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CONFERENCES/SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

Scholarly Presentations at Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

  • Gibson, H., Kariuki, A., Ochieng, M., Marten, L., Taji, J. Kanana, F.E. and Poeta, T. (2023). We were hosted by Chuka University to make a presentation of our project on “Grammatical variation in Swahili”, funded by Leverhulme Trust on 30th October 2023.
  • Gibson, H., Kanana, F.E., Kariuki, A., Marten, L. Ochieng, M., Poeta, T. & Taji, J. (2023). “Language Attitudes Towards Varieties of Swahili”, paper presented at the AFALA Conference, Nairobi, Kenya 18-21 2023
  • Kanana, F. (2023). “Making Science Relevant to Society: The Role of African Languages and Indigenous Language Media in Science Communication”. Paper presentation at the 7th Humboldt Kolleg in Kenya, Kisumu, Kenya 9 – 11 October 2023.
  • Cunha, C., Kanana, F. and Harrington, J., (2023). “Variation and Palatalization in the Production of the Plural prefix in Meru”. Poster presentation at the 20th International Congress of Speech Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic, 7 – 11 August 2023.
  • Cunha, C., Erastus, F. and Harrington, J., (2023). “Explaining Variation in Three Dialects of Meru, Kenya”, 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE), Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2 – 4 June 2023.
  • Kanana, F.E. (2023). “Presence/Absence of Dominantly Spoken African Languages in the 21st Technological Space: The Contradictions of Language Policies and Practice, and the Implications on Development in Kenya. Paper presented at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Cologne, Germany, 30th May – 2nd June 2023.
  • Poeta, T., Gibson, H., Erastus, F.K. and Marten, L. (2023). “Swahili Variation Documented through Time: a Reflection on the Descriptions and their Authors”, presentation at the 35th Swahili Colloquium, Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, Germany, 19 – 21 May 2023.
  • Rudd P.W. & Kanana, F.E. (2023). “Hustling Vibaya: Gendered Repertoires and the Modern Kenyan Woman”, a paper presented at sixth biennial Towson University conference, Maryland, USA, 17- 18 March 2023.
  • Kanana, F.E. (2023). “Dialects in Contact: Sound Patterns and Change in the Meru Dialects, Kenya. School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK, 20th February 2023.
  • Okemwa, P. & Kanana, F.E. (2022). “Equip-DIES KU project: Experience Sharing”, presented at the Equal Opportunities in Higher Education: Partnership for Institutional Change (EQUIP) workshop, Free University Berlin, Germany, 29th August – 2nd September 2022.
  • Poeta, t., Riedel, K., Kanana, F.E., Gibson, H., Taji, J. & Marten, L. (2022). “Dialectal Variation in Swahili Locative Constructions” a paper presented at the Bantu 9 conference, Blantyre, Malawi, 7 – 10 June 2022
  • Hurst-Harosh, E. & Kanana, F.E. (2021). “Clever or Smarter? Style and Indexicality in Constructons of Male Youth Identities in Sheng and Tsotsitaal: Modernity, Urbanity and Risk in Kenyan and South African Cities” a paper presentation at Ecotones #7 conference held at University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 28 – 30 October 2021.
  • Lutz, M., Gibson, H., Erastus, F., Taji, J., Poeta, T. & Jelpe, T. (2021). “Researching Grammatical Variation in Kiswahili” a paper presented at Baraza Panel 3 – Swahili Studies Conference, hosted by SOAS University of London on 29th October 2021 (Virtual Event).
  • Kinyua, H.G. & Kanana, F.E (2019). “Pre-verbal affixes in Kimwimbi” a poster presentation at the 3rd Afranaph Project Development Workshop, Georgetown, USA, 12th December 2019.
  • Kanana, F.E. & Kinyua, H. G (2019). “Going Back to the roots: Rebranding of Indigenous Languages in Kenya” a presentation at a conference panel on Connections and Disruptions: A Sociolinguistic Perspective at the European Conference for African Studies (ECAS) Edinburgh, 11-14 June 2019.
  • Kanana, F.E. and Hurst-Harosh, E (2018). “African Youth in an Evolving Globalised Linguistic Space”. Paper presentation at the 15th CODESRIA General Assembly, held at King Fahd Hotel, Dakar, Senegal, 17- 21 December 2018.
