1 Prof. em. Dr. phil. habil. H. Ekkehard Wolff Current activities Invited keynote addresses, lectures, and papers 1. Capacity Building in Africa Between September 2011 and October 2013, Prof. Wolff served as a Visiting Professor, Advisor and Consultant at the School of Humanities and Law, Adama Science and Technology University (ASTU) in Adama, Ethiopia. He was actively involved in lecturing, PhD supervision, staff capacity building, curriculum development, and general academic consulting, in affiliation with the Department of Afan Oromo, i.e. the Oromo language. In particular, he was involved in designing, launching and establishing an interdisciplinary Oromo Research Center. (For 3 consecutive semesters the project was supported by the Stiftungsinitiative Johann Gottfried Herder. It was formally concluded with the successful defense of the supervised PhD thesis at Adama Science & Technology University on Oct. 14, 2013, in which Prof. Wolff participated upon invitation by ASTU.) 2. German-African Alumni Networking Prof. Wolff remains responsible, together with Deputy Rector Prof. Claus Altmayer (Herder Institut), for the Central Coordination at the University of Leipzig, of the topical German-African Network of Alumni and Alumnae (GANAA) on Multilingualism and Language Policies in Africa www.uni-leipzig.de/ganaa The network runs regional branches in Algeria (Oran), Benin (Cotonou), Kenya (Nairobi), and South Africa (Stellenbosch). This network was kicked off and funded with support by the DAAD (2007-2013). It organises and runs international expert workshops and summer schools for alumni from Africa on the overall topic of Multilingualism and Language Policies in Africa, including a focus on the teaching of German (DaF) in Africa. INTERNATIONAL EXPERT WORKSHOPS have been held successfully in Leipzig 2008 Nairobi/Kenya 2009 Oran/Algeria 2008 Dakar/Senegal 2010 Stellenbosch/South Africa 2009 Leipzig 2011 In 2012 and 2013, these capacity building events took the format of SUMMER SCHOOLS: Bondo/Kenya 2012 Pretoria, South Africa 2013 Further capacity building events are envisaged to take place in Oran/Algeria in 2014, and in Abidjan/Côte d Ivoire in 2015. 3. Further Activities Prof. Wolff continues to be active as adviser, author, consultant, evaluator, researcher, reviewer, and visiting academic, both on national and international levels. He continues to serve as (board) member of learned societies, as (co-) editor of academic book series, and member of editorial boards of learned journals. Since his retirement in 2009, he has continued to supervise and review research-based theses, for instance, in Leipzig, in Adama and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and in Hankuk, South Korea.
2 4. Keynote addresses, Invited lectures, Conference papers, etc. (1998 date) 2013 Invited lecture: Language Policies in Ethiopia and the Linguistic Landscape in Adama. A case study in language visibility and language legitimization. Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia. October 2013. Invited lectures: Challenges of Higher Education in Africa: The Language Factor. (1) Oromo Research Center, Adama Science & Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia. October 2013. (2) Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. October 2013. Keynote address: Challenges of Higher Education in Africa: The Language Factor. Ganaa Summer School 2013, University of Pretoria, South Africa. September 2013. Conference paper: On noun plural formations along the southern periphery of Afroasiatic (Chadic, Ethiosemitic, Cushitic). 7 th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Hamburg. September 2013. Keynote address: The Higher Education Predicament in Africa: Challenges for Applied African Sociolinguistics. International Conference of ALASA at UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa. July 2013. Invited lecture: Language Contact in West Africa - Language Contact among Indigenous Languages. Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Anglistische Linguistik. Universität Bielefeld. May 2013. 2012 Capacity building lecture series (II): The Status, Prospects, and Problems of Afaan Oromoo in Present-Day Ethiopia. Oromo Research Center: Research Seminar 2012/13. Adama Science & Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia. December 2012. Invited lecture:on the Symbolic Dimension of Orthographies - in Africa and Beyond. Conference on African Linguistics in Southern Africa and workshop on Writing and transcribing languages in Southern Africa, on the occasion of launching the Centre for African Language Diversity (CALDi) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. November 2012. Plenary presentation: Languages in Tertiary Education:The Case of Afaan Oromoo in the Oromia Regional State in Ethiopia. Colloquium on Teaching Languages as 2 nd or Additional Languages in a Multilingual Context, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. October 2012. <http://2ndlanguagecolloquium2012.co.za/> Invited lecture: Academic Literacy in Trilingual Environments in Africa: A Case Study from Ethiopia. North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. October 2012. Keynote address: Language visibility and language legitimization: The linguistic landscape in Adama, Ethiopia (case study). Ganaa Summer School 2012, Bondo University College, Kenya, September 2012. Plenary presentation: Language policy implementation in Africa who s in charge? Ministries of Education and the challenges of "Integrated Social Marketing". 7 th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL). University of Buea, Cameroon, August 2012. Workshop presentation: On post-verbal negation in Chadic. Workshop on History of post-verbal negations in African languages, 7 th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL).
