Call for Papers: Caribbean Postgraduate Network Research Student Workshop
to be held at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London 11th May 2011, 10.00-6.30pm
The Institute for the Study of the Americas is pleased to host the second annual workshop for research students working on any aspect of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Postgraduate students located in discipline-based departments often find they are the sole scholar within their department working on the Caribbean. This workshop seeks to bring together students who share a common interest in the Caribbean to share their work with other regional specialists in a friendly and informal setting.
The workshop will be led by Dr Kate Quinn, Lecturer in Modern Caribbean History at the Institute, and Steve Cushion, a late-stage doctoral student. Doctoral students at all stages in their research and from all humanities and social science disciplines are welcome. Participants in last year’s workshop will be welcome to submit a paper on the progress they have made in the past year.
Those wishing to present a paper are asked to submit a short abstract by 15th April 2012. All attendees should submit a short outline of their research interests by the same deadline. We also encourage you to submit any questions or issues you would like us to raise at the workshop for an open discussion on undertaking research on the Caribbean.
Registration is £10, and the workshop will be followed by a rum reception. Lunch will be included. Students interested in attending and in presenting their work should contact Kate Quinn on kate.quinn@sas.ac.uk and Steve Cushion on s.cushion@yahoo.co.uk
Friday 30 March 2012
Thursday 29 March 2012
Colonial administration records (migrated archives) to be released to The National Archives
The National Archives is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to transfer and begin releasing colonial administration records, referred to as the 'migrated archives' between April 2012 and November 2013, in accordance with FCO's published timeline on the FCO website.
The first batch will be made available in the reading rooms at The National Archives from Wednesday 18 April 2012. This release will contain records from Aden, Anguilla, Bahamas, Basutoland. Bechuanaland, British Indian Ocean Territories, Brunei, Cyprus, Kenya, Malaya, Sarawak and Seychelles.
On Wednesday 18 April 2012, a guide to the first batch of files will be published on The National Archives website and will provide more information on how to search the records.
In addition, there will be free public talks on accessing the records in the reading rooms at Kew at 11:00 and 14:00. Tickets are available on site on 18 April.
The collection will form record series FCO 141: Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Records of Former Colonial Administrations: Migrated Archives.
The records cover a wide range of subject matter relating to colonial administration. The material reflects events in the territories generally pre-independence and Her Majesty's Government's views at that time.
For up to date information about the records and ongoing release, see the National Archives' Colonial administration records web page.
The first batch will be made available in the reading rooms at The National Archives from Wednesday 18 April 2012. This release will contain records from Aden, Anguilla, Bahamas, Basutoland. Bechuanaland, British Indian Ocean Territories, Brunei, Cyprus, Kenya, Malaya, Sarawak and Seychelles.
On Wednesday 18 April 2012, a guide to the first batch of files will be published on The National Archives website and will provide more information on how to search the records.
In addition, there will be free public talks on accessing the records in the reading rooms at Kew at 11:00 and 14:00. Tickets are available on site on 18 April.
The collection will form record series FCO 141: Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Records of Former Colonial Administrations: Migrated Archives.
The records cover a wide range of subject matter relating to colonial administration. The material reflects events in the territories generally pre-independence and Her Majesty's Government's views at that time.
For up to date information about the records and ongoing release, see the National Archives' Colonial administration records web page.
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Easter Opening Hours
Advance notice of Easter Opening Hours.
Senate House Library, including the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Libray, will operate Saturday hours on Thursday the 5th and Tuesday the 10th of April 2012. On these days the Library will open at 09.45 and close at 17.30.
The Library will be closed 6 to 9 April 2012.
Senate House Library, including the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Libray, will operate Saturday hours on Thursday the 5th and Tuesday the 10th of April 2012. On these days the Library will open at 09.45 and close at 17.30.
The Library will be closed 6 to 9 April 2012.
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Institute of Commonwealth Studies and OSPA (Overseas Service Pensioners' Association) Witness Seminar: Indirect Rule – right or wrong?
ICwS and OSPA Witness Seminar: Indirect Rule – right or wrong?
Speakers:
Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS);
Session One: Nigeria, Bechuanaland/Botswana, and Aden Protectorate – Three contrasts
Mr John H Smith, CBE: Nigeria
Mr Simon Gillett: Bechuanaland/Botswana
Mr Godfrey Meynell, MBE: Aden Protectorate
Session Two: East and Central Africa
Mr Andrew Stuart, CMG, CPM: Uganda
Mr David Salmon: Northern Rhodesia
Mr Don Barton: Tanganyika
Session Three: Round Table Discussion
Professor Richard Rathbone (SOAS)
Professor David Killingray (ICwS)
Professor Simon C Smith (University of Hull)
Dr Karl Hack (Open University)
Date: Thursday 29 March
Time: 11:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: mailto:chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Speakers:
Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS);
Session One: Nigeria, Bechuanaland/Botswana, and Aden Protectorate – Three contrasts
Mr John H Smith, CBE: Nigeria
Mr Simon Gillett: Bechuanaland/Botswana
Mr Godfrey Meynell, MBE: Aden Protectorate
Session Two: East and Central Africa
Mr Andrew Stuart, CMG, CPM: Uganda
Mr David Salmon: Northern Rhodesia
Mr Don Barton: Tanganyika
Session Three: Round Table Discussion
Professor Richard Rathbone (SOAS)
Professor David Killingray (ICwS)
Professor Simon C Smith (University of Hull)
Dr Karl Hack (Open University)
Date: Thursday 29 March
Time: 11:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: mailto:chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Monday 26 March 2012
CFP: 'Canada's "special relationships", London Journal of Canadian Studies
Call for papers on 'Canada's "special relationships", deadline July 2012
Volume 27 (October 2012) of the London Journal of Canadian Studies, the on-line journal of the London Canadian Studies Association (LoCSA), will be a themed issue on 'Canada's "special relationships"' based largely on papers given at the BACS History and Politics Group annual conference in July 2011. Articles submitted so far, or in the pipeline, include Canada's relations with Britain, the USA, France, NATO and the EU. There is still room for one or two more articles on any of the above or on Canada's other "special relationships" such as the Arctic, Mexico, the Netherlands, Afghanistan, etc. The journal is multidisciplinary so articles are welcome from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective including history, politics, international relations, literature, film and art.
The deadline for submission of articles is 13 July 2012. All articles will be sent to two anonymous reviewers in July 2012 and successful ones will be published, subject to amendments, in October 2012. Articles should be 5,000-10,000 words in length and include endnotes and a bibliography. The house style can be seen by accessing the journal via the LoCSA website.
The current volume of the London Journal (Volume 26, published October 2011, guest editor: Tracie Scott) is entitled 'Indigenous Peoples: Historical Understanding, Contemporary Challenges and Canadian Approaches' and resulted from a conference organised by the Aboriginal Studies Circle in London in October 2009.
Articles are welcome from established academics, early careerists and doctoral students. The journal is now in its 27th year and its articles have frequently been submitted to the RAE. Submissions should be made in the form of a Word document to the editor, Dr Tony McCulloch by 13 July 2012.
Volume 27 (October 2012) of the London Journal of Canadian Studies, the on-line journal of the London Canadian Studies Association (LoCSA), will be a themed issue on 'Canada's "special relationships"' based largely on papers given at the BACS History and Politics Group annual conference in July 2011. Articles submitted so far, or in the pipeline, include Canada's relations with Britain, the USA, France, NATO and the EU. There is still room for one or two more articles on any of the above or on Canada's other "special relationships" such as the Arctic, Mexico, the Netherlands, Afghanistan, etc. The journal is multidisciplinary so articles are welcome from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective including history, politics, international relations, literature, film and art.
The deadline for submission of articles is 13 July 2012. All articles will be sent to two anonymous reviewers in July 2012 and successful ones will be published, subject to amendments, in October 2012. Articles should be 5,000-10,000 words in length and include endnotes and a bibliography. The house style can be seen by accessing the journal via the LoCSA website.
The current volume of the London Journal (Volume 26, published October 2011, guest editor: Tracie Scott) is entitled 'Indigenous Peoples: Historical Understanding, Contemporary Challenges and Canadian Approaches' and resulted from a conference organised by the Aboriginal Studies Circle in London in October 2009.
Articles are welcome from established academics, early careerists and doctoral students. The journal is now in its 27th year and its articles have frequently been submitted to the RAE. Submissions should be made in the form of a Word document to the editor, Dr Tony McCulloch by 13 July 2012.
Friday 23 March 2012
Conference: Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH), Curacao, May 13-18, 2012
The Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) will hold its next annual, meeting at the Renaissance Hotel and Casino in Willemstad, Curacao, May 13-18, 2012. Conference topics span the seventeenth through twenty-first centuries and address a wide range of themes, including early colonization, slavery, Pan-Africanism, abolition, medical history, gender studies, business networks, religious history, and commemoration and celebration.
The full program is available on the ACH website at:
http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/conferenceprogram.htm
The deadline for the *conference hotel rate is MARCH 29, 2012*. Rooms are $149/single and $159/double. More information can be found online at:
http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/conferenceaccommodations.htm
To ensure cross-linguistic scholarly exchange, all paper presentations will be simultaneously translated in English, Spanish and French. They will be also be available prior to the conference for those who register in advance. For more information about registration or other aspects of the ACH conference, please email: Michelle Craig McDonald, Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Caribbean Historians, at achsecretary@gmail.com
The full program is available on the ACH website at:
http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/conferenceprogram.htm
The deadline for the *conference hotel rate is MARCH 29, 2012*. Rooms are $149/single and $159/double. More information can be found online at:
http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/conferenceaccommodations.htm
To ensure cross-linguistic scholarly exchange, all paper presentations will be simultaneously translated in English, Spanish and French. They will be also be available prior to the conference for those who register in advance. For more information about registration or other aspects of the ACH conference, please email: Michelle Craig McDonald, Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Caribbean Historians, at achsecretary@gmail.com
Thursday 22 March 2012
CFP: The Global Antiapartheid Era: 1946-1994
The Global Antiapartheid Era: 1946-1994 (Radical History Review, Number 119) Call for Proposals
The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue on the global politics of the anti-apartheid movement, 1946-1994. The time frame underlines our sense of the global significance of what we call the Anti-apartheid Era, inaugurated by the postwar United Nations debates on discrimination suffered by Indians in South Africa and culminating in the post-Cold War transition to democracy in South Africa during the 1990s. As we see it, this anti-apartheid era encompasses the evolution of the United Nations, decolonization, the Cold War, the founding of the non-aligned movement at Bandung, the rise (and fall) of Third World solidarity structures, the U.S. Civil Rights Movements, Left-Leaning Revolutions, human rights politics, upheavals of the global Sixties, and the onset of neoliberal globalization and offers new ways of connecting and contextualizing these various developments.
