Personenprofil
Kurzprofil
I am the lecturer for Swahili Language and Swahili Studies at the Institute of African Studies (Leipzig University).
Coming from a background in Swahili literature, I have worked and published on Swahili cultural performance, literature, digital publics, Urban Studies. Working on urban materialities, inspired by Indigenous Studies, Swahili (and other African) onto-epistemologies, Agential Realism and New Materialism, I am now engaging with the potentialities of words as matter (words as worlds = wor(l)ds). Continuously committed to a more just science, I take wor(l)ds as entry points into the multiple (non Euro-[phone]-centric) ways of conceptings that help un/write the humanities.
Berufliche Laufbahn
- seit 05/2011
Universität Leipzig, Institut für Afrikastudien, Leipzig: Dozentin für Swahili und Swahili Studien. - 09/2015
University of Cagliari, Department of Social Sciences and Institutions: Gastprofessur, Swahili und Swahili Studien (im rahmen des projektes: Africa in Motion). - 09/2005 - 09/2007
Universität von Neapel "L'Orientale", DSRAPA, Neapel: Lehrbeauftragte für Swahili Literatur, Kultur und Sprache.
Ausbildung
- 03/2002 - 03/2005
Universität von Neapel "L'Orientale": Promotion in African Studies. - 09/1994 - 03/1999
Universität von Neapel "L'Orientale": Magister Artium in Oriental Languages and Civilization – African Studies.
- Doing the City. Socio-Spatial Navigation in Urban AfricaBeck, Rose MarieLaufzeit: 11.2017 – 10.2020Mittelgeber: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftBeteiligte Organisationseinheiten der UL: Afrikanistik
- Baada ya Kimbunga, Shuwari. Ushairi wa mtungaji Haji Gora Haji - After the hurricane, the calm. The poetry of Haji Gora HajiBrunotti, IreneLaufzeit: 02.2016 – 08.2017Mittelgeber: Stiftungen InlandBeteiligte Organisationseinheiten der UL: Afrikanistik
- New Dynamics in Swahili StudiesBeck, Rose MarieLaufzeit: 06.2014 – 12.2016Beteiligte Organisationseinheiten der UL: Institut für Afrikastudien; Afrikanistik
- Brunotti, I."Cyberbaraza: sociability and identity (trans)formations in contemporary Zanzibar"In: Aiello, F.; Gaudioso, R. (Hrsg.)Napoli, Italien: UNIOR, Series Minior. 2019. S. 192.
- Brunotti, I.From baraza to cyberbaraza: interrogating publics in the context of the 2015 Zanzibar electoral impasseJournal of Eastern African Studies. 2019. 13 (1: Publics in Africa in a Digital Age ). S. 18–34.
- Brunotti, I.Kifusi: Towards an Ethnography of RubbleStichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies. 2021. 21 (41/2021). S. 63–82.
- Brunotti, I.Mapitio: Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience. Kai Kresse. 2018. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (2020)
- Brunotti, I.Poetics of the invisible, poetics of rubbleIn: Linder, B. (Hrsg.)Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. S. 185.
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Swahili I-II
Die beiden Übungen dienen dem Erwerb von grammatikalischen Grundkenntnissen sowie dem Erwerb eines Grundwortschatzes von ca. 1000 Wörtern der Alltagssprache unter Berücksichtigung der kulturellen Besonderheiten Ostafrikas. Hinzu kommen praktische Übungen im Sprechen, Hören und Lesen zum Aufbau einer grundlegenden Kommunikationsfähigkeit.
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Swahili III-IV
These modules comprise a Übung, aimed at the in-depth acquisition of oral and written language skills, and a seminar "Swahili in the world, the world in Swahili I or II", with the possibility to focus on language, literature, culture or historical, cultural, political and economic peculiarities of the Swahili-speaking East Africa. "Swahili in the world, the world in Swahili I and II" deal with the Swahili language, literature, media, culture and history from a cultural-scientific perspective.
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Swahili Studien I und II
- Postcolonialism (ubaadaukoloni)
- Contemporary debates (mijadala ya kisasa)
- Identities, modernities and authenticities
- Urbanity and urbanization in East Africa
- Journalism and the Journalistic scape in/across East Africa
- Islam in/across East Africa
- Performance and performativity in Eats Africa
- Swahili Literature and the literary context in East Africa
- Nataka nikuchukue senema
- Taarifa ya habari leo
- Reading Swahili literature - novel, fiction, drama and ICTs
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Swahili Advanced I (MA)
As part of the module East African Studies, the course aims at supporting (and partly re-focusing) the topic chosen in the common Seminar:
- the study project Megalopolis – voices from Kinshasa through a Swahili perspective.
- contemporary East African cities: to familiarize students with the urban milieu in East Africa, exploring the dynamic ways East African cities actually work.
- East Africa in the movies - Swahili movies, through watching, discussing, interpreting and understanding them.
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Swahili Advanced II (MA)
- Masimulizi ya Kiswahili Afrika ya Mashariki na ughaibuni (Swahili narratives across and beyond East Africa)
- Ukoloni mamboleo na mijadala ya Ubadaukoloni (Neocolonialism and Postcolonial Debates)
- Fasihi ya Kiswahili (Swahili literature)
- Urban Africa
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Urban Africa (MA)
Das Modul gibt eine allgemeine Einführung in die Geschichte und wissenschaftliche Diskussion afrikanischer Urbanisierung. Thematisch breit angelegt sollen innovative und kontroverse wissenschaftliche Debatten in Bezug auf Entwicklung, Citizenship, postkoloniale Bedingungen des Städtischen rezipiert werden. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf den im Entstehen begriffenen und diversen Ausdrucksformen des "Städter-Seins" und damit den Praktiken des "doing the city" als Form sozialräumlicher Navigation.
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Language for Research I ad II - Swahili (MA)
Taking into account the students' research interests, the seminars open up a unique perspective on various scientific contexts in Swahili language. By using different materials and texts in Swahili, students will develop individual strategies for the development of their own research projects. The seminars give the students the opportunity to think of and use Swahili language in a variety of activities including composing questionnaire or practicing the language as in a field research.