On March 28-29, 2019, Koen Bostoen, Sifra Van Acker and Sara Pacchiarotti participated in the International Workshop on “Contested Millets in Africa and Asia: Past and Present” in Groningen (Netherlands), which was organized by Peter Berger (University of Groningen) and Roland Hardenberg (Frobenius Institut für Kulturanthropologische Forschung an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt). They presented an invited lecture titled “On the rise and fall of millets in Bantu speech communities of Central Africa: Insights from historical linguistics and archaeology“, which included preliminary results from Sifra’s ongoing historical-linguistic PhD research within the BantuFirst project.