In 1990, the same year that Nelson Mandela walked free from prison to celebrations held around the world, the RHR published a double issue on "History from South Africa." The issue was the result of years of collaboration between the History Workshop at the University of Witwatersrand and the American Social History Project. A little over twenty years later, as a companion and follow-up to that volume, RHR is calling for an issue that centers the history of antiapartheid solidarity. One of the most striking developments in historical research and writing over the last twenty years has been the growing interest in international, transnational, and global history. Widening our focus from the struggle against apartheid inside South Africa to a global frame reveals an exciting range of new perspectives.
For example, what happened in South Africa was bound up with struggles and anti-racist/anti-imperialist work across southern Africa and throughout the world. This activism of citizens from dozens of countries and South/ern African exiles took not only local and national forms, but often transnational forms in such initiatives as sports and cultural boycotts, corporate accountability campaigns, and calls for the release of Nelson Mandela that involved coordination across borders and appeals to a global audience. These transnational networks and campaigns were astonishing in their variety, interconnections, and persistence. There is much more to learn about the nature, scale, and scope of the antiapartheid cause, from civic and popular organizing in India, Japan, the Caribbean, independent Africa, and the "actually existing" socialist countries to the realm of international nongovernmental organizations, such as labor confederations, ecumenical religious councils, and humanitarian, pacifist, and human rights groups, to the formation of a new post-Civil Rights cohort of social activists inside the U.S.
If we borrow from the work of sociologists on global social movements and the global structures of political opportunity they engage with, we can appreciate that the antiapartheid cause unfolded from above as well as below. In addition to transnational advocacy networks and international NGOs, we need to take into account the often substantial efforts of the United Nations and allied intergovernmental agencies (e.g., the International Labour Organisation), the Organization of African Unity, international groupings such as the socialist countries and the European Community, international trade union federations, and individual states. Accordingly, we seek contributions that will trace and assess the extent and limits of the worldwide solidarity achieved in the struggle against apartheid and colonialism in Southern Africa and the impact of this solidarity on global norms of racial equality and human rights to self-determination, democracy, and development.
We are soliciting submissions that engage with one or more of the following areas of concern.
* the emergence of large-scale organizations, networks, publications, campaigns, that gave shape and weight to this global movement.
* the roles and experiences of individual activists, advocates, artists, writers, and scholars, especially the diaspora of exiles from South/ern Africa. Interviews with anti-apartheid activists are especially welcome.
* the role of "new nation-states and socialist nations" such as India, Egypt and Cuba, and/or the Non-aligned Movement in the antiapartheid struggle.
* the impact of transnational activism on apartheid South Africa and the other white minority and colonial regimes of Southern Africa, the foreign banks, corporations, the governments of the U.S., Britain, and other states involved in the region.
* the role of intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies such as the United Nations, the OAU, international labor and ecumenical bodies, and collaborations/challenges that emerged between/against these agencies.
* the production, circulation, and reception of antiapartheid and liberation symbols, imagery, music, fiction, theater, films, and other cultural expressions and media.
* the adaptation of the global anti-apartheid cause in diverse communities and societies and its articulation to local or national demands, especially around recognition and justice for excluded or subordinated populations, such as indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand, Dalits in India, Palestinians, and people of African descent throughout the Americas. Comparative investigations are welcome.
* the application of international human rights law to the case of apartheid and the further development of this framework through interaction with the antiapartheid cause.
* the place of the global anti-apartheid struggle in the reshaping of public history and memory in post-apartheid South Africa, in museums, historical sites, and history textbooks.
Radical History Review publishes material in a wide variety of forms.
The editors will consider scholarly research articles as well as photo essays, film and book review essays, interviews, brief interventions, essays on museum and other public history forums, "conversations" between scholars and/or activists, teaching notes and annotated course syllabi, and research notes.
At this time we request that potential contributors submit 1-2 page abstracts summarizing the article you wish to include in this issue as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with "Issue 119 abstract submission" in the subject line. Initial abstracts and article proposals are due by May 15, 2012.
By June 15, 2012, selected authors will be invited to prepare a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is February 1, 2013. Final article manuscripts ready for publication must be returned to the editors by Aug. 1, 2013.
Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 119 of Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Spring 2014. The issue editors strongly encourage the submission of images or artwork to illustrate textual pieces, as well as photo or other visual essays. Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document. If chosen for publication, authors will need to send separate, high-resolution images files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), along with written permission to reprint all images.
The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue on the global politics of the anti-apartheid movement, 1946-1994. The time frame underlines our sense of the global significance of what we call the Anti-apartheid Era, inaugurated by the postwar United Nations debates on discrimination suffered by Indians in South Africa and culminating in the post-Cold War transition to democracy in South Africa during the 1990s. As we see it, this anti-apartheid era encompasses the evolution of the United Nations, decolonization, the Cold War, the founding of the non-aligned movement at Bandung, the rise (and fall) of Third World solidarity structures, the U.S. Civil Rights Movements, Left-Leaning Revolutions, human rights politics, upheavals of the global Sixties, and the onset of neoliberal globalization and offers new ways of connecting and contextualizing these various developments.
In 1990, the same year that Nelson Mandela walked free from prison to celebrations held around the world, the RHR published a double issue on "History from South Africa." The issue was the result of years of collaboration between the History Workshop at the University of Witwatersrand and the American Social History Project. A little over twenty years later, as a companion and follow-up to that volume, RHR is calling for an issue that centers the history of antiapartheid solidarity. One of the most striking developments in historical research and writing over the last twenty years has been the growing interest in international, transnational, and global history. Widening our focus from the struggle against apartheid inside South Africa to a global frame reveals an exciting range of new perspectives.
For example, what happened in South Africa was bound up with struggles and anti-racist/anti-imperialist work across southern Africa and throughout the world. This activism of citizens from dozens of countries and South/ern African exiles took not only local and national forms, but often transnational forms in such initiatives as sports and cultural boycotts, corporate accountability campaigns, and calls for the release of Nelson Mandela that involved coordination across borders and appeals to a global audience. These transnational networks and campaigns were astonishing in their variety, interconnections, and persistence. There is much more to learn about the nature, scale, and scope of the antiapartheid cause, from civic and popular organizing in India, Japan, the Caribbean, independent Africa, and the "actually existing" socialist countries to the realm of international nongovernmental organizations, such as labor confederations, ecumenical religious councils, and humanitarian, pacifist, and human rights groups, to the formation of a new post-Civil Rights cohort of social activists inside the U.S.
If we borrow from the work of sociologists on global social movements and the global structures of political opportunity they engage with, we can appreciate that the antiapartheid cause unfolded from above as well as below. In addition to transnational advocacy networks and international NGOs, we need to take into account the often substantial efforts of the United Nations and allied intergovernmental agencies (e.g., the International Labour Organisation), the Organization of African Unity, international groupings such as the socialist countries and the European Community, international trade union federations, and individual states. Accordingly, we seek contributions that will trace and assess the extent and limits of the worldwide solidarity achieved in the struggle against apartheid and colonialism in Southern Africa and the impact of this solidarity on global norms of racial equality and human rights to self-determination, democracy, and development.
We are soliciting submissions that engage with one or more of the following areas of concern.
* the emergence of large-scale organizations, networks, publications, campaigns, that gave shape and weight to this global movement.
* the roles and experiences of individual activists, advocates, artists, writers, and scholars, especially the diaspora of exiles from South/ern Africa. Interviews with anti-apartheid activists are especially welcome.
* the role of "new nation-states and socialist nations" such as India, Egypt and Cuba, and/or the Non-aligned Movement in the antiapartheid struggle.
* the impact of transnational activism on apartheid South Africa and the other white minority and colonial regimes of Southern Africa, the foreign banks, corporations, the governments of the U.S., Britain, and other states involved in the region.
* the role of intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies such as the United Nations, the OAU, international labor and ecumenical bodies, and collaborations/challenges that emerged between/against these agencies.
* the production, circulation, and reception of antiapartheid and liberation symbols, imagery, music, fiction, theater, films, and other cultural expressions and media.
* the adaptation of the global anti-apartheid cause in diverse communities and societies and its articulation to local or national demands, especially around recognition and justice for excluded or subordinated populations, such as indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand, Dalits in India, Palestinians, and people of African descent throughout the Americas. Comparative investigations are welcome.
* the application of international human rights law to the case of apartheid and the further development of this framework through interaction with the antiapartheid cause.
* the place of the global anti-apartheid struggle in the reshaping of public history and memory in post-apartheid South Africa, in museums, historical sites, and history textbooks.
Radical History Review publishes material in a wide variety of forms.
The editors will consider scholarly research articles as well as photo essays, film and book review essays, interviews, brief interventions, essays on museum and other public history forums, "conversations" between scholars and/or activists, teaching notes and annotated course syllabi, and research notes.
At this time we request that potential contributors submit 1-2 page abstracts summarizing the article you wish to include in this issue as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with "Issue 119 abstract submission" in the subject line. Initial abstracts and article proposals are due by May 15, 2012.
By June 15, 2012, selected authors will be invited to prepare a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is February 1, 2013. Final article manuscripts ready for publication must be returned to the editors by Aug. 1, 2013.
Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 119 of Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Spring 2014. The issue editors strongly encourage the submission of images or artwork to illustrate textual pieces, as well as photo or other visual essays. Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document. If chosen for publication, authors will need to send separate, high-resolution images files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), along with written permission to reprint all images.
Wednesday 21 March 2012
Sri Lanka Journals OnLine
Sri Lanka Journals OnLine (SLJOL) is a service to provide access to Sri Lankan published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship.SLJOL is a database of journals published in Sri Lanka, covering the full range of academic disciplineswith the aim of giving greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey. Sri Lanka Journals OnLine (SLJOL) was initiated in August 2008. It is a project supported by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication (INASP).
