Dissemination Activities
Dissemination activities will be directed at not only students and academics in the partner institutions, but also relevant stakeholders at other HEIs and tiers of education, in government agencies, in publishing, and so on.
TALK 1 (International Symposium Multilingualism in South Africa, TCD)
Professor Bassey Antia, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of the Western Cape. Language at UWC: Politics, Policy, Practices, Plans.
This dissemination event represents an opportunity to spread the knowledge, the vision of BAQONDE, and the specificities of the South African context in this complex field.
TALK 2 (International Symposium Multilingualism in South Africa, TCD)
Professor Rosemary Wildsmith, Research Professor, North-West University.
Implementation of a multilingual language policy at North-West University, South Africa: Achievements and challenges.
This dissemination event represents an opportunity to spread the knowledge, the vision of BAQONDE, and the specificities of the South African context in this complex field.
TALK 3 (International Symposium Multilingualism in South Africa, TCD)
Professor Dion Nkomo, Professor of African Language Studies, Rhodes University. Beyond policies: Considering bottom-up multilingual pedagogical practices in South Africa Higher Education.
This dissemination event represents an opportunity to spread the knowledge, the vision of BAQONDE, and the specificities of the South African context in this complex field.
TALK 4 (International Symposium Multilingualism in South Africa, TCD)
Professor Nobuhle Hlongwa, Professor and Dean of the School of Arts.
Linguistic Genocide and impediments to transformation and intellectualization of African languages in South African Higher Education.
This dissemination event represents an opportunity to spread the knowledge, the vision of BAQONDE, and the specificities of the South African context in this complex field.
Plenary sessions at the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society Conference
Prof. Bassey Antia and Prof. Nobuhle Hlongwa, keynote speakers at SALALS 2023 (3-6 July), addressed the challenges of indigenous languages in Primary and Higher Education, featuring BAQONDE.
2nd BAQONDE Showcase of Best Practices
As in our first edition, the purpose of this dissemination event was to disseminate some examples of best practices in fostering the use of African languages in Higher Education. More specifically, this BAQONDE 2nd Showcase was dedicated to translanguaging in the class context and multilingualism in healthcare training. It also brings attention to the newly established digital repository for African language resources within the BAQONDE project.
Launch of the Polokelo
The launch of our inter-institutional repository POLOKELO is one of the milestones in the lifetime of the BAQONDE project. This space serves as a platform for sharing teaching and learning materials among Higher Education Institutions in the context of South Africa, fostering collaboration and advancing education in indigenous languages.
The BAQONDE project, in collaboration with the Language Departments of English and Spanish at the Faculty of Philology, establishes the African Languages Day at the University of Salamanca.
The African Languages Day (2022) symbolized the establishment of a communication bridge between Salamanca and Africa — a bridge that we strive to maintain as an enduring gateway for contact, comprehension, mutual learning, dissemination, and other endeavors.
Our Plenary at the first BATHO ABANTU AFRICAN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE (BAALA)
In this plenary session we shared the vision and hard work of the BAQONDE partner universities on the ground level. Leading scholars representing all language groups engaged in a fruitful discussion that will foster inter-institutional collaboration in the short and long term.
Presentation: University of Pretoria, South Africa
Pedro Alvarez and Kea Seshoka present BAQONDE to UP lecturers
Presentation: EU Delegation
The EU Delegation in South Africa welcomes BAQONDE
Presentation: Spanish Embassy, South Africa
The Spanish Embassy in South Africa acknowledges the value of the BAQONDE project and opens the door to further collaboration.
Presentation: University of Cape Town
BAQONDE and MEP (UCT) will join forces to facilitate and promote the use of indigenous SA languages in Higher Education.
BAQONDE Showcase of Best Practices
This BAQONDE Showcase is a collection of short presentations by language practitioners from across South Africa. The purpose of this first online event was to disseminate some examples of best practices in fostering the use of African languages in Higher Education.
Presentation: Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Prof. Bassey Antia presented the BAQONDE project in a keynote address on 26 October 2022 at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Presentation: University of the Western Cape
Dissemination event organised by Prof. Bassey Antia (UWC) with students and academics in Cape Town.
Reception: Spanish Consulate
Two members of the BAQONDE team form the University of Salamanca have been formally invited by the Consul of Spain (Jesús Silva Fernández) during their stay in Cape Town due to the BAQONDE workshop organized by the University of the Western Cape. In our search for future collaborations that secure the legacy of BAQONDE, it was also a pleasure to be accompanied by Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz, President of The Society of Spanish Researchers in Southern Africa (ACE del Sur de Africa)
Presentation Part 2: University of Mpumalanga
In this second online seminar to colleagues at the University of Mpumalanga, Prof. Rosemary Wildsmith (NWU) placed a special focus on setting up their Language Policy for their institution. BAQONDE goals and examples of inter-institutional collaboration were shared. The local committee has expressed their intention to continue their collaboration with our project members /goals.
Presentation Part 1: University of Mpumalanga
Under the auspices of BAQONDE, the newly constituted Language Policy committee of the University of Mpumalanga invited Prof Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty (NWU) to give two workshops on Language Policy and Implementation in order to help them clarify their goals and the processes to follow in creating the institution’s official language policy. In this first session, it became clear that they would essentially need to create an ALDU or equivalent. They are keen to sustain a connection with us which is one of the aims of BAQONDE,i.e. inter-institutional collaboration.
Reception and Presentation: University of Salamanca
Presentation of the BAQONDE Project at the University of Salamanca in the presence of the South African Ambassador in Spain, the Vice Chancellor of Research and Knowledge Transfer and the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities during the Exchange programme in Salamanca.
Presentation: University of the Western Cape
Prof. Bassey Antia, University of the Western Cape, presents the aims and outputs of the BAQONDE project to Prof. James Hadley (Director) and colleagues at the Trinity Centre for Cultural and Literary Translation in its headquarters in the historic centre of Dublin. The Centre’s mission is to develop, promote and support literary translation in Ireland, to bring the best of Irish literature to the world and the best of world literature to readers in Ireland. The information session focused on topics including translation of literature, technology in translation and events such as translation slams. The Centre is keen to forge links with African partners in the area of literary and cultural translation. Translation and translation technologies play a central role in the multilingual language practices within the BAQONDE project.
Presentation: 9th ABS Forum
Presentation of the BAQONDE Project at the 9th ABS Forum on “The rescue and valorization of indigenous languages (Center of Brasilian Studies). Prof. Racquel Valério (researcher at GEFOHPE/UFC and the Ibero-American Institute) has underlined the need of exploring potential partnerships and developing similar strategies/projects in the context of Brasil.
Presentation: Virtual Colloquium
The Chair of the Universities South Africa (USAf)’s Community of Practice for African Language Teaching and Learning (CoPAL), Prof. Langa Khumalo, invited Prof. Pedro Álvarez-Mosquera to share the vision of the BAQONDE Project in a virtual colloquium with representatives on behalf of the 26 South African public universities.
Presentation: Conference of the International Association of Colonial and PostColonial Linguistics 2021
University of the Western Cape – Conference of the International Association of Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics 2021: “BAQONDE: Boosting the use of African Languages in Education”
Presentation: International Language Testing Association
University of Athens – International Language Testing Association: BAQONDE as an example of a quest for multilingual pedagogies in Prof. Antia’s presentation in (multilingual) assessment.