OCEANIA LECTURES

As part of the Oceania theme semester, Linguistics at FB 10 organizes a lecture series on Oceania and Colonial Linguistics. The title in German is Koloniallinguistik als Bremer Forschungsfeld (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Ozeaniens).

One of the focuses of the series was on languages and education. In April our guest lecturer Craig Volker gave a talk on languages and education in Papua New Guinea. Until recenlty, he worked at the Divine Word University in Madang (PNG). I continued the week after with the same topic, but with an example from the Chabacano speaking communities in the Philippines. Both situations deal with creoles and language endangerment and their connections to education, and we hope to continue the discussion during Craig Volker’s visit here in Bremen.

Craig Volker

Thomas Stolz presenting Craig Volker

 

The full program of the lecture series is as follows and the lectures are held on Thursdays 12-14, in SuUB 4330, University of Bremen.

 

7.4. Koloniallinguistik – vier Perspektiven auf einen Gegenstand (zur Einführung)
Carolin Patzelt, Eeva Sippola, Thomas Stolz, Ingo H. Warnke (Romanistik, Postcolonial Language Studies, Linguistik, Germanistik)
14.4. Pour le briquet nous disons ‚birike‘ – Assimilation französischer Lexeme in melanesischen Sprachen Neukaledoniens
Marina Wienberg (Linguistik)
21.4.Sprache und Schule in Papua Neuguinea: English please!
Craig Volker (Divine Word University Madang)
28.4. Creole Languages and Education in Oceania
Eeva Sippola (Postcolonial Language Studies)
12.5.  Die älteste Grammatik Ozeaniens – Sanvitores Lingua Mariana von 1668
Thomas Stolz (Linguistik)
19.5.  The Ethnopragmatics of Speech Acts in Postcolonial Discourse: “Truth” and “Trickery” in Contemporary Urban Bislama
Carsten Levisen (Universitet Roskilde)
26.5.  But I can speak proper English, too: Colonialist language ideologies in modern Papua New Guinea and Hawai’i
Christoph Neuenschwander (Universität Bern)
2.6. Deutsche koloniale Texte zu Papua Neuguinea
Kerstin Knopf (Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies)
9.6.  Language attitudes and dialectal variation in Cavite Chabacano, Philippines
Marivic Lesho (Postcolonial Language Studies)
16.6. Unserdeutsch – neueste Feldforschungsergebnisse
Péter Maitz (Universität Augsburg)
23.6. Französisch in Neukaledonien: eine Brücke zwischen Ozeanien und Europa
Sabine Ehrhart (Universität Luxemburg)
30.6. Deutschsprachige Urbanonyme in den Kolonien der Kaiserzeit (Deutsch-Neuguinea und Samoa)
Matthias Schulz (Universität Würzburg)
7.7. Der Bremer Bandkatalog Kolonialwesen und seine Ozeanien-Bezüge
Daniel Schmidt-Brücken (Germanistik)