3 University of Buea, Cameroon, August 2012. <http://webh01.ua.ac.be/dmitry.idiatov/wocal7_negation.html> Convener of Working Group: The sociolinguistics of polyglossia in Africa: The rise and fall of African mother tongue-languages. Pre-WOCAL Workshop on sociolinguistic language documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Buea, Cameroon, August 2012. Inaugural presentation: Language Visibility and Language Legitimation: The Case of Afaan Oromoo in Adama. Inauguration of the Oromo Research Center, Adama Science & Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia, June 2012. Invited lecture: The Afroasiatic Urheimat controversy. Or: How dead are the Hamites?. Dept. of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, May 2012. Capacity building lecture series (I): African linguistics Issues of language and development in Africa. Oromo Research Centre: Research Seminar. Adama Science & Technology University, April/May 2012. Keynote address: [Afroasiatic] Family Matters. Reminiscence : 40 th commemoration of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. February 2012. Invited Main Paper: Mother tongue-based multilingual strategies for education in Africa. Celebrating UNESCO s Mother Language Day. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. February 2012. 2011 Keynote address: The Language Factor in Non-Formal Education in Africa. Workshop organized by the Goethe-Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 2011. Invited lectures: African Sociolinguistics : History, Challenges and Perspectives in the 21 st Century, November 2011. (1) University of South Africa (UNISA), (2) University of Pretoria. Conference paper: On the diachronics of Chadic tone systems. 6 th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, CNRS, Paris/Villejuif, France. September 2011. Inaugural keynote address: African Linguistics in the 21 st Century: Challenges and Perspectives, 27 th West African Languages Congress, Abidjan, Côte d Ivoire. August 2011. Invited lecture: African Languages between the local and the global, Symposium in Honour of Abdilatif Abdalla, Universität Leipzig. May 2011. Invited conference paper: Language and Hegemonial Power: How Feasible is Conflict Management by Language Policy? Conference on Language and Peace: Language Policy as a Means of Peace Building and Conflict Management. University of Osnabrück. July 2011. Invited conference paper: Sprache als Schlüssel Eine Positionsbestimmung der deutschsprachigen Afrikanistik. Histoire interculturelle de l africanisme allemand, École normale supérieure. Paris, France. March 2011. 2010 Keynote address: Multilingualism and Language Policies in Anglophone and Francophone Africa from a Sociolinguistic Macro-Perspective, with Reference to Language-in-Education Issues. 5 th International Expert Workshop for Alumni, German-African Network for Alumni and Alumnae (ganaa), Dakar, Senegal. Invited Panel Introduction: Spatial Issues in African Sociolinguistics. Nordic Africa Days 2010. Time Space Africa: Reconnecting the Continent, Åbo/Turku, Finland.
