PhD-PROJECTS
- Monsters in Oromo oral narratives from a gendered perspective (2021 – 2025)
Researcher: Megersa Regassa (Jimma University & Ghent University) - Indigenous ecological knowledge in Arsi Oromo oral narratives (2022 – 2026)
Researcher: Milkessa Edae-Tufa (Jimma University & Ghent University)
- Female Oral Genres in the Context of Basket Production in East Wollega, Ethiopia (2022 – 2026)
Researcher: Tsehay Dinsa (Jimma University & Ghent University)
- Human and non-human interaction in Oromo oral fables (2023 – 2027)
Researcher: Terefe Mitiku (Jimma University & Ghent University) - Eco-Orality in Digo Narratives, Kenya (2024 – 2027)
Researcher: Mark Obure-Morang’a (University of Nairobi-Ghent University) - To start: “Famine and folktales: fictions and memories of hunger in Borana oral narratives”
Researcher: Fedila Abazinab (Jimma University & Ghent University)
OTHER PROJECTS
Global Minds Valorisation Project:
‘Storytelling through images: A reflection/discussion photobook for youth in Kenya and Ethiopia’
by
Inge Brinkman (African Studies, UGent);
Gerti Wouters (Journalism, HoWest);
Peter Wasamba (Dep. of Literature, University of Nairobi)
Teshome Mossissa (Institute of Oromo Studies, Jimma University).
Abstract:
As a valorisation of this project, the Team members of UGent, Howest, University of Nairobi and Jimma University aim to create a book with lively pictures of the storytellers/performances as well as of the workshops we undertook/will be undertaking. The images will be accompanied by the stories, in original language and translated into English. In the book, we will provide guidelines for discussion based on the visuals, and proposals for new ways of telling and performing the folktales and myths, based on the workshop experiences.
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Global Minds Short Training Programme:
‘Narratives and Objects in a Museal Oral Ecolit-Lab: Ecological Sustainability in East-African Literary scholarship and UGent Curricula‘,
by
Inge Brinkman (African Studies, UGent);
Vicky Van Bockhaven (Museology, UGent and Africa-Museum);
JUNE 2024: Prof. Peter Wasamba’s research visit – Lab and Lectures on Methods in East African Eco-Oral Literature.
SEPTEMBER 2024: Dr. Kimingichi Wabende’s research visit – Workshop with PhD students on oral narratives, fieldwork and performance.
MARCH 2025: Dr. Teshome Mossissa’s research visit – Lab and Lectures on Methods in Oromo narratives and objects.
MARCH 2025: Dr. James Wachira’s research visit – Lab and Lectures on East African Literatures on Ecological Sustainability from an intermedial perspective.
See: Project activities for an update.
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2023: Global Minds Short Teaching Stay
Tsehay Dinsa and Hellen Kagotho: ‘African oral literature and language matters’,
Resulted in several webpublications.
ADDITIONAL FUNDING
- Febuary 2024: Faculty Internationalisation mobility fund: Kenya.
- April 2024: Internationalistion@Home project: ‘Monster: Other/Alternative’, educational project with 2 workshops and lecture, in co-operation with Harold George, Dunia Dance Theatre, AfriKera Arts Trust in De Centrale.
- 2024: Global Minds Research Stay, Megersa Regassa, 3 months.
- 2023: FWO Research Stay, James Wachira, 3 months.
- 2023: Faculty research budget: Fieldwork of Ph.D. candidate Milkessa Edae.
- 2022: Faculty research budget: Fieldwork of Ph.D. candidate Megersa Regassa.
- April 2022: Global Minds Fund: Additional funding travel Kenya/Ethiopia.
- April 2022: Faculty Internationalisation: Lecturers’ mobility, Kenya, Ethiopia.
- Research stay GAP: Research Stay of Teshome Mossissa, Jimma University, Ethiopia and Peter Anyanga O. Wasamba, University of Nairobi, Kenya, November 2021.