Language Activism Symposium

The A.C. Jordan Chair in African Studies and Linguistics Section invite you to a Symposium: "Reflecting on Language Activism in South Africa – A Symposium".

Date Venue and Time: 15 November 2019, 15.00 to 18.00 pm, CAS Gallery

Refreshments will be served.

 

Poster and Program attached

Organized by the A.C. Jordan Chair in African Studies and the Linguistics Section (AXL), funded by the AW Mellon Foundation

 

Speakers (in alphabetical order):

June Bam-Hutchison, Moshumee Dewoo, Zuziwe Msomi, Lindokuhle Patiwe, Chanel van der Merwe, Pule Welch

   

June-Bam-Hutchison

Intergenerational 'mother tongue' trauma in South Africa in the case of Khoekhoegowab: implications for a critically reflective multilingual higher education policy

 

Moshumee Dewoo, Zuziwe Msomi

Language, Power and Freedom: reflections on teaching a third year course

 

Lindokuhle Patiwe

Language as an archive

 

Chanel van der Merwe

Language policy as lived experience: a proposal

 

Pule Welch

To be confirmed