  • Kanana, F.E. & Rudd, W. R (2018). “Climbing to Success: Mobility and the Modern Kenyan Woman”. A paper presented at the Nordic Africa Days (NAD) Conference organised by the Nordic Africa Institute. The paper was presented in the panel Women, Men, Language and Movement: African Language and Gender (Im)Mobilities, Uppsala, Sweden, 19 – 21 September 2018.
  • Hurst-Harosh, E & Kanana, F. E. (2018). “Metaphors and their Link to Generation/Age and Popular Culture in African Youth Languages” Paper presented at the International Congress of Linguists (ICL 20) held at Cape Town International Conventional Centre, SA, 2– 6 July 2018.
  • Kanana, F.E., Orwenjo, O. D. & Onsare C. (2018). “Falling Walls: New Media, Globalization and Youth Language Practices Across the Rural Urban Divide in Kenya”. Paper presentation at the Kenya Youth Language Practices Workshop, Kenyatta University, Kenya, 19 -20 June 2018
  • Coussens, A., Akindele, J. Abidemi., Abdeslam, B., Kanana, F. Khoury-Kassabri, M. (2018): Presented the preliminary results of the Global State of Young Scientists (GloSYS Africa), a project of the Global Young Academy (GYA) at the Next Einstein Forum, Kigali, 28th March 2018.
  • Choti J. & Kanana, F.E. (2018). “The Augment in Haya”. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 49) held at Michigan State University, USA, 22 – 25 March 2018.
  • Kanana, F.E. and Hurst-Harosh, E (2017). “Rural and Urban Metaphors in Sheng (Kenya) and Tsotsitaal (South Africa)”. Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) conference on “Urban Africa – Urban Africans: New Encounters of the Urban and the Rural”, Basel, Switzerland 29 June – 1 July 2017.
  • Aguti, J., Kanana F.E., Simpassa, H. & Siminyu, S.N (2016) held a panel discussion on “ORELT: Open Resources for Improving Learning Outcome” at the Pan Commonwealth Forum (PCF8), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27 - 30 November 2016.
  • Kanana F.E. (2016) “Sheng and Tsotsitaal(s): Social and Linguistic Parallels”. Presented at the Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) Research Seminar, Cape Town, SA, 28th September 2016.
  • Kebeya, H., Mwaka, L. and Kanana F.E. (2015). “Sheng: Reflections on its Structure and Attitudes”. Presented at the 2nd African Urban Youth Language Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 11 - 13 December 2015.
  • Kanana F.E., Kebeya, H. and Kodjo, T. (2015). “The Use of Sheng in Popular Music in Kenya”. Paper Presented at the 2nd African Urban Youth Language Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 11 – 13 December 2015.
  • Kanana F.E., Kebeya H., Kabare T. and Mainga G. (2015). “Youth Language in New Media: The case of Sheng in Kenya”. Paper presented at the 2nd African Urban Youth Language Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 11 - 13 December 2015.
  • Siminyu, S.N. and Kanana F.E. (2015). “What was, What is, and what is to come: A baseline Survey of OER- Readiness among English Language teachers at a Public University in Uganda, paper presented at the 4th International Conference of World Educators Forum, Accra, Ghana, 9 - 13 November 2015.
  • Kanana F.E. and Orwenjo D. O. (2015). “Teachers’ Perceptions of OERs for Improving the Quality of English Second Language (ESL) Teaching in Kenya”, paper presented at the Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA) 2015 Conference, Mauritius Institute of Education, Réduit, Mauritius, 20 - 24 July, 2015
  • Kanana F.E. (2015) “The Growth of Urban and Youth Languages in an Evolving Space: The Case of Sheng in Kenya”, Paper presented at the 14th CODESRIA General Assembly, “Creating African Futures in an Era of Global Transformations: Challenges and Prospects”, Dakar, Senegal, 8 - 12 June, 2015.
  • Kanana, F.E., (2014). Presented a report on a collaborative research project “Urban Youth Language in Africa– a Multi-sited Research Collaboration”, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 12 - 18 October, 2014.
