NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: TRAINING FOR RESEARCH ON POSTCOLONIALISM AND CREOLIZATION
The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Program of the Social Science Research Council, in conjunction with the University of Warwick, is pleased to announce the following research and training opportunity for early to mid-stage doctoral students within the U.S. and United Kingdom:
Postcolonial Identities and Decolonial Struggles: Creolization and Colored Cosmopolitanism
DPDF Student Fellowship Competition 2013
This workshop addresses the production of contestatory cultures from the age of enslavement and colonization to that of decolonization. It is concerned with the continuing resonance across social, cultural and political fields of the emancipatory struggles of those times. We will focus, in particular, on the historical and contemporary dimensions of creolization and colored cosmopolitanism. Creolization refers to the mutually constituting processes of identity construction, such as cultural syncretism, hybridity, or mestisaje that oppressed peoples create in their struggles against injustice, most usually in contexts of colonialism, settlement, and enslavement. It is a frame through which researchers can recognize these difficult histories, not to diminish the inhumane conditions of the time, but rather to acknowledge the creative capacity of human endeavour to cope with and overcome such conditions. The idea of ‘colored cosmopolitanism’ is one such product that points to movements of socio-cultural engagement and solidarity across racial and national lines
Selected fellows will work with faculty research directors Professor Gurminder Bhambra (Sociology, University of Warwick) and Professor Nico Slate (History, Carnegie Mellon University) to enhance their dissertation research plans within the context of this multidisciplinary research field.
The Spring Workshop will be held May 28-June 2, 2013 in Coventry, England on the campus of the University of Warwick and the Fall Workshop will be held September 18-22, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
APPLY BY JANUARY 31, 2013 5PM ET.
Fellows attend workshops in the spring and fall of the fellowship cycle, which provide a framework for pre-dissertation research and guide dissertation research plans. In the summer months between workshops, DPDF fellows carry out exploratory field research on their topics to evaluate issues of feasibility and methods of investigation. The DPDF program covers necessary costs for workshop participation and up to $5,000 for summer research.
ELIGIBILITY
The “Postcolonial Identities and Decolonial Struggles” research field is open to second and third year doctoral students in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled full time in PhD programs at accredited universities in the United States, as well as 1st year doctoral students based at universities within the United Kingdom.
PROGRAM CONTACTS
For further information regarding the program and how to apply, please visit our website at www.ssrc.org/programs/dpdf/
Program staff are available at dpdf@ssrc.org to answer additional questions.
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Monday 17 December 2012
Warwick Transatlantic Fellowships
Warwick Transatlantic Fellowships launched
The University of Warwick's Humanities Research Centre has launched a new scheme aiming to deepen and broaden research links between Warwick and universities in the US and the Caribbean.
Five Warwick Transatlantic Fellowships worth $2,000 will be available for US and Caribbean-based post-doctoral fellows who wish to spend a short period at the University of Warwick, working with a Warwick-based academic.
One Fellowship is reserved for Caribbean-based scholars and applications from the region are strongly encouraged.
The Fellowships are jointly funded by the Humanities Research Centre, the Institute of Advanced Study, the EPSRC, and the Yesu Persuad Cantre for Caribbean Studies.
The deadline for applications is 15 January 2013.
For further information: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/events/wtf
The University of Warwick's Humanities Research Centre has launched a new scheme aiming to deepen and broaden research links between Warwick and universities in the US and the Caribbean.
Five Warwick Transatlantic Fellowships worth $2,000 will be available for US and Caribbean-based post-doctoral fellows who wish to spend a short period at the University of Warwick, working with a Warwick-based academic.
One Fellowship is reserved for Caribbean-based scholars and applications from the region are strongly encouraged.
The Fellowships are jointly funded by the Humanities Research Centre, the Institute of Advanced Study, the EPSRC, and the Yesu Persuad Cantre for Caribbean Studies.
The deadline for applications is 15 January 2013.
For further information: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/events/wtf
Friday 14 December 2012
Newly listed Namibian archive collection
A detailed handlist is now available for a collection of material largely on Namibia donated to the Library by journalist, Sue Cullinan, ICS153.
The collection includes unpublished reports, papers, speeches and articles on Namibia including the National Union of Mineworkers 1986 Wage Negotiation; a report from the Detainee’s Parents Support Committee April 1986; the Keynote Address National Education Crisis Committee, Second National Consultative Conference 1986; South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) Combatants – various papers, including reports of activities made by combatants and copies of The Combatant; the Memorandum of the SWA Bar Council Acting on Behalf of the Society of Advocates in Regard to the Commission of Enquiry into Security Legislation; unpublished speeches and conference papers produced by SWAPO; reports and conferences from bodies including: UN Council for Namibia, UN Institute for Namibia, United Nations, World Council of Churches, South African Institute of International Affairs, Worldwatch, Christian Resistance Group of South Africa, Fund for Free Expression and International Defence & Aid Fund for Southern Africa; and reports into the Windhoek Observer (Afrikaans) and into mining in South West Africa.
The collection is described on the Senate House Libraries archives catalogue which includes a link to the PDF list.
The collection includes unpublished reports, papers, speeches and articles on Namibia including the National Union of Mineworkers 1986 Wage Negotiation; a report from the Detainee’s Parents Support Committee April 1986; the Keynote Address National Education Crisis Committee, Second National Consultative Conference 1986; South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) Combatants – various papers, including reports of activities made by combatants and copies of The Combatant; the Memorandum of the SWA Bar Council Acting on Behalf of the Society of Advocates in Regard to the Commission of Enquiry into Security Legislation; unpublished speeches and conference papers produced by SWAPO; reports and conferences from bodies including: UN Council for Namibia, UN Institute for Namibia, United Nations, World Council of Churches, South African Institute of International Affairs, Worldwatch, Christian Resistance Group of South Africa, Fund for Free Expression and International Defence & Aid Fund for Southern Africa; and reports into the Windhoek Observer (Afrikaans) and into mining in South West Africa.
The collection is described on the Senate House Libraries archives catalogue which includes a link to the PDF list.
Thursday 13 December 2012
Call for applications: Bridget Jones Travel Award
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Arts researchers or practitioners living and working in the Caribbean are eligible to apply for the Bridget Jones Travel Award, the deadline for which is the 14th January 2013. The winner of the award will present their work at the 37th Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, which is scheduled to be held at the University of Warwick from the 3rd - 5th July 2013.
Eligibility
If you are an arts practitioner living and working in any region of the Anglophone, Hispanic, Francophone or Dutch speaking Caribbean, you may apply for the Award. The successful recipient will receive £650 towards travel expenses and, in addition, a full bursary to cover conference fees and accommodation. Applications are especially welcome from individuals with no institutional affiliations. We encourage applications from across the arts: from visual artists, performers, creative writers, film-makers, folklorists, playwrights etc.
How To Apply
To apply for the Award you must submit the following:
(a) A proposal for a presentation of your work in the areas of film, literature, visual or performing arts.
Presentations normally last for up to one hour, including time for questions from the audience. The most important part of your application will therefore be a full description of the proposed presentation detailing the themes and rationale behind the presentation, as well as how the presentation will be organised and any props required (e.g. if intending to screen clips of films; show slides of artwork; incorporate live performance etc).
Completed applications must be received by 14th January 2013. A decision will be made by the committee in late January.
For more information on the Bridget Jones Travel Award and the Society for Caribbean Studies, visit the Society website on www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk
- A covering letter
- Curriculum vitae (no more than 4 sides of A4)
- Statements from 2 referees who are able to comment on your work
or
(b) A proposal for a reading of original creative work.
Applications and enquiries should be sent by e-mail to Eva Sansavior Eva.Sansavior@ul.ie
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Prizes - Canadian Studies
Prix du Québec 2013
The Prix du Québec consists of two awards of £1,000 (each) offered by the Québec Government Office in London and administered by BACS.
It is designed to assist researchers who are permanent UK residents to carry out research related to Québec by facilitating a research visit to Québec. Projects that incorporate Québec in a comparative approach (at least 50% of the focus must be on Québec) are also eligible.
One award will be given in each of the following categories:
• Masters and doctoral students
• Researchers and academic staff
Applications should be made by email to arrive by 1 February 2013. Full details are on the BACS website.
The Michael J. Hellyer Prize
This prize is awarded annually by the British Association for Canadian Studies at its annual conference for the best paper by an early career scholar. The prize will be judged on the written version of the paper submitted, which may not necessarily be the delivery version. Entries should be submitted no later than 15 March, preceding the annual conference in April. The full version of the paper must be submitted by this date and late entries will not be accepted. The delivery of the paper will not form part of the assessment but candidates for the award must attend and deliver the paper at the conference.
The prize for the best paper will be awarded at the conference dinner. In addition, the paper will automatically be considered for publication in the British Journal of Canadian Studies providing that it has not been submitted elsewhere.
The prize will consist of £100 in book tokens
Early career scholar is defined as: a PhD student; anyone within 3 years of having been awarded a PhD; anyone who has a full-time appointment at a recognised higher education institution, but has not held the post for more than 3 years and does not fall into the doctoral category.
Papers should be submitted to BACS by 15 March 2013 for the annual conference on 3-5 April 2013. bacs@canadian-studies.org
The Prix du Québec consists of two awards of £1,000 (each) offered by the Québec Government Office in London and administered by BACS.
It is designed to assist researchers who are permanent UK residents to carry out research related to Québec by facilitating a research visit to Québec. Projects that incorporate Québec in a comparative approach (at least 50% of the focus must be on Québec) are also eligible.
One award will be given in each of the following categories:
• Masters and doctoral students
• Researchers and academic staff
Applications should be made by email to arrive by 1 February 2013. Full details are on the BACS website.
The Michael J. Hellyer Prize
This prize is awarded annually by the British Association for Canadian Studies at its annual conference for the best paper by an early career scholar. The prize will be judged on the written version of the paper submitted, which may not necessarily be the delivery version. Entries should be submitted no later than 15 March, preceding the annual conference in April. The full version of the paper must be submitted by this date and late entries will not be accepted. The delivery of the paper will not form part of the assessment but candidates for the award must attend and deliver the paper at the conference.
The prize for the best paper will be awarded at the conference dinner. In addition, the paper will automatically be considered for publication in the British Journal of Canadian Studies providing that it has not been submitted elsewhere.
The prize will consist of £100 in book tokens
Early career scholar is defined as: a PhD student; anyone within 3 years of having been awarded a PhD; anyone who has a full-time appointment at a recognised higher education institution, but has not held the post for more than 3 years and does not fall into the doctoral category.
Papers should be submitted to BACS by 15 March 2013 for the annual conference on 3-5 April 2013. bacs@canadian-studies.org
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Christmas Opening Hours
With the end of term and Christmas holidays approaching some advance notice of changes to opening hours in the next few weeks:
For Monday 17th December to Friday 21st December, Vacation hours, opening hours: 09.00 - 18.00
CLOSED from 22nd December to 1st January, inclusive
From 2nd January - 5th January 2013, Vacation hours, opening hours: Wed to Fri: 09.00 - 18.00 Sat: 09.45 - 17.30
Normal term hours start on 7th January 2013
For Monday 17th December to Friday 21st December, Vacation hours, opening hours: 09.00 - 18.00
CLOSED from 22nd December to 1st January, inclusive
From 2nd January - 5th January 2013, Vacation hours, opening hours: Wed to Fri: 09.00 - 18.00 Sat: 09.45 - 17.30
Normal term hours start on 7th January 2013
Monday 10 December 2012
CFP: Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World: Historical Perspectives
Call for Papers: Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World: Historical Perspectives
Friday 19 July 2013 at King's College London
Hosted by Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and Department of History, King's College London
Convenors: Dr Shirleene Robinson and Dr Simon Sleight
Symposium Aims and Themes
Although it is a comparatively recent field of study, the history of young people is a burgeoning field of inquiry, with the potential to illuminate many social and cultural aspects of the past. Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World will provide a scholarly forum for discussion of the lived experiences of children and the construction of modes of childhood in the context of the British World. We are particularly interested in locating children, childhood and youth in a broader social context and in acknowledging young people as active historical agents.
Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World takes place on 19 July 2013. The symposium's London location provides an ideal site to reflect on the historical reach and limitations of the British World and to place young people's experiences into transnational context. It is hoped the symposium will establish research networks and a basis for further investigation and discussion. The conference organisers will aim to publish a selection of conference papers in 2014.
