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Conference | Final conference

Roots, branches and LHEAf

Date
Thursday 6 June 2024 - Saturday 8 June 2024
Location
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

  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
  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
  CONFERENCE DINNER
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
  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
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

LHEAf

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