Journals are selected for inclusion on SLJOL using the following criteria:
1.They are scholarly in content, and contain original research (in addition to other content)
2.Their content is peer reviewed and quality controlled
3.They are able to provide all content for inclusion on SLJOL (tables of contents, abstracts and PDFs of full text) in electronic format
4.They are published within Sri Lanka. Management of publishing strategy, business development and production operation are all run from Sri Lanka.
SLJOL provides information on each participating journal, including aims and scope, contact details and general information. It also provides Tables of contents and abstracts (where available) for all articles published within these journals. Many full text articles are also available.
All the material on SLJOL is free to view, search and browse, however copyright of all content is retained by the journals or authors - each journals will need to give permission for any use or re-use of the content that falls outside Fair Use.
The journals are listed alphabetically, to help researchers find journals of relevance, and allow browsing of the journals and the website also has a sophisticated searching tool, to help researchers locate articles of interest and relevance to their area of study. Email alerts also provide a reminder service, to alert researchers to newly-published issues from their selected titles.
Researchers should also take note of the Research Support Tool which accompanies the abstracts of each article. The links from the red box to the right of each Abstract screen are designed to support the reading and use of the abstracts. Tools offered include information about the authors, quick and easy links to allow identification of further articles from other websites, definition of difficult terms using online dictionaries (simply click twice on any word in the abstract), and the automatic generation of citations to the article using "Capture Cite."
Titles currently included in SLJOL comprise:
Journals are selected for inclusion on SLJOL using the following criteria:
1.They are scholarly in content, and contain original research (in addition to other content)
2.Their content is peer reviewed and quality controlled
3.They are able to provide all content for inclusion on SLJOL (tables of contents, abstracts and PDFs of full text) in electronic format
4.They are published within Sri Lanka. Management of publishing strategy, business development and production operation are all run from Sri Lanka.
SLJOL provides information on each participating journal, including aims and scope, contact details and general information. It also provides Tables of contents and abstracts (where available) for all articles published within these journals. Many full text articles are also available.
All the material on SLJOL is free to view, search and browse, however copyright of all content is retained by the journals or authors - each journals will need to give permission for any use or re-use of the content that falls outside Fair Use.
The journals are listed alphabetically, to help researchers find journals of relevance, and allow browsing of the journals and the website also has a sophisticated searching tool, to help researchers locate articles of interest and relevance to their area of study. Email alerts also provide a reminder service, to alert researchers to newly-published issues from their selected titles.
Researchers should also take note of the Research Support Tool which accompanies the abstracts of each article. The links from the red box to the right of each Abstract screen are designed to support the reading and use of the abstracts. Tools offered include information about the authors, quick and easy links to allow identification of further articles from other websites, definition of difficult terms using online dictionaries (simply click twice on any word in the abstract), and the automatic generation of citations to the article using "Capture Cite."
Titles currently included in SLJOL comprise:
- Built-Environment Sri Lanka (An international refereed research publication of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects.)
- Ceylon Journal of Medical Science (Published by the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.)
- Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences) (Published by the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.)
- Ceylon Medical Journal (The Official Publication of the Sri Lanka Medical Association. Established 1887.)
- COCOS (The Journal of the Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka.)
- Galle Medical Journal (The Official Journal of Galle Medical Association.)
- International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) (Published by the University of Colombo School of Computing. The journal also has a website at http://www.icter.org/index.php/ICTER/index)
- Journal of Agricultural Sciences (Published by the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka)
- Journal of Diagnostic Pathology (Official journal of the College of Pathologists of Sri Lanka.)
- Journal of Food and Agriculture (A half yearly publication by the Faculty of Agriculture and Plantation Management and Faculty of Livestock fisheries and Nutrition of the Wayamba University of Sri Lanka which provides a valuable forum for scientists endeavouring in research and development aspects in agriculture, food and nutrition.)
- Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka (Official journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.)
- Journal of the Ceylon College of Physicians (The Official publication of the Ceylon College of Physicians.)
- Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka (Official publication of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka, established in 1995.)
- Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (The Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka publishes the results of research in all aspects of Science and Technology. The journal also has a website at http://www.nsf.ac.lk/)
- Journal of the Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka (The official publication of the Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka.)
- Journal of the University Librarians Association of Sri Lanka (JULA provides a forum for the publication of research and developments done by university library professionals and opens the doorways to explore the current topics related specifically to university library profession.)
- OUSL Journal (A peer-reviewed journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka. It was the first academic journal to deal with Open/Distance Learning in Sri Lanka and although it welcomes research publications in other academic areas, its main focus remains Open and Distance Learning/Teaching.)
- Sabaragamuwa University Journal (The official journal of the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka.)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Advanced Social Studies (Published by the National Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences.)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences (Official journal of the Sri Lanka Association for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. Also available on SLAFAR website.)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics (The joint official publication of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL) and the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) of the University of Colombo.)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health (The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website at http://www.srilankacollegeofpaediatricians.com/publications.php)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Critical Care (A peer-reviewed publication of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine, Science & Law (Official publication of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (The official journal of the National Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences.)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (The official publication of the Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry (Official journal of the Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Surgery (Official publication of the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka.)
- Sri Lanka Journal of Urology (Oficial Publication of the Sri Lanka Association of Urological Surgeons.)
- Sri Lankan Journal of Agricultural Economics (The official journal of the Sri Lankan Agricultural Economics Association.)
- Sri Lankan Journal of Anaesthesiology (The Sri Lankan Journal of Anaesthesiology publishes clinical investigations, research articles, case reports, review articles and CME articles relating to anaesthesiology and critical care.)
- Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases (Official journal of the Sri Lankan Society for Microbiology (SSM).
- Sri Lankan Journal of Librarianship and Information Management (SLLIM is a journal for all those concerned with librarianship, information management, records management, information technology and any other related disciplines.)
- Sri Lankan Journal of Physics (Official journal of the Institute of Physics - Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website at http://www.ip-sl.org/sljp/ )
- Staff Studies (The official journal of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.)
- TAPROBANICA: The Journal of Asian Biodiversity (Official journal of the Taprobanica Private Limited, Homagama, Sri Lanka)
- Tropical Agricultural Research (Official journal of the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya.)
- Tropical Agricultural Research and Extension (An International Journal on Agricultural Research and Extension in the Tropical and Subtropical Areas, published by the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.)
- Vidyodaya Journal of Science (Official science journal of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura)
- Vingnanam Journal of Science (Vingnanam is a biannual refereed Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka)
Tuesday 20 March 2012
New Zealand and Europe: Borders, Nations, Identities
New Zealand and Europe: Borders, Nations, Identities
The 18th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, together with the Department of Political Science, University of Gdansk
Gdansk, Poland
6-8 July 2012
The New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) has a long and strong history in promoting New Zealand Studies. Building on the success of the 2006 conference in Paris, the 2008 conference in Florence, and the 2009 conference in Frankfurt, the 2012 gathering of the NZSA will be located at the University of Gdansk, Poland. This very special conference will be held near the historic city centre of Gdansk with its vibrant culture. On the Saturday, there will be a special guided tour of the city with a boat trip, followed by a conference dinner. Keynote speakers: Alan Duff, Professor Witi Ihimaera, DCNZM, Dr Paul Latawski, Dr Michal Lesniewski, Dr Brian McDonnell, Dr Chris Pugsley, Professor Khyla Russell, Professor Jacek Tebinka, Dr Dariusz Zdziech
Proposals for 20 minute papers must be sent by 1 May to Ian Conrich (email: ian@ianconrich.co.uk) or Marcin Waldoch (marcin.waldoch@gmail.com). The conference will consider all papers that address issues related to New Zealand and Europe, within the context of any of the sub themes - borders, nations, identities. As a section of the conference, it will also consider papers on Maori identity and the Pacific. The conference fee will include annual membership to the NZSA, which for 2012 includes 2 free books. Papers from the conference will be published in issue no.3 of the refereed journal, NZSA Bulletin of New Zealand Studies. Moreover, two new book series - 'New Zealand Writers', and 'New Zealand Film Classics' - will be launched at the conference and delegates will be invited to contribute to future volumes.
The conference will accept proposals on a range of subjects including the following: warfare, land and borders; national identities; political relations between nations; migration, refugees and diasporas (refugees during periods of war or periods of political conflict); Maori identity and the Pacific, New Zealand literature or films set in Europe, or European writers or filmmakers in New Zealand; European cultural influence on New Zealand; the reception and exposure of New Zealand culture in Europe; representations of New Zealand in European museums and collections; voyaging, historical travels and expeditions to New Zealand; science and knowledge transfer; tourism.
The 18th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, together with the Department of Political Science, University of Gdansk
Gdansk, Poland
6-8 July 2012
The New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) has a long and strong history in promoting New Zealand Studies. Building on the success of the 2006 conference in Paris, the 2008 conference in Florence, and the 2009 conference in Frankfurt, the 2012 gathering of the NZSA will be located at the University of Gdansk, Poland. This very special conference will be held near the historic city centre of Gdansk with its vibrant culture. On the Saturday, there will be a special guided tour of the city with a boat trip, followed by a conference dinner. Keynote speakers: Alan Duff, Professor Witi Ihimaera, DCNZM, Dr Paul Latawski, Dr Michal Lesniewski, Dr Brian McDonnell, Dr Chris Pugsley, Professor Khyla Russell, Professor Jacek Tebinka, Dr Dariusz Zdziech
Proposals for 20 minute papers must be sent by 1 May to Ian Conrich (email: ian@ianconrich.co.uk) or Marcin Waldoch (marcin.waldoch@gmail.com). The conference will consider all papers that address issues related to New Zealand and Europe, within the context of any of the sub themes - borders, nations, identities. As a section of the conference, it will also consider papers on Maori identity and the Pacific. The conference fee will include annual membership to the NZSA, which for 2012 includes 2 free books. Papers from the conference will be published in issue no.3 of the refereed journal, NZSA Bulletin of New Zealand Studies. Moreover, two new book series - 'New Zealand Writers', and 'New Zealand Film Classics' - will be launched at the conference and delegates will be invited to contribute to future volumes.
