Prof. Dr. Valentina Serreli and Prof. Dr. Elshifa Elamin on the colonial language rights regime in Sudan

Abstract

Abstract: This latest episode features Prof. Dr. Valentina Serreli talking with Cluster fellow Dr. Elshifa Elamin about her research project in which she scrutinizes the language rights regime in Sudan enforced by the British colonial system.

People & roles

Guest(s): Serreli, Valentina; Elamin, Elshifa

Origins & context

Title: Prof. Dr. Valentina Serreli and Prof. Dr. Elshifa Elamin on the colonial language rights regime in Sudan
Language: English
Podcast series: Cluster Conversations
Date: May 3, 2024

Rights & access

Extent: 29 minutes, 20 seconds

Identifiers & sources

has URL: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_4-Public-engagement_-engagement1/Podcasts/ClusterConversations/Episode-20/index.html

Further details

Episode number: 20

Full text

Speaker 1: Cluster Conversations, a podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 2: Yeah. Um welcome everybody to the latest episode of the Cluster Conversation. My name is Valentina Cirelli. I am professor of Arabic studies at the University of Bayreuth and I am a member of the cluster Africa Multiple. Um here today to introduce our fellow professor Elshifa Elamin uh for whom I'm honored also to serve as academic host uh here in Bayreuth. Prof Elamin is an assistant professor at the Ahlia University in Omdurman in Sudan where she's also currently the director of the department of English Language and Literature. As you know uh since April two thousand twenty three, so one year ago, in Sudan there is an ongoing war between the armed forces and the rebel forces which are known as Janjaweed. As the war goes on and many civilians have lost their homes and were forced to flee the country, um in this unfortunate context, Prof Elamin obtained a fellowship from the cluster within the program of for displaced scholars and she's now uh here working on a project on the coloniality of language um in Sudan. So I'm happy now to give her the floor and I would simply ask her to start by presenting us her project and maybe telling us more about the concept of the coloniality of language and how this applies to the Sudanese context. Speaker 3: Thank you very much Prof Valentina Cirelli for having me today. I'm so grateful to the Cluster Conversation Podcast team for providing me this invaluable opportunity to address you today and share my research experience. Before start cooperating with this question let me extend my gratitude to the University of Bayreuth, the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, the dean of the cluster, the research committee and the research section members for the fellowship. I also want to say thank you very much especially to you, my academic host Professor Valentina Cirelli for unwavering support and collaboration in helping me achieving my research goals.… Read the full text about 3,459 words