Dr. Matthias Brenzinger

born February 1, 1957 in Baiertal (Wiesloch), Germany

• E-mail: matthias.brenzinger@uni-koeln.de

He has changed to the UCT

Tasks at the Institute

Scholary Support of the Institut's Library; Coordination of the International Relations (Erasmus-Sokrates, Africanist-Alumni)

Summary

Education

1981-1987 African Studies, Social Anthropology and Political Sciences in Cologne

1987 M.A.-thesis, at Cologne, Germany
Title: Die sprachliche und kulturelle Stellung der Mbugu (Ma'a). [On the linguistic and cultural classification of the Mbugu (Ma'a)].

1993 Ph.D.-thesis at Cologne, Germany
Title: Sprachwechsel afrikanischer Minoritäten aus soziolinguistischer Sicht. [Language shift of African minorities from sociolinguistic perspectives]

Research Interests

Language Documentation; Language Endangerment; Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Minority Languages; Language Ecology; Language Loyalty; Language Conflict; Language Planning; Language Policy; Ethnobotany.

Academic Assignments

• Tutorial Assistant at the Institut fuer Afrikanistik, Cologne 1983 - 1987
• Research Grant by DFG (German Research Foundation) 1988 - 1991
• Lecturer at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (DAAD) 1994
• Research Grant by DFG (German Research Foundation) 1995 - 1998
• Research Grant by Tokyo Joshi Daigaku, Japan (two months) 2003
• Harries German-Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA fall term 2004
• Visiting Professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan(one year) 2005 - 2006
• Research Grant by DFG (German Research Foundation) 2009
• Visiting Professor at the Kyoto University (Daigaku), Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Japan (5 months) 2009 - 2010
• Tenured Research Scholar at the Institut für Afrikanistik, Cologne since 1988

Other University Teaching Assignments and Lectures

• Brazil 1993: University of Brasilia, University of Natal & University of Rio de Janeiro.
• Finland 2001, 2008, 2010: University of Helsinki.
• France 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2011: Université Nice Sophia Antipolis.
• France 2008: Université Lumière Lyon 2, Summer school: language documentation
• Germany 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 & 2008: Summer courses at the Institute for Tropical Medicine Berlin and Medical Department Charité at the Humboldt University, Berlin.
• Germany 2007: University of Frankfurt, Colloquium Linguisticum Africanum.
• Japan 2002: Tokyo Joshi Daigaku & Daito Bunka Daigaku, Tokyo.
• Japan 2003 (two months) Tokyo: Tokyo Joshi Daigaku (Tonjo); Reitaku Daigaku; Tokyo Daigaku (Todai) & Daito Bunka Daigaku.
• Japan 2004: College of Asia Pacific Studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Kyushu); Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Gaigodai) & Tokyo Joshi Daigaku.
• Japan 2006: Kyoto Daigaku, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto; Tokyo Daigaku, Department of Dynamic Linguistics & Department of Linguistics & Kanazawa University.
• Japan 2009: Kobe College (Shinjo); Tokyo University.
• Japan 2010: Tokyo University; Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
• Morocco 2004: Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe (IRCAM), Rabat; Institute of African Studies- University Mohammed V-Souissi, Rabat & Jury member of a Ph.D.-thesis’ defence at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, University Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat.
• Poland 2007, 2010: University of Warsaw, Department of African Languages and Cultures (Zaklad Jezyków i Kultur Afryki Instytutu Orientalistycznego)
• Portugal 2000 & 2001: University of Lisbon (Nova).
• Republic of South Africa 1990 & 1993: University of Venda; University of the North, Pietersburg; University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg; University of Transkei, Umtata; University of the Western Cape, Bellville; National Language Project, Cape Town & University of Cape Town, Cape Town; University of South Africa, Pretoria.
• Republic of South Africa 2008: University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
• The Netherlands 2000 University of Leiden.
• U.S.A 2000 University of Chicago, Illinois.
• U.S.A 2005 (fall term) Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
• U.S.A 2010: University of Hawaii, Hilo and Manoa, Hawaii.