4 Invited Darwin Lecture : The Human Journey Out of Africa: A Perspective from Language Studies. Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Human Genetics, University of Cape Town. Invited lecture: Return to Africa? Ancient Afroasiatic Migrations. SARCHI Chair for Migration, Language, and Social Mobility (Prof. Rajend Mesthrie), University of Cape Town. Invited lecture: Lexical Innovation in Hausa. Dept. of African Languages, Stellenbosch University. Invited lecture: Tschadisch und Semitisch. Freie Universität Berlin. Invited lecture: Wie kommen die afroasiatischen Sprachen nach Afrika? Universität Leipzig. 2009 Invited lecture: Semitisch und Tschadisch: Zwei ungleiche Schwestern? Universität Heidelberg. Conference paper: The Orature-Grammar Interface: Constructional Rhymes in Lamang Verbal Art. 5 th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Leipzig. Invited conference paper: Monolectal versus Polylectal Approaches to African Languages: Challenges and Constraints. International Workshop Towards polylectal grammars of African languages. Universität Hamburg. Public lecture: African Sociolinguistics in the 21 st Century : History, Challenges, and Perspectives, 4 th International Expert Workshop for Alumni, ganaa, University of Nairobi, Kenya. Keynote address: The African Predicament and the Language Factor : Unidentified underresearched underrated? Africa-Berlin International Conference 2009, Berlin. Public lecture: Was ist eigentlich Afrikanistik? Die Wissenschaft von den afrikanischen Sprachen und deren Rolle und Funktionen in Kultur und Gesellschaft. Festival der Sprachen: Afrikatag. Bremen. Public lecture: Die afrikanischen Sprachen zwischen Tradition und Fortschritt: Fakten, Probleme, Perspektiven. Festival der Sprachen: Afrikatag. Bremen. Invited paper: Wieviel Tschadisches ist im Semitischen oder Semitisches im Tschadischen? Arbeitstreffen der Sektion Semitistik in der DMG, Leipzig. Session keynote address: Sociolinguistics in the African Context: History Challenges Prospects, 6 th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne. Invited lecture: One World One Language? Multilingualism and Globalization in Africa. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Invited lectures: The Out-of Africa Theory and the Early Linguistic History of homo sapiens. (1) University of South Africa, Pretoria; (2) University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, (3) University of Cape Town, South Africa. 2008 Public lecture: Out of Africa Zur Frühgeschichte des Menschen und seiner Sprache(n). Universität Hamburg. Expert lecturer: Multilingualismus und Polyglossie: Akademische Herausforderungen an eine Soziolinguistik Nordafrikas. 2 nd International Expert Workshop for Alumni, German-African Network for Alumni and Alumnae (ganaa), Oran, Algeria. Public lecture: Global denken lokal kommunizieren. Sprachbarrieren und Sprachkarrieren unter kultureller und politischer Hegemonie. Universität Leipzig. Keynote address: African Languages and Globalization Past and Present. International Conference on African Languages and Globalization Past and Present. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea.
