Africa Table - Diaspora Linguistics: A Comparative Study of Multilingual Matters Among Africans in GZ, China and Africans in Vienna, Austria

Africa Table - Diaspora Linguistics: A Comparative Study of Multilingual Matters Among Africans in GZ, China and Africans in Vienna, Austria
Date
Wed February 14th 2018, 12:00 - 1:00pm
Event Sponsor
Center for African Studies, Department of Linguistics
Location
219 Encina Hall West
Speaker: Adams Bodomo

Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series. This week's talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Linguistics.

Speaker: Adams Bodomo, Professor, African Languages and Literatures, University of Vienna, Austria

Adams Bodomo specializes in formal theoretical linguistics, cross-cultural communication, digital humanities (languages and literatures in new media), global African diaspora studies, and international studies involving Africa and Asia. He is author of the critically acclaimed book, Africans in China: A Sociocultural Study and Its Implications on Africa–China Relations. Bomodo is Director of the Global African Diaspora Studies (GADS) Research Platform at the University of Vienna where he researches comparative African and Chinese linguistic structures and cross-cultural issues.

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