SCOLMA Annual Conference 2009

SCOLMA - UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa
Annual conference 2009: “Africa and the Moving Image: the role of libraries and archives”
Wednesday 17th June 2009

This day conference will explore questions relating to the production and preservation of moving image from and about Africa. What is happening in the world of African film and DVD production? What is the role of moving image in university teaching and research? How do image-based formats help us to understand African history, culture and politics? And what are libraries and archives doing to acquire and preserve this material, and to make it available?

Speakers:
Dr Guido Convents (anthropologist, historian and organiser of the Belgian African Film Festival)
Keith Shiri (Director, London African Film Festival)
Dr Sloan Mahone (University Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Oxford)
Prof. Vivian Bickford-Smith (Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town)
Dr Emma Hunter (Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge)
Dr Emma Sandon (Lecturer in Film and Media, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Susanne Hammacher (Film Officer, Royal Anthropological Institute, London)

Newnham College
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DF

Fee for the conference, which includes lunch and refreshments, is £40 (concessions £20)

For further information on the Conference go to: http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/conference.htm
Or contact Lucy McCann, SCOLMA Secretary, email: lucy.mccann@bodley.ox.ac.uk