Previous Events

Title: "Rain in San thought – commonalities, divergences and change"

Personality and mental health among Khoekhoegowab speakers in Namibia

Street Khoisan: on resilient indigenous identities

Deficient verbs in TUU languages, with particular reference to ǀXam: a preliminary survey

Title: Rethinking symbolism and human origins - with relation to the San

Title: Colonial encounters from an animist perspective in the Western Kalahari

Title: Core High-Level Cognitive Abilities Derived from Hunter-Gatherer Shelter Building

Title: Naro PGNs: new perspectives

Title: The genealogical classification of Southern Bantu languages and its implications for population history Part 2 of a special 2-part webinar with Koen Bostoen

Title: Spread-over-spread events in Bantu language history: New cross-disciplinary insights from Central Africa Part 1 of a special 2-part webinar with Hilde Gunnink

The arrival of livestock to southern Africa – an archaeologist’s perspective

We will be discussing: Fleming, Luke (2017) 'Phoneme inventory size and the transition from monoplanar to dually patterned speech'. Journal of Language Evolution 2017, 52–66.

Title: Click Loan in Namaqualand Afrikaans.

Title: Lexicostatistical approach to the Khoisan problem: achievements and perspectives

We will be discussing: William Bennett. 2020. Click phonology. In Sands, Bonny (ed.), Click consonants. (Empirical approaches to linguistic theory, 15). Leiden: Brill.

Title: A Slow Death: Language contact and phonetic change in Xri.

Title: Kulimatji: A film with storyteller Kapilolo Mahongo and rapper/musician Baka Jashula (aka Obrigado) on storytelling and the preservation of the !Xun language.

Title: Prehistoric languages of the Kalahari: a speculative treatment of language in the tiny multilingual communities of the Kalahari over the centuries