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Rivers as highways, rivers for food: the role of waterways in the Bantu expansions towards the eastern Congo Basin.

on the road

The road to Ubundu, 2020, picture by Shingo Takamura
June 9, 2020

The Novel Coronavirus Pandemic: Its Impact on Fieldwork and the People of the DRCongo

When a pandemic puts fieldwork to an end and demands repatriation.

by Shingo Takamura
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David Kopa wa Kopa, interview sur la langue mokpá, Batikamondji, 20/02/20
May 14, 2020

Contact between Mokpá and neighboring languages at the terminus ad quem of the...

First linguistic fieldwork, in the region south of Kisangani, for David's doctoral research.

by David Kopa wa Kopa
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BANTURIVERS@UNIKIS
February 13, 2020

19-26 November 2019: visit to Kisangani

First official visit to the University of Kisangani and some teambuilding during fieldwork

by Birgit Ricquier
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Australian National University
August 26, 2019

1-5 July 2019: International Conference on Historical Linguistics 24, Australian...

Every two years, during one week, all that matters is historical linguistics. At this year’s ICHL, discussions revolved around...

by Birgit Ricquier
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Events

March 31, 2021

“Extracting the Past from the Present”: International and Interdisciplinary...

by Birgit Ricquier
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Extracting the past from the present, 2010, picture by Birgit Ricquier
June 10, 2020

“Extracting the Past from the Present”: International and Interdisciplinary...

From March 1st to March 5th, 2021, the ULB and RMCA will welcome international scholars from diverse disciplines to...

by Birgit Ricquier
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essays

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July 10, 2019

Look Before You Leap: On Decolonizing (Linguistic) Fieldwork

This first blogpost presents a stream of consciousness from the inventory of endangered languages in the northeastern DRC to...

by Birgit Ricquier
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read us

BANTURIVERS presentation at ICHL24
August 26, 2019

BANTURIVERS paper @ ICHL24: a comparison of previous Bantu classifications plus the...

by Birgit Ricquier
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Map Languages of the Northeastern DRC
August 26, 2019

Linguistic diversity and endangered languages in the Northeast of the DRC

On the article submitted for the Unesco World Report by B. Ricquier, E. Bangwabendi Katoba, D. Kopa wa Kopa,...

by Birgit Ricquier
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