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26.10. Colloquium on African linguistics: The subjunctive complementizer ‘mek’ in Naijá (Schneider)
"The functional and formal range of the subjunctive complementizer ‘mek’ in Naijá aka ‘Nigerian Pidgin English’" - Talk by Luisa Schneider (HU Berlin, Master project) given within the digital colloquium of African linguistics and languages
: Oct 22, 2021
Telephone consultation hours with BA coordinator Stefan Hoffmann
: Oct 22, 2021
Digital Africa Colloquium in winter semester 2021/22
: Oct 13, 2021
Digital Africa Colloquium in winter semester 2021/22
Invitation
: Oct 12, 2021
Call for applications for a student assistant in African languages and linguistics
: Aug 02, 2021
Colloquium on African languages and linguistics (winter 2021/22)
Preliminary program of the digital research colloquium on African linguistics and languages at the Seminar for African Studies at HU Berlin in the winter semester 2021/22.
: Apr 14, 2021
12.07. Colloquium on African linguistics: Noun classification in Tula/ Adamawa (Elstermann)
: Jul 08, 2021
14.-16.07.: Online CONFERENCE "Ageing, Old Age, and Disability in African and African Diaspora Performance, Film and Festival" (AfTA 2021)
: Jul 07, 2021
16.07.: 33rd HIP Workshop
: Jun 26, 2021
29.06. Colloquium on African linguistics: Cognates in 'South Atlantic' (Schulze)
"Finding cognates in ‘South Atlantic’" - Talk by Michael Schulze (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project) given within the digital colloquium of African linguistics and languages
: Jun 26, 2021
28.06. Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series: The Miss Tibet Pageant in the Tibetan Diaspora as a Representation of Tibet and its Culture? (by Pema Choedon, University of Tartu)
Lecture "The Miss Tibet Pageant in the Tibetan Diaspora as a Representation of Tibet and its Culture?" by Pema Choedon (University of Tartu) as part of the Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series. All are welcome!
: Jun 23, 2021
22.06. Colloquium on African linguistics: Khoekhoe clause types (Job)
: Jun 18, 2021
21.06. Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series: Mount Kailāśa in the Bön religion (Prof. em. Dr. Per Kværne)
Lecture "Mount Kailāśa in the Bön religion" von Prof. em. Dr. Per Kværne (University of Oslo) as part of the Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series. All are welcome!
: Jun 16, 2021
15.06. Colloquium on African linguistics: Setswana vowels (Naumann & Gabanamotse-Mogara & Molefhi)
"Revisiting the Setswana vowel system" - Talk by Christfried Naumann (HU Berlin) & Budzani Gabanamotse-Mogara & Dipogiso Molefhi (University of Botswana) given within the digital colloquium of African linguistics and languages
: Jun 11, 2021
14.06. Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series: The Royal History of Sikkim: A Chronicle of the House of Namgyal. A new, fully annotated and illustrated Translation from the Tibetan Original (Prof. em. Dr. Per K. Sørensen and Dr. John Ardussi)
Lecture "The Royal History of Sikkim: A Chronicle of the House of Namgyal. A new, fully annotated and illustrated Translation from the Tibetan Original" as part of the Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series by Prof. em. Dr. Per K. Sørensen (Universiy of Leipzig) and Dr. John Ardussi (University of Virginia).
: Jun 09, 2021
08.06. Colloquium on African linguistics: The documentation of Oubi (Jaffe & Nordhoff)
"The documentation of the Kru language Oubi" - Talk by Jenny Jaffe (MPI-EVA Leipzig) & Sebastian Nordhoff (LSP) given within the digital colloquium of African linguistics and languages
: Jun 03, 2021
07.06. Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series: Naming the Empire: from Bod to Tibet - the Emergence of the Polity - (Dr. Joanna Bialek, IAAW)
Lecture "Naming the Empire: from Bod to Tibet - the Emergence of the Polity" as part of the Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series by Dr. Joanna Bialek (IAAW). All are welcome!
: Jun 02, 2021
01.06. Colloquium on African linguistics: Transnumeral nouns (Junglas)
“The semantics and morphology of transnumeral nouns within Northeastern Africa’s tripartite number marking languages” - Talk by Jan Junglas (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project) given within the digital colloquium of African linguistics and languages
: May 31, 2021
Information event on the new Master's program in Asian/African Studies
: May 17, 2021
18.05. Colloquium on African linguistics: Santandrea's Aja corpus (Schünke)
: May 17, 2021
19.05. Mongolia-Colloquium: „Mongolian revolution of 1921 through the prism of 1989: the politics of "historical and cultural heritage" in socialist and post-socialist Mongolia“
Lecture on "Mongolian revolution of 1921 through the prism of 1989: the politics of 'historical and cultural heritage' in socialist and post-socialist Mongolia" as part of the Mongolia-Collquium by Dr. Irina Morozova (Lehrstuhl für Geschichte Südost- und Osteuropas, Universität Regensburg). All are welcome!
: May 12, 2021
31.05. Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series: Perspectives of Indo-Chinese Border Trade
Lecture on "Perspectives of Indo-Chinese Border Trade" as part of the Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series by Dr. Rafał Beszterda, Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun. All are welcome!
: May 12, 2021
11.05. Colloquium on African linguistics: The documentation of Ehueun/ Edoid (Komolafe)
“The documentation of Ehueun, an endangered Edoid language of Nigeria” - Talk by Oluwakayode Komolafe (HU Berlin & University of Ibadan) given within the digital colloquium of African linguistics and languages
: May 10, 2021
03.05. Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series: Mantras and Rituals in Tibetan Medicine
"Mantras and Rituals in Tibetan Medicine" Lecture by Dr. Olaf Czaja, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, as part of the Tibet & Himalaya Lecture Series. All are welcome!
: Apr 30, 2021
04.05. Colloquium on African linguistics: Verbs in ǂHuan (Auer)
“Verbs in ǂHuan (Taa)” - Talk by Daniel Auer (HU Berlin, Master project) given within the digital colloquium of African linguistics and languages
: Apr 28, 2021
27.04. Colloquium of African linguistics: Animacy-based noun classification in Central Africa (Güldemann)
“From differential grammatical treatment to gender: animacy-based noun classification in Central Africa and its typological significance” - Talk by Tom Güldemann (HU Berlin) given within the digital colloquium of African linguistics and languages
: Apr 22, 2021
26.04. Poverty as an Economic Asset. China's Fight against Poverty in Eastern Tibet
Lecture by Dr. Jarmila Ptáčková, Czech Academy of Sciences
: Apr 21, 2021
Office hours study programme coordinator Mr Hoffmann
For BA Asia/Africa and MA African Studies
: Mar 12, 2020
16.3 Defense master thesis of Marcel Mindemann
: Mar 11, 2021
23.02. In place of the Colloquium of African linguistics: Later Stone Age of southern Africa (Pargeter)
: Feb 22, 2021