Grants for organizing international conferences by

• Volkswagen Foundation Bad Homburg, Germany; 1990
• DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Leipzig, Germany; 1997
• Volkswagen Foundation in Bad Godesberg, Germany; 2000
• Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Lomé, Togo; 2000
• DAAD-Alumni Summer School (DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service), Cologne, Germany; 2009
• DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft): WOCAL6-Cologne, Germany; 2009
• Freunde und Förderer der Universität zu Köln (VVF): WOCAL6-Cologne, Germany; 2009

Editorial activities

• 1988 - 1995. Co editor of the AAP Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, periodical at the University of Cologne, four issues plus one special issue per year.
• 1993 - 1995. Associate editor of the Afrikanistischen Monographien (AMO), University of Cologne.
• 1988. Editor of SUGIA (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika), volume 9, periodical at the Universities of Cologne and Bayreuth, one issue per year.
• 1997 - 2000. Co-editor of the Khoisan Forum, University of Cologne.
• 2003 - 2009. Co-editor of the Annual Publication on African Languages, (APAL), University of Cologne.

Publications

• 1986. together with Thomas Geider Berührungsmomente Kenya. Bei den Marakwet in den Bergen und den Pokomo am Fluß. Köln: Universitäts und Stadtbibliothek.
• 1987. 'East African Beekeeping Vocabularies: kiZigua', Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 9:113-123.
• 1988. 'Sprachen in Ostafrika', in: Michael Köhler (ed.) Ostafrika. Köln: Dumont. Pp. 72-78.
• 1988. together with Bernd Heine, Plants of the Borana (Ethiopia and Kenya). Plant Concepts and Plant Use, Part IV). Saarbrücken: Breitenbach.
• 1988. together with Bernd Heine, 'Notes on the Mukogodo Dialect of Maasai (Kenya)', Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 14:97-133.
• 1990a. 'Bäume und Gräser als Lebensgrundlage. Wildpflanzennutzung in Kenia', Forschung (Mitteilungen der DFG) 1:10-14.
• 1990b. 'Academic Boycott: a Contribution by Neville Alexander', Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 22:115-121.
• 1990c. 'Trees and Grasses as Basic Necessities. The Use of Wild Plants in Kenya'. German Research (Reports of the DFG) 3:10-14.
• 1991a. together with Bernd Heine and Gabriele Sommer, 'Language Death in Africa', in: Robert H. Robins and Eugenius M. Uhlenbeck (eds.) Endangered Languages. Oxford, New York, Munich: Berg. Pp. 19-44.
  Same article has also been published in French, Spanish and Chinese:
  'Mort des langues en Afrique', Diogène 153:23-50;
  'La muerta de las lenguas en Africa', Diógenes 153:23-48;
  'Feizhon de yuyan xiao wang', Diogenes 2:17-41.

• 1991. together with Gerrit Dimmendaal, 'Language Death in East Africa: a Report on an International Symposium', International Journal of the Sociology of Language 88:121-128.
• 1992a. (ed.) Language Death. Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 1992b. 'Lexical Retention in Language Shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo Samburu', in: Matthias Brenzinger (ed.) 1992a: 213-254.
• 1992c. 'Patterns of Language Shift in East Africa', in: Robert Herbert (ed.) Language and Society in Africa. Theory and Practice of Sociolinguistics. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. Pp. 287-303.
• 1992. together with Gerrit Dimmendaal, 'Social Context and Language Death', in: Matthias Brenzinger (ed.) 1992a:3-5.
• 1993. 'Langues minoritaires un héritage culturel', Diogène 161:3-22.
  'Minority Languages, a Cultural Legacy', Diogenes 161:1-18.

