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CASAS Seminar - 24 April 2024: Decolonising African Orthographies: Navigating colonial legacies in a post colonial era The legacy of colonialism continues to influence various aspects of African societies, including language and more specifically orthography. In 1928, A. Lloyd James emphasised t...

The 8TH International Conference on Multicultural Discourses The International Association of Multicultural Discourse Studies, The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Societies (CASAS) at the University of the Western Cape, South Afric...

CASAS Seminar - Considering Dialectal Issues within Mother-Tongue Education in the African Context Date: 23 August 2023 Time: 13h00 - 14h30 Venue: New Arts Building, L1 Presenter: Dr. Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza Zoom meeting: https://zoom.us/j/99125843788?pwd=OGRpL3ErMXV...

CASAS represented at “Colloque International de Linguistique de Dakar” (CILDak) From 16 to 18 March 2023, Dr Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza attended a conference called “Colloque International de Linguistique de Dakar” (CILDak). The conference was he...

CASAS at the UFS Symposium: "FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA" "LANGUAGE IS NOT ITIONERS IN SOUTH AFRICA" The faculty of Humanities at the University of the Free State hosted a two day symposium on foreign language acquisition in ...

CASAS represented at the 2023 BAQONDE Workshop at North West University The BAQONDE Workshop was held at the North-West University's Potchefstroom Campus from May 1 to May 5, 2023. The BAQONDE project provides an effective response to one of Sou...

Call for papers: 8th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses

The 8th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses The 8th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, under the auspices of the International Association of Multicultural Discourses, will be co-organised by the Centre...

CASAS welcomes it's first visiting scholar since the integration into UWC CASAS welcomes it's first visiting scholar since the integration into UWC - Dr Levis Mugumya. Dr Levis Mugumya is a Senior Lecturer and heads the Department of Linguist...

BAQONDE delegates welcomed to CASAS On 12 October 2022, the University of the Western Cape hosted a workshop on Multilingual Pedagogies as part of the BAQONDE mandate. Delegates from Netherlands, Ireland and Spain...

CASAS launches it’s first children’s story book in Sesotho at the 2022 ALASA Conference Ke a Leboha Ngaka Ophetse! is the first book in African Languages that is informed by research on Theory of the Mind. The idea behind the book, comes from many years of work by ...

CASAS appoint new Senior Researcher The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) have appointed a new Senior Researcher, Dr Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza. Dr Ndinga-Koumba-Binz...

CANCELLED - New date to be confirmed in 2023: 8th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses news-and-announcements/announcements/uwc-to-host-8th- international-conference-on-multicultural-discourses

UWC to host 8th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses UWC will host the 8th International Conference on Multicultural Discourses from 12-14 December 2022 and the theme of this year's conference is "The Choice/Voi...

Second call for papers: ALASA Conference The African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA) in collaboration with the Pan South African Language Board, the Department of African Language Studies and the Centre...

Second Call for Papers - African Languages in Practice in the 21st Century Second Call for Papers - African Languages in Practice in the 21st Century