The conference will accept proposals on a range of subjects including the following: warfare, land and borders; national identities; political relations between nations; migration, refugees and diasporas (refugees during periods of war or periods of political conflict); Maori identity and the Pacific, New Zealand literature or films set in Europe, or European writers or filmmakers in New Zealand; European cultural influence on New Zealand; the reception and exposure of New Zealand culture in Europe; representations of New Zealand in European museums and collections; voyaging, historical travels and expeditions to New Zealand; science and knowledge transfer; tourism.
Monday 19 March 2012
Researching and Writing about Africa: A One Day Postgraduate Workshop
Researching and Writing about Africa: A One Day Postgraduate Workshop Friday 11 May 2012
Gordon Manley Building, Training Rooms 1 and 2
Lancaster University
Organised by Lancaster University African Studies Group
The African Studies Group at Lancaster University is organising a workshop for postgraduate students undertaking fieldwork in or research relating to Africa. The aim of this workshop is to stimulate discussion and debate between interested postgraduate students from different disciplines and institutions.
Two main strands will form the focus of the workshop:
Undertaking fieldwork in Africa
What are the challenges of undertaking fieldwork in Africa? How do expectations match the realities on the ground? How can time spent conducting fieldwork be most productive? What methods can be used and what is their cross-cultural appropriateness? How do we take account of our position as researchers based outside the continent?
Writing about Africa
What are the challenges of writing about Africa? How can we engage effectively with writing from the continent? How can research on Africa be most effectively presented? What outlets for publication are appropriate? What are the challenges of presenting research on Africa to non-specialist audiences?
The organisers invite abstracts for 20 minute papers or presentations which engage with these and other questions relating to researching and writing about Africa. Please submit your proposal including a title, a 200 word abstract and a 100 word bio to c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk and s.vermeylen@lancaster.ac.uk by 30 March 2012.
There is a small charge of £10 for participation in the workshop, to include lunch and light refreshments. We welcome postgraduate students who wish to participate in the workshop, but prefer not to present.
Please contact the organisers for a registration form.
Dr Charlotte Baker and Dr Saskia Vermeylen, Lancaster University
Email: c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk
Gordon Manley Building, Training Rooms 1 and 2
Lancaster University
Organised by Lancaster University African Studies Group
The African Studies Group at Lancaster University is organising a workshop for postgraduate students undertaking fieldwork in or research relating to Africa. The aim of this workshop is to stimulate discussion and debate between interested postgraduate students from different disciplines and institutions.
Two main strands will form the focus of the workshop:
Undertaking fieldwork in Africa
What are the challenges of undertaking fieldwork in Africa? How do expectations match the realities on the ground? How can time spent conducting fieldwork be most productive? What methods can be used and what is their cross-cultural appropriateness? How do we take account of our position as researchers based outside the continent?
Writing about Africa
What are the challenges of writing about Africa? How can we engage effectively with writing from the continent? How can research on Africa be most effectively presented? What outlets for publication are appropriate? What are the challenges of presenting research on Africa to non-specialist audiences?
The organisers invite abstracts for 20 minute papers or presentations which engage with these and other questions relating to researching and writing about Africa. Please submit your proposal including a title, a 200 word abstract and a 100 word bio to c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk and s.vermeylen@lancaster.ac.uk by 30 March 2012.
There is a small charge of £10 for participation in the workshop, to include lunch and light refreshments. We welcome postgraduate students who wish to participate in the workshop, but prefer not to present.
Please contact the organisers for a registration form.
Dr Charlotte Baker and Dr Saskia Vermeylen, Lancaster University
Email: c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Journal of Natal & Zulu History
The Journal of Natal & Zulu History is available free as an online journal, though you will have to rgister to access the content. Some recent tables of contents are shown below:
JOURNAL OF NATAL & ZULU HISTORY
http://www.history.ukzn.ac.za/ojs/index.php/jnzh/issue/view/161/showToc
Volume 29, 2011
Table of Contents
Articles
Practices of Naming and the Possibilities of Home on American Zulu Mission Stations in Colonial Natal Meghan Elizabeth Healy and Eva Jackson
The Natal Militia: Defence of the Colony, 1893-1910 Paul Thompson
“Colours Do Not Mix”: Segregated Classes at the University of Natal, 1936-1959 Surendra Bhana and Goolam Vahed
Political Violence – Disrupting Ways of ‘Doing’ Politics: An Exploration of Organisational and Political Life in Mpumalanga Township,1970s-1980s Debby Bonnin
Learning About Controversial Issues in School History: The Experiences of Learners in KwaZulu-Natal Schools Johan Wassermann
Book Reviews
A Fire That Blazed in the Ocean – Gandhi and the poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909 -1911 by Surendra Bhana and Neelima Shukla-Bhatt Devarakshanam [Betty] Govinden
http://www.history.ukzn.ac.za/ojs/index.php/jnzh/issue/view/146
2010
HISTORY AND HERITAGE: A SPECIAL ISSUE ON FORMER AMERICAN BOARD MISSION STATIONS IN SOUTHERN KWAZULU-NATAL
Table of Contents
Editorial: History and Heritage Vukile Khumalo
Articles
The Economic Experimentation of Nembula Duze/ Ira Adams Nembula, 1845 – 1886 Eva Jackson
Nomambotwe Khawula of Umzumbe in Natal, 1860 – 1927 Bridget Portmann
“The struggle for survival” : Last years of Adams College, 1953-1956 Percy Ngonyama
H.I.E Dhlomo’s brilliance as a writer, dramatist, poet and politician knew no bounds: A Reappraisal Mwelela Cele
History and Heritage: Socio-economic profiles of six former American Board Mission Stations in southern KwaZulu-Natal Ntokozo Zungu, Vukile Khumalo
Cultural Heritage Tourism Potential at Six former American Board Mission Stations Gordon Fakude
JOURNAL OF NATAL & ZULU HISTORY
http://www.history.ukzn.ac.za/ojs/index.php/jnzh/issue/view/161/showToc
Volume 29, 2011
Table of Contents
Articles
Practices of Naming and the Possibilities of Home on American Zulu Mission Stations in Colonial Natal Meghan Elizabeth Healy and Eva Jackson
The Natal Militia: Defence of the Colony, 1893-1910 Paul Thompson
“Colours Do Not Mix”: Segregated Classes at the University of Natal, 1936-1959 Surendra Bhana and Goolam Vahed
Political Violence – Disrupting Ways of ‘Doing’ Politics: An Exploration of Organisational and Political Life in Mpumalanga Township,1970s-1980s Debby Bonnin
Learning About Controversial Issues in School History: The Experiences of Learners in KwaZulu-Natal Schools Johan Wassermann
Book Reviews
A Fire That Blazed in the Ocean – Gandhi and the poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909 -1911 by Surendra Bhana and Neelima Shukla-Bhatt Devarakshanam [Betty] Govinden
http://www.history.ukzn.ac.za/ojs/index.php/jnzh/issue/view/146
2010
HISTORY AND HERITAGE: A SPECIAL ISSUE ON FORMER AMERICAN BOARD MISSION STATIONS IN SOUTHERN KWAZULU-NATAL
Table of Contents
Editorial: History and Heritage Vukile Khumalo
Articles
The Economic Experimentation of Nembula Duze/ Ira Adams Nembula, 1845 – 1886 Eva Jackson
Nomambotwe Khawula of Umzumbe in Natal, 1860 – 1927 Bridget Portmann
“The struggle for survival” : Last years of Adams College, 1953-1956 Percy Ngonyama
H.I.E Dhlomo’s brilliance as a writer, dramatist, poet and politician knew no bounds: A Reappraisal Mwelela Cele
History and Heritage: Socio-economic profiles of six former American Board Mission Stations in southern KwaZulu-Natal Ntokozo Zungu, Vukile Khumalo
Cultural Heritage Tourism Potential at Six former American Board Mission Stations Gordon Fakude
Monday 12 March 2012
Happy Commonwealth Day: Commonwealth NGO archives
Being Commonwealth Day, today we wish to highlight some archive collections reflecting what is now generally known as the 'informal' Commonwealth, that is the role of Commonwealth non-government organisations.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Archives holds a number of collections from Commonwealth NGOs.
Theses include:
The records of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) reflect the history of Commonwealth co-operation in the field of international telecommunications and comprise the surviving records of the bodies that administered Commonwealth telecommunications relations from 1928 onwards. The CTO promotes, through collaborative projects, the growth of international telecommunications throughout the Commonwealth. The organisation endeavours to link its commitment to development and training to the benefits attached to the creation and extension of commercial opportunities. It was established following the 1966 Commonwealth Telecommunications Conference and has since witnessed radical technological and commercial changes, most notably the introduction and widespread use of digital technology. The records also include material from the Imperial Communications Advisory Committee, 1928-1945; 2. Commonwealth Communications Council, 1944-1949; 3. Commonwealth Telecommunications Board, 1949-1969; Commonwealth Telecommunications Council (CTC), and Commonwealth Telecommunications Bureau, 1966-1987; Commonwealth Telecommunications Bureau and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Council (CTC) after 1987.
The Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) was an association composed of 750 members in 49 countries, including newspaper groups, 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 CPU also offered some of the Commonwealth's most prestigious awards, including the Commonwealth Press Union Fellowship in International Journalism and the Harry Brittain Fellowships. The origin of the organisation went back to 1909 with the staging of the first Imperial Press Conference. This led to the creation of the Empire Press Union, which later became the Commonwealth Press Union. The CPU was wound up on 31 December 2008. The records held include a number of official records relating to the administration of the organisation (reports, financial statements, rules, correspondence etc., several items being mounted in a volume entitled 'The Empire Press Union Guard Book') 1909-1998; circulars and bulletins covering the periods 1911-1924, 1929-1939 and 1964-1986; a good series of Conference papers and reports, together with associated albums of news cuttings, and photographs, c1950-1985; publications; and papers relating to Sir Harry Brittain (the founder of the Empire Press Union). A further donation of material is not yet catalogued, but box lists can be consulted. The Library is curently seeking funding to catalogue this collection.
