Academy Building

On Thursday 12 February 2026 from 1 to 2 pm, Gitty Petit will defend her dissertation Unbefitting healing objects? Relations to health and protection among young middle class adults, indigenous healers and religious leaders in Dodoma, Tanzania.

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This thesis traces the formation of a deaf community in Guinea-Bissau and the emergence of its sign language, Língua Gestual Guineense (LGG), offering rare real-time documentation of how a language develops from gestural roots.

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