Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies / Working Groups / • Summer 2014 (Concepts of Nature and Future) / • Fellows

Working Group C Fellows (Summer 2014)

	Dr. Gratien G. Atindogbé Associate Professor at the University of Buea, Cameroon Saving language and biodiversity: appropriating Natures in a sustainable way. A perspective from African linguistics
Background	PhD in African Linguistics (1996) University of Bayreuth
Interests	Descriptive linguistics, documentation of endangered languages, historical linguistics (Bantu), tonology, Cameroon Pidgin English, intercultural communication, French sociolinguistics and Cameroon Sign Language (CSL)
In Bayreuth	1st - 16th of June 2014 Working Group C Guest Fellow
Contribution	Session on Shaping Future Nature (5th of June)
Contact	grat_atin[at]yahoo.com

	Grisha Coleman Movement, Computation and Digital Media Assistant Professor at the School of Arts, Media and Engineering School of Dance at Arizona State University, USA Listening as the Land Talks Back: Ecology, Embodiment and Information in the Science Fictions of echo.system
Background	MFA in Music Composition/Integrated Media (2004) California Institute of the Arts BA in College of Letters (1989) Wesleyan University
Interests	echo.system (Fusion of art installation, choreographed multimedia performance and public engagement), connections between art and science, reflections upon how and where we live
In Bayreuth	19th June to 7th of July 2014 Working Group C Guest Fellow
Contribution	Session on (Re)thinking African rural and urban landscapes into the future(3rd of July)
Contact	http://ame.asu.edu/directory/selectone.php?ID=4632 grisha.coleman[at]asu.edu

	Dr. Kristina Dietz Postdoctoral Researcher Latin American Studies (LAI) Free University of Berlin, Germany Global Change – local Conflicts? Conflicts over land in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America in the context of interdependent spatio-temporal transformation processes
Background	PhD in Social Sciences University of Kassel (2010)
Interests	Social-ecological problems and conflict in the fiel d biofuels, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change,Social Sciences and Political Ecology, International Climate and Energy Policy, Democracy and participatory research, Field Theoretical issues
In Bayreuth	10th-21st of June Working Group C Guest Fellow
Contribution	Public Lecture (17th of June)
Contact	http://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/homepages/dietz/index.html kristina.dietz[at]fu-berlin.de

	Dr. Lauren Dyll-Myklebust Lecturer and Course Coordinator The Centre for Communication, Media and Society University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban Negotiating nature - culture relationships in social change partnerships: observations from the Kalahari
Background	PhD Communication, Media and Society University of KwaZulu-Natal (2012)
Interests	Cultural Tourism, Critical Indigenous Methodologies, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies
In Bayreuth	17th-27th of June Working Group C Guest Fellow
Contribution	Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)
Contact	ladyll[at]hotmail.com

	Dr. Christina Gabbert Research Fellow Department ‘Integration and Conflict’ Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale, Germany Globalizing environments in the lowlands of Southern Ethiopia Terra nullius, home, sacred space, grabbed land, commodity or resource?
Background	PhD in Anthropology Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg (2012)
Interest	Conflict and Gender, Peace Studies, Cultural Identity, Innovation and Cultural Change, Pastoralism, Cultural Neighbourhood, Global Neighbourhood, Investment, Global Markets and Changing Land Use, Development Cooperation, Visual Anthropology, Oral History, Music, Soundscape
In Bayreuth	17th-30th of June Working Group C Guest Fellow and VAD conference
Contribution	Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)
Contact	Homepage gabbert[at]eth.mpg.de

	Dr. Samuel Ndogo Lecturer at the Department of Literature, Theatre & Film Studies since 2001 Moi University, Kenya Exploring the Nature-Culture Relations in Selected Literary Texts from Kenya: Wangari Maathai, Henry ole Kulet and Ng’ang’a Mbugua
Background	PhD in African Studies University of Bayreuth (2013)
Interest	Kenyan post-colonial autobiography writings,  Literature from the African diaspora,  Film and theatre,  Popular culture
In Bayreuth	11th-30th of June Working Group C Guest Fellow and VAD conference
Contribution	Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)
Contact	samndogo[at]yahoo.com

	Dr. Jan-Erik Steinkrüger Geographical Institute of the University Bonn, Germany National Parks, Zoological Gardens and the Representation of “African Nature and Wildlife”
Background	PhD in Geography, University of Bonn (2012)
Interest	Animal Geography, Historical Geography, New Cultural Geography, Political Geography, Leisure and Tourism Geography, Religion geography / geography of the mind
In Bayreuth	5th -22nd of June Working Group C Guest Fellow
Contribution	Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)
Contact	http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/das-institut/personal/wissenschaftliches-personal/Steinkrueger-Jan-Erik steinkrueger[at]geographie.uni-bonn.de

	Dr. Nisbert T. Taringa Senior Lecturer and Head of Department Department of Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy at the University of Zimbabwe The Sacred Duty of Animals in African Traditional Religion and Culture
Background	PhD in Religious Studies, University of Zimbabwe (2009), Fulbright and DAAD Alumni and Member of the Bayreut International Alumni Network
Interest	Phenomenology of Religion, World Religions, African Traditional Religions and Systematic Theology. Research interest in methods and theories in the study of religion and in religions and contemporary ethical issues such as the Environment, Human rights, Gender and Sexuality and Health and Well-being
In Bayreuth	16th of June to 4th of July Working Group C Guest Fellow
Contribution	Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)
Contact	taisekwa64[at]yahoo.co.uk or ntaringa[at]arts.uz.ac.zw

	Marlous van den Akker PhD candidate Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Leiden University, Netherlands Mt. Kenya: a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Making
Background	MA in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Leiden University (2009)
Interest	African nature and wildlife conservation, nature / culture division in heritage debates, UNESCO World Heritage, Kenya
In Bayreuth	25th of June to 10th of July Working Group C Guest Fellow
Contribution	Session on (Re)thinking African rural and urban landscapes into the future (3rd of July)
Contact	http://socialsciences.leiden.edu/anthropology/organisation/faculty-staff/akker-marlous-van-den.html m.l.van.den.akker.2[at]fsw.leidenuniv.nl

	Dr. Fabio Vanin Architect in Urban designer Venice, Italy Relation between the construction of cities in lusophone countries - and the interpretation/domestication of Nature
Background	PhD in Urbanism IUAV University of Venice
Interest	Human–environment (conflictual) relations and the African context seen through the Western lens. Tension between cultural images of cities (Maputo and Luanda) and landscapes, and the built urban and “natural” spaces
In Bayreuth	2nd-14th of June Working Group C Guest Fellow
Contribution	Session on Shaping Future Nature (5th of June)
Contact	favanin[at]gmail.com

	Dr. Elizabeth E. Watson Senior Lecturer and Pybus Fellow Newnham College University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Landscapes and human-environment relations in Eastern Africa
Background	PhD in Geography University of Cambridge (1998)
Interest	Climate change, livelihoods and responses, Identities, landscapes and livelihoods and Religion, climate change and policy
In Bayreuth	19th-21st of June Working Group C Guest Fellow
Contribution	Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)
Contact	http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/watson/ liz.watson[at]geog.cam.ac.uk