The Commonwealth Trade Union Council (CTUC) was established in Mar 1980. Thhe CTUC aimed to strengthen links between trade unions in the Commonwealth and to provide practical assistance to trade unions in developing countries. It also undertook a programme of Development Education with Trade Unionists in developed countries, aiming to raise awareness of international issues. After a number of years of operation, funding from members was withdrawn and a decision was taken in June 2004 to wind up the CTUC at end of 2004. The collection icnludes the papers of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council from 1979-2004, including papers relating to the setting up of the CTUC from the Commonwealth Trade Union Conference Jun 1979 agendas, minutes and associated documents relating to meetings; subject files arranged alphabetically on related organisations and Commonwealth nations, 1980-2004; project files containing photographs and papers relating to projects undertaken by the CTUC including in the Caribbean, Southern Africa, India, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone; East Africa and West Africa, [1981]-2003; circulars and attachments,and papers relating to CTUC conferences. The Library is currently seeking funding to catalogue this collection, though boxlists are available for interested researchers.
The Commonwealth Journalists Association is a professional association for working journalists throughout the Commonwealth. It was founded by a group of journalists in 1978 following a conference of Commonwealth non-government organisations, in Nova Scotia. The CJA aims to raise journalistic standards by providing training courses, to promote awareness of Commonwealth affairs and to defend the independence of journalists where this is perceived to be threatened.
The records comprise the papers of the Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA), from 1979-2003, including papers relating to training in: Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Brunei, the Caribbean, Cyprus, the Gambia, Ghana, HongKong, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Pacific, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; correspondence files; and papers relating to the Annual Conference of Commonwealth Journalists, and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings; minutes and meeting papers; applications and correspondence on the Commonwealth Relations Trust travel bursary award, 1991-1996, papers on CJA branches including in Nigeria, Delhi and Canada; press cuttings, notably concerning freedom of the press violations in Commonwealth countries and papers on the creation and funding of the CJA. The collection is currently being catalogued thanks to the support of the Scott Trust Charitable Foundation and SHeLF, the Friends of Senate House Library.
At our sister institute, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is held another collection of interest:
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Archives holds a number of collections from Commonwealth NGOs.
Theses include:
The records of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) reflect the history of Commonwealth co-operation in the field of international telecommunications and comprise the surviving records of the bodies that administered Commonwealth telecommunications relations from 1928 onwards. The CTO promotes, through collaborative projects, the growth of international telecommunications throughout the Commonwealth. The organisation endeavours to link its commitment to development and training to the benefits attached to the creation and extension of commercial opportunities. It was established following the 1966 Commonwealth Telecommunications Conference and has since witnessed radical technological and commercial changes, most notably the introduction and widespread use of digital technology. The records also include material from the Imperial Communications Advisory Committee, 1928-1945; 2. Commonwealth Communications Council, 1944-1949; 3. Commonwealth Telecommunications Board, 1949-1969; Commonwealth Telecommunications Council (CTC), and Commonwealth Telecommunications Bureau, 1966-1987; Commonwealth Telecommunications Bureau and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Council (CTC) after 1987.
The Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) was an association composed of 750 members in 49 countries, including newspaper groups, 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 CPU also offered some of the Commonwealth's most prestigious awards, including the Commonwealth Press Union Fellowship in International Journalism and the Harry Brittain Fellowships. The origin of the organisation went back to 1909 with the staging of the first Imperial Press Conference. This led to the creation of the Empire Press Union, which later became the Commonwealth Press Union. The CPU was wound up on 31 December 2008. The records held include a number of official records relating to the administration of the organisation (reports, financial statements, rules, correspondence etc., several items being mounted in a volume entitled 'The Empire Press Union Guard Book') 1909-1998; circulars and bulletins covering the periods 1911-1924, 1929-1939 and 1964-1986; a good series of Conference papers and reports, together with associated albums of news cuttings, and photographs, c1950-1985; publications; and papers relating to Sir Harry Brittain (the founder of the Empire Press Union). A further donation of material is not yet catalogued, but box lists can be consulted. The Library is curently seeking funding to catalogue this collection.
The Commonwealth Trade Union Council (CTUC) was established in Mar 1980. Thhe CTUC aimed to strengthen links between trade unions in the Commonwealth and to provide practical assistance to trade unions in developing countries. It also undertook a programme of Development Education with Trade Unionists in developed countries, aiming to raise awareness of international issues. After a number of years of operation, funding from members was withdrawn and a decision was taken in June 2004 to wind up the CTUC at end of 2004. The collection icnludes the papers of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council from 1979-2004, including papers relating to the setting up of the CTUC from the Commonwealth Trade Union Conference Jun 1979 agendas, minutes and associated documents relating to meetings; subject files arranged alphabetically on related organisations and Commonwealth nations, 1980-2004; project files containing photographs and papers relating to projects undertaken by the CTUC including in the Caribbean, Southern Africa, India, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone; East Africa and West Africa, [1981]-2003; circulars and attachments,and papers relating to CTUC conferences. The Library is currently seeking funding to catalogue this collection, though boxlists are available for interested researchers.
The Commonwealth Journalists Association is a professional association for working journalists throughout the Commonwealth. It was founded by a group of journalists in 1978 following a conference of Commonwealth non-government organisations, in Nova Scotia. The CJA aims to raise journalistic standards by providing training courses, to promote awareness of Commonwealth affairs and to defend the independence of journalists where this is perceived to be threatened.
The records comprise the papers of the Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA), from 1979-2003, including papers relating to training in: Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Brunei, the Caribbean, Cyprus, the Gambia, Ghana, HongKong, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Pacific, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; correspondence files; and papers relating to the Annual Conference of Commonwealth Journalists, and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings; minutes and meeting papers; applications and correspondence on the Commonwealth Relations Trust travel bursary award, 1991-1996, papers on CJA branches including in Nigeria, Delhi and Canada; press cuttings, notably concerning freedom of the press violations in Commonwealth countries and papers on the creation and funding of the CJA. The collection is currently being catalogued thanks to the support of the Scott Trust Charitable Foundation and SHeLF, the Friends of Senate House Library.
At our sister institute, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is held another collection of interest:
The Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) was founded during the Fourth Commonwealth Law Conference in New Delhi in 1971. The Association's objects were to foster high standards of legal education and research in Commonwealth countries, to build up contacts between interested individuals and organizations, and to disseminate information and literature concerning legal education and research.
The Archive of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) consists of correspondence and official papers of officers of the Association and miscellaneous publications produced by the Assocation. Minutes, agenda and papers relating to Executive Committee and Advisory Council meetings and meetings of special committees etc will be found among the secretary's files
The Monarchy, the Commonwealth and the Media
The Monarchy, the Commonwealth and the Media
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was the first ever to be televised, a decision the new Queen actively encouraged. 19 million viewers watched the ceremony in the UK, over half of the adult population. Within five years, television ownership had risen six-fold. The shedding of media light on the mystery of monarchy was sometimes engineered and sometimes accidental – but always remorseless. Alongside the triumphs, there have been the dark days of the death of Princess Diana, ‘Annus Horribilis’, and the hacking of royal phones. Can the monarchy survive its dealings with the media – or is that relationship the secret of its survival?
In conversation ...
CHARLES ANSON CVO (former Press Secretary to the Queen)
TOM CORBY MVO (former Court Correspondent of the Press Association)
KESHINI NAVARATNAM (former BBC World TV presenter)
Tuesday 20 March at 5.30pm
The Senate Room, 1st Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU
ALL WELCOME (booking strongly advised - please email chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk)
Part of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ Diamond Jubilee series, reflecting on the role of Queen Elizabeth II as Head of the Commonwealth and Sovereign of the Commonwealth Realms
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was the first ever to be televised, a decision the new Queen actively encouraged. 19 million viewers watched the ceremony in the UK, over half of the adult population. Within five years, television ownership had risen six-fold. The shedding of media light on the mystery of monarchy was sometimes engineered and sometimes accidental – but always remorseless. Alongside the triumphs, there have been the dark days of the death of Princess Diana, ‘Annus Horribilis’, and the hacking of royal phones. Can the monarchy survive its dealings with the media – or is that relationship the secret of its survival?
In conversation ...
CHARLES ANSON CVO (former Press Secretary to the Queen)
TOM CORBY MVO (former Court Correspondent of the Press Association)
KESHINI NAVARATNAM (former BBC World TV presenter)
Tuesday 20 March at 5.30pm
The Senate Room, 1st Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU
ALL WELCOME (booking strongly advised - please email chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk)
Part of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ Diamond Jubilee series, reflecting on the role of Queen Elizabeth II as Head of the Commonwealth and Sovereign of the Commonwealth Realms
Friday 9 March 2012
Genealogies of Colonial Violence Conference, University of Cambridge, UK, 1-2 June 2012
Genealogies of Colonial Violence: Conference held at the Centre of South Asian Studies and the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge, U.K.
June 1-2, 2012
This two-day conference seeks to move past the standard debates that continue to dominate both public discourses and much scholarly research regarding violence and colonialism. This conference aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers to suggest alternative interpretations, theoretical approaches, and future avenues of research relating to violence and colonialism. Proposals are welcome from established academics, early-career researchers and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences that work on colonialism and its postcolonial legacies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The conference will feature a keynote address by Professor Achille Mbembe (University of Witwatersrand).
Potential avenues of exploration include, but are no means limited to:
- How can we use the colonial experience to rethink and refashion categories of thought dominant in the western academy and its established disciplines? How do colonial experiences subvert a notion like sovereignty?
- How ideas of the human informed colonial violence.
- Universalism, ambivalence, and the colonial encounter.
- Was, and in what ways, colonial subjugation self-validating?
- Whether the recent historiographical turn to discourses and representations has come at the expense of the material. How violence constituted relationships between colonial subjects, the market, and global capitalism.
- Colonialism, violence, and the production of modern political subjects.
- Cultural and political meanings of the excess inherent to all violence.
- How did foreign control of the state produce alternative constructions of the political? That is, how was the right to take life and to protect life thought beyond the boundaries of the state? Was death rather than the protection of life the central category of political thought in the colonial context?
- Ways to rethink the relationships between violence and colonial law.
- How to write an intellectual history of colonial violence.
- The legacies of colonial violence and the making of a postcolonial order.
- How to read state archives of violence and colonialism.
- Aesthetics, language, and violence.
