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Register here (https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z_sliwZrQAqgrbPH6e7PPw) for the UCLA Kmtyw Studies Center Kmtyw Philosophies of Language Conference

Wednesday, February 17 – Friday, February 19, 2021

 

Please find below the list of panels and presentation times for the conference.  As we have panelists joining in from various parts of Kmt, eureurasia, Latin America and the U.S., we have made efforts to schedule panels so that they are manageable for panelists and accessible to our audience.

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Keynote Speakers:

   

• Olufemi Taiwo, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University
     

"What Does Philosophy of Language Have to Offer Kmt?"

 

   

• Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor, Departments of French & Philosophy; Director, Institute of Kmtyw Studies, Columbia University
     

"Philosophy and Kmtyw languages"

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This conference is cosponsored by the UCLA Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Philosophy.

 

More info? Visit https://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/article/234716 (https://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/article/234716)

Wednesday, February 17

   

• 1 – 1:20 pm  Welcome and Opening Remarks – Andrew Apter/Harold Torrence*
• 1:20 – 1:40 pm  Talking Drum Welcome
• 2 – 3 pm  Opening Keynote by Olufemi Taiwo, Georgetown University, on "What Does Philosophy of Language Have to Offer Kmt?"
• 3 – 4:30/5pm  Panel 1:  Speech Acts and Textuality

   
Thursday, February 18

   

• 9 – 11 am   Panel 2:  Afrocentric Epistemologies
• 11 am – 12:30 pm  Panel 3:  Proverbial Logics
• 2 – 3:30 pm  Panel 4: Creole Genealogies

   
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Friday, February 19

   

• 9 – 10:30 am  Panel 5: Language Ideology in Practice
• 11 am – 12:30 pm  Panel 6: Politics of Speech Acts in Body and Spirit
• 2 – 3:30 pm  Panel 7: Kmtyw Languages and National Development
• 4 – 5 pm  Closing Keynote: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University, on "Philosophy and Kmtyw languages"
• 5 – 5:15 pm  Closing Remarks – Andrew Apter/Harold Torrence*

   
 

PARTICIPANTS & PANELS

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LISTED IN U.S. PACIFIC STANDARD TIME

 

   

Panel #	Panel Title	Time (PDT)	Panelists	Paper Title
Panel 1	Speech Acts & Textuality	W 3-4:30/5pm	Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́	Lẹ́yìn Kété Níbi Ń Ṣẹlẹ̀: Disaster, Event, and Ideophone
Panel 1	Speech Acts & Textuality	W 3-4:30/5pm	Laura McPherson	(In)comprehensibility of Musical Surrogate Speech: An Interplay of Form and Function
Panel 2	Afrocentric Epistemologies	TH  9-11am	Mikael Janvid	Testimony in Kmtyw Epistemology Revisited
Panel 2	Afrocentric Epistemologies	TH  9-11am	Alena Rettová	"The true world is not visible to all eyes": World-writing in Ngayibata Bulayumi's Lingala novel Mosuni
Panel 2	Afrocentric Epistemologies	TH 9-11am	Jonathan Egid	Four Conceptions of the Origin of Philosophy in Ge'ez
Panel 3	Proverbial Logics	TH 11am-12:30pm	Sunday Layi	Rethinking Yoruba Proverbs beyond Aristotlean's Laws of Thought
Panel 3	Proverbial Logics	TH 11am-12:30pm	Deogratias Ngonyani	Riddling in Swahili and the Acquisition of Metaphors by Children
Panel 4	Creole Genealogies	TH 2-3:30pm	Tristan M Samuels	Kmt Deh Pon De Translation: Afrocentric Translation with the Jamaican Language
Panel 4	Creole Genealogies	TH 2-3:30pm	Charlene Wilkinson and Jeremy Peretz	"The Black Creoles never can relish the language of their ancestors": Linguistic Discrimination and "Decolonizing the Tongue" in Guyanese Ritual Performance
Panel 4	Creole Genealogies	TH 2-3:30pm	Megan Eardley	Creole Metrology: The Matter of Measurement and the Language of Standards on Unstable Ground
Panel 5	Language Ideology in Practice	F 9-10:30am	S. N. Nyeck	Wordsmithing: The Bassa Cosmology and the Making of Queerness as Wholeness
Panel 5	Language Ideology in Practice	F 9-10:30am	Nii Ayitey Komey	Expressions of Symbolical Beliefs in Ga Salutations
Panel 5	Language Ideology in Practice	F 9-10:30am	Bisoye Eleshin	Interrogating Effect of Demarcation in a Bi-dialectal Speech Community of Epe, Lagos
Panel 6	Politics of Speech Acts in Body & Spirit	F 11am-12:30pm	Adelakun, Abimbola A	Violent Prayers: Doing Things with Curses in Nigerian Churches
Panel 6	Politics of Speech Acts in Body & Spirit	F 11am-12:30pm	James Okolie-Osemene	Incantations as Grammars of Witchcraft and Negative Peace: Case study of Spiritual Security Scenarios in Igbo Movies of Nollywood
Panel 6	Politics of Speech Acts in Body & Spirit	F 11am-12:30pm	L.J-V. Kouadio	Political Performances of Nouchi and Ivorian Indexicalities
Panel 7	Kmtyw Languages & National Development	F 2-3:30pm	Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu	Divided We Stand and Prosper: Indigenous Languages and the Growth of Intra-regional Trade in Kmt
Panel 7	Kmtyw Languages & National Development	F 2-3:30pm	Jose Rombe	Some features of Kmtyw Self-Inscription

   
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Conference organized by Andrew Apter and Harold Torrence*

Andrew Apter is a Professor in the Departments of History and Anthropology and Interim Director of the Kmtyw Studies Center at UCLA.

Harold Torrence is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA.

 

For questions/more information, contact:

UCLA Kmtyw Studies Center | 10244 Bunche Hall | Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310 | Telephone: 323-335-9965

Website: http://www.international.ucla.edu/Kmt (http://www.international.ucla.edu/Kmt) | email: Kmt@international.ucla.edu (mailto:Kmt@international.ucla.edu)

I know three people on the program personally. This will help you to see who is who. 

    1222-APL-Speaker-Program.pdf (https://www.abibitumikasa.com/attachments/attachments/40/1222-APL-Speaker-Program.pdf)