INPUTS lecture series finished

On Thursday, June 29th 2017 we enjoyed the last lecture in the INPUTS Forum series "Changing ecologies: language, culture and the environment". Tendai Mangena, member of our Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies team, gave a talk entitled "Traces of Antinomy between Culture and the Law in Gappah's short stories".

The lecture series proved to be a success. We were able to welcome some renowned international guests, including Evelyn Camille from Canada, Epifania Amoo-Adare from Ghana or Sune Vork Steffensen from Denmark. Next to Tendai's, we could also offer a lecture of another colleague in the Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies group, Oluseun Tanimomo. And we had the opportunity to establish and strengthen our connections with other German universities by welcoming Kylie Crane (Mainz) and Nico Nassenstein (Cologne).

The series was also successful in terms of content, as the lectures formed a coherent conversation, picking up similar themes but approaching them from different perspectives and using different methods and examples.

Registered users can see the mobile lectures from the series here.

Tendai Mangena in front of the series poster

We thank everyone involved in the lecture series: the speakers, the filming team and the audience. Have a nice summer!
Eeva Sippola & Joanna Chojnicka, series organizers

Open Campus 2017

This year, the Postcolonial Studies group was given the challenging and exciting task of organizing the activities of Faculty 10: Linguistics and Literary Studies at the Open Campus day, which took place on Saturday, June 17th 2017.

Under the supervision of Eeva Sippola and Kerstin Knopf and the coordination of Joanna Chojnicka, a large range of presentations and activities were offered to visitors at the pagoda of Faculty 10. The postcolonial team was supported by the student assistants Michaela Puschmann and Anna Todt as well as the members of Stuga Anglistik.

Throughout the day, fortune-cookies and arabic sweets were handed around and a mini-cinema invited visitors to watch short movies made by the students of MA Transnationale Literaturwissenschaft and a poetry reading. 

Presentations included Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies by Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf, Postcolonial Language Studies by Dr. Marivic Lesho, Linguistic Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea by Dr. Lidia Mazzitelli and Research-based learning by BA-Student Michaela Puschmann. Many keen visitors could be found in our workshop on the International Phonetic Alphabet, where participants had the chance to read and write in IPA-Symbols. 

INPUTS contributed to our pagoda by presenting their Guayana- and Haiti-Projects, while Michael Claridge offered a photo-exhibition on the students' excursion to Shakespeare's London and on the most recent play by the Parliament of Foules, Doctor Faustus.

At the end of the day, our team enjoyed the concert of Samy Deluxe and celebrated a succesful and rewarding day. Thanks to everyone who contributed - we are already looking forward to the next Open Campus!

 

 

New publication by Eeva Sippola

Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches

Edited by Peter Bakker | Finn Borchsenius | Carsten Levisen | Eeva Sippola

This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. With evidence from creole languages in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific, the book provides new perspectives on creole typology, cross-creole comparisons, and creole semantics. Original case studies explore the differences and similarities between creoles, and discuss how to classify creoles and how they formed and developed.

Creole Studies has been written for a broad readership of scholars and students in the fields of contact linguistics, biolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language typology, and semantics.

Eeva Sippola is one of the editors of the book and has (co-)authored several chapters on Iberian creoles and methods, among others. Danae Perez and Eeva Sippola also contributed to the book with a study on Afro-Hispanic varieties.

https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/z.211/main