Paper proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent to Sunil Purushotham and Derek Elliott at colonialviolence@gmail.com no later than April 10, 2012. Successful applicants will be notified no later than April 15, 2012. For more information and updates, please visit us at:
http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/research/conferences/genealogies-colonial-violence
June 1-2, 2012
This two-day conference seeks to move past the standard debates that continue to dominate both public discourses and much scholarly research regarding violence and colonialism. This conference aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers to suggest alternative interpretations, theoretical approaches, and future avenues of research relating to violence and colonialism. Proposals are welcome from established academics, early-career researchers and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences that work on colonialism and its postcolonial legacies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The conference will feature a keynote address by Professor Achille Mbembe (University of Witwatersrand).
Potential avenues of exploration include, but are no means limited to:
- How can we use the colonial experience to rethink and refashion categories of thought dominant in the western academy and its established disciplines? How do colonial experiences subvert a notion like sovereignty?
- How ideas of the human informed colonial violence.
- Universalism, ambivalence, and the colonial encounter.
- Was, and in what ways, colonial subjugation self-validating?
- Whether the recent historiographical turn to discourses and representations has come at the expense of the material. How violence constituted relationships between colonial subjects, the market, and global capitalism.
- Colonialism, violence, and the production of modern political subjects.
- Cultural and political meanings of the excess inherent to all violence.
- How did foreign control of the state produce alternative constructions of the political? That is, how was the right to take life and to protect life thought beyond the boundaries of the state? Was death rather than the protection of life the central category of political thought in the colonial context?
- Ways to rethink the relationships between violence and colonial law.
- How to write an intellectual history of colonial violence.
- The legacies of colonial violence and the making of a postcolonial order.
- How to read state archives of violence and colonialism.
- Aesthetics, language, and violence.
Paper proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent to Sunil Purushotham and Derek Elliott at colonialviolence@gmail.com no later than April 10, 2012. Successful applicants will be notified no later than April 15, 2012. For more information and updates, please visit us at:
http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/research/conferences/genealogies-colonial-violence
Wednesday 7 March 2012
Bangladesh Journals Online
Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) provides free access to a collection of over 75 academic journals published in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) is a service to provide access to Bangladesh published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship.
The journals included cover a range of topics, are scholarly in content and contain original research and are peer reviewed. While there is an emphasis upon scientific topics, there is also coverage of health and development topics, and this resource is recommended for discovering articles which may have been missed by the more mainstream journal indexes.
The journals are listed alphabetically, to help researchers find journals of relevance, and allow browsing of the journals. The website also has a sophisticated searching tool, to help researchers locate articles of interest and relevance to their area of study. Email alerts are available to provide a reminder service, to alert researchers to newly-published issues from their selected titles. Each journal has its own home page, where researchers can find information about the aims and scope of the journal, and information on how to submit articles to each journal. Researchers should also take note of the Research Support Tool which accompanies the abstracts of each article. The links from the red box to the right of each Abstract screen are designed to support the reading and use of the abstracts. Tools offered include information about the authors, quick and easy links to allow identification of further articles from other websites, definition of difficult terms using online dictionaries (simply click twice on any word in the abstract), and the automatic generation of citations to the article using "Capture Cite."
Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) was initiated in June 2007 and officially launched in September 2007. It is a project supported by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication (INASP). It aims to promote the awareness and use of Bangladesh-published journals in all disciplines by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs), abstracts and full text on the Internet. BanglaJOL uses the Open Journals System created by the Public Knowledge Project based in Canada.
The Journals Online project is part of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERii) which provides support to researchers around the world through access to information and training and support for the use of information.
Journals currently included in Bangladesh Journals OnLine are:
Anwer Khan Modern Medical College Journal
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal
Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Research
Bangladesh Journal of Anatomy
Bangladesh Journal of Animal Science
Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics
Bangladesh Journal of Botany
Bangladesh Journal of Child Health
Bangladesh Journal of Genetics and Biotechnology
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science
Bangladesh Journal of Microbiology
Bangladesh Journal of Neuroscience
Bangladesh Journal of Nutrition
Bangladesh Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Bangladesh Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
Bangladesh Journal of Pathology
Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology
Bangladesh Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Bangladesh Journal of Plant Breeding and Genetics
Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy
Bangladesh Journal of Plastic Surgery
Bangladesh Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research
Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research
Bangladesh Journal of Veterinary Medicine
Bangladesh Journal of Zoology
Bangladesh Liver Journal
Bangladesh Medical Journal
Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin
Bangladesh Oncology Journal
Bangladesh Veterinarian
Cardiovascular Journal
Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin
Daffodil International University Journal of Science and Technology
Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences
Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics
Dhaka University Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Faridpur Medical College Journal
Ibrahim Cardiac Medical Journal
GANIT: Journal of Bangladesh Mathematical Society
Ibrahim Medical College Journal
IIUC Studies
International Current Pharmaceutical Journal
International Journal of Hepatology
International Journal of Natural Sciences
Journal of Agriculture & Rural Development
Journal of Armed Forces Medical College, Bangladesh
Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
Journal of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons
Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners
Journal of Bangladesh Society of Physiologist
Journal of Bio-Science
Journal of Business and Technology (Dhaka)
Journal of Chemical Engineering
Journal of Chittagong Medical College Teachers' Association
Journal of Dhaka Medical College
Journal of Electrical Engineering
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Journal of Life and Earth Science
Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Journal of Medicine
Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Journal of Scientific Research
Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University
Journal of the Bangladesh Association of Young Researchers
Journal of the Bangladesh Chemical Society
Journal of the Bangladesh Society of Anaesthesiologists
Medicine Today
MIST Journal: GALAXY (DHAKA)
Mymensingh Medical Journal
Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology
Pulse
Stamford Journal of Microbiology
Stamford Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
TAJ: Journal of Teachers Association
The Agriculturists
University Heart Journal
University Journal of Zoology, Rajshahi University
The journals included cover a range of topics, are scholarly in content and contain original research and are peer reviewed. While there is an emphasis upon scientific topics, there is also coverage of health and development topics, and this resource is recommended for discovering articles which may have been missed by the more mainstream journal indexes.
The journals are listed alphabetically, to help researchers find journals of relevance, and allow browsing of the journals. The website also has a sophisticated searching tool, to help researchers locate articles of interest and relevance to their area of study. Email alerts are available to provide a reminder service, to alert researchers to newly-published issues from their selected titles. Each journal has its own home page, where researchers can find information about the aims and scope of the journal, and information on how to submit articles to each journal. Researchers should also take note of the Research Support Tool which accompanies the abstracts of each article. The links from the red box to the right of each Abstract screen are designed to support the reading and use of the abstracts. Tools offered include information about the authors, quick and easy links to allow identification of further articles from other websites, definition of difficult terms using online dictionaries (simply click twice on any word in the abstract), and the automatic generation of citations to the article using "Capture Cite."
Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) was initiated in June 2007 and officially launched in September 2007. It is a project supported by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication (INASP). It aims to promote the awareness and use of Bangladesh-published journals in all disciplines by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs), abstracts and full text on the Internet. BanglaJOL uses the Open Journals System created by the Public Knowledge Project based in Canada.
The Journals Online project is part of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERii) which provides support to researchers around the world through access to information and training and support for the use of information.
Journals currently included in Bangladesh Journals OnLine are:
Anwer Khan Modern Medical College Journal
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal
Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Research
Bangladesh Journal of Anatomy
Bangladesh Journal of Animal Science
Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics
Bangladesh Journal of Botany
Bangladesh Journal of Child Health
Bangladesh Journal of Genetics and Biotechnology
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science
Bangladesh Journal of Microbiology
Bangladesh Journal of Neuroscience
Bangladesh Journal of Nutrition
Bangladesh Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Bangladesh Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
Bangladesh Journal of Pathology
Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology
Bangladesh Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Bangladesh Journal of Plant Breeding and Genetics
Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy
Bangladesh Journal of Plastic Surgery
Bangladesh Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research
Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research
Bangladesh Journal of Veterinary Medicine
Bangladesh Journal of Zoology
Bangladesh Liver Journal
Bangladesh Medical Journal
Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin
Bangladesh Oncology Journal
Bangladesh Veterinarian
Cardiovascular Journal
Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin
Daffodil International University Journal of Science and Technology
Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences
Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics
Dhaka University Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Faridpur Medical College Journal
Ibrahim Cardiac Medical Journal
GANIT: Journal of Bangladesh Mathematical Society
Ibrahim Medical College Journal
IIUC Studies
International Current Pharmaceutical Journal
International Journal of Hepatology
International Journal of Natural Sciences
Journal of Agriculture & Rural Development
Journal of Armed Forces Medical College, Bangladesh
Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
Journal of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons
Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners
Journal of Bangladesh Society of Physiologist
Journal of Bio-Science
Journal of Business and Technology (Dhaka)
Journal of Chemical Engineering
Journal of Chittagong Medical College Teachers' Association
Journal of Dhaka Medical College
Journal of Electrical Engineering
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Journal of Life and Earth Science
Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Journal of Medicine
Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Journal of Scientific Research
Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University
Journal of the Bangladesh Association of Young Researchers
Journal of the Bangladesh Chemical Society
Journal of the Bangladesh Society of Anaesthesiologists
Medicine Today
MIST Journal: GALAXY (DHAKA)
Mymensingh Medical Journal
Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology
Pulse
Stamford Journal of Microbiology
Stamford Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
TAJ: Journal of Teachers Association
The Agriculturists
University Heart Journal
University Journal of Zoology, Rajshahi University
Tuesday 6 March 2012
Full-time, three year PhD studentship available from 1 October 2012: Caribbean Writers
One full-time, three year PhD studentship available from 1 October 2012 based at The Open University and the British Library
The Faculty of Arts of The Open University has a long history of innovative engagement with museums, libraries and galleries. As a result of an exciting new partnership between the British Library and The Open University seeking to consider the theme of The Arts and their Audiences¹, we are able to offer an AHRC studentship for doctoral work in English Language and Literature. While proposals will be accepted for any project seeking to utilise the British Library¹s collections to illuminate the relationship between literature and its reception/audience, we would be particularly interested in receiving applications for work drawing on the important, recently acquired archives of James Berry and Andrew Salkey. Both of these archives are rich in documentation illustrative of the impact of Caribbean writers on Britain. Proposals which seek to exploit the Library's collection of audio-recordings would also be welcome.
