SCOLMA Annual Conference 2020 Oun a ní la ń gbé l’árugẹ [i] – (It is the heritage we have that we must celebrate): Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials Monday 8 June, 2020 SALT, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, University of… Read More ›
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Call for papers: SCOLMA Annual Conference (Deadline: 04 February)
SCOLMA Annual Conference Decolonising African Studies: questions and dilemmas for libraries, archives and collections Monday 10 June 2019 University of Edinburgh There has been an increasing call for the decolonisation of the curriculum across the disciplines in Northern institutions… Read More ›
Events: SCOLMA & ASAUK (Birmingham: 10th & 11th-13th September)
This week is an exciting week in Birmingham, UK, for those interested in African Studies scholarship! SCOLMA Annual Conference Things come together?: Literary archives from, in and for Africa Monday, 10 September 2018 University of Birmingham The day’s programme and… Read More ›
CfP: African literary archives, SCOLMA, University of Birmingham (Abstracts deadline 31st March)
We are delighted to announce SCOLMA’s forthcoming conference: “Things come together?: literary archives from, in and for Africa” The conference will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and… Read More ›
Scolma Seminar: The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa
The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa A seminar by Professor Steph Newell (University of Sussex) June 10, 11am – 12pm Seng Tee Lee Room, Senate House Library, London As part of the Scolma Lunchtime Seminar Series 2015, Professor Steph… Read More ›
Forward to Freedom: The History of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1959-1994
Africa in Words Guest Lucy McCann writes: For the 20th anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa on the 27th April a website has been launched recording the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain. Funded by the Amiel… Read More ›
CFP: African Trajectories: Travel and the Archive
SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Annual Conference African Trajectories: Travel and the Archive 2 July 2014 University of Birmingham CALL FOR PAPERS “Travel, in the younger sort, is part of education; in the elder,… Read More ›
ASAUK Open Access meeting 18 March
Open Access and Research Publication: Making Sense of UK Government Proposals in African Studies. Monday 18 March 2013, 1-5pm. Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU. Since David Willetts, Minister of State… Read More ›