Category Archives: Demarginalising Orature

“Demarginalising Orature – Translating Minor Forms into the Digital Age” is a transdisciplinary course taught at HHU Düsseldorf’s Philosophical Faculty (2022/2023). The course is linked to a research project on Konkomba folktales in Ghana.

Course aim: bringing English translations of the recorded folktales in Likpakpaln into a digitally readable format and creating a space in which different medial products could be assembled to give as full and culturally sensitive a picture as possible of the tale’s cultural significance – and to make them visible and accessible to the research community as well as a wider audience.

Visit the student blog for progress reports and OERs!

Project team

Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker (Project management and course instrctor)

Emmanuel Tasun Tidorchibe, M.A. (PhD Researcher and course instructor)

Michael-Zane Brose (tutor, summer term 2022 & winter term 2023-24)

Anne Schulzki (tutor, summer term 2022 & winter term 2023-24)

Jana Mankau (tutor, summer term 2022 & winter term 2022-23)

[Addendum] Folktales, language and culture

Posted on 16. November 2022 by heylivia

Introduction Hello everyone! This blog entry was meant to be published a while ago – sorry for the delay! Luckily, Anne also published a blog entry on that lesson of the “Demarginalising Orature – Translating minor forms into the digital … Continue reading →

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Posted on 3. November 2022 by nadinedor

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Folktales: On the Preservation of Culture and Language

Posted on 29. October 2022 by anneschu

In our last session in the course “Demarginalising Orature – Translating minor forms into the digital age” we talked a lot about culture and language, their relation to folktales, and also how important folktales are in order to preserve them. … Continue reading →

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Coding as a Humanist -Encoding a Konkomba Folktale in XML

Posted on 21. October 2022 by nadinehoff

As part of the course “Demarginalising orature – Translating minor forms into the digital age” our goal was to transcribe and digitalize some of the folktales that are shared among the Konkomba people as an oral tradition to make them … Continue reading →

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Visual Narratives – Subtitling a Recording of a Konkomba Folktale

Posted on 21. October 2022 by lilliblo

When reading folktales that have rarely been written down before, it is important to keep their origin in mind. Konkomba folktales have been passed on orally for a long time and have only recently been written down and translated from … Continue reading →

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