While other submissions are welcome, papers might potentially address themes such as:
* Regulation and childhood
* Children's spaces
* Ego histoire and archives of childhood
* Interdisciplinary approaches to the history of young people
* Images of children
* Literary childhoods
* Violence and childhood
* Urban and rural childhoods
* Intersections between race and childhood
* Indigenous childhoods
* Gender and childhood
* Childhood and trauma
* Narratives of childhood
* Parent-child relations
Submission Guidelines
Proposals should include:
- Paper title
- 250-word abstract
- Biography of 50-100 words
- 2-page CV
Deadline: 31 December 2012; notification of acceptance: 14 January 2013
Submissions should be sent to:
shirleene.robinson@mq.edu.au and simon.sleight@kcl.ac.uk
Friday 19 July 2013 at King's College London
Hosted by Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and Department of History, King's College London
Convenors: Dr Shirleene Robinson and Dr Simon Sleight
Symposium Aims and Themes
Although it is a comparatively recent field of study, the history of young people is a burgeoning field of inquiry, with the potential to illuminate many social and cultural aspects of the past. Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World will provide a scholarly forum for discussion of the lived experiences of children and the construction of modes of childhood in the context of the British World. We are particularly interested in locating children, childhood and youth in a broader social context and in acknowledging young people as active historical agents.
Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World takes place on 19 July 2013. The symposium's London location provides an ideal site to reflect on the historical reach and limitations of the British World and to place young people's experiences into transnational context. It is hoped the symposium will establish research networks and a basis for further investigation and discussion. The conference organisers will aim to publish a selection of conference papers in 2014.
While other submissions are welcome, papers might potentially address themes such as:
* Regulation and childhood
* Children's spaces
* Ego histoire and archives of childhood
* Interdisciplinary approaches to the history of young people
* Images of children
* Literary childhoods
* Violence and childhood
* Urban and rural childhoods
* Intersections between race and childhood
* Indigenous childhoods
* Gender and childhood
* Childhood and trauma
* Narratives of childhood
* Parent-child relations
Submission Guidelines
Proposals should include:
- Paper title
- 250-word abstract
- Biography of 50-100 words
- 2-page CV
Deadline: 31 December 2012; notification of acceptance: 14 January 2013
Submissions should be sent to:
shirleene.robinson@mq.edu.au and simon.sleight@kcl.ac.uk
Wednesday 5 December 2012
New books November 2012 (part 2)
A selection of new books added to the catalogue and collections in November 2012 (the second of two posts).
New titles cover all areas of the Commonwealth and this month include more titles on contemporary South Africa and Nigeria; Canadian history and vulnerability to natural diasasters.
Marback, Richard C. Managing vulnerability : South Africa's struggle for a democratic rhetoric, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2012.
Mathebe, Lucky. Mandela & Mbeki : the hero and the outsider, Pretoria : Unisa Press, c2012.
Ardayfio-Schandorf, Elizabeth, Paul W. K. Yankson and Monique Bertrand. The mobile city of Accra : urban families, housing and residential practices = Accra, capitale en mouvement : familles citadines, logement et pratiques résidentielles, Dakar, Senegal : Codesria, c2012.
Miescher, Giorgio. Namibia's red line : the history of a veterinary and settlement border, New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Lyew-Ayee, Parris and Rafi Ahmad. Natural hazards atlas of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica : Mona GeoInformatics Institute [and] University of the West Indies Press, 2012.
Akingbulu, Akin and Hendrik Bussiek. Nigeria : a survey; by the African Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project, Open Society Initiative for West Africa, Open Society Institute Media Program , [New York] : Open Society Foundations ; [Dakar] : Open Society Initiative for West Africa, 2010.
Elaigwu, J. Isawa. Nigeria : essays in governance and society, London : Adonis & Abbey, 2012.
Hill, J. N. C. Nigeria since independence : forever fragile, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Khan, Nyla Ali (ed). The parchment of Kashmir : history, society, and polity, New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Teik, Khoo Boo (ed). Policy regimes and the political economy of poverty reduction in Malaysia, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Endicott, Stephen Lyon. Raising the workers' flag. ; the Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936, Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Prys, Miriam. Redefining regional power in international relations : Indian and South African perspectives, London : Routledge, 2012.
Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi. Reforming the unreformable : lessons from Nigeria, Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
Osuri, Goldie. Religious freedom in India : sovereignty and (anti) conversion, London : Routledge, 2013.
Lyimo, Francis Fanuel. Rural cooperation in the cooperative movement in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, c2012.
Campey, Lucille H. Seeking a better future : the English pioneers of Ontario and Quebec, Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2012.
Elaigwu, Isawa J. Topical issues in Nigeria's political development, London : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2012.
Loh, Kah Seng et al. The University Socialist Club and the contest for Malaya : tangled strands of modernity, Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Gungwu , Wang and Ong Weichong (eds). Voice of Malayan revolution : the CPM radio war against Singapore and Malaysia, 1969-1981, Singapore : S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2009.
Kapur, Anu. Vulnerable India : a geographical study of disasters, Shimla : Indian Institute of Advanced Study ; Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010.
Mascarenhas, Michael. Where the waters divide : neoliberalism, white privilege, and environmental racism in Canada, Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
Plaut, Martin and Paul Holden. Who rules South Africa? Cape Town : Jonathan Ball, c2012.
Mbunwe-Samba, Patrick. Witchcraft, magic, and divination . Accounts from the Wimbum area of the Cameroon grassfields, Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, c2012
Matondi, Prosper B. (ed). Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform, London : Zed, 2012.
New titles cover all areas of the Commonwealth and this month include more titles on contemporary South Africa and Nigeria; Canadian history and vulnerability to natural diasasters.
Marback, Richard C. Managing vulnerability : South Africa's struggle for a democratic rhetoric, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2012.
Mathebe, Lucky. Mandela & Mbeki : the hero and the outsider, Pretoria : Unisa Press, c2012.
Ardayfio-Schandorf, Elizabeth, Paul W. K. Yankson and Monique Bertrand. The mobile city of Accra : urban families, housing and residential practices = Accra, capitale en mouvement : familles citadines, logement et pratiques résidentielles, Dakar, Senegal : Codesria, c2012.
Miescher, Giorgio. Namibia's red line : the history of a veterinary and settlement border, New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Lyew-Ayee, Parris and Rafi Ahmad. Natural hazards atlas of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica : Mona GeoInformatics Institute [and] University of the West Indies Press, 2012.
Akingbulu, Akin and Hendrik Bussiek. Nigeria : a survey; by the African Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project, Open Society Initiative for West Africa, Open Society Institute Media Program , [New York] : Open Society Foundations ; [Dakar] : Open Society Initiative for West Africa, 2010.
Elaigwu, J. Isawa. Nigeria : essays in governance and society, London : Adonis & Abbey, 2012.
Hill, J. N. C. Nigeria since independence : forever fragile, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Khan, Nyla Ali (ed). The parchment of Kashmir : history, society, and polity, New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Teik, Khoo Boo (ed). Policy regimes and the political economy of poverty reduction in Malaysia, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Endicott, Stephen Lyon. Raising the workers' flag. ; the Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936, Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Prys, Miriam. Redefining regional power in international relations : Indian and South African perspectives, London : Routledge, 2012.
Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi. Reforming the unreformable : lessons from Nigeria, Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
Osuri, Goldie. Religious freedom in India : sovereignty and (anti) conversion, London : Routledge, 2013.
Lyimo, Francis Fanuel. Rural cooperation in the cooperative movement in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, c2012.
Campey, Lucille H. Seeking a better future : the English pioneers of Ontario and Quebec, Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2012.
Elaigwu, Isawa J. Topical issues in Nigeria's political development, London : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2012.
Loh, Kah Seng et al. The University Socialist Club and the contest for Malaya : tangled strands of modernity, Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Gungwu , Wang and Ong Weichong (eds). Voice of Malayan revolution : the CPM radio war against Singapore and Malaysia, 1969-1981, Singapore : S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2009.
Kapur, Anu. Vulnerable India : a geographical study of disasters, Shimla : Indian Institute of Advanced Study ; Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010.
Mascarenhas, Michael. Where the waters divide : neoliberalism, white privilege, and environmental racism in Canada, Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
Plaut, Martin and Paul Holden. Who rules South Africa? Cape Town : Jonathan Ball, c2012.
Mbunwe-Samba, Patrick. Witchcraft, magic, and divination . Accounts from the Wimbum area of the Cameroon grassfields, Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, c2012
Matondi, Prosper B. (ed). Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform, London : Zed, 2012.
Tuesday 4 December 2012
New Books November 2012 (Part 1)
A selection of new books added to the catalogue and collections in November 2012 (the frst of two posts).
New titles cover all areas of the Commonwealth and this month include a number of new titles on Malaysia; books on South Africa, apartheid and after; elections; differing perspectives on land and the environment; and some new titles on Malawi.
Puri, Luv. Across the line of control : inside Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir, New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
Schroeder, Richard A. Africa after apartheid : South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Dwyer, Peter and Leo Zeilig. African struggles today : social movements since independence , Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2012.
Curry, Dawne Y. Apartheid on a Black isle : removal and resistance in Alexandra, South Africa, New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Gammage, Bill. The biggest estate on earth : how Aborigines made Australia, Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2011.
Molloy, Patricia. Canada/US and other unfriendly relations : before and after 9/11, New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement (Solomon Islands) : Translation and implementation framework. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement Government 2008.
Murray, Sarah (ed). Constitutional perspectives on an Australian republic : essays in honour of Professor George Winterton, Sydney : Federation Press, 2010.
Fall, Ismaila Madior et al. Election management bodies in West Africa : a comparative study of the contribution of electoral commissions to the strengthening of democracy. Johannesburg, South Africa : Open Society Foundations, 2011.
Landau, Loren B. (ed), Exorcising the demons within : xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa, Johannesburg : Wits University Press ; Tokyo ; New York : published in North America and Europe by United Nations University Press, 2012.
Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira and Timothy J. Scrase. Globalisation and the middle classes in India : the social and cultural impact of neoliberal reforms, London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Irwin, Ryan M. Gordian knot : apartheid and the unmaking of the liberal world order, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Commonwealth Observer Group. Guyana national and regional elections, 28 November 2011. Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Tambyah, Siok Kuan and Soo Jiuan Tan. Happiness and wellbeing : the Singaporean experience, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
Kalinga, Owen J. M. Historical dictionary of Malawi, Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012.
McCracken, John. A history of Malawi, 1855-1966, Woodbridge, Suffolk [England] ; Rochester, N.Y. : James Currey, 2012.
Datta, Ayona. The illegal city : space, law and gender in a Delhi squatter settlement, Farnham : Ashgate, c2012.
Peers, Douglas M. and Nandini Gooptu (eds). India and the British Empire, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Khosla, Madhav. The Indian constitution. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Müller, Johann. "The inevitable pipeline into exile" : Botswana's role in the Namibian liberation struggle, Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2012.
Munro, Doug. The ivory tower and beyond : participant historians of the Pacific, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Grant, David. Jagged seas : the New Zealand Seamen's Union 1879-2003, Christchurch, N.Z. : Canterbury University Press, 2012.
Perkins, Anna Kasafi, Donald Chambers and Jacqueline Porter (eds). Justice and peace in a renewed Caribbean : contemporary Catholic reflections, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.
Rwegasira, Abdon. Land as a human right : a history of land law and practice in Tanzania, Dar-es-Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota, c2012.
Sud, Nikita. Liberalization, Hindu nationalism and the state : a biography of Gujarat, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Banivanua-Mar, Tracey and Penelope Edmonds (eds). Making settler colonial space : perspectives on race, place and identity, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Stark, Jan. Malaysia and the developing world : the Asian tiger on the Cinnamon Road, New York, NY : Routledge, 2013
Rajmah Hussain. Malaysia at the United Nations : a study of foreign policy priorities, 1957-1987, Kuala Lumpur : University of Malaya Press, c2010.
Tajuddin, Azlan. Malaysia in the world economy (1824-2011) : capitalism, ethnic divisions, and "managed" democracy, Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
New titles cover all areas of the Commonwealth and this month include a number of new titles on Malaysia; books on South Africa, apartheid and after; elections; differing perspectives on land and the environment; and some new titles on Malawi.
Puri, Luv. Across the line of control : inside Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir, New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
Schroeder, Richard A. Africa after apartheid : South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Dwyer, Peter and Leo Zeilig. African struggles today : social movements since independence , Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2012.
Curry, Dawne Y. Apartheid on a Black isle : removal and resistance in Alexandra, South Africa, New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Gammage, Bill. The biggest estate on earth : how Aborigines made Australia, Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2011.
Molloy, Patricia. Canada/US and other unfriendly relations : before and after 9/11, New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement (Solomon Islands) : Translation and implementation framework. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement Government 2008.
Murray, Sarah (ed). Constitutional perspectives on an Australian republic : essays in honour of Professor George Winterton, Sydney : Federation Press, 2010.
Fall, Ismaila Madior et al. Election management bodies in West Africa : a comparative study of the contribution of electoral commissions to the strengthening of democracy. Johannesburg, South Africa : Open Society Foundations, 2011.
