Conference: Linguistic Perspectives on/from Africa
| Contact person | Prof. Dr. Christian Mair |
| christian.mair@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de | |
| Date | Wednesday, 7th June 2023, 14:00 - 19:00 |
| Location | Universität Freiburg, KG I, HS 1132 Freiburg Germany |
Programme
2 pm – 4 pm: KG I, HS 1132
| Time | Name | Title |
| 14:00-14:30 | Innocent Chiluwa (Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, AvH Freiburg) | The language of conflict/protest: Examining the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria |
| 14:30-15:00 | Omatoya Okesola (University of Ile-Ife, Nigeria, AvH Freiburg) | Rural communities and risk communication in Nigeria: Challenges, insights and takeaways from COVID-19 pandemic |
| 15:00-15:30 | Lucky Nte (Lyon 2/Freiburg) | Nigerian medical professionals in Germany and France: Lingua franca communication in non-Anglophone environments |
| 15:30-16;00 | Zainab Musa Shallangwa (University of Maiduguri/FRIAS) | Same People Shifting Places: A photovoice documentation of cultural memory and identity reconstruction in Monguno, Borno State, Nigeria |
Coffee break
4:15 pm – 18:45 pm: KG I, HS 1132
| Time | Name | Title |
| 16:30-17:00 | Grace Diabah (University of Ghana) | Gendered discourses in Ghana’s politics: Reflections on “bloody widows” and “the mother of all nations” |
| 17:00 -17:30 | Beatrice Offeibea Awuku (ERASMUS, Freiburg) | News discourse on Charlotte Osei: An analysis in the appraisal framework |
| 17:30-18:00 | Samsondeen Ajagbe (Freiburg) | The spread of Nigerian Pidgin |
| 18:00-18:30 | Bridget Fonkeu and Christian Mair (Freiburg) | Nigerian and Cameroonian Pidgin in contact in the German diaspora |
| 18:30-19:00 | Sandro Sassarego (Austin TX/FRIAS) | Current issues in Afro-Hispanic linguistics: How academic research is informing cultural activism |
Dinner