Sara Pacchiarotti, postdoctoral research within the BantuFirst project, has a new book out in the prestigious “Stanford Monographs in African Languages” series published by The University of Chicago Press. Its title is Bantu Applicative Constructions .
Category: Lectures
Wannes Hubau publishes in Nature
Nature published on March 5, 2020 groundbreaking research from Wannes Hubau, postdoctoral researcher within the BantuFirst project, and his colleagues from a former project on the rates at which forests in Africa and Amazonia have taken up carbon between 1983 and 2015.
Dr. Louise Iles: “Forests of iron: resources used in early African iron production“
On March 19th Dr. Louise Iles (University of Sheffield) will give a lecture titled “Forests of iron: resources used in early African iron production“.
Her presentation will be followed by a BantuFirst Research Pitch by Bernard Clist on “Coastal Muanda Pottery and Social Diversification in the Early Iron Age of the Kongo Central Province (DRC)“.
Please join us at Room 2.1 (2nd floor, entrance via Faculty Library, Magnel Wing), Rozier 44, 9000 Gent at 10 am.
FOLLOWING THE UGENT CORONA MEASURES THIS EVENT IS CANCELED AND POSTPONED TO A DATE TO BE SPECIFIED.
Job offer for a postdoctoral researcher in African Archaeology
The BantuFirst project is in search of a postdoctoral researcher in African Archaeology. Applications are invited here.
Dr. Noemie Arazi: “Kasongo (im)material: new insights into Swahili-Arab history and heritage in the DRC”
On February 18th Dr. Noemie Arazi (Groundworks & ULB) will give a lecture titled “Kasongo (im)material: new insights into Swahili-Arab history and heritage in the DRC“.
Her presentation will be followed by a BantuFirst Research Pitch by Igor Matonda, Léon Mundeke, Sara Pacchiarotti & Koen Bostoen on “Joint archaeological, linguistic and genetic research in the vicinity of the West-Coastal Bantu homeland: the 2019 BantuFirst fieldwork campaign“.
Please join us at Room 100.024 (ground floor), Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent at 10 am.
Prof. Dr. Ceri Ashley: “Pathways through the Forest? Reflecting on the Archaeology of Early Farming Communities in Great Lakes Africa”
On December 12th Prof. Dr. Ceri Ashley from the British Museum (London) will give a lecture titled “Pathways through the Forest? Reflecting on the Archaeology of Early Farming Communities in Great Lakes Africa“ [abstract].
Dr. Louis Champion: “Domestication of Pearl Millet in Africa: Potential Origins and Diffusion”
On November 21st Dr. Louis Champion from the Goethe Universität (Frankfurt) will give a lecture titled “Domestication of Pearl Millet in Africa: Potential Origins and Diffusion”.
Prof. André Motingea Mangulu: “Particularités des langues mongo parlées par les groupes d’anciens chasseurs-collecteurs du bassin central congolais : Une contribution à la linguistique historique et à l’histoire des migrations”
The BantuFirst project team is happy to invite you to its next research seminar, which will take place on October 22 at 11am at Ghent University (Auditorium P Jozef Plateau, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Ghent).
We have the honour to welcome Prof. André Motingea Mangulu (UPN Kinshasa) who will present a talk titled “Particularités des langues mongo parlées par les groupes d’anciens chasseurs-collecteurs du bassin central congolais : Une contribution à la linguistique historique et à l’histoire des migrations“.
His talk will be followed by a BantuFirst research pitch on “Dorsal fricatives in West Coastal Bantu: substrate interference from extinct hunter- gatherer languages?” presented by Sara Pacchiarotti.
Dr. Chris Kiahtipes “The ‘Bantu Complex’: Articulating the Paleoecological and Archaeological Signals of Agropastoralist Migrations in Central Africa”
On May 17th
Dr. Chris Kiahtipes (University of South Florida, Tampa, USA) presented his view on how interdisciplinary research in archaeology and paleo-ecology may contribute to the reconstruction of vegetation and population dynamics in the Central African rainforest and to a better understanding of the ways in which these two processes have interacted through time. He highlighted interesting parallels with similar research in the North American Great Basin and emphasized the theoretical implications of past research on the Fremont Complex for future research on the Bantu Expansion. During his talk he also presented the first pollen records ever obtained from the central parts of the Congo Basin. The BantuFirst team was very happy to welcome colleagues from the UGent Departments of Archaeology and Biology, the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) and several other people. Abstract
New archaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental research
On April 1, 2019, Dr. Wannes Hubau joined the BantuFirst team. He is responsible for the project’s archaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental research.