  • Kebeya, H.U.; Bwire, A.; Kanana, F. E. and Makokha, M. (2014). “An Intra-dialectal Analysis of Luyia: Backwash Effects on Language Teaching/Learning”, at the International Conference on African Languages and Literatures in the 21stCentury, Kenyatta University, Kenya, 6 – 8 August, 2014.
  • Kebeya, H.U. and Kanana, F. E. (2014). “The Place of Indigenous Languages in the Newly Devolved Governments in Kenya”, 36th International LAUD Symposium on “Endangerment of Languages Across the Planet: The Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity and Globalization”, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, March 31 - April 3, 2014.
  • Kanana, F. E and Ngure, K. Kamuri. (2013). “Choice of the Language of Instruction in a Language Shift Situation; A Case of the Rendille Community of Northern Kenya”, Presented at the German-African Network of Alumni and Alumnae (GANAA) Alumni 2013 Summer School on “Practising Multilingualism in (Higher) Education in Africa: Best Practices of Unleashing Multilingualism as a Human Resource”, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 23 – 27 September, 2013.
  • Kanana F. E. and Kariuki A. (2013). “Manipulation of Sheng in Advertisement and Awareness Campaigns in Selected Businesses in Kenya”, at the African Urban &Youth Languages Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 5 - 6 July, 2013.
  • Kanana, F. E. and Nthiga, P.M. (2013). “Feedback Provision in English as a Second Language (ESL) Writing: The Case of Secondary Schools in Kenya”, at the1stAnnual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Challenges of Development in Africa, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya, 22 – 29June, 2013.
  • Kanana, F. E. and Nthiga, P.M. (2012). “Rethinking the Role of Indigenous African Languages in African Renaissance and Development in the 21st Century”, GANAA Alumni, 2012 Summer School on Multilingualism and Language Policies in Africa, Bondo University College, Kenya, 9 - 15 September, 2012.
  • Nthiga, P.M. and Kanana, F. E. (2012). “Language; a Double-edged Sword: Dissecting the Role of Language in Creating Conflict and Peace in Post-independent Africa”, 2ndAnnual International Interdisciplinary Conference, Africa’s Golden Jubilee: Assessing 50 Years of Scholarship and Development in Africa at Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya, 27 – 31 June, 2012.
  • Kanana, F. E. (2012). “The Morpho-phonological Processes Operating in Chuka: A ‘Conservative’ Dialect in the Meru-Tharaka Group”, at the World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 7), University of Buea, Cameroon, 20 - 24August, 2012.
  • Kanana, F. E. (2011). “Language Policy Lapses in Africa: The Curse of Statehood and Nationhood”, XIIIth CODESRIA General Assembly, “Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century”, Rabat, Morocco, 5 - 9December, 2011.
  • Kanana, F. E. (2010). “Can African Languages Become Tools for National Development?” 1st Alexander Von Humboldt Alumni Kenya Kolleg Conference, Meridian Court Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, 24 - 26 November, 2010.
  • Kanana, F. E. (2010). “The Development of English as a Status Language in Africa: Insights from Kenya”, at a conference on Multilingualism and Education, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, 22 - 23July, 2010.
  • Kanana, F. E. (2010). “Defining Meru Dialects: Linguistic Evidence”, at the 41 Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 41) held at York University, Toronto, Canada, 6 - 8 May, 2010.
  • Kanana, F. E. (2010). “A Typology of Dialect Transitions: The Case of the Meru-Tharaka Group”, at the 19 Afrikanistentag, held at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, 8 – 10 April, 2010.
  • Kanana, F. E. (2009). “Noun Morphophonemics and Noun Class Restructuring: the Case of Meru Gender 11/10”, at the World Congress on African Linguistics (WOCAL 6) Conference, University of Cologne, Germany, August 17 - 21, 2009.
  • Kanana, F. E. (2009). “Dialect Convergence and Divergence: A Case of Chuka and Imenti” at the 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 40), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., 9 – 11, April 2009.
  • Ogutu, E.A. & Kanana, F. E. (2003), “Code Switching in Multilingual Situation: Opposing Views” at the International Conference of the Kenya Chapter of Association of Third World Countries (ATWS), Kenyatta University, Kenya, 17 – 19 September, 2003.

 

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