Guest Lecture

08. March: Prof. Dr. Innocent Chiluwa: Discourse, digitization and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Examining online campaign discourses

Wednesday, 2023/03/08, 16:15

Innocent Chiluwa is a Professor in English Linguistics and Media/Digital Communications in the Department of Languages & General Studies, Covenant University, Nigeria. He is a Georg Forster Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) (Bonn), and a Humboldt scholar & visiting Professor in the Department of English, University of Freiburg. He is also an associate member of the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is currently on a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), where he is investigating the role of digitization in activism and political campaigns of women’s rights advocacy groups in Europe and Africa. Follow the link for further information on the event: https://www.csls.unibe.ch/forschung/veranstaltungen/index_ger.html

Event organizer: CSLS and Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Innocent Chiluwa (Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum & Covenant University, Nigeria)
Date: 2023/03/08
Time: 16:15 - 18:00
Locality: F-123
Unitobler
Lerchenweg 36
3012 Bern
Characteristics: open to the public
free of charge