You will be supervised by a specialist team in the Department of English at The Open University headed by Professor Susheila Nasta and by curators in the Department of English and Drama at the British Library.
Further details of research in the Faculty of Arts at The Open University can be found at http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/research/index.shtml For details on how to apply, please see the further particulars at http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment
Applications are through the standard Open University research degree application form online at
http://www.open.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/index.php For advice on the applications procedure, contact Lyn Archer in the Research Degrees Team (l.archer@open.ac.uk; 01908 653806) or the Department of English: 01908 652092 (Bronwen Sharp at b.m.sharp@open.ac.uk).
Please note that this studentship is subject to the eligibility regulations for AHRC awards: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf Closing date: 31 March 2012. Interviews will be held during the week commencing 23 April 2012. It is expected that the studentship will start in October 2012.
The Faculty of Arts of The Open University has a long history of innovative engagement with museums, libraries and galleries. As a result of an exciting new partnership between the British Library and The Open University seeking to consider the theme of The Arts and their Audiences¹, we are able to offer an AHRC studentship for doctoral work in English Language and Literature. While proposals will be accepted for any project seeking to utilise the British Library¹s collections to illuminate the relationship between literature and its reception/audience, we would be particularly interested in receiving applications for work drawing on the important, recently acquired archives of James Berry and Andrew Salkey. Both of these archives are rich in documentation illustrative of the impact of Caribbean writers on Britain. Proposals which seek to exploit the Library's collection of audio-recordings would also be welcome.
You will be supervised by a specialist team in the Department of English at The Open University headed by Professor Susheila Nasta and by curators in the Department of English and Drama at the British Library.
Further details of research in the Faculty of Arts at The Open University can be found at http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/research/index.shtml For details on how to apply, please see the further particulars at http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment
Applications are through the standard Open University research degree application form online at
http://www.open.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/index.php For advice on the applications procedure, contact Lyn Archer in the Research Degrees Team (l.archer@open.ac.uk; 01908 653806) or the Department of English: 01908 652092 (Bronwen Sharp at b.m.sharp@open.ac.uk).
Please note that this studentship is subject to the eligibility regulations for AHRC awards: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf Closing date: 31 March 2012. Interviews will be held during the week commencing 23 April 2012. It is expected that the studentship will start in October 2012.
Monday 5 March 2012
The Slave Business and Its Material and Moral Hinterlands in Continental Europe
CONFERENCE: The Slave Business and Its Material and Moral Hinterlands in Continental Europe
International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, April 20-22, 2012
The history of transatlantic slavery is one of the most active and fruitful fields of historical research worldwide. As scholarship in this field is increasingly global, it opens up unique possibilities for international collaboration. More particularly, the most recent research which looks beyond the familiar Atlantic axis and the principal slave-trading nations has made clear the scope for new kinds of comparative and trans-regional studies. The conference revisits a number of key themes relevant to the relationship between slavery (outside Europe) and the dynamics of (European) metropolitan society, giving specific attention to developments in Continental Europe and in particular to the German-speaking regions. These themes include the impact of the slave business on capitalist development and the development of discourses around slavery and abolition in the public sphere. Behind that there lie questions about private conscience – in the first instance about what was known and knowable about the implication of individual economic actors in one of the earliest globalised businesses. By focusing our attention on regions which were physically and politically distant not only from the mines and plantations of the Americas but also from Europe’s ‘slave capitals’ like Liverpool, London, Nantes and Bordeaux, we hope not only to assemble new data and thereby better understand the material ‘reach’ of transatlantic slavery, but also to address wider questions about the ways in which location/space structures knowledge, values and interest by applying them to the particularly dramatic case of slavery in what are still seen as marginal places. How does the geographical status of ‘hinterland’ relate to conditions of economic and moral/discursive interchange?
The conference begins with a keynote lecture by Catherine Hall, Director of the UCL/ESRC project on British stakeholders in slavery and post-abolition compensation, and ends with a session on memory work in teaching, public art and public and community history.
Confirmed speakers
Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen): Bremen and the slave business: Notes on a Hermeneutics of Absence, and a Pedagogy of the Trace Peter Haenger (Basel): Basel and the slave trade: from profiteers to missionaries Dan Hopkins (University of Missouri at Kansas City): Julius von Rohr, an Enlightenment scientist of the plantation Atlantic Jokinen (Hamburg): The Slave Trader Heinrich Carl Schimmelmann and Cultures of Remembrance in Wandsbek: Vestiges, Myths and Protests Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois at Urbana): A German Diary of a Slaving Journey in the 1690s Jochen Meissner (Humboldt University Berlin): Southern European and Latin American Responses to British Abolitionism Kwame Nimako (University of Amsterdam): The Peace of Westphalia, Slavery and the Berlin Conference: A Continuum Anne-Sophie Overkamp (Viadrina University, Frankfurt a.d.O): The German backcountry and the Atlantic exchange: The participation of textile merchants from the Wupper valley in the Atlantic trade, 1760-1810 Allan Potofsky (University of Paris-Diderot): Paris as Atlantic Hinterland, from the Ancien Régime to the French Revolution Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire): Chair / comment Barbara Richiger (Cooperaxion - Bern): A Swiss database of slave-trade stakeholders Alexandra Robinson (University of Liverpool): A case study of the Earle family’s Leghorn business 1751 -1808 Klaus Weber (Viadrina University, Frankfurt a.d.O): ‘All the Negroes cloathed with German Linen’: Central European Implications with the Atlantic Slave Trade, 15th-19th Centuries
For full details, visit the conference website at http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/Hinterlands/
International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, April 20-22, 2012
The history of transatlantic slavery is one of the most active and fruitful fields of historical research worldwide. As scholarship in this field is increasingly global, it opens up unique possibilities for international collaboration. More particularly, the most recent research which looks beyond the familiar Atlantic axis and the principal slave-trading nations has made clear the scope for new kinds of comparative and trans-regional studies. The conference revisits a number of key themes relevant to the relationship between slavery (outside Europe) and the dynamics of (European) metropolitan society, giving specific attention to developments in Continental Europe and in particular to the German-speaking regions. These themes include the impact of the slave business on capitalist development and the development of discourses around slavery and abolition in the public sphere. Behind that there lie questions about private conscience – in the first instance about what was known and knowable about the implication of individual economic actors in one of the earliest globalised businesses. By focusing our attention on regions which were physically and politically distant not only from the mines and plantations of the Americas but also from Europe’s ‘slave capitals’ like Liverpool, London, Nantes and Bordeaux, we hope not only to assemble new data and thereby better understand the material ‘reach’ of transatlantic slavery, but also to address wider questions about the ways in which location/space structures knowledge, values and interest by applying them to the particularly dramatic case of slavery in what are still seen as marginal places. How does the geographical status of ‘hinterland’ relate to conditions of economic and moral/discursive interchange?
The conference begins with a keynote lecture by Catherine Hall, Director of the UCL/ESRC project on British stakeholders in slavery and post-abolition compensation, and ends with a session on memory work in teaching, public art and public and community history.
Confirmed speakers
Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen): Bremen and the slave business: Notes on a Hermeneutics of Absence, and a Pedagogy of the Trace Peter Haenger (Basel): Basel and the slave trade: from profiteers to missionaries Dan Hopkins (University of Missouri at Kansas City): Julius von Rohr, an Enlightenment scientist of the plantation Atlantic Jokinen (Hamburg): The Slave Trader Heinrich Carl Schimmelmann and Cultures of Remembrance in Wandsbek: Vestiges, Myths and Protests Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois at Urbana): A German Diary of a Slaving Journey in the 1690s Jochen Meissner (Humboldt University Berlin): Southern European and Latin American Responses to British Abolitionism Kwame Nimako (University of Amsterdam): The Peace of Westphalia, Slavery and the Berlin Conference: A Continuum Anne-Sophie Overkamp (Viadrina University, Frankfurt a.d.O): The German backcountry and the Atlantic exchange: The participation of textile merchants from the Wupper valley in the Atlantic trade, 1760-1810 Allan Potofsky (University of Paris-Diderot): Paris as Atlantic Hinterland, from the Ancien Régime to the French Revolution Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire): Chair / comment Barbara Richiger (Cooperaxion - Bern): A Swiss database of slave-trade stakeholders Alexandra Robinson (University of Liverpool): A case study of the Earle family’s Leghorn business 1751 -1808 Klaus Weber (Viadrina University, Frankfurt a.d.O): ‘All the Negroes cloathed with German Linen’: Central European Implications with the Atlantic Slave Trade, 15th-19th Centuries
For full details, visit the conference website at http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/Hinterlands/
Friday 2 March 2012
New books - February 2012
New books added to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library last month, include the following titles covering as diverse topics as Canadian political biography, copyright, minority rights in India, sport in Africa, the history of sexuality in Australia, Scotland and the Empire, citizenship, democracy and sustainable economic growth:
Anyanwu, Ogechi Emmanuel, The politics of access : university education and nation-building in Nigeria, 1948-2000, Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2011.
Atangana, Martin-René, The end of French rule in Cameroon, Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010.
Bajpai, Rochana, Debating difference : group rights and liberal democracy in India, New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Bissell, William Cunningham, Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Boateng, Boatema, The copyright thing doesn't work here : Adinkra and Kente cloth and intellectual property in Ghana, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
Boraine, Alex, A country unmasked : Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Cape Town ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Branch, Daniel, Kenya : between hope and despair, 1963-2011, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.
Bueltmann, Tanja, Scottish ethnicity and the making of New Zealand society, 1850-1930, Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2011.
Cheru , Fantu and Cyril Obi (eds), The rise of China and India in Africa : challenges, opportunities and critical interventions, Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; London ; New York : Zed Books, 2010.
Cornelissen, Scarlett and Albert Grundlingh (eds), Sport past and present in South Africa, London : Routledge, 2012.
Featherstone, Lisa, Let's talk about sex : histories of sexuality in Australia from Federation to the pill, Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
Feminist Alternatives, My dream is to be bold : our work to end patriarchy, Cape Town ; Oxford : Pambazuka Press, 2011.
French, Patrick, India : a portrait, London : Allen Lane, 2011.