• 1994. 'Language Loyalty and Social Environment', in: Thomas Geider and Raimund Kastenholz (eds.) Sprachen und Sprachzeugnisse in Afrika. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. Pp. 107-115.
• 1994. together with Bernd Heine and Ingo Heine, The Mukogodo Maasai. An Ethnobotanical Survey. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
• 1995. 'The “Islanders” of Lake Abaya and Lake Ch’amo: Harro, Ganjule, Gats’ame and Bayso’, Survey of Little-known Languages of Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Linguistic Report 26:2-36.
• 1996a. 'On the Disappearance of African Languages', in: Neide de Faria (ed.) Language and Literature Today. (Papers of the Triennial Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, Universidade de Brasília, 22. 30.9.1993.) Vol:2, Pp. 543-550.
• 1996b. 'Language Displacement and Language Shift', in: Florian Coulmas (ed.) The Handbook of Sociolinguistics Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 273-284.
• 1997a. 'An Evaluative Account of Ethiopia’s New Language Policy’, in: Martin Pütz (ed.) Language Choises. Conditions, Constraints, and Consequences Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 207-221.
• 1997b.'Moving to Survive: Kxoe Communities in Arid Lands', Khoisan Forum 2:3-34.
• 1997c. 'Endangered Languages in Africa', Report on an International Symposium from July 29 - August 1, 1997, Leipzig', Ogmios 6:19-22.
• 1997. together with Gundel Harms, 'HIV-1 and AIDS Awareness in a Marginalised Namibian Community', The Lancet 350:1180.
• 1998a. Sprachwechsel afrikanischer Minöritäten aus soziolinguistischer Sicht. (Afrikanistische Monographien 9). Köln: Universität zu Köln.
• 1998b. 'Various Ways of Dying and Different Kinds of Deaths: Scholarly Approaches to Language Endangerment on the African Continent', in: Kazuto Matsumura (ed.) Studies in Endangered Languages (Papers from the International Symposium on Endangered Languages Tokyo, November 18-20, 1995.) Pp. 85-100.
• 1998c. 'Moving to Survive: Kxoe Communities in Arid Lands', in: Mathias Schladt (ed.) Language, Identity, and Conceptualization among the Khoisan (Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung. Research in Khoisan Studies 15) Pp. 321-357. (Revised reprint of 1997b.)
• 1998d. (ed.) Endangered Languages in Africa. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
• 1998e. 'Endangered Languages and Language Endangerment in Africa: Introduction', in: Brenzinger 1998d: 9-15.
• 1999a. 'Personal Names of the Kxoe: the Example of Tcóò-Names', Khoisan Forum 10: 5-18.
• 1999b. 'Sprachenvielfalt auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent', Afrika I, Informationen zur politischen Bildung. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn. 264: 8-10.
• 1999c. The "islanders" of Lake Abaya and Lake Ch’amo: Harro, Ganjule, Gats’ame and Bayso. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 1999-003. (cf. 1995)
  http://www.sil.org/silesr/1999/003/brenzin5.pdf

• 1999. together with David Naude, 'Mahure, Sacred Healer of the Kxoe: Kxoe Texts on Health and Healing, Magic and Death, Part 1', Khoisan Forum 12: 5-63.
• 2001. together with Gundel Harms, HIV/AIDS Threat and Prevention in Marginalised Ethnic Groups. GTZ: Eschborn.
• 2001b. 'Language Endangerment Through Marginalization and Globalization', in: Lectures on Endangered Languages: 2; From Kyoto Conference 2000 (ELPR Publication Series C002) Pp. 91-116.
• 2001c. 'Angola and Zambia', in: An Assessment of the Status of the San in South Africa, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Windhoek: Legal Assistance Centre, April, Pp. 63-75.
• 2003. 'Language and Conceptual Diversity under Threat: Language Endangerment on the African Continent', in: Vielberth, Johann & Guido Drexel (eds.) Linguistic Cultural Diversity and International Communication, Maintaining Language Diversity in the Face of Globalization. Saarbrücken: AQ-Verlag. Pp. 59-77.
• 2003b. Review article: Wilfrid H.G. Haacke and Eliphas Eiseb. A Khoekhoegowab Dictionary with an English-Khoekhoegowab Index, 2002, Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan, Lexikos 13: 330-333.
• 2003c. together with Arienne Dwyer & Akira Y. Yamamoto, 'Safeguarding of Endangered Languages', The Endangered Language Fund Newsletter 7,1: 1-4.
• 2003d. 'Khwe Place Names in West Caprivi', supplement to Kilian-Hatz, Christa. Khwe Dictionary. Pp. 397-431.
• 2003e. (with the UNESCO Expert Committee on Endangered Languages) Language Vitality and Endangerment.
  http://portal.unesco.org/culture/es/files/8283/11195176347Language_Vitality_and_Endangerment.pdf/Language%2BVitality%2Band%2BEndangerment.pdf.

• 2003f. (with the UNESCO Expert Committee on Endangered Languages) Recommendations for Action Plans.
  http://portal.unesco.org/culture/es/ev.php-URL_ID=8283&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

