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How to automatically add subtitles in DaVinci Resolve – An easy 10 step guide

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Did you know that there is an easy way to automatically add subtitles in DaVinci Resolve? This is a simple tutorial that will save you a lot of time and energy when editing your videos. You will need: Step 1Open … Continue reading

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Some Insights into Konkomba Folktale

My learning experience This semester, I have had the incredible opportunity to be immersed in the captivating world of Konkomba folktales. For most of us in class it was also the first time being confronted with coding a text as … Continue reading

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The Konkomba folktale’s performance aesthetics

The performance of the Konkomba folktale adheres to traditions and standards which may vary slightly from story teller to story teller but make the performances recognisable as belonging together. The Konkomba folktales are stories which blend the genres of prose, … Continue reading

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Searching for non existent errors

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Searching for nonexistent Errors The task is fun Should be easily done Fifteen mistakes  Waiting to be found Happy to partake I start this round. …….. Going through every line This header looks fine. Searching for errors In this faulty … Continue reading

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Let us tell stories. Konkomba folktale performance aesthetics

by Lara Wenisch In our second session of this seminar, we learned about the Konkomba people, their story telling and performance tradition. For me it was the first time to hear and see a Konkomba folktale performed and I was … Continue reading

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From Hungry Lions and The Betrayal of Friends 

 Demarginalizing a Konkomba Folktale Introduction In the summer term of 2023, I participated in the seminar `Demarginalizing Orature’ – a class unlike any other I had taken before. Not only did I learn new aspects about African culture and acquired … Continue reading

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Working on ‘Why the Broom’s Neck is Tied’

Introduction Going into my first session of the Demarginalising Orature class I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I knew it was going to be something quite different from what I’d done before, and I was excited to learn something … Continue reading

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Coding the Folktale: Errors

In our 4th session, May 4th, first we did a recap of the previous session, elaborating on the header, followed by a quick exercise finding possible errors in the examples Then, we reviewed basic elements of coding: Then we focused … Continue reading

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Introduction to Orality, Literacy and Performance

Orature is a living tradition precisely because orality, its base, is always at the cutting edge of the new and the experimental in word and experience.” (Ngugi wa Thiog’o. Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing. Columbia University Press, 2012, p.83.) 26th of … Continue reading

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Folk tales, Coding and Old Ladies and their Cats

Introduction Digitalising folk tales from cultures and areas deeply rooted in oral traditions and orality helps archive these tales, as well as the languages and cultures they derive from, and thereby gives them the opportunity to transcend time and space … Continue reading

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