BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16115-6c97771d79fd0b809fd452550155ae4e@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260501T091854Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T110000 SUMMARY:“Innovating African Language Pedagogy and Digital Integration in Europea n Universities” with Fatou Cisse Kane DESCRIPTION:\nFatou Cissé Kane \n\nInstitute for African Studies and Egy ptology\n\nBorn in Senegal\, Fatou Cissé Kane holds a doctorate in lingu istics from the University of Cologne in Germany\, more precisely from t he Institute for African and Egyptological Studies. The subject of her t hesis is the general description of Oniyan. Oniyan is a minority languag e spoken in the south-east of Senegal\, in the regions of Kédougou and T ambacounda and she has done a grammatical description\, a study of posse ssion and the secret language spoken during initiation ceremonies.\n\nFr om 2017 to 2019\, she participated in a project on tourism and migration on the island of Mallorca in Spain. This project was led by Professor A nne Storch from the University of Cologne and on this project her role w as to describe the intimacy of the Senegalese living on this island. She joined the Institute for African Studies in November 2022 as an adminis trative assistant for the students\, the teachers and staff\, and at the same time she currently works as an independent Wolof lecturer.\n\nAbst ract:\n\nAccording to MosaLingua\, there are 7\,000 languages worldwide\ , of which one-third\, or 2\,000\, are spoken by 1400 million people on the African continent. Innovating in the teaching of African languages i n Europe requires overcoming the challenges associated with their under- representation in university curricula and the lack of appropriate teach ing resources.\n\nIntegrating these languages into European universities would enhance linguistic and cultural diversity while strengthening lin ks between Africa and Europe and deconstructing Europe's ethnological vi ew of Africa. The Internet as a platform can play a role in safeguarding these languages and their history\, songs\, etc.\, for future generatio ns. Digital inclusion can be promoted through the creation of e-learning platforms: developing dedicated platforms where students can follow int eractive courses with audio and video modules and practical exercises.\n \nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/kane/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Fatou C issé Kane 
Institute for African Studies and Egyptology

Born in Senegal, Fatou Cissé Kane holds a doctorate in linguistics f rom the University of Cologne in Germany, more precisely from the Instit ute for African and Egyptological Studies. The subject of her thesis is the general description of Oniyan. Oniyan is a minority language spoken in the south-east of Senegal, in the regions of Kédougou and Tambacounda and she has done a grammatical description, a study of possession and t he secret language spoken during initiation ceremonies.

From 2017 to 2019, she participated in a project on tourism and migration on the i sland of Mallorca in Spain. This project was led by Professor Anne Storc h from the University of Cologne and on this project her role was to des cribe the intimacy of the Senegalese living on this island. She joined t he Institute for African Studies in November 2022 as an administrative a ssistant for the students, the teachers and staff, and at the same time she currently works as an independent Wolof lecturer.

Abstract:
According to MosaLingua, there are 7,000 languages worldwide, of whic h one-third, or 2,000, are spoken by 1400 million people on the African continent. Innovating in the teaching of African languages in Europe req uires overcoming the challenges associated with their under-representati on in university curricula and the lack of appropriate teaching resource s.
Integrating these languages into European universities would enh ance linguistic and cultural diversity while strengthening links between Africa and Europe and deconstructing Europe's ethnological view of Afri ca. The Internet as a platform can play a role in safeguarding these lan guages and their history, songs, etc., for future generations. Digital i nclusion can be promoted through the creation of e-learning platforms: d eveloping dedicated platforms where students can follow interactive cour ses with audio and video modules and practical exercises.

For more details: https://events .la.psu.edu/event/kane/

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