Landau, Loren B. (ed), Exorcising the demons within : xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa, Johannesburg : Wits University Press ; Tokyo ; New York : published in North America and Europe by United Nations University Press, 2012.
Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira and Timothy J. Scrase. Globalisation and the middle classes in India : the social and cultural impact of neoliberal reforms, London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Irwin, Ryan M. Gordian knot : apartheid and the unmaking of the liberal world order, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Commonwealth Observer Group. Guyana national and regional elections, 28 November 2011. Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.
Tambyah, Siok Kuan and Soo Jiuan Tan. Happiness and wellbeing : the Singaporean experience, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
Kalinga, Owen J. M. Historical dictionary of Malawi, Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012.
McCracken, John. A history of Malawi, 1855-1966, Woodbridge, Suffolk [England] ; Rochester, N.Y. : James Currey, 2012.
Datta, Ayona. The illegal city : space, law and gender in a Delhi squatter settlement, Farnham : Ashgate, c2012.
Peers, Douglas M. and Nandini Gooptu (eds). India and the British Empire, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Khosla, Madhav. The Indian constitution. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Müller, Johann. "The inevitable pipeline into exile" : Botswana's role in the Namibian liberation struggle, Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2012.
Munro, Doug. The ivory tower and beyond : participant historians of the Pacific, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Grant, David. Jagged seas : the New Zealand Seamen's Union 1879-2003, Christchurch, N.Z. : Canterbury University Press, 2012.
Perkins, Anna Kasafi, Donald Chambers and Jacqueline Porter (eds). Justice and peace in a renewed Caribbean : contemporary Catholic reflections, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.
Rwegasira, Abdon. Land as a human right : a history of land law and practice in Tanzania, Dar-es-Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota, c2012.
Sud, Nikita. Liberalization, Hindu nationalism and the state : a biography of Gujarat, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Banivanua-Mar, Tracey and Penelope Edmonds (eds). Making settler colonial space : perspectives on race, place and identity, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Stark, Jan. Malaysia and the developing world : the Asian tiger on the Cinnamon Road, New York, NY : Routledge, 2013
Rajmah Hussain. Malaysia at the United Nations : a study of foreign policy priorities, 1957-1987, Kuala Lumpur : University of Malaya Press, c2010.
Tajuddin, Azlan. Malaysia in the world economy (1824-2011) : capitalism, ethnic divisions, and "managed" democracy, Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
Monday 3 December 2012
Remembering Bristol’s Empire: Archives, Artefacts and Commemoration
Remembering Bristol’s Empire: Archives, Artefacts and Commemoration
Workshop - Thursday 13 December 2012
Senate Room, Senate House, Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol
Prompted by the transfer of the collections of the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum to Bristol Museums and Bristol Record Office, this workshop will offer an opportunity to discuss the collection, preservation and use of archives and artefacts from Bristol’s (and Britain’s) imperial past.
9am-11am – Roundtable – ‘Remembering Empire: Perspectives from Bristol Academics’
11am-11.30am – Coffee
11.30am-1pm – John McAleer (University of Southampton) and Sarah Longair (British Museum/Birkbeck) – ‘Objects of Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience’
1pm-2pm – Lunch
2pm-3pm – Katherine Prior – ‘Collecting Empire: Lessons from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum’
3pm-4pm – Roundtable – Sue Giles (Bristol Museums), Richard Burley (Bristol Record Office), Tim Cole (History, UoB), Simon Potter (History, UoB)
4pm-5pm – Drinks, Student Common Room, 11 Woodland Road
There is no charge to register for this event, but please email Dr Simon Potter, University of Bristol if you wish to attend – simon.potter@bristol.ac.uk
This event has been funded by a grant from BIRTHA at the University of Bristol.
Workshop - Thursday 13 December 2012
Senate Room, Senate House, Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol
Prompted by the transfer of the collections of the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum to Bristol Museums and Bristol Record Office, this workshop will offer an opportunity to discuss the collection, preservation and use of archives and artefacts from Bristol’s (and Britain’s) imperial past.
9am-11am – Roundtable – ‘Remembering Empire: Perspectives from Bristol Academics’
11am-11.30am – Coffee
11.30am-1pm – John McAleer (University of Southampton) and Sarah Longair (British Museum/Birkbeck) – ‘Objects of Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience’
1pm-2pm – Lunch
2pm-3pm – Katherine Prior – ‘Collecting Empire: Lessons from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum’
3pm-4pm – Roundtable – Sue Giles (Bristol Museums), Richard Burley (Bristol Record Office), Tim Cole (History, UoB), Simon Potter (History, UoB)
4pm-5pm – Drinks, Student Common Room, 11 Woodland Road
There is no charge to register for this event, but please email Dr Simon Potter, University of Bristol if you wish to attend – simon.potter@bristol.ac.uk
This event has been funded by a grant from BIRTHA at the University of Bristol.
Friday 30 November 2012
On Freedom of the Press
With discussion in the UK media today about freedom of the press and state regulation or interference in the press I thought it opportune to highlight two archive collections which contain much on the freedom of the press in the Commonwealth and in particular in the developing nations in the post-independence world.
The Commonwealth Journalists' Association was founded by a group of journalists in 1978 following a conference of Commonwealth non-governmental organisations held at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, with the objective of catering for the needs of individual journalists in Commonwealth countries. The CJA's objectives include the raising of journalistic standards by the provision of training courses, the encouragement of an interest in and knowledge of Commonwealth affairs and the defence of the independence of journalists where a threat is perceived. The CJA takes a particular interest in safeguarding the rights of journalists in countries where press freedom is restricted and has intervened on several occasions, sometimes in collaboration with other interested bodies, to secure the re-opening of a newspaper or the release of journalists from prison.
The Commonwealth Journalists' Association archives date from 1998 to 2003 and detail training courses, conference and activity related to defending and encouraging a feee independent press. The collection was catalogued earlier this year, with thanks to and support from the Scott Trust Charitable Foundation and the Friends of Senate House Library (SHeLF).
The Commonwealth Press Union started in the early 20th century as the Empire Press Union, with the staging of the first Imperial Press Conference, and continued operation until 2008. At its peak, the Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) was an association composed of 750 members in 49 countries, including newspaper groups (with several hundred newspapers), individual newspapers, and news agencies throughout the Commonwealth, represented within the CPU by their proprietors, publishers or senior executives. The aims and objectives of the organisation were to uphold the ideas and values of the Commonwealth; to promote, through the press, understanding and goodwill among members of the Commonwealth; and to advance the freedom, interests and welfare of the Commonwealth press and those working within it by i) monitoring and opposing all measures and proposals likely to affect the freedom of the press in any part of the Commonwealth, ii) working for improved facilities for reporting and transmitting news, and iii) promoting the training of all involved in the Commonwealth’s press.
The Commonwealth Press Union archives contain the records and publications of the Empire Press Union, and the Commonwealth Press Union, including official records relating to the administration of the organisation, circulars and bulletins, and conference papers and reports. The records include details of seminars and conferences and case work relating to freedom of the press issues across the Commonwealth. In addition to the listed records availabile on the catalogue an additional donation of material was made in 2009, and with the assistance of a volunteer, a detailed handlist is being prepared for this collection while funding is being sought for a cataloguing project. Any enquiries about this latter material are very welcome.
Both collections provide valuable source material for understanding freedom of the press issues across the Commonwealth as well as an understanding of international cooperation and support for freedom of the press from newspaper publishers and journalists.
The Commonwealth Journalists' Association was founded by a group of journalists in 1978 following a conference of Commonwealth non-governmental organisations held at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, with the objective of catering for the needs of individual journalists in Commonwealth countries. The CJA's objectives include the raising of journalistic standards by the provision of training courses, the encouragement of an interest in and knowledge of Commonwealth affairs and the defence of the independence of journalists where a threat is perceived. The CJA takes a particular interest in safeguarding the rights of journalists in countries where press freedom is restricted and has intervened on several occasions, sometimes in collaboration with other interested bodies, to secure the re-opening of a newspaper or the release of journalists from prison.
The Commonwealth Journalists' Association archives date from 1998 to 2003 and detail training courses, conference and activity related to defending and encouraging a feee independent press. The collection was catalogued earlier this year, with thanks to and support from the Scott Trust Charitable Foundation and the Friends of Senate House Library (SHeLF).
The Commonwealth Press Union started in the early 20th century as the Empire Press Union, with the staging of the first Imperial Press Conference, and continued operation until 2008. At its peak, the Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) was an association composed of 750 members in 49 countries, including newspaper groups (with several hundred newspapers), individual newspapers, and news agencies throughout the Commonwealth, represented within the CPU by their proprietors, publishers or senior executives. The aims and objectives of the organisation were to uphold the ideas and values of the Commonwealth; to promote, through the press, understanding and goodwill among members of the Commonwealth; and to advance the freedom, interests and welfare of the Commonwealth press and those working within it by i) monitoring and opposing all measures and proposals likely to affect the freedom of the press in any part of the Commonwealth, ii) working for improved facilities for reporting and transmitting news, and iii) promoting the training of all involved in the Commonwealth’s press.
The Commonwealth Press Union archives contain the records and publications of the Empire Press Union, and the Commonwealth Press Union, including official records relating to the administration of the organisation, circulars and bulletins, and conference papers and reports. The records include details of seminars and conferences and case work relating to freedom of the press issues across the Commonwealth. In addition to the listed records availabile on the catalogue an additional donation of material was made in 2009, and with the assistance of a volunteer, a detailed handlist is being prepared for this collection while funding is being sought for a cataloguing project. Any enquiries about this latter material are very welcome.
Both collections provide valuable source material for understanding freedom of the press issues across the Commonwealth as well as an understanding of international cooperation and support for freedom of the press from newspaper publishers and journalists.
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Reminder - SENATE HOUSE CLOSES AT 2.00 TODAY
Reminder- Senate House Foundation Day closure
Today, Wednesday 28th November, due to Foundation Day events, the Senate House building will close at 2.00pm.
This closure means that all the libraries (including Senate House Library and the IHR Library), all meeting rooms and cafes will close at 2.00
Library staff are also required to leave the building so wioll not be available for phone or email enquiries this afternoon.
Normal service resumes Thursday morning.
Tuesday 27 November 2012
Workshop: 'Obeah Histories: Exploring Caribbean Lives under Colonial Laws' , 25 January 2013
'Obeah Histories: Exploring Caribbean Lives under Colonial Laws'
25 January 2013
Organised as part of the AHRC-funded project 'Spiritual Politics in Caribbean History' based at Newcastle University and run in conjunction with The National Archives, UK, this half-day workshop explores histories of Caribbean religion and its suppression from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Participants will explore original archival documents as well as look at images from The National Archives' Caribbean through a Lens project. The session focuses on Caribbean people’s practice of African-oriented religion and healing. Drawing on legislation and the stories of individuals who faced prosecution, we will investigate practices that were made illegal through colonial laws against ‘Obeah’ and against ‘Shouters’ (the Spiritual Baptist religion).
Venue: The National Archives, UK
Date: Friday, 25 January 2013 from 1pm until 5pm
For more information, venue details, and to book a place, visit http://obeahhistories.eventbrite.co.uk
25 January 2013
Organised as part of the AHRC-funded project 'Spiritual Politics in Caribbean History' based at Newcastle University and run in conjunction with The National Archives, UK, this half-day workshop explores histories of Caribbean religion and its suppression from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Participants will explore original archival documents as well as look at images from The National Archives' Caribbean through a Lens project. The session focuses on Caribbean people’s practice of African-oriented religion and healing. Drawing on legislation and the stories of individuals who faced prosecution, we will investigate practices that were made illegal through colonial laws against ‘Obeah’ and against ‘Shouters’ (the Spiritual Baptist religion).
Venue: The National Archives, UK
Date: Friday, 25 January 2013 from 1pm until 5pm
For more information, venue details, and to book a place, visit http://obeahhistories.eventbrite.co.uk
Monday 26 November 2012
Public Lecture: Contested Memories: the Shahid Minar [Monument] & the struggle for diasporic space, 28th November 2012
The Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Annual Lecture
Contested Memories: the Shahid Minar [Monument] & the struggle for diasporic space
Public lecture at SOAS:
Speaker: Professor Claire Alexander (Dept. of Sociology, University of Manchester)
Date: 28 November 2012Time: 5:00 PM -7.00 PM
Venue: SOAS, Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Drawing on new empirical research conducted in East London as part of a project on ‘the Bengal diaspora’, this lecture explores the struggle over Bangladeshi identity in Tower Hamlets as exemplified in the monument of the Shahid Minar and the related celebration of Ekushe (Martyr’s Memorial Day), which is usually held to mark the beginning of the Bangladesh national liberation struggle. Bringing together theories of diaspora consciousness and memorialisation, the paper explores the ways in which rituals and memory work both as a form of continuity with the homeland and as a method of claims-staking for minority groups in multicultural spaces.
