
25.05.04	Anette Volk (Bayreuth) Lexikalische Vergleiche: Kuschitisch-Omotisch (Projektbericht)
11.05.04	Stefan Elders (Bayreuth) Kulango/Teen (Gur-Projektbericht)
04.05.04	Norbert Nikiema (Ouagadougou) Serial verb constructions in Moore

Winter Term 2003/2004 Hide

10.02.04	Gudrun Miehe (Bayreuth) Zur nominalen Klassifikation in Plateau- und Gursprachen
03.02.04	Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn (Bayreuth) Negation im Kar
20.01.04	Clarissa Dittemer (Bayreuth) Zum Liongo-Kanon
13.01.04	Kerstin Winkelmann (Bayreuth) Negation in Gursprachen
02.12.03	Brigitte Reineke (Berlin) Fokus in Gur- und Kwasprachen
25.11.03	Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer (Bayreuth) Nord Volta-Congo Sprachen im südlichen Tschadbecken. Sprachen im südlichen Tschadbecken
11.11.03	Stefan Elders (Bayreuth) Bericht über den Workshop SPOVX Reihenfolgen an der Rudgers Univ., New Brunswick im Juni 2003
04.11.03	Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer (Bayreuth) Komposita mit -bi- in Gurunsisprachen
28.10.03	E. Apia N'Guessan (Bayreuth) Système vocalique de l'abe (langue lagunaire, Côte d'Ivoire)

Summer Term 2003 Hide

08.07.03	Sayane Gouroubera (Cotonou) Sur le système verbal du baatonum
01.07.03	Yuliya Suyetina (Moscow) Die analytischen Konstruktionen im Hausa
24.06.03	Jan Leysen (Bayreuth) The poetics of Swahili hiphop
03.06.03	Eva Rothmaler (Bayreuth) Toponyme in Borno
13.05.03	Anette Volk (Bayreuth) Proto-kuschitische Rekonstruktionen: Probleme des Vergleichs
06.05.03	Henry Tourneux (Paris) L'argument linguistique chez les historiens africains afrocentristes
29.04.03	Joe McIntyre (Hamburg) Metaphor and Metonymy in Hausa: with Special Reference to their Role in Verbal Compounds

Winter Term 2002/2003 Hide

28.01.03	Ursula Drolc (Cologne/Bayreuth) Das Konsonantensystem des Proto-Cangin
14.01.03	Frank Kammerzell (Göttingen) Napatanisch, Meroitisch, Nubisch. Zur frühesten Verschriftung afrikanischer Sprachen außerhalb Ägyptens
07.01.03	Ralf Großerhode (Bayreuth) Was macht Pflanzen ähnlich? Pflanzenbezeichnungen im Swahili
03.12.02	Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst (Cologne) Raum und Umwelt bei den Beja
26.11.02	Saidu B. Ahmad (Berlin) Hausa Tales from Oral to Multi-Media
12.11.02	Jean Philippe Zouogbo (Strasburg) Die Tierwelt in der Phraseologie des Bété mit Illustrationen aus dem Deutschen
05.11.02	Ursula Drolc (Cologne/Bayreuth) Nominalklassensysteme in Cangin-Sprachen (Senegal). Ein Vergleich
29.10.02	Keith Snider (SIL Canada) Noun class systems in Guang languages
22.10.02	Manfred von Roncador (Bayreuth) Safalba Noun Classes

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