“Extracting the Past from the Present”, International and Interdisciplinary Conference on African Precolonial History, March 1st-5th, 2021, ULB
International call
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19-26 November 2019: visit to Kisangani
First official visit to the University of Kisangani and some teambuilding during fieldwork
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
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 reflections on research ethics in general