Organiser: Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies
Contact email: rg32@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: 0207 898 4434
http://www.soas.ac.uk/migrationdiaspora/seminarsevents/annuallecture/28nov2012-contested-memories-the-shahid-minar-and-the-struggle-for-diasporic-space.html
Contested Memories: the Shahid Minar [Monument] & the struggle for diasporic space
Public lecture at SOAS:
Speaker: Professor Claire Alexander (Dept. of Sociology, University of Manchester)
Date: 28 November 2012Time: 5:00 PM -7.00 PM
Venue: SOAS, Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Drawing on new empirical research conducted in East London as part of a project on ‘the Bengal diaspora’, this lecture explores the struggle over Bangladeshi identity in Tower Hamlets as exemplified in the monument of the Shahid Minar and the related celebration of Ekushe (Martyr’s Memorial Day), which is usually held to mark the beginning of the Bangladesh national liberation struggle. Bringing together theories of diaspora consciousness and memorialisation, the paper explores the ways in which rituals and memory work both as a form of continuity with the homeland and as a method of claims-staking for minority groups in multicultural spaces.
Organiser: Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies
Contact email: rg32@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: 0207 898 4434
http://www.soas.ac.uk/migrationdiaspora/seminarsevents/annuallecture/28nov2012-contested-memories-the-shahid-minar-and-the-struggle-for-diasporic-space.html
Friday 23 November 2012
CFP: Connected Histories of Empire, 15-16 July 2013, Bristol
Call for Papers: Connected Histories of Empire, 15-16 July 2013, Bristol
Centre for the Study of Colonial & Postcolonial Societies, University of Bristol
Over the last two decades, scholars have begun to characterise the British Empire as a complex patchwork of interacting and dynamic agencies, rather than as a homogenous monolith. As a result, the traditional spatial framework based on a stable division between the metropole and the periphery seems increasingly outmoded. Instead, historians, literary critics, scholars of globalisation, and philosophers have been writing about the webs, networks, and circuits in which people, objects, and ideas moved. This conference will interrogate the idea of an empire of connections, considering the possibilities opened up by thinking in terms of global interaction, as well as the challenges of incorporating the myriad interconnections of empire into coherent historical narratives.
The conference is the culmination of a year of events at the University of Bristol which have focused particularly on the memorialisation and commemoration of the British Empire. As scholars have begun to uncover the intricately woven interconnections of empire, a central concern of the conference will be to consider how this might influence how empire has been, and is, remembered and memorialised in Britain and elsewhere.
The organisers would like to invite proposals for papers and panels that speak to the following broad themes:
To apply please send a 250 word abstract to the organisers at connectedhistoriesofempire@yahoo.co.uk by 14 January 2013.
Conference organisers:
History: Ms Emily Baughan, Prof Robert Bickers, Prof Peter Coates, Prof Tim Cole, Dr Simon Potter, Dr Jonathan Saha, Dr Rob Skinner
Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies: Dr Matthew Brown, Dr Joanna Crow
English: Dr John Lee
Archaeology & Anthropology: Prof Mark Horton
Centre for the Study of Colonial & Postcolonial Societies, University of Bristol
Over the last two decades, scholars have begun to characterise the British Empire as a complex patchwork of interacting and dynamic agencies, rather than as a homogenous monolith. As a result, the traditional spatial framework based on a stable division between the metropole and the periphery seems increasingly outmoded. Instead, historians, literary critics, scholars of globalisation, and philosophers have been writing about the webs, networks, and circuits in which people, objects, and ideas moved. This conference will interrogate the idea of an empire of connections, considering the possibilities opened up by thinking in terms of global interaction, as well as the challenges of incorporating the myriad interconnections of empire into coherent historical narratives.
The conference is the culmination of a year of events at the University of Bristol which have focused particularly on the memorialisation and commemoration of the British Empire. As scholars have begun to uncover the intricately woven interconnections of empire, a central concern of the conference will be to consider how this might influence how empire has been, and is, remembered and memorialised in Britain and elsewhere.
The organisers would like to invite proposals for papers and panels that speak to the following broad themes:
- The commemoration and memorialisation of different imperial sites, events and phenomena
- Links between imperial port-cities/global cities
- Flows of people, goods (physical and cultural), and cash
- The movement, preservation and display of imperial artefacts and archives
- Imperial networks and imperial careering
- Imperial audiences and public spheres
- The links between global history and imperial history
To apply please send a 250 word abstract to the organisers at connectedhistoriesofempire@yahoo.co.uk by 14 January 2013.
Conference organisers:
History: Ms Emily Baughan, Prof Robert Bickers, Prof Peter Coates, Prof Tim Cole, Dr Simon Potter, Dr Jonathan Saha, Dr Rob Skinner
Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies: Dr Matthew Brown, Dr Joanna Crow
English: Dr John Lee
Archaeology & Anthropology: Prof Mark Horton
Wednesday 21 November 2012
18th Commonwealth Law Conference, 14-18 April 2013, Cape Town, South Africa
The conference programme for the 18th Commonwealth Law Conference is now available at http://www.commonwealthlaw2013.org/
Current topics include
Justice Dr Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya
Current topics include
- Anti-Bribery and Corruption in the Corporate World
- Intellectual Property in the Developing World
- New Frontiers of Competition Law: Role of Non-Competition Considerations in Adjudication of Mergers and Takeovers
- Privatising the Courts: Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Legal Aspects of the Mining and Extractive Industries
- Government Lawyers Exposed
- Separation of Powers: Constitutional and Media Perspectives
- Human Trafficking: Commerce and Slavery in the Commonwealth
- LGBT: Decriminalisation and the Role of Lawyers
- Pitcairn Island – Mutiny on the Bounty: Violence against Women as a Cultural Norm
- Playing Fair? Sports Law in the Commonwealth
- Information, Secrecy and Wikileaks
- Forced Marriages: What Should the Legal Response Be?
- Defamation Law Reform: Thresholds, Defences and the Value of Free Speech
- Cyber Security in the Commonwealth
- Immigration, Migration and Refugees in the Commonwealth – the Legal Response
- How ‘International’ is the International Criminal Court?
Justice Dr Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya
Tuesday 20 November 2012
Rev. Samuel Marsden, Satan, and respectability of character in New South Wales and New Zealand
The New Zealand Studies Network presents Emeritus Professor Andrew Sharp
A New Zealand Studies Network (UK and Ireland) seminar Friday 30th November 6pm at Birkbeck
Room tba (ask at reception)
Rev. Samuel Marsden, Satan, and respectability of character in New South Wales and New Zealand
The years 1817-23 were very troubling for Samuel Marsden both in New Zealand and New South Wales. In New South Wales he fell foul of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. In New Zealand his relationships with the first two sets of missionaries in the Bay of Islands were uneasy. In Sydney the New Zealanders seemed evidently uncivilised and a danger to Europeans; but in the Bay, as well as inspiring fear among the missionaries and their helpers, they also inspired sexual desire (at least in some). The talk describes the way Marsden and his European contemporaries thought and talked about these matters, especially the way they prided themselves on their status and (the religious among them) feared Satan, the 'Prince of Darkness'
Andrew Sharp is Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Auckland and Chair of the NZSN. He will soon take up the 2013 University of Waikato/Creative New Zealand Residency Award to complete a book on the opinions of Samuel Marsden and his contemporaries in New Zealand, New South Wales and England. It will be called Civilisation and the Prince of Darkness.
Please book through NZSN to avoid disappointment. info.nzsn@gmail.com Website NZstudies.com
Monday 19 November 2012
ADVANCE NOTICE - 28 November early closure
Senate House Foundation Day closure
ADVANCE NOTICE - Senate House Foundation Day closure
On Wednesday 28th November, due to Foundation Day events, the Senate House building will close at 2.00pm.
This includes all the libraries, all meeting rooms and cafes.
ADVANCE NOTICE - Senate House Foundation Day closure
On Wednesday 28th November, due to Foundation Day events, the Senate House building will close at 2.00pm.
This includes all the libraries, all meeting rooms and cafes.
Saturday 17 November 2012
Event at Warwick University: Thomas Glave - Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood
Jointly hosted by
Warwick University’s Hispanic Studies department and the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies
Thomas Glave - Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood
Thursday 22 November, Ramphal Building R.0.14, 5.30 pm
This presentation will journey through meditations on coming of age, social class, gender, sexuality, and relationships with the dead in Jamaica, by way of the author's personal reflections.
Thomas Glave’s most recent work appears in The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Callaloo, and in several anthologies, including Kingston Noir and Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, both published in 2012. Glave has been Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, and is a 2012 Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
Thomas Glave is editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Lambda Literary Award, 2008).
He is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories; Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (Lambda Literary Award, 2005), and The Torturer’s Wife (Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist, 2008). Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh is forthcoming from Akashic Books in summer 2013: http://www.akashicbooks.com/amongthebloodpeople.htm
This event is free and open to all.
For any inquiries, please contact Fabienne Viala: F.Viala@warwick.ac.uk
Friday 16 November 2012
John Coffin Memorial Lecture: "The Queen in Australia": rebranding the British Commonwealth in the Pacific
John Coffin Memorial Lecture
Friday 23 November 2012
Jane Landman (Victoria University): '"The Queen in Australia": rebranding the British Commonwealth in the Pacific'
6.00pm: The Beveridge Hall, Senate House, University of London
Introduced by Brian Winston (University of Lincoln)
Moving images of British monarchs traverse the history of film and television, from documentary footage of Queen Victoria dating from 1897, to the Commonwealth Film Unit’s extensive archive of royal visits to far flung colonies, to Madonna’s recently released W.E. on the Wallis Simpson-Edward VIII romance. This Jubilee year seems the appropriate time to consider the historic past and current effusion of film and television representations of the British monarchy.
To mark this occasion, Jane Landman will consider a classic of colonial cinema, the Commonwealth Film Unit’s documentary of the Royal Tour of 1953-4, "The Queen in Australia". Extravagantly praised at the time for its contribution to ‘world affairs’, this tribute to the Crown stages each floral genuflection as the act of a unified free world, marshalling Fijians, Tongans and New Zealanders as well as Australians into a Cold War homage to both Elizabeth II and the king of the British Documentary Movement, John Grierson. Dr Landman will bring to this presentation her acuity and expertise in the iconic repertoire of national narrative in postwar Australian film and television.
This lecture will be hosted by the Institute of English Studies in collaboration with the University of London Screen Studies Group, and in association with the IES conference "The British Monarchy on Screen" (23-24 November 2012), which will further debate the starring role of royalty in our viewing lives, with presentations from international film and television experts on topics ranging from the broadcasting of royal weddings to the cinematic casting of the sovereign.
Jane Landman is Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication and the Arts, Victoria University. She is the author of The Tread of a White Man’s Foot: Australian Pacific Colonialism and the Cinema (Pandanus Books, Canberra, 2006), and (with Chris Ballard) ‘New Guinea Patrol’: Documenting Australian Colonialism, forthcoming in 2013. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the monograph series on Australian film, Moving Image, and guest editor of the Journal of Australasian Studies. Dr Landman's current research concerns the role of the cinema in the process and cultures of colonialism and decolonization, with current focus on the series of government documentary films made in the Territories of Papua New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s. These are films that visually report on those policies and practices of development that were part of Australia’s trust responsibilities, and Dr Landman’s research traces the political, institutional and administrative negotiations that determined the semantics and rhetoric of the visual and aural modes deployed to represent the Australian work of development of the Territories and its peoples. Broader research addresses a comparative understanding of imperial mass communications in the colonised - then decolonising - western Pacific, with specific focus on Australia and various British-derived colonial administrations.
Free and open to all, and followed by a wine reception. If you would like to attend please notify IESEvents@sas.ac.uk
Enquiries: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; Email: IESEvents@sas.ac.uk
Friday 23 November 2012
Jane Landman (Victoria University): '"The Queen in Australia": rebranding the British Commonwealth in the Pacific'
6.00pm: The Beveridge Hall, Senate House, University of London
Introduced by Brian Winston (University of Lincoln)
Moving images of British monarchs traverse the history of film and television, from documentary footage of Queen Victoria dating from 1897, to the Commonwealth Film Unit’s extensive archive of royal visits to far flung colonies, to Madonna’s recently released W.E. on the Wallis Simpson-Edward VIII romance. This Jubilee year seems the appropriate time to consider the historic past and current effusion of film and television representations of the British monarchy.
To mark this occasion, Jane Landman will consider a classic of colonial cinema, the Commonwealth Film Unit’s documentary of the Royal Tour of 1953-4, "The Queen in Australia". Extravagantly praised at the time for its contribution to ‘world affairs’, this tribute to the Crown stages each floral genuflection as the act of a unified free world, marshalling Fijians, Tongans and New Zealanders as well as Australians into a Cold War homage to both Elizabeth II and the king of the British Documentary Movement, John Grierson. Dr Landman will bring to this presentation her acuity and expertise in the iconic repertoire of national narrative in postwar Australian film and television.
