Anne-Maria Fehn M.A.

geboren am 21.1.1985 in Naila, Deutschland

  • Telefonnummer im Institut: 0221/470-4699
  • E-Mail: anne.fehn@uni-koeln.de (Anne-Maria Fehn M.A.)
  • Sprechstunde: nach Vereinbarung

Tasks at the institute

Co-organizer of WOCAL6-Cologne
Co-editor of the e-journal “Khoisan Forum”
Ph.D. student (“A speech-with-gesture documentation of Ts’ixa (Central Khoisan)”)

Education

2004-2010: African Studies, Oriental Studies and Egyptology at the University of Cologne
2010: M.A.-thesis at the University of Cologne (“The social history of language dynamics: A case study on the 18th century Atlantic”)

Research interests

Khoisan Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Gesture Studies, Creole Studies, Language Documentation, Ancient Egyptian, History of the Atlantic World, Piracy, African Scripts

Publications

  • 2007. Die libysch-berberische Schrift. In: Kootz, A. & H. Pasch (eds.) 5000 Jahre Schrift in Afrika. Köln: Universität zu Köln.
  • 2010. with A. Storch. Water and inversion: African conceptualizations. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
  • In preparation. The social history of language dynamics: A case study on the 18th century Atlantic.

(Co-)EditedVolumes

  • (in preparation) with M. Brenzinger. Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

Talks Given

  • “That no man had power of the liberty of another: Piraten und Sklaven in der Karibik des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts.” KANT II, 17.-19.10.2008. Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln.
  • “The Semantics of water and the Middle Passage: African and Caribbean Evidence.” European Conference on African Studies, 4.-7. Juni 2009. Universität Leipzig.