• 2005. 'The Endangerment of Language Diversity: Responsibilities for Speech Communities and Linguists', Al-Maghrib al-Ifrîqî (Université Mohammed V; Souissi, Rabat) 6 (2005):63-80.
• 2006. 'Language Maintenance and Shift', in: Keith Brown (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd. edition), Vol. 6, Raj Mesthrie (ed.) Society and Language. Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 542-548.
• 2006b. 'The Vanishing of Nonconformist Concepts. Personal Names and Naming of Animals in Khwe', Hikaku Bunka 67:49-68.
• 2006c. 'Conceptual Loss in Space and Time: Vanishing Concepts in Khwe, a Hunter-Gatherers’ Language', Ajia Afurika Gengo Bunka Kenkyujo Tsushin 116 (2006):71-73.
• 2006d. together with Tjeerd de Graf, 'Language Documentation and Maintenance', in: Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS 6.20B.10.3), UNESCO. (On-line encyclopedia: http://www.eolss.net/)
• 2007. (ed.) Language Diversity Endangered. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 2007b. 'Language Endangerment Throughout the World', in: Brenzinger (ed.) 2007:IX-XVI.
• 2007c. 'Language Endangerment in Northern Africa', in: Brenzinger (ed.) 2007:123-139.
• 2007d. ‘Language Endangerment in Southern and Eastern Africa’ in: Brenzinger (ed.) 2007:179-204.
• 2007e. Vanishing Conceptual Diversity: the Loss of Hunter-gatherers’ Concepts, Jornades 15 anys GELA (Grup d’Estudide Llengües Amenaçades), Recerca en llengües amenaçades (published on CD by GELA). Also online published by Institut d'Estudis Catalans:
  http://www.iec.cat/gc/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=357&languageId=1&contentId=5863

• 2008. together with Akira Y. Yamamoto & María E. Villalón ‘A Place for all Languages: On Language Vitality and Revitalization’, Museum International (UNESCO/Blackwell) (Languages, between heritage and development) 239:60-70.
  French edition: Vitalité et revitalisation des langues: une place pour chacune d’elles. (Les langues: entre patrimoine et développement) 239:64-75.

• 2008b. 'Conceptual Strategies of Orientation among Khwe: From Sunrise/Sunset Bisections to a Left/Right Opposition' in: Sonia Ermisch (ed.) Khoisan Languages and Linguistics. Proceedings of the second International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics, Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal, Germany, 7.-11.01.2006. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. Pp. 15-47.
• 2009. 'Language Diversity and Poverty in Africa', in: Harbert, Wayne with the help of Sally McConnell-Ginet, Amanda Miller and John Whitman (eds.) Language and Poverty. Bristol, Buffalo, Toronto: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 37-49.
• 2009b. together with Fija Bairon and Patrick Heinrich, The Ryukyus and the New, But endangered, languages of Japan, The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 19-2-09, May 9, 2009. (reproduced in OGMIOS Newsletter 2009,38:6-12)
• 2009. Sprachenvielfalt auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent Afrika I, Informationen zur politischen Bildung Vol. 264: 8-10
• 2010. The exodus of Khoisan speech communities from Angola, in: Brenzinger, Matthias and Christa König (eds.) 2010: 342-379
• 2010b. Western Africa, map 14 (Pp.32-33); Eastern Africa, map 15 (Pp.34-35), Southern Africa, map 16 (Pp.36-37), in: Maps: UNESCO. Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Third edition. Edited by Christopher Moseley. Paris: Unesco Publishing. (also online)
• 2010c. Minzoku-Gengoteki Shosu-ha ni okeru Gengo no Katsuryoku (Japanese version), Kotoba to Syakai Bessatu 3-gô (Language and Society supplement, 3. University of Tokyo) Pp. 15-33. Language vitality in ethno-linguistic minorities (English version) Pp. 162-182
• 2010. together with Christa König (eds.). Khoisan Languages and Linguistics. The Riezlern Symposium 2003. (Quellen zur Khoisan Forschung, 17). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics, Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal, Germany-Austria, 4.-8.01.2003. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
• 2010. together with Herman Batibo, Sub-Saharan Africa, in: Christopher Moseley (ed.) UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Third edition. Paris: Unesco Publishing. Pp. 20-25
• in print International standards towards the Ryukyuan languages of Japan and the Jeju language of Korea. University of the Ryukyus. (Japanese)
• forthcoming: Blood becomes money: lexical acculturation in Southern Africa, in: Carol de Féral (ed.) Festschrift Robert Nicholai.

Papers presented at the following international conferences

(*as invited speaker)