This lecture will be hosted by the Institute of English Studies in collaboration with the University of London Screen Studies Group, and in association with the IES conference "The British Monarchy on Screen" (23-24 November 2012), which will further debate the starring role of royalty in our viewing lives, with presentations from international film and television experts on topics ranging from the broadcasting of royal weddings to the cinematic casting of the sovereign.
Jane Landman is Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication and the Arts, Victoria University. She is the author of The Tread of a White Man’s Foot: Australian Pacific Colonialism and the Cinema (Pandanus Books, Canberra, 2006), and (with Chris Ballard) ‘New Guinea Patrol’: Documenting Australian Colonialism, forthcoming in 2013. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the monograph series on Australian film, Moving Image, and guest editor of the Journal of Australasian Studies. Dr Landman's current research concerns the role of the cinema in the process and cultures of colonialism and decolonization, with current focus on the series of government documentary films made in the Territories of Papua New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s. These are films that visually report on those policies and practices of development that were part of Australia’s trust responsibilities, and Dr Landman’s research traces the political, institutional and administrative negotiations that determined the semantics and rhetoric of the visual and aural modes deployed to represent the Australian work of development of the Territories and its peoples. Broader research addresses a comparative understanding of imperial mass communications in the colonised - then decolonising - western Pacific, with specific focus on Australia and various British-derived colonial administrations.
Free and open to all, and followed by a wine reception. If you would like to attend please notify IESEvents@sas.ac.uk
Enquiries: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; Email: IESEvents@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 November 2012
Canadian WW1 Out of the Trenches project
Library and Archives Canada launch Out of the Trenches: A Linked Open Data Project video
Produced by the Pan-Canadian Documentary Heritage Network, the video highlights new work in mapping archive collections across Canada. It uses multimedia to showcase records and photographs and includes some examples of individual soldier's life stories, recreated using primary source materials.
Partners of the Pan-Canadian Documentary Heritage Network (PCDHN) have developed a "proof-of-concept" to showcase a sampling of the network's wealth of digital resources using "linked open data" and principles of the semantic web. The underlying premise is to expose the metadata for these resources using RDF/XML and existing/published ontologies (element sets) and vocabularies, maximizing discovery by a broad user community.
The partners selected the First World War as the topic for the digital resources to be contributed to the proof-of-concept. The metadata for these digital resources was provided by five partner institutions.
Archives Canada also has an older site with war diaries and archives records which you can search.
Produced by the Pan-Canadian Documentary Heritage Network, the video highlights new work in mapping archive collections across Canada. It uses multimedia to showcase records and photographs and includes some examples of individual soldier's life stories, recreated using primary source materials.
Partners of the Pan-Canadian Documentary Heritage Network (PCDHN) have developed a "proof-of-concept" to showcase a sampling of the network's wealth of digital resources using "linked open data" and principles of the semantic web. The underlying premise is to expose the metadata for these resources using RDF/XML and existing/published ontologies (element sets) and vocabularies, maximizing discovery by a broad user community.
The partners selected the First World War as the topic for the digital resources to be contributed to the proof-of-concept. The metadata for these digital resources was provided by five partner institutions.
Archives Canada also has an older site with war diaries and archives records which you can search.
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Australian material in the Bromhead Library
Staff in the Historic Collections department of Senate House Library have recently completed online cataloguing of the Bromhead Library.
The Bromhead Library was donated in 1964 by the executors of the estate of Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Claude Bromhead (1876-1963), one of the co-founders of Gaumont Cinemas. The Bromhead Library is a collection of books, broadsides, directories, pamphlets, newsbooks, prints, proclamations, maps and manuscripts primarily on the history of London, published from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The collection also contains material on Australia, including books and maps.
The collection contains Australian material dating from 1787-1954 and covers topics including travel writing, history, convicts and settlers, exploration and gold. The earliest item in the collection was published in 1787 and is:
The History of New Holland, : from its first discovery in 1616, to the present time. With a particular account of its produce and inhabitants; and a description of Botany Bay: also, a list of the naval, marine, military, and civil establishment. To which is prefixed, an introductory Discourse on banishment, by the Right Honourable William Eden. Illustrated with a map of New Holland, a chart of Botany Bay, and a general chart from England to Botany Bay.
The book was printed in London for John Stockdale in 1787 and is variously attributed to George Barrington or to William Eden, and consists of 254 pages as well as plates and coloured maps. From Bormhead's Library, the book includes the armorial bookplate of "Will. Lacon Childe of Kinlet. Esqr.", a previous owner.
Another early item of interest is:
Reid, Thomas, Two voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land : with a description of the present condition of that interesting colony : including facts and observations relative to the state and management of convicts of both sexes : also reflections on seduction and its general consequences, printed in London for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, in 1822.
Material from the Bromhead collection can be found using a keyword search of "Bromhead and Australia" (or "Bromhead and New South Wales", etc) and needs to be booked for use in advance with one working days notice, and consulted in the Library's Historic Collections Reading Room.
The Bromhead Library was donated in 1964 by the executors of the estate of Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Claude Bromhead (1876-1963), one of the co-founders of Gaumont Cinemas. The Bromhead Library is a collection of books, broadsides, directories, pamphlets, newsbooks, prints, proclamations, maps and manuscripts primarily on the history of London, published from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The collection also contains material on Australia, including books and maps.
The collection contains Australian material dating from 1787-1954 and covers topics including travel writing, history, convicts and settlers, exploration and gold. The earliest item in the collection was published in 1787 and is:
The History of New Holland, : from its first discovery in 1616, to the present time. With a particular account of its produce and inhabitants; and a description of Botany Bay: also, a list of the naval, marine, military, and civil establishment. To which is prefixed, an introductory Discourse on banishment, by the Right Honourable William Eden. Illustrated with a map of New Holland, a chart of Botany Bay, and a general chart from England to Botany Bay.
The book was printed in London for John Stockdale in 1787 and is variously attributed to George Barrington or to William Eden, and consists of 254 pages as well as plates and coloured maps. From Bormhead's Library, the book includes the armorial bookplate of "Will. Lacon Childe of Kinlet. Esqr.", a previous owner.
Another early item of interest is:
Reid, Thomas, Two voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land : with a description of the present condition of that interesting colony : including facts and observations relative to the state and management of convicts of both sexes : also reflections on seduction and its general consequences, printed in London for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, in 1822.
Material from the Bromhead collection can be found using a keyword search of "Bromhead and Australia" (or "Bromhead and New South Wales", etc) and needs to be booked for use in advance with one working days notice, and consulted in the Library's Historic Collections Reading Room.
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Winter update from the Ruth First Papers Project
The project team working on the Ruth First papers digitisation project recently sent out an update as the project enters the winter term and resumes digitisation after a summer hiatus. We're pleased to share this report:
Mozambique trip for RFP researchers
Following on from Matt’s trip to the CEA and the IESE in September, Leo, Vanessa and Virgilio will be attending a Ruth First memorial conference in Maputo in late November. The conference is titled ‘Os intelectuais Africanos face aos desafios do século XXI’ and runs from the 28th to 29th of November. The team will also present to the CEA in a plenary session on the 27th.
Virgilio will remain in Maputo until February, conducting a survey of the materials held in the CEA archives.
Read more about the conference on the CEA’s website.
Read about Matt’s trip to Moambique and South Africa in September on the project blog.
Video from the 90 Days film screening
A recording of the talks at the film screening on the 17th of August is now available via the School of Advanced Study YouTube channel. The event featured director Jack Gold in conversation with Professor Philip Murphy and Gavin Williams in conversation with Leo.
Watch the video here.
ICwS seminars for your diary
There are two upcoming seminars in the Institute related to the project:
Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance
26 November 2012, 17:30, ICwS G22/26. Barry Gilder (former intelligence chief in post-apartheid South Africa) will discuss his new book Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance. The session will be chaired by Dr Sue Onslow (Senior Research Fellow and Co-Investigator, Commonwealth Oral History Project).
The Commonwealth in the World: resistance, governance and change, 'Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa on the Edge'
17 January 2013, 5.30pm, ICwS. Author Marc Weston will talk about the modernisation process in West Africa and his new book Ringtone and the Drum.
Mozambique trip for RFP researchers
Following on from Matt’s trip to the CEA and the IESE in September, Leo, Vanessa and Virgilio will be attending a Ruth First memorial conference in Maputo in late November. The conference is titled ‘Os intelectuais Africanos face aos desafios do século XXI’ and runs from the 28th to 29th of November. The team will also present to the CEA in a plenary session on the 27th.
Virgilio will remain in Maputo until February, conducting a survey of the materials held in the CEA archives.
Read more about the conference on the CEA’s website.
Read about Matt’s trip to Moambique and South Africa in September on the project blog.
Video from the 90 Days film screening
A recording of the talks at the film screening on the 17th of August is now available via the School of Advanced Study YouTube channel. The event featured director Jack Gold in conversation with Professor Philip Murphy and Gavin Williams in conversation with Leo.
Watch the video here.
ICwS seminars for your diary
There are two upcoming seminars in the Institute related to the project:
Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance
26 November 2012, 17:30, ICwS G22/26. Barry Gilder (former intelligence chief in post-apartheid South Africa) will discuss his new book Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance. The session will be chaired by Dr Sue Onslow (Senior Research Fellow and Co-Investigator, Commonwealth Oral History Project).
The Commonwealth in the World: resistance, governance and change, 'Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa on the Edge'
17 January 2013, 5.30pm, ICwS. Author Marc Weston will talk about the modernisation process in West Africa and his new book Ringtone and the Drum.
Monday 12 November 2012
Debate: 20 years of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines – is a mine-free world still a realistic goal?
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Landmines and Unexploded Weapons of Conflict
Chairman: Pauline Latham OBE MP
Debate: 20 years of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines – is a mine-free world still a realistic goal?
When – 6:30 pm, Monday 19th November, 2012.
Where – The Mandela Room at the Commonwealth Club, Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5AP.
Chairman: Stuart Hughes, Diplomatic Producer BBC News
Panel
Activity
A high level debate, in association with the Royal Commonwealth Society looking back over the past twenty years – and forward to the huge amount of work still needing to be done. The debate will be followed by a drinks reception kindly sponsored by Explore Worldwide adventure holidays and the CIPR international Group.
Background
"Millions of people live with the fear of landmines. And every day people die or suffer horrific injuries from abandoned weapons left behind after conflict".
2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. In October 1992, six NGOs held the ICBL’s founding meeting, with the goal of ridding the world of landmines. The odds were long, the challenges immense, but five years of intense lobbying and negotiations later the Ottawa Treaty came into existence. The Ottawa process was – and still is – seen as a model for how civil society groups can help resolve some of the pressing issues of our time, and that there is a place for “global citizen diplomacy.”
We need to re-awaken awareness of the continuing and often indiscriminate use of landmines and improvised explosive devices and their unacceptable humanitarian and developmental consequences – by openly exploring the successes and failures of the last 20 years. Two decades ago, the ICBL proved that NGOs could put issues on the international agenda and drive change. But 20 years on, what is the future for the ICBL and the wider mine ban movement? How does the movement remain energised and motivated – and how will it continue to attract donors in the years ahead? Is true universalization of the treaty realistic when major powers such as the US, Russia and China remain outside it? Is “virtual compliance” enough? Is it time for the ICBL to celebrate its successes and move onto other issues?
Contact
Nigel Ellway, APPG Co-ordinator,
Chairman: Pauline Latham OBE MP
When – 6:30 pm, Monday 19th November, 2012.
Where – The Mandela Room at the Commonwealth Club, Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5AP.
- Nick Roseveare MBE, Chief Executive, Mines Advisory Group (MAG)
- Agnes Marcaillou, Director, UNMAS New York
- Chris Austin, Head of the Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department at DFID
- Steven Smith, Chief Executive, Action on Armed Violence
- Judy Grayson, Head of the child protection section’s work on armed violence and weapons, UNICEF New York.
Special Guest: Sir Bobby Charlton – founder of the landmines charity ‘Find a Better Way’
Places are strictly limited so book your place now (click on link http://www.thercs.org/society/252). Cost is £15, of which £10 will go to Find a Better Way, plus booking fee.
Mob: 07586 329335
Saturday 10 November 2012
New books - October 2012 (Part 2)
The second part of our list of selected new books added to the catalogue and collection in October. New books include reports on household incomes and poverty in the Pacific, works on young people in South Africa and the Solomons, and a number of books on war and conflicts and their aftermaths.
