HUM683: BERBER LANGUAGES AND SOCIETIES

ORCID ID 0000-0003-4880-4043

Algiers in 1979 with a specialization in translation and interpretation. I combined my teaching at the same university with the preparation of two diplomas: one in higher studies of specialized studies (the specialized version of the former DEA) and another one in translation. Then, from 1990 until recently, my professional career moved to Germany. I have been a full-time lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe and Berlin since 1990. In 1998, I obtained a position as University Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the University of Cadiz, where I have been a professor since 2012. I am also the head of the Research Group HUM 683: Berber Languages and Societies (LSB: http://www.uca.es/grupos-inv/HUM683/es), of the University of Cadiz, whose main lines of work are Berber. Berber history, society, language, culture and literature. Outside the university I am currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Linguamón Observatory of the Amazigh Language (Berber) of the House of Languages of the Generalitat of Catalonia in Barcelona.
    
I have held a number of positions as Director of the Catalan Observatory of the Amazigh Language (2007-2010) and activities in the Department of Education of Catalonia in Barcelona. I have collaborated and collaborate with several research networks oriented towards language studies and others towards cultural and social studies. This is reflected in the research stays carried out in prestigious foreign centres throughout my career (Oxford University, Toronto, Paris, Berlin, etc.) and in my participation over the last fifteen years in five research projects promoted by Spanish and French academic institutions. The result of this research has been the numerous communications in national and international congresses and the articles published (more than one hundred).

Recently, my interest in the knowledge of the Amazonian cultural and social reality has led me to use more and more the approaches and methods of the social sciences and to get involved in the project "Public Problems and Activism in the Maghreb. The social and political participation of young people in its local and transnational dimension" (CSO2014-52998-C3-2-P) (2015-2017), financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

The first results of this project have recently been reflected in the coordination of a panel and the presentation of a communication at the World Congress of Middle East Studies (WOCMES) held in Ankara in August 2014. These activities are the subject of a publication of a collective work that collects and expands on the texts presented, as well as a series of articles on the subject:
Tilmatine, M., Desrues,Th., 2017 (https://books.openedition.org/cjb/1299?lang=fr)

Director of the doctoral thesis of Carmen Garratón Mateu in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Cadiz that deals with "The disinheritance of women in Kabylia (Algeria) as a paradigm of the opposition between Berber customary law and Islamic law". Thesis reading: 12 September 2018. I was also the director of his thesis on the same subject, which was read on 25/11/2013 at the same Faculty.