• Language Death in East Africa; Organization and presiding of the International Symposium at the Werner Reimers Stiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany, 8.-12.1.1990
• *Sociolinguistics in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 28.1.-2.2.1990
• *Language Ecology in Africa, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 9.-13.9.1991
• *CIPL/CIPSH: Language Death in Africa, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, 20.-25.9.1992
• *XIX International Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil, 22.-30.9.1993
• 1st World Congress of African Linguistics, University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, Swaziland, 18.-22.7.1994
• *7th Annual Conference of the Institute of Language Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3.-4.11.1994
• *Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, 3.-5.2.1995
• Language Contact and Language Conflict, Gerhard Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany, 28.2.-3.3.1995
• *International Symposium on Endangered Languages, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 18.-20.11.1995
• Hunter-Gatherers in Transition: Language, Identity, and Conceptualization Among the Khoisan, University of Cologne, St. Augustin, Germany, 5.-8.1.1997
• Symposium on Endangered Languages in Africa at the 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics. Organization and presiding of the International Symposium at the University of Leipzig, Germany, 29.7.-1.8.1997
• *International Expert Panel on the Documentation of Endangered Languages, at the University of Bielefeld, Germany 13.-14.1.1999
• Language Endangerment, Research and Documentation - Setting Priorities for the 21st Century; Organization and presiding of the International Symposium at the Karl-Arnold Akademie, Bad Godesberg - Germany, 12.-17.2.2000
• Major African Languages in the 21st Century at the 3rd World Congress of African Linguistics. Organization and presiding of the International Symposium at the Université du Bénin, Lomé, Togo, 21.-25.8.2000
• *Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim, Kyoto, Japan, 24.-25.11.2000
• *Symposium Minor Languages; Coming to Grips with a Suitable Definition, University of Bremen, Germany 15.-17.6.2001
• *International Mother Language Day, UNESCO; Paris, France, 21.2.2002
• *Language and Identity; Baruch College, The City University of New York, USA, 2.-5.10.2002
• *Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim, Kyoto, Japan, 22.-25.11.2002
• 1st International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics, Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal, Germany, 4.-8.1.2003
• *Linguistic Cultural Identity and International Communication; Maintaining Language Diversity in the Face of Globalization, Munich, Germany, 25.1.2003
• *A Khoekhoegowab Dictionary; Guest speaker at the launch at the University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 20.2.2003
• *International Expert Meeting on Endangered Language; Presidency over the entire meeting, UNESCO headquarter, Paris, France, 10.-12.3.2003
• 4th World Congress of African Linguistics, University of Rutgers, New Jersey, USA, 17. 22.6.2003
• *2nd Aboriginal Languages Conference. The First Nations Education Council. St-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada, 24.-26.10.2004
• *Dialogue of Cultures Conference. The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, 14.-15.4.2005
• *International Symposium on Endangered Languages of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 26.-30.4.2005
• *The Role of Motivation (Iconymy) in Language Evolution. Mario Alinei, Tavarnuzze, Florenz, Italy, 17.-18.6.2005
• *Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty. Ithaca, USA, 14.-16.10. 2005
• *2nd International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics, Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal, Germany, 8.-12.1.2006
• 5th World Congress of African Linguistics. African Union Conference Centre & Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7.-11.8.2006
• *Jornades 15 anys GELA (Grup d’Estudide Llengües Amenaçades), Recerca en llengües amenaçades, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 9.11.2007
• *Lyon summer school on languages documentation and description, Université Lumière Lyon2, France, 1.-4.7.2008
• *3rd International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics; Opening Keynote of Symposium. Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal, Germany, 6.-10.7.2008
• *Special World Congress of African Linguistics in Brazil. University of São Paulo, Brazil, 11.-15.8.2008
• *African Society and Language: The Past, Present, and Future. Institute of African Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea 25.-26.9.2008
• *Conference on Language Ecology, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 27.-29.11.2008
• *Linking Language and Culture: Documenting Uchinaaguchi, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, 22.-23.2.2009
• *The International Conference of the Global COE Program "Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education"-A Geographical Typology of African Languages jointly with an international workshop on Khoisan Linguistics-Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan, 12.-13. May 2009
• *CIPL Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Endangered Languages, 3L International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom, 27. June 2009
• 6th World Congress of African Linguistics. Organization and presiding of the International Congress at the University of Cologne, Germany 17.-21. Aug. 2009
• *International Conference: Reaching the Marginalised − How to Approach Inclusive Education, by the Peter Ustinov Stiftung, UNESCO, GTZ at Garath Castle, Düsseldorf, Germany, 10.-11. Sept. 2009
• *Endangered Languages Summit: Workshop on the Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure Project (ELIIP), University of Utah, Heritage Center and the Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 12.-15. Nov. 2009
• *International Symposium: "Language vitality and community − Focus on East Asia" Tokyo University, Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo, Japan, 13. Dec. 2009
• *2nd Workshop on Ryukyuan Heritage Languages, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, 5.-6. March 2010
• *Vitalità di una lingua minoritaria, aspetti e proposte metodologiche. Vitality of a Minority Language, Aspects and Methodological Issues. Bellinzona, Swiss, 15.-16. October 2010
• *Responses to Language Endangerment: Uchinaa and Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i, Hilo, USA, 4.-10. November 2010
• *Perception and cognition: a cross-linguistic investigation. An International Workshop, Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln, Germany, 25-27 November 2010

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