Wasserman, Herman (ed). Press freedom in Africa : comparative perspectives. London ; New York : Routledge, 2013
Gupta, Akhil. Red tape : bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India. Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Bradley, Tamsin. Religion and gender in the developing world : faith-based organizations and feminism in India. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, 2011
Afram, Gabi G. The remittance market in India : opportunities, challenges, and policy options. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2012.
Narsey, Wadan. Report on the 2008-09 household income and expenditure survey for Fiji. Suva, Fiji : Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics, 2011.
Campioni, Maddalena and Patrick Noack (eds). Rwanda fast forward : social, economic, military and reconciliation prospects. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Samoa. Bureau of Statistics. Samoa : a report on the estimation of basic needs poverty lines, and the incidence and characteristics of hardship & poverty : analysis of the 2008 household income and expenditure survey. Apia, Samoa : Samoa Bureau of Statistics and UNDP Pacific Centre, [2010]
Anderson, Mark Cronlund and Carmen L. Robertson. Seeing red : a history of Natives in Canadian newspapers. Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2011.
Perold, Helene, Nico Cloete and Joy Papier (eds). Shaping the future of South Africa's youth : rethinking post-school education and skills training. Somerset West, South Africa : African Minds ; Wynberg : Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) : Further Education and Training Institute (FETI) ; Rondebosch : Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), 2012.
Allina-Pisano, Eric. Slavery by any other name : African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs. Solomon Islands national policy on gender equality and women's development. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs. Solomon Islands national youth policy : 2010-2015 Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Hofmeyr, Isabel and Michelle Williams (eds). South Africa & India : shaping the global South. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011.
Binney, Judith. Stories without end : essays 1975-2010. Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2010.
Tanzania General Elections, 31 October 2010 : report of the Commonwealth Observer Group / [Commonwealth Observer Group]. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2010.
India. Finance Commission. Thirteenth finance commission 2010-2015. Vol I : report. India: Finance Commission, 2009.
Gopakumar, Govind. Transforming urban water supplies in India : the role of reform and partnerships in globalization. New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
Pham, Phuong N. and Patick Vinck. Transitioning to peace : a population-based survey on attitudes about social reconstruction and justice in Northern Uganda. Berkeley, CA : Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley : Berkeley Law, 2010.
Nyamnjoh, Frances B., Walter Gam Nkwi and Piet Konings. University crisis and student protests in Africa : the 2005-2006 university students' strike in Cameroon. Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa groupe d’intiative commune en recherche et publication, 2012.
India. Planning Commission. Uttarakhand development report. New Delhi : Academic Foundation, 2009.
Dinstein, Yoram. War, aggression, and self-defence. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Lui, Andrew. Why Canada cares : human rights and foreign policy in theory and practice. Montreal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Chidester, David. Wild religion : tracking the sacred in South Africa. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
Saikia, Yasmin. Women, war, and the making of Bangladesh : remembering 1971. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Friday 9 November 2012
New books - October 2012 (Part 1)
Selected new books added to the catalogue and collection below (part 2 tomorrow). Notable addiituons include a number of Pacific Island official publications including policy documents on children and women's affairs, as well as a number of development plans and reviews of plans from the Pacific, Africa and India.
Jacques, Mélanie. Armed conflict and displacement : the protection of refugees and displaced persons under international humanitarian law. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Percox, David A. Britain, Kenya and the Cold War : imperial defence, colonial security and decolonisation. London : Tauris Academic Studies, 2012.
Green, Toby (ed). Brokers of change : Atlantic commerce and cultures in precolonial Western Africa. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.
Bugailiskis, Alex and André Rozental (eds). Canada among nations, 2011-2012 : Canada and Mexico's unfinished agenda. Montréal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Malcolmson, Patrick and Richard Myers. The Canadian regime : an introduction to parliamentary government in Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.
Barnes, Douglas F., Priti Kumar and Keith Openshaw. Cleaner hearths, better homes : new stoves for India and the developing world. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement (Solomon Islands). Policy statements. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement Government, [2008]
Conrad, Margaret. A concise history of Canada. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Solomon Islands. Constitutional Reform Unit, Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Constitutional reform project of Solomon Islands. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Government Printer, 2008
Marsh, Ian and Raymond Miller. Democratic decline and democratic renewal : political change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Eicher, Peter, Zahurul Alam and Jeremy Eckstein. Elections in Bangladesh 2006-2009 : transforming failure into success. Dhaka : United Nations Development Programme, c2010.
Storey, Ian, Ralf Emmers and Daljit Singh (eds). Five power defence arrangements at forty. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
Adu, Kwasi. The Ghana 2008 elections : growing pains of a budding democracy. Accra : FOSDA, 2009.
Adejumobi, Said (ed). Governance and politics in post-military Nigeria : changes and challenges. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Fiji. Ministry of Strategic Planning. Government achievements 2007-2011. [Fiji] : Ministry of Strategic Planning, National Development & Statistics, 2011.
India infrastructure report, 2009 : land - a critical resource for infrastructure. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009.
India infrastructure report, 2010 : infrastructure development in a low carbon economy. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Day, Kathleen M and Stanley L Winer. Interregional migration and public policy in Canada : an empirical study. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Kiribati. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Kiribati development plan : 2008-2011. Kiribati : Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, 2008
Kiribati. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Kiribati national assessment report for the 5-year review of the Mauritius strategy for further implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for Sustainable Development of Small Islands Developing States (MSI+5). Bairiki, Tarawa : Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, [2010?]
Stovel, Laura. Long road home : building reconciliation and trust in post-war Sierra Leone. Antwerp ; Portland : Intersentia, c2010.
India. Planning Commission. Mid-term appraisal eleventh five year plan, 2007-2012. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Solomon Islands Government, Ministry of Women, Youth & Children Affairs. National children's policy : 2010-2015. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Swaziland. Economic Planning Office. National development plan, 2009/10-2011/12. Mbabane, [Swaziland] : Economic Planning Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, 2009.
Solomon Islands Government, Ministry of Women, Youth & Children Affairs. The national policy on eliminating violence against women. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Mawby, Spencer. Ordering independence : the end of empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-1969. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Price, John. Orienting Canada : race, empire, and the Transpacific. Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.
Currier, Ashley. Out in Africa : LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Delle, James A., Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas Armstrong. Out of many, one people : the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica Ala : University of Alabama Press, 2011.
Bower, Ernest Z. et al. Pacific partners : the future of U.S.-New Zealand relations : a report of the CSIS Southeast Asia program and the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. Washington, DC : Center for Strategic and International Studies, c2011.
Olson, Sherry H. and Patricia A. Thornton. Peopling the North American city : Montreal, 1840-1900. Montreal ; Ithica: McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
Fernando, Jude L. The political economy of NGOs : state formation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. London : Pluto Press, 2011.
Sevea, Iqbal Singh. The political philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal : Islam and nationalism in late colonial India. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Saw, Swee-Hock. The population of Singapore. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.
Jacques, Mélanie. Armed conflict and displacement : the protection of refugees and displaced persons under international humanitarian law. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Percox, David A. Britain, Kenya and the Cold War : imperial defence, colonial security and decolonisation. London : Tauris Academic Studies, 2012.
Green, Toby (ed). Brokers of change : Atlantic commerce and cultures in precolonial Western Africa. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.
Bugailiskis, Alex and André Rozental (eds). Canada among nations, 2011-2012 : Canada and Mexico's unfinished agenda. Montréal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Malcolmson, Patrick and Richard Myers. The Canadian regime : an introduction to parliamentary government in Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.
Barnes, Douglas F., Priti Kumar and Keith Openshaw. Cleaner hearths, better homes : new stoves for India and the developing world. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement (Solomon Islands). Policy statements. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement Government, [2008]
Conrad, Margaret. A concise history of Canada. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Solomon Islands. Constitutional Reform Unit, Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Constitutional reform project of Solomon Islands. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Government Printer, 2008
Marsh, Ian and Raymond Miller. Democratic decline and democratic renewal : political change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Eicher, Peter, Zahurul Alam and Jeremy Eckstein. Elections in Bangladesh 2006-2009 : transforming failure into success. Dhaka : United Nations Development Programme, c2010.
Storey, Ian, Ralf Emmers and Daljit Singh (eds). Five power defence arrangements at forty. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
Adu, Kwasi. The Ghana 2008 elections : growing pains of a budding democracy. Accra : FOSDA, 2009.
Adejumobi, Said (ed). Governance and politics in post-military Nigeria : changes and challenges. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Fiji. Ministry of Strategic Planning. Government achievements 2007-2011. [Fiji] : Ministry of Strategic Planning, National Development & Statistics, 2011.
India infrastructure report, 2009 : land - a critical resource for infrastructure. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009.
India infrastructure report, 2010 : infrastructure development in a low carbon economy. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Day, Kathleen M and Stanley L Winer. Interregional migration and public policy in Canada : an empirical study. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Kiribati. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Kiribati development plan : 2008-2011. Kiribati : Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, 2008
Kiribati. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Kiribati national assessment report for the 5-year review of the Mauritius strategy for further implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for Sustainable Development of Small Islands Developing States (MSI+5). Bairiki, Tarawa : Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, [2010?]
Stovel, Laura. Long road home : building reconciliation and trust in post-war Sierra Leone. Antwerp ; Portland : Intersentia, c2010.
India. Planning Commission. Mid-term appraisal eleventh five year plan, 2007-2012. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Solomon Islands Government, Ministry of Women, Youth & Children Affairs. National children's policy : 2010-2015. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Swaziland. Economic Planning Office. National development plan, 2009/10-2011/12. Mbabane, [Swaziland] : Economic Planning Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, 2009.
Solomon Islands Government, Ministry of Women, Youth & Children Affairs. The national policy on eliminating violence against women. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Mawby, Spencer. Ordering independence : the end of empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-1969. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Price, John. Orienting Canada : race, empire, and the Transpacific. Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.
Currier, Ashley. Out in Africa : LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Delle, James A., Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas Armstrong. Out of many, one people : the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica Ala : University of Alabama Press, 2011.
Bower, Ernest Z. et al. Pacific partners : the future of U.S.-New Zealand relations : a report of the CSIS Southeast Asia program and the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. Washington, DC : Center for Strategic and International Studies, c2011.
Olson, Sherry H. and Patricia A. Thornton. Peopling the North American city : Montreal, 1840-1900. Montreal ; Ithica: McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
Fernando, Jude L. The political economy of NGOs : state formation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. London : Pluto Press, 2011.
Sevea, Iqbal Singh. The political philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal : Islam and nationalism in late colonial India. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Saw, Swee-Hock. The population of Singapore. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.
Thursday 8 November 2012
Events at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies organises a research seminar series throughout the academic year with events being held weekly during term time. The seminar series is a fantastic opportunity for the centre to welcome academics from a broad range of disciplines working on Australian subjects and to exchange research ideas and new discoveries.
All Wednesday seminars take place at the Strand Campus, King’s College London. See individual listings for room details.
Wednesday 7 November 2012
K0.18, King's Building – please note change of room from previous announcements
18.15
David Lowe (Deakin)
‘The Uses of History by Australian Politicians’
Wednesday 14 November 2012
S0.11, Strand Building
18.15
Toby Davidson (Macquarie)
'Francis Webb: Australian Poet, English History'
Wednesday 21 November 2012
S0.12, Strand Building
18.15
Carl Bridge (KCL)
*** ‘Australia and the Dardanelles Commission’
Followed by Book Launch
Launch by John Darwin (Nuffield College, Oxford) of new book Media and Empire (OUP) by Simon Potter (Bristol Uni, ex Rydon Fellow)
Tuesday 6 November 2012
CFP: CSAE 2013 Conference on Economic Development in Africa
CSAE 2013 Conference on Economic Development in Africa
St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 17-19 March 2013
Keynote speaker: Edward Miguel, Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley
Dinner speaker: Marcelo Giugale, Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programmes for Africa, World Bank
Call for papers
Papers addressing economic analysis of the broad issues relevant for economic development in Africa are invited for the CSAE 2013 conference. Papers on countries other than those in Africa are welcome, providing they deal with issues central to African development.
All abstracts for consideration must be submitted via the online submission site at
https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/conference.cgi?action=login&db_name=CSAE2013
Further details on student submissions and funding possibilities at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/
Deadline for submissions Friday 30 November 2012
Enquiries should include the reference ‘CSAE conference 2013’ and be addressed to:
e-mail: csae.conference@economics.ox.ac.uk
postal address: CSAE, Dept of Economics, Oxford University, Manor Road Building, Manor Rd, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK
St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 17-19 March 2013
Keynote speaker: Edward Miguel, Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley
Dinner speaker: Marcelo Giugale, Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programmes for Africa, World Bank
Call for papers
Papers addressing economic analysis of the broad issues relevant for economic development in Africa are invited for the CSAE 2013 conference. Papers on countries other than those in Africa are welcome, providing they deal with issues central to African development.
