Conference | Final conference
Roots, branches and LHEAf
- Date
- Thursday 6 June 2024 - Saturday 8 June 2024
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 1.47
This conference is about the early history of East African people, their languages and cultures, concluding the Leiden project on the Linguistic History of East Africa. Aiming to correlate our linguistic findings with those of other disciplines, the conference is interdisciplinary and invites researchers from fields such as archaeology, anthropology, history and genetics in addition to linguistics.
There will be ample time for discussion: We will have presentations of 20 minutes with 20 minutes discussions. All sessions will be plenary. You are welcome to join the conference in person without presenting. Attendance is free. Please register here or using the button below before 31 May.
Programme
Thursday 6 June
| REGISTRATION & WELCOME TEA/COFFEE | |
| INTRODUCTION | |
| CUSHITIC IN EAST AFRICA |
Proto-core Cushitic Ahmed Sosal, Maarten Mous Cushitic in the mountains of Taita, Pare, Usambara and Kilimanjaro Ed Elderkin, Maarten Mous, Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, Christian Rapold, Sjef van Lier, Bonny Sands, Ahmed Sosal, Mauro Tosco |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| South Cushitic in Inner Mbugu: Historical Linguistics and Linguistic History in the Tanzania Rift Andrew Harvey The late entry of Cushitic in Tanzania Maarten Mous, Christian Rapold, Roland Kiessling Discussion |
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| LUNCH BREAK | |
| CUSHITIC-NILOTIC CONTACT | The multitude of Cushitic and Nilotic contacts Roland Kiessling, Maarten Mous, Christian Rapold |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| Narrations of Precolonial Society among the Terik of Western Kenya Eliud Biegon Discussion |
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| CONFERENCE DINNER |
Friday 7 June
| WELCOME TEA/COFFEE | |
| BANTU IN EAST AFRICA | The Bantu expansion into East Africa through contact Nina van der Vlugt, Maarten Mous On the non-Bantu origins of reflexive-reciprocal polysemy in Tanzanian Bantu languages Aron Zahran |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| Bantu Migratory Routes into Kenya and Tanzania: Implications on Luyia Dialects Classification Everlyn Kisembe, Duncan Mukhwana Discussion |
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| LUNCH BREAK | |
| GEOGRAPHY | The donkey in East Africa Sjef van Lier Changing the leopard’s spots: changing and exchanging color pattern and megafauna terms Sam Beer Some Comparative issues in Dime Mulugeta Seyoum |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| The sound systems of Rift Valley languages: New perspectives on their form and evolution Didier Demolin Discussion |
Saturday 8 June
| WELCOME TEA/COFFEE | |
| EARLY PEOPLE | Assessing the past cultural diversity of East Africa Tom Güldemann Herders without horde or hunters without history? Investigating the history of East-African hunter-gatherers Dominique Loviscach Sandawe language contact: Towards a linguistic map of early Tanzania Alba Hermida Rodriguez Early East African and Cushitic: Contacts between foragers and pastoralists in early East Africa Bonny Sands, Mauro Tosco |
| LUNCH BREAK | |
| Discussion | |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| General Discussion | |
| DRINKS |
