Author: Birgit Ricquier
“Extracting the Past from the Present”: International and Interdisciplinary Conference on African Precolonial History (March 1st-5th, 2021)
“Extracting the Past from the Present”: International and Interdisciplinary Conference on African Precolonial History ~ ONLINE CONFERENCE!
From March 1st to March 5th, 2021, the ULB and RMCA will welcome international scholars from diverse disciplines to discuss methods and the latest results regarding the African precolonial past.
“Extracting the Past from the Present”, International and Interdisciplinary Conference on African Precolonial History, March 1st-5th, 2021, ULB
International call
Seminar@ULB, 9/1/20: “A GAFA of early vintage: The social networks of Congo Basin tropical rainforests” by Dr. Edmond Dounias (IRD)
19-26 November 2019: visit to Kisangani
First official visit to the University of Kisangani and some teambuilding during fieldwork
BANTURIVERS paper @ ICHL24: a comparison of previous Bantu classifications plus the river hypothesis
1-5 July 2019: International Conference on Historical Linguistics 24, Australian National University, Canberra
Every two years, during one week, all that matters is historical linguistics. At this year’s ICHL, discussions revolved around agricultural driven dispersals, multidisciplinary challenges, sound changes, but also the ethics of research on indigenous languages.
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, C. Kumbatulu Sita Bangbasa, C. Kutsch Lojenga, J.-R. Lofemba Boningoli Batita, J. Maniacky, N. Mombaya Liwila and E. Ngbanga Bandombele