All abstracts for consideration must be submitted via the online submission site at
https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/conference.cgi?action=login&db_name=CSAE2013
Further details on student submissions and funding possibilities at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/
Deadline for submissions Friday 30 November 2012
Enquiries should include the reference ‘CSAE conference 2013’ and be addressed to:
e-mail: csae.conference@economics.ox.ac.uk
postal address: CSAE, Dept of Economics, Oxford University, Manor Road Building, Manor Rd, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK
Monday 5 November 2012
Dictionary of African Biography
The new Oxford University Press Dictionary of African Biography has been added to the Senate House Library collection - this 6 volume work edited by Emmanuel K. Akueampong and Henry Lousi Gates, Jr is housed on the 4th floor in the reference collection in the Periodicals Reading Room.
The Dictionary of African Biography is a major biographical dictionary covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women from all eras and walks of life, teling the story of the African continent through the lives of its people. The dictionary is based on new historical research and perspectives and aims to correct the uneven coverage of previous attempts to collate African biographies - focusing unevenly on the colonial period, European adventurers, and Egyptian dynasties. As the most wide-reaching reference project on Africa to date, the Dictionary of African Biography intends to codify the explosion of new research, with entries written by contributing scholars from African studies departments the world over. The Dictionary contains nearly 2,200 entries, each with bibliography, ranging from 750 to 2,000 words, within six volumes.
The Dictionary of African Biography is a major biographical dictionary covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women from all eras and walks of life, teling the story of the African continent through the lives of its people. The dictionary is based on new historical research and perspectives and aims to correct the uneven coverage of previous attempts to collate African biographies - focusing unevenly on the colonial period, European adventurers, and Egyptian dynasties. As the most wide-reaching reference project on Africa to date, the Dictionary of African Biography intends to codify the explosion of new research, with entries written by contributing scholars from African studies departments the world over. The Dictionary contains nearly 2,200 entries, each with bibliography, ranging from 750 to 2,000 words, within six volumes.
Friday 2 November 2012
Homelessness in Australia
An interesting resource (and use of new web tools) is the Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse a new website for sharing information and good practice solutions for the homelessness sector in Australia, funded by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA).
As a Clearinghouse, this website has been designed to provide information including research papers, data and data sets, articles on homelessness, details of conferences, seminars and other events and a community of practice (encouraging people to collaborate through the use of interactive communication tools to improve knowledge and good practice on particular homelessness issues).
The key aim of the Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse is to provide opportunities to share knowledge, ideas and good practices with the entire homelessness sector to better tackle homelessness in Australia. It will also be a useful tool for researchers on homelessness generally and within Australia. Users are encouraged to suggest new content for the site, and to add research papers, data or articles about a particular topic, make comments about a research paper, data or article, suggest documents to be uploaded (e.g. a policy or a good practice case study) to share with others, provide information about organisations, services and programs that deliver support services targetting homeless people, list conferences, seminars or events and participate in forums with other site users.
As a Clearinghouse, this website has been designed to provide information including research papers, data and data sets, articles on homelessness, details of conferences, seminars and other events and a community of practice (encouraging people to collaborate through the use of interactive communication tools to improve knowledge and good practice on particular homelessness issues).
The key aim of the Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse is to provide opportunities to share knowledge, ideas and good practices with the entire homelessness sector to better tackle homelessness in Australia. It will also be a useful tool for researchers on homelessness generally and within Australia. Users are encouraged to suggest new content for the site, and to add research papers, data or articles about a particular topic, make comments about a research paper, data or article, suggest documents to be uploaded (e.g. a policy or a good practice case study) to share with others, provide information about organisations, services and programs that deliver support services targetting homeless people, list conferences, seminars or events and participate in forums with other site users.
Thursday 1 November 2012
Access to Senate House Library
From today until Saturday (1-3 November, 2012, inclusive) access to the Institute of Commnwealth Studies Library and Senate House Library (SHL) will be via Stewart House only: there will be no access to the ground floor of Senate House while it is being used for filming. There may also be some disruption for a few days before and after these dates.
The Book Drop Box will also be in Stewart House from the morning of 1st to 5th November.
On the above dates, all readers must go to Stewart House, at the Russell Square entrance. The route to the lifts normally used to access SHL will be clearly signposted. There will not be any access to Senate House Library via the stairs.
All SHL readers should be able to access the library unimpeded. Anyone with disabilities may contact us before they visit, although it is not necessary to give us advance warning.
The Book Drop Box will also be in Stewart House from the morning of 1st to 5th November.
On the above dates, all readers must go to Stewart House, at the Russell Square entrance. The route to the lifts normally used to access SHL will be clearly signposted. There will not be any access to Senate House Library via the stairs.
All SHL readers should be able to access the library unimpeded. Anyone with disabilities may contact us before they visit, although it is not necessary to give us advance warning.
Wednesday 31 October 2012
Scanning service goes live
All printer/photocopiers at the Senate House Library can now also be used to scan digital copies. This is a charged service (to cover the cost of providing machines, maintenance etc) at 6p per scan.
Users must enter an email address at the machine before you start scanning, and scans will be delivered to this address. The service does not allow scan to USB.
Scanning defaults to A3 and will scan everything on the copier glass at 200dpi and save as a Compact PDF
file. If you want to schange these options please refer to the guides at each machine.
Tuesday 30 October 2012
New this month - New Jewel Movement publications
Newly added to the collections are important primary sources for the study of Grenada, consisting of one issue (Aug 1981) of the Newsletter of the New Jewel Movement National Women’s Organisation and a number of issues from 1981-1983 of the New Jewel, the newspaper of the New Jewel Movement.
The New Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education, and Liberation, or New JEWEL Movement (NJM), was a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada. The NJM was established in 1973 as an alliance of the Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education and Liberation (JEWEL) and the Movement for Assemblies of the People (MAP), and was led by the lawyer Maurice Bishop. The movement was an opposition political party through the 1970s and took control of the country with a successful revolution against the government of Eric Gairy in 1979 ruling by decree until being deposed by the US military after its 1983 invasion.
These new additions add to our collection of secondary sources on Grenada, Grenadian politics, the revolution and the invasion, as well as primary material published by the New Jewel Movement and support groups (established after the invasion) which include earlier issues of the New Jewel Movement’s newspaper entitled New Jewel : let those who labour hold the reins. The collection also includes material published by the Grenada National Party, National Democratic Party, and the Grenada Seamen and Waterfront Workers' Union and Grenada Commercial and Industrial Workers' Union, as well as speeches by Maurice Bishop, when he held the post of Prime Minister
The New Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education, and Liberation, or New JEWEL Movement (NJM), was a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada. The NJM was established in 1973 as an alliance of the Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education and Liberation (JEWEL) and the Movement for Assemblies of the People (MAP), and was led by the lawyer Maurice Bishop. The movement was an opposition political party through the 1970s and took control of the country with a successful revolution against the government of Eric Gairy in 1979 ruling by decree until being deposed by the US military after its 1983 invasion.
These new additions add to our collection of secondary sources on Grenada, Grenadian politics, the revolution and the invasion, as well as primary material published by the New Jewel Movement and support groups (established after the invasion) which include earlier issues of the New Jewel Movement’s newspaper entitled New Jewel : let those who labour hold the reins. The collection also includes material published by the Grenada National Party, National Democratic Party, and the Grenada Seamen and Waterfront Workers' Union and Grenada Commercial and Industrial Workers' Union, as well as speeches by Maurice Bishop, when he held the post of Prime Minister
Monday 29 October 2012
The Media Reform Lanka Initiative Website Launch
The Media Reform Lanka Initiative, based at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, has launched its website http://mediareformlanka.com/.
The Initiative aims to broaden and inform the perspectives in which media law, media policy and regulation are debated and determined in Sri Lanka and the wider South Asian region. It is led by Colombo-based senior legal advocate and media columnist Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, in association with Dr David Page and Dr William Crawley, Senior Fellows at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Co-Directors of the Media South Asia Project. Their work to date has generated two core papers on Media Freedom and Social Responsibility in Sri Lanka: A Review of the Legal, Institutional and Educational Framework Relating to the Print Media (co-authored by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena & Gehan Gunetilleke) and on the Political Economy of the Electronic Media (co-authored by the late Tilak Jayaratne and Sarath Kellapotha).
Thursday 25 October 2012
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series
All seminars are on Wednesdays and begin at 1730
TERM 1
14 November 2012
Ben Muda, Commonwealth Business Council, London: Malaysia at Fifty: The Commonwealth in Malaysia's Foreign Policy
Filippo Menozzi, University of Canterbury, Kent, The Boundaries of Politics: Arundhati Roy's Transversal Activism
12 December 2012
Lanver Mak, Visiting Fellow ICwS, Unveiling the Veiled Protectorate: The Untold Stories of British Labourers and Criminals in Egypt, 1882-1922
Maria Mut Bosque, Visiting Fellow and PhD student, ICwS, Gibraltar: National Identity and Language Issues
TERM 2
16 January 2013
Peter Fraser, Visiting Fellow ICwS: An exemplary life: Arnold Hamilton Maloney and Trinidadian intellectual history
Giorgios Charalambous, Visiting Fellow ICwS: The Cypriot Left in Government: A Preliminary Assessment
13 February 2013
Bill Clarance, Visitng Fellow ICwS: Understanding Leonard Woolf : his role in decolonization
Paulo Rigueira, Doctoral Student ICwS: Globalisation & Human Rights: A Conceptual Approach
13 March 2013
Mandy Banton. Senior Fellow ICwS: Title TBA
Yiannos Katsourides, Visiting Fellow ICwS: Political conflicts in Cyprus in the 1940s and 1950s
TERM 3
17 April 2013
Abess Taqi, Doctoral student, ICwS: Arab perspectives on Western efforts to promote democratic reform in the Arab world
Sue Onslow, Senior Fellow ICwS, The Commonwealth & election monitoring: the Zimbabwe success story?
15 May 2013
Shihan de Silva, Senior Fellow ICwS: Connecting the Portuguese Burghers to the Commonwealth and Beyond: Language Matters
John Cowley, Fellow ICwS: Numberless Are The Sands On The Seashore : 'The Real Bahamas' and the field recording experience (1935-1965)
12 June 2013
Susan Williams, Senior Fellow ICwS, and Dr Luke McKernan, Lead Curator, Moving Image, The British Library: The screening of decolonisation: from book to film
Convenors: Susan Williams (susan.williams@sas.ac.uk) and Shihan de Silva (shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk )
All seminars are on Wednesdays and begin at 1730
TERM 1
14 November 2012
Ben Muda, Commonwealth Business Council, London: Malaysia at Fifty: The Commonwealth in Malaysia's Foreign Policy
Filippo Menozzi, University of Canterbury, Kent, The Boundaries of Politics: Arundhati Roy's Transversal Activism
12 December 2012
Lanver Mak, Visiting Fellow ICwS, Unveiling the Veiled Protectorate: The Untold Stories of British Labourers and Criminals in Egypt, 1882-1922
Maria Mut Bosque, Visiting Fellow and PhD student, ICwS, Gibraltar: National Identity and Language Issues
TERM 2
16 January 2013
Peter Fraser, Visiting Fellow ICwS: An exemplary life: Arnold Hamilton Maloney and Trinidadian intellectual history
Giorgios Charalambous, Visiting Fellow ICwS: The Cypriot Left in Government: A Preliminary Assessment
13 February 2013
Bill Clarance, Visitng Fellow ICwS: Understanding Leonard Woolf : his role in decolonization
Paulo Rigueira, Doctoral Student ICwS: Globalisation & Human Rights: A Conceptual Approach
13 March 2013
Mandy Banton. Senior Fellow ICwS: Title TBA
Yiannos Katsourides, Visiting Fellow ICwS: Political conflicts in Cyprus in the 1940s and 1950s
TERM 3
17 April 2013
Abess Taqi, Doctoral student, ICwS: Arab perspectives on Western efforts to promote democratic reform in the Arab world
Sue Onslow, Senior Fellow ICwS, The Commonwealth & election monitoring: the Zimbabwe success story?
15 May 2013
Shihan de Silva, Senior Fellow ICwS: Connecting the Portuguese Burghers to the Commonwealth and Beyond: Language Matters
John Cowley, Fellow ICwS: Numberless Are The Sands On The Seashore : 'The Real Bahamas' and the field recording experience (1935-1965)
12 June 2013
Susan Williams, Senior Fellow ICwS, and Dr Luke McKernan, Lead Curator, Moving Image, The British Library: The screening of decolonisation: from book to film
Convenors: Susan Williams (susan.williams@sas.ac.uk) and Shihan de Silva (shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk )
Wednesday 24 October 2012
November 1-3: access to Senate House Library
On 1, 2 and 3 November, 2012, inclusive, access to the Institute of Commnwealth Studies Library and Senate House Library (SHL) will be via Stewart House only: there will be no access to the ground floor of Senate House while it is being used for filming. There may also be some disruption for a few days before and after these dates.