Ganguly, Sumit and Rahul Mukherji, India since 1980, Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Gott, Richard, Britain's empire : resistance, repression and revolt, London ; New York : Verso Books, 2011.
Gwyn, Richard, John A. : the man who made us : the life and times of John A. Macdonald, Toronto : Random House Canada, 2007-2011. (2 volumes)
Heinrich, V. Finn (ed), CIVICUS global survey of the state of civil society : Civil Society Index Project, 2003-2006 phase, Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, 2007-
Horn, Bernd, From Cold War to New Millennium : the history of the Royal Canadian Regiment, 1953-2008, Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2011.
Johnson, Krista and Sean Jacobs ( eds), Encyclopedia of South Africa, Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2011.
Karlsson, Bengt G., Unruly hills : a political ecology of India's northeast, New York : Berghahn Books, c2011.
Lamming, George, The George Lamming reader : the aesthetics of decolonisation, edited by Anthony Bogues, Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.
LeBas, Adrienne, From protest to parties : party-building and democratization in Africa, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Lynch, Brian and Graham Hassall (eds), Resilience in the Pacific : addressing the critical issues : proceedings of a conference held in Wellington, New Zealand, 16-17 February 2011, Wellington : New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIIA), Victoria University of Wellington, 2011.
Lynch, Gabrielle, I say to you : ethnic politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya, Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
McCartney, Matthew, Pakistan : the political economy of growth, stagnation and the state, 1951-2009, London : Routledge, 2011.
MacKenzie, John M. and T.M. Devine. Scotland and the British Empire, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Ntumazah, Ndeh, Ndeh Ntumazah : a conversational auto-biography, edited and with an introduction, Linus T. Asong & Simon Ndeh Chi, Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research and Publishing, 2011.
Poliandri, Simone, First nations, identity, and reserve life : the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia, Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.
Proudfoot, Lindsay J. and Dianne Hall, Imperial spaces : placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia, Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press , 2011.
Rawat, Ramnarayan S., Reconsidering untouchability : Chamars and Dalit history in North India, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Ricatti, Francesco, Embodying migrants : Italians in postwar Australia, Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.
Reno, William, Warfare in independent Africa, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Ryan, Orla, Chocolate nations : living and dying for cocoa in West Africa, London : Zed , 2011.
Saikia, Pahi, Ethnic mobilisation and violence in Northeast India, New Delhi ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Sanders, Peter, 'Throwing down white man' : Cape rule and misrule in colonial Lesotho, 1871-1884, Pontypool, Wales : Merlin Press, 2011.
Schwarz, Bill, The white man's world, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Srinivasan, T. N., Growth, sustainability, and India's economic reforms, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Steel, Frances, Oceania under steam : sea transport and the cultures of colonialism, c. 1870-1914, Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Tarimo, Aquiline, Ethnicity, citizenship and state in Eastern Africa, Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa, 2011
Thorat, Sukhadeo, Dalits in India : search for a common destiny, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2009.
Toor, Saadia, The state of Islam : culture and Cold War politics in Pakistan, London : Pluto, 2011.
Wilson, David A., Thomas D'Arcy McGee (2 volumes), Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008-2011. Dianne Hall. (Contents v. 1. Passion, reason, and politics, 1825-1857 -- v. 2. The extreme moderate, 1857-1868.)
World Bank, Poverty and social exclusion in India, Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2011.
Anyanwu, Ogechi Emmanuel, The politics of access : university education and nation-building in Nigeria, 1948-2000, Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2011.
Atangana, Martin-René, The end of French rule in Cameroon, Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010.
Bajpai, Rochana, Debating difference : group rights and liberal democracy in India, New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Bissell, William Cunningham, Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Boateng, Boatema, The copyright thing doesn't work here : Adinkra and Kente cloth and intellectual property in Ghana, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
Boraine, Alex, A country unmasked : Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Cape Town ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Branch, Daniel, Kenya : between hope and despair, 1963-2011, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.
Bueltmann, Tanja, Scottish ethnicity and the making of New Zealand society, 1850-1930, Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2011.
Cheru , Fantu and Cyril Obi (eds), The rise of China and India in Africa : challenges, opportunities and critical interventions, Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; London ; New York : Zed Books, 2010.
Cornelissen, Scarlett and Albert Grundlingh (eds), Sport past and present in South Africa, London : Routledge, 2012.
Featherstone, Lisa, Let's talk about sex : histories of sexuality in Australia from Federation to the pill, Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
Feminist Alternatives, My dream is to be bold : our work to end patriarchy, Cape Town ; Oxford : Pambazuka Press, 2011.
French, Patrick, India : a portrait, London : Allen Lane, 2011.
Ganguly, Sumit and Rahul Mukherji, India since 1980, Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Gott, Richard, Britain's empire : resistance, repression and revolt, London ; New York : Verso Books, 2011.
Gwyn, Richard, John A. : the man who made us : the life and times of John A. Macdonald, Toronto : Random House Canada, 2007-2011. (2 volumes)
Heinrich, V. Finn (ed), CIVICUS global survey of the state of civil society : Civil Society Index Project, 2003-2006 phase, Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, 2007-
Horn, Bernd, From Cold War to New Millennium : the history of the Royal Canadian Regiment, 1953-2008, Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2011.
Johnson, Krista and Sean Jacobs ( eds), Encyclopedia of South Africa, Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2011.
Karlsson, Bengt G., Unruly hills : a political ecology of India's northeast, New York : Berghahn Books, c2011.
Lamming, George, The George Lamming reader : the aesthetics of decolonisation, edited by Anthony Bogues, Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.
LeBas, Adrienne, From protest to parties : party-building and democratization in Africa, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Lynch, Brian and Graham Hassall (eds), Resilience in the Pacific : addressing the critical issues : proceedings of a conference held in Wellington, New Zealand, 16-17 February 2011, Wellington : New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIIA), Victoria University of Wellington, 2011.
Lynch, Gabrielle, I say to you : ethnic politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya, Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
McCartney, Matthew, Pakistan : the political economy of growth, stagnation and the state, 1951-2009, London : Routledge, 2011.
MacKenzie, John M. and T.M. Devine. Scotland and the British Empire, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Ntumazah, Ndeh, Ndeh Ntumazah : a conversational auto-biography, edited and with an introduction, Linus T. Asong & Simon Ndeh Chi, Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research and Publishing, 2011.
Poliandri, Simone, First nations, identity, and reserve life : the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia, Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.
Proudfoot, Lindsay J. and Dianne Hall, Imperial spaces : placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia, Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press , 2011.
Rawat, Ramnarayan S., Reconsidering untouchability : Chamars and Dalit history in North India, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Ricatti, Francesco, Embodying migrants : Italians in postwar Australia, Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.
Reno, William, Warfare in independent Africa, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Ryan, Orla, Chocolate nations : living and dying for cocoa in West Africa, London : Zed , 2011.
Saikia, Pahi, Ethnic mobilisation and violence in Northeast India, New Delhi ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Sanders, Peter, 'Throwing down white man' : Cape rule and misrule in colonial Lesotho, 1871-1884, Pontypool, Wales : Merlin Press, 2011.
Schwarz, Bill, The white man's world, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Srinivasan, T. N., Growth, sustainability, and India's economic reforms, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Steel, Frances, Oceania under steam : sea transport and the cultures of colonialism, c. 1870-1914, Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Tarimo, Aquiline, Ethnicity, citizenship and state in Eastern Africa, Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa, 2011
Thorat, Sukhadeo, Dalits in India : search for a common destiny, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2009.
Toor, Saadia, The state of Islam : culture and Cold War politics in Pakistan, London : Pluto, 2011.
Wilson, David A., Thomas D'Arcy McGee (2 volumes), Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008-2011. Dianne Hall. (Contents v. 1. Passion, reason, and politics, 1825-1857 -- v. 2. The extreme moderate, 1857-1868.)
World Bank, Poverty and social exclusion in India, Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2011.
Thursday 1 March 2012
Diamond Jubilee Seminar ‘The monarchy, the Commonwealth and the media’, 20 March 2012
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is pleased to announce the second seminar in its Diamond Jubilee Series: ‘The monarchy, the Commonwealth and the media’ will be held on 20 March 2012.
The shedding of media light on the mystery of the monarchy has sometimes been engineered and sometimes accidental – but always remorseless. Alongside the triumphs, there have been the dark days of the death of Princess Diana, ‘Annus Horribilis’, and the hacking of royal phones. This seminar asks: can the monarchy survive its dealings with the media – or is that relationship the secret of its survival? The panellists discussing the relationship between the monarchy and the media will be Charles Anson CVO (former Press Secretary to the Queen), Tom Corby MVO (former Court Correspondent of the Press Association), and Keshini Navaratnam (former BBC World TV presenter).
The seminar will take place on Tuesday 20 March at 5.30pm in The Senate Room, Senate House, Malet Street WC1E 7HU. All are welcome; the seminar is free to attend. Booking is essential as places are limited, please email chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
The Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series was launched by the Chancellor of the University of London, the Princess Royal, on 11 January 2012. The series, which marks the Diamond Jubilee Year by exploring the relationship between the monarchy and the Commonwealth, will run throughout 2012. Information on forthcoming seminars will be posted to the Institute’s events pages.
The shedding of media light on the mystery of the monarchy has sometimes been engineered and sometimes accidental – but always remorseless. Alongside the triumphs, there have been the dark days of the death of Princess Diana, ‘Annus Horribilis’, and the hacking of royal phones. This seminar asks: can the monarchy survive its dealings with the media – or is that relationship the secret of its survival? The panellists discussing the relationship between the monarchy and the media will be Charles Anson CVO (former Press Secretary to the Queen), Tom Corby MVO (former Court Correspondent of the Press Association), and Keshini Navaratnam (former BBC World TV presenter).
The seminar will take place on Tuesday 20 March at 5.30pm in The Senate Room, Senate House, Malet Street WC1E 7HU. All are welcome; the seminar is free to attend. Booking is essential as places are limited, please email chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
The Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series was launched by the Chancellor of the University of London, the Princess Royal, on 11 January 2012. The series, which marks the Diamond Jubilee Year by exploring the relationship between the monarchy and the Commonwealth, will run throughout 2012. Information on forthcoming seminars will be posted to the Institute’s events pages.
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