Invited lecture: When Power meets Language. Between Language Shift and Language Maintenance. The Case of TASAWAQ ( Northern Songhay ) in the Western Sahara. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea. Invited lecture: Sprache und Modernisierung: Die Rolle von Sprache(n) in afrikanischen Bildungssystemen. Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt a.m. Public lecture: Afrikanistik - Das neue Paradigma: Sprache(n) als Ressource(n) für Modernisierung und Entwicklung in Afrika. DAAD Afrikatag 2008, Universität zu Köln. Inaugural keynote address: Language in Education in Africa. 1 st International Expert Workshop for Alumni, German-African Network for Alumni and Alumnae (ganaa), Leipzig. Invited conference paper: Strategies for Overtly Marking Subordination in Central-Chadic (Lamang- Hdi, Wandala-Malgwa). Workshop on Typology of Co- and Subordination in Languages, Gumpoldskirchen, Austria. 2007 Public lecture: Sprache in Afrika Die Verarbeitung der Globalisierung am Beispiel afrikanischer Länder. Freie Universität Berlin. 2006 Keynote addresses: Sustainable development and human resources management through education: The language factor. (1) KDSA Conference on The Principle of Sustainability: an interdisciplinary view, Nairobi, Kenya; (2) Partnership on Cooperative Development Germany South Africa (Working Group: The sustainable development of human capital within the context of transition and globalization ). Oudtshoorn, South Africa. 2005 Invited conference paper: The language factor in discourse on development and education in Africa. Symposium on Language for Development in Africa, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya Public lecture: Was sie sagen und was sie tun: Die Sprachenfrage in Afrika im politischen Diskurs. Universität Leipzig. 2004 Keynote address: Marketing Multilingual Education in Africa. With Special Reference to Bilingual Approaches to Basic Education in Niger (Francophone West Africa). 3 rd International ADALEST Conference, Mangochi, Malawi. Workshop presentation: Word-Level Prosodies in Chadic Languages in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective. Workshop on Word Domains: Theory and Typology. Universität Leipzig. Invited conference paper: Features of a Chadic Benue-Congo Convergence Zone in Central Nigeria. Symposium on Endangered Languages in Contact: Nigeria s Plateau Languages. Universität Hamburg. Invited lecture: Ethnizität Sprache Identität in Afrika: Anmerkungen aus soziolinguistischer Sicht. Ethnicity Workshop (Afrika-Forum), Universität Leipzig. 2003 Keynote address: Segments and Prosodies in Chadic: On descriptive and explanatory adequacy, historical reconstructions, and the status of Lamang-Hdi. 4 th World Congress of African Linguistics, New Brunswick, USA. 5
2002 Keynote address: Language Planning Implementation in West and South Africa. Conference on The African Languages and the African Renaissance (2 nd International ADALEST Conference), Pretoria/Hammanskraal, South Africa. Invited lectures: Afrikanische Sprachen und Unterentwicklung in Afrika: Teil des Problems oder Lösung? (1) Universität Leipzig; (2) Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; (3) Goethe- Institut Addis Abeba, Ethiopia; (4) Humboldt Universität, Berlin. 2001 Invited conference paper: Verbal Plurality in Chadic: Grammaticalisation Chains and Early Chadic History. Berkeley Linguistic Society. Invited lecture: Bilingualismus und Mehrsprachigkeit in Niger (Westafrika). Forschungskolloquium des Frankreichzentrums, Universität Leipzig. 2000 Keynote address: African Languages as Media of Instruction: The heart of the African language question. 1st International Conference on African Languages, Maseno University (retroactively declared 1 st International ADALEST Conference), Kisumu, Kenya. Keynote address: Indigenous Languages in Education: Learning from West African Experiences. 2 nd National Symposium on Language in Education in Malawi, Mangochi. 1999 Invited lecture: Pre-School Child Multilingualism and its Educational Implications in the African Context. PRAESA (Project on Alternative Education in South Africa), University of Cape Town, South Africa. Keynote address: African Linguistics Paradigms: Anything new? ALASA Biennial International Conference, Pretoria, South Africa Public lecture: African Studies ( Afrikanistik ) in Germany Past and Present, before and after reunification. University of Stellenbosch. 1998 Invited workshop presentation: Individual Multilingualism in the African Context. ALASA (Northern branch) Workshop on Language Planning and Institutional Language Policy, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa. Public lecture: Afrikanische Sprachminiaturen. Zur formalen Ästhetik von Kleinformen afrikanischer Sprachkunst unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Tonalität. Universität Leipzig. Invited workshop presentation: Multilingualism, Modernization, and Post-Literacy. Some central issues concerning the promotion of indigenous African languages in a democratic society. Workshop on The Role of the African Languages in Democratic South Africa. University of Pretoria, The Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Pretoria, South Africa. (Last up-date: October 2013) 6