The Book Drop Box will also be in Stewart House from the morning of 1st to 5th November.
On the above dates, all readers must go to Stewart House, at the Russell Square entrance. The route to the lifts normally used to access SHL will be clearly signposted. There will not be any access to Senate House Library via the stairs.
All SHL readers should be able to access the library unimpeded. Anyone with disabilities may contact us before they visit, although it is not necessary to give us advance warning.
The Book Drop Box will also be in Stewart House from the morning of 1st to 5th November.
On the above dates, all readers must go to Stewart House, at the Russell Square entrance. The route to the lifts normally used to access SHL will be clearly signposted. There will not be any access to Senate House Library via the stairs.
All SHL readers should be able to access the library unimpeded. Anyone with disabilities may contact us before they visit, although it is not necessary to give us advance warning.
Tuesday 23 October 2012
Rwanda Bibliography
Today we wish to highlight a resource on the newest member of the Commonwealth, Rwanda.
François Lagarde, of the University of Texas at Austin, has produced a very comprehensive bibilography on Rwanda, available free on the web, via the University of Texas Institutional Repository.
The bibliography lists all English and French publications on Rwanda from 1990-2011. The six main classes are: witness accounts, social sciences studies, natural sciences studies, legal publications, literature (all genres), and films. It currently consists of 7016 entries and includes an introduction and table of matters in French. The bibliography is intended to be regularly updated.
The bibiography can be found at: http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/15587
François Lagarde, of the University of Texas at Austin, has produced a very comprehensive bibilography on Rwanda, available free on the web, via the University of Texas Institutional Repository.
The bibliography lists all English and French publications on Rwanda from 1990-2011. The six main classes are: witness accounts, social sciences studies, natural sciences studies, legal publications, literature (all genres), and films. It currently consists of 7016 entries and includes an introduction and table of matters in French. The bibliography is intended to be regularly updated.
The bibiography can be found at: http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/15587
Friday 19 October 2012
Witness Seminar: Localisation of the Civil Service in colonial territories before and immediately after independence
Institute of Commonwealth Studies and OSPA (Overseas Service Pensioners' Association) Witness Seminar: Localisation of the Civil Service in colonial territories before and immediately after independence
Event Programme
Thursday 25 October 2012
In the Senate Room, Senate House, South Block, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HU
11.00-11.15 Registration, tea/coffee
11.15-11.30 Welcome and introduction by Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS)
11.30-1.00 Session One: Education and Training
Chair: Dr Tamson Pietsch (Brunel University)
Eric Cunningham: (Education Officer, Gold Coast 1952 – 62) Gold Coast localisation: a long history, and reflections on my own experience.
Professor Michael Lee: (University of Manchester; Seconded to Uganda, and Makerere University College) The contribution of Makerere College to Localisation in East Africa.
Peter Wood: (Tanzania 1957 – 69; Oxford University 1969 – 90, ODA and international consultant; Commonwealth Forestry Association (Vice-President) The role of the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford, in professional education and training.
1.00-2.00 Sandwich Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session Two: Training for the Localisation of Public Administration
Chair: Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS)
Wyn Reilly: (Tanganyika 1956-62; IDPM, University of Manchester. Involved in Public Administration and Training in numerous countries). The Administrative Training Centre, Mzumbe, Tanganyika and management training at IDPM, Manchester and overseas.
Colin Fuller: (Kenya 1956-68; Kenya Institute of Administration, then IDPM, Manchester). Africanisation of the Civil Service in Kenya with special reference to the Administration.
Chris Cochran: (Solomon Islands 1967-82; Public Service Office and then Commissioner for Labour) Localisation of the Public Service in the Solomon Islands 1960-82, either side of Independence in 1978.
3.30-4.00 Tea/coffee
4.00-5.30 Session Three: The Politics of Localisation
Chair: Dr Georgina Sinclair (Open University)
John Ducker: (Aden 1960-67; then with World Bank in Africa and Central Asia). A Comparative Study across the colonies generally.
Simon Gillett: (Served in Cameroons 1960; Bechuanaland/Botswana 1965-72). The political context of Localisation and Government Policies in the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Botswana.
Michael Waters: (Western Pacific –GEIC 1972-76; Hong Kong 1976-97, Civil Service Branch dealing with localisation and handover, and Deputy Political Advisor to the Governor). The security, political and nationality issues affecting Localisation in Hong Kong.
5.30-7.00 Drinks reception
To register and pay online for this event, please click here.
Registration form
Thursday 18 October 2012
Postgraduate & Early Career Scholars Research Training Workshop
Postgraduate & Early Career Scholars Research Training Workshop
Wednesday 5th December 2012, 1pm to 6pm, at Royal Holloway University of London
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) is organising a research training workshop for postgraduates (MA students and PhDs) and early career scholars (defined as within five years of PhD graduation). The event is intended to be a “one-stop-shop” where attendees can take part in a variety of training and development workshops, get advice and feedback on their own work and meet with other researchers. The event is targeted primarily although not exclusively at those interested in the Americas, with both an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. We particularly encourage those just starting out in postgraduate research to attend. We also hope that the sessions will appeal to those making the transition from postgraduate research into the next stage of their academic careers, who often find that there is a dearth of research training catering to their particular position.
The event has five elements:
1) Training and development workshops. Sessions include:
Getting published, Teaching as a postgrad, Using social media, Applying for funding, Conference organisation, Job search and CV writing, Being a part-time postgrad, Coping with academic stress, Working with your supervisor & mentoring others, Remaining research active post-PhD graduation
2) A “drop-in surgery” for advice
3) The chance to present one’s research project in poster format and receive feedback on it (optional)
4) A “marketplace” showcasing publishers, scholarly organisations and societies etc
5) Networking and socialising opportunities, including a drinks reception kindly supported by The Paul Mellon Professorial Fund
The cost is £20. The deadline for registration is Wednesday 14th November 2012.
To register, or if you have any questions, please contact the organisers (Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson, RHUL; Dr Rachel Ritchie, Brunel University; Ms Imaobong Umoren, Oxford University) via shawsociety@gmail.com
Wednesday 5th December 2012, 1pm to 6pm, at Royal Holloway University of London
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) is organising a research training workshop for postgraduates (MA students and PhDs) and early career scholars (defined as within five years of PhD graduation). The event is intended to be a “one-stop-shop” where attendees can take part in a variety of training and development workshops, get advice and feedback on their own work and meet with other researchers. The event is targeted primarily although not exclusively at those interested in the Americas, with both an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. We particularly encourage those just starting out in postgraduate research to attend. We also hope that the sessions will appeal to those making the transition from postgraduate research into the next stage of their academic careers, who often find that there is a dearth of research training catering to their particular position.
The event has five elements:
1) Training and development workshops. Sessions include:
Getting published, Teaching as a postgrad, Using social media, Applying for funding, Conference organisation, Job search and CV writing, Being a part-time postgrad, Coping with academic stress, Working with your supervisor & mentoring others, Remaining research active post-PhD graduation
2) A “drop-in surgery” for advice
3) The chance to present one’s research project in poster format and receive feedback on it (optional)
4) A “marketplace” showcasing publishers, scholarly organisations and societies etc
5) Networking and socialising opportunities, including a drinks reception kindly supported by The Paul Mellon Professorial Fund
The cost is £20. The deadline for registration is Wednesday 14th November 2012.
To register, or if you have any questions, please contact the organisers (Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson, RHUL; Dr Rachel Ritchie, Brunel University; Ms Imaobong Umoren, Oxford University) via shawsociety@gmail.com
Tuesday 16 October 2012
Bloomsbury Festival: 20th-21st October 2012
The Bloomsbury Festival 2012 will take place on the weekend of the 20th October celebrating the cultural organisations, community groups, creative individuals and iconic institutions of this little-known corner of central London.
From dance to drama, poetry to performance, art to architecture and workshops to walks it’s already promising to be another exciting year with programming taking place across the whole area
Below are listed some exhibitions and talks celebrating some of the Institute's library and archive collections. For a full listing of events please explore: http://www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/
Exhibition: Ruth First's Extraordinary Life
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
Anti-apartheid activist Ruth First dedicated her life to “the liberation of Africa for I count myself an African, and there is no cause I hold dearer”. She was passionate about achieving justice in South Africa, but her perspective was international. First saw activism, solidarity work, research and writing as essential activities for a revolutionary. She was assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by the South African secret service. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is digitising this extraordinary woman’s papers. This exhibition of Ruth First’s papers, photographs and archival material at Senate House offers an introduction to both First herself and her important works, which retain their relevance, especially in the light of recent democracy movements across northern Africa and beyond.
Talk: A Revolutionary Life
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-11:30 at Senate House
This talk introduces Ruth First and offers an insight into her multifaceted, revolutionary life as an international scholar, activist and writer, and wife and mother
Talk: Introduction to the Ruth First Archive
Sun 21 Oct 14:00-14:30 at Senate House
This talk will introduce the archive of Ruth First's collection of papers, included her collected writings, published journalism, correspondence and notes.
Talk: Ruth First and Bloomsbury
Sun 21 Oct 15:00-15:30 at Senate House
Following her arrest under the South African 90-day law, Ruth First was barred from her profession as a journalist; she went into exile and moved to London. This talk discusses First's intellectual associations with Bloomsbury.
Exhibition: Campaigning for Independence, Equality and Freedom
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
The political archives held in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies library encompass more than 270 boxes of political pamphlets, newsletters and posters from over 60 countries, mainly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, the period when many of these countries were making the transition to independence. The Southern African region is particularly well represented, with materials from an extraordinarily wide variety of different political parties, trade unions and pressure groups having been preserved. This exhibition reveals how these materials are used to convey different messages in different ways and provide an historical insight not found in official archives and records. Curated by Benjamin Coleman and David Clover.
From dance to drama, poetry to performance, art to architecture and workshops to walks it’s already promising to be another exciting year with programming taking place across the whole area
Below are listed some exhibitions and talks celebrating some of the Institute's library and archive collections. For a full listing of events please explore: http://www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/
Exhibition: Ruth First's Extraordinary Life
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
Anti-apartheid activist Ruth First dedicated her life to “the liberation of Africa for I count myself an African, and there is no cause I hold dearer”. She was passionate about achieving justice in South Africa, but her perspective was international. First saw activism, solidarity work, research and writing as essential activities for a revolutionary. She was assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by the South African secret service. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is digitising this extraordinary woman’s papers. This exhibition of Ruth First’s papers, photographs and archival material at Senate House offers an introduction to both First herself and her important works, which retain their relevance, especially in the light of recent democracy movements across northern Africa and beyond.
Talk: A Revolutionary Life
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-11:30 at Senate House
This talk introduces Ruth First and offers an insight into her multifaceted, revolutionary life as an international scholar, activist and writer, and wife and mother
Talk: Introduction to the Ruth First Archive
Sun 21 Oct 14:00-14:30 at Senate House
This talk will introduce the archive of Ruth First's collection of papers, included her collected writings, published journalism, correspondence and notes.
Talk: Ruth First and Bloomsbury
Sun 21 Oct 15:00-15:30 at Senate House
Following her arrest under the South African 90-day law, Ruth First was barred from her profession as a journalist; she went into exile and moved to London. This talk discusses First's intellectual associations with Bloomsbury.
Exhibition: Campaigning for Independence, Equality and Freedom
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
The political archives held in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies library encompass more than 270 boxes of political pamphlets, newsletters and posters from over 60 countries, mainly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, the period when many of these countries were making the transition to independence. The Southern African region is particularly well represented, with materials from an extraordinarily wide variety of different political parties, trade unions and pressure groups having been preserved. This exhibition reveals how these materials are used to convey different messages in different ways and provide an historical insight not found in official archives and records. Curated by Benjamin Coleman and David Clover.
Monday 15 October 2012
SCOLMA Seminar: The Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa in Transition
SCOLMA UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa
SCOLMA Seminar: The Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa in Transition
Mark Weston: Writer, researcher and policy advisor
1.00pm Wednesday 7th November 2012
Room B111
Brunei Gallery
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
For further information please contact Daniel Gilfoyle daviel.gilfoyle@nationalarchives.gov.uk
For infomration on SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminars and other events see the SCOLMA website http://scolma.org
SCOLMA Seminar: The Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa in Transition
Mark Weston: Writer, researcher and policy advisor
1.00pm Wednesday 7th November 2012
Room B111
Brunei Gallery
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
For further information please contact Daniel Gilfoyle daviel.gilfoyle@nationalarchives.gov.uk
For infomration on SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminars and other events see the SCOLMA website http://scolma.org
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