SCOLMA UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa
SCOLMA Seminar: The Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa in Transition
Mark Weston: Writer, researcher and policy advisor
1.00pm Wednesday 7th November 2012
Room B111
Brunei Gallery
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
For further information please contact Daniel Gilfoyle daviel.gilfoyle@nationalarchives.gov.uk
For infomration on SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminars and other events see the SCOLMA website http://scolma.org
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Monday, 15 October 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
SCOLMA 50th anniversary conference, June 25–26 2012
SCOLMA 50th anniversary conference, June 25–26 2012,
Rothermere American Institute, Oxford
Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
Provisional Programme
(NB This programme is subject to change)
Monday 25 June
9.00–10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00–11.00 Keynote: Dr John Darwin, Beit University Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth, Nuffield College, Oxford ‘Africa in Global History’
11.00–12.30 Panel 1
Jos Damen, African Studies Centre, Leiden ‘Who needs a paper library in Africa?’
Jonathan Harle, Association of Commonwealth Universities ‘Understanding the research environments of African universities and their implications for the use of digital resources’
Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace, British Library ‘African studies in the digital age: Challenges for research and national libraries’
12.30–1.30 Lunch
1.30–3.00 Panels 2 & 3 in parallel
Panel 2
Daniel A. Reboussin, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida ‘Library research behaviour in the digital environment: Implications for librarians’
Brenda van Wyk, UNIZULU Library Service, University of Zululand ‘Information and content management of institutional repositories in southern Africa: A comparative study’
Pier Luigi Rossi, Research Institute for Development (IRD), Bondy ‘Log analysis and text mining on internet access to dissertations of the Dakar sports faculty (INSEPS)’
Panel 3
Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town, and Peter Limb, Michigan State University ‘Southern African history in the digital era’
Angel David Nieves, Hamilton College and Marla Jaksch, The College of New Jersey ‘Using digital history to narrate the liberation struggle in Tanzania and South Africa’
Lucia Lovison-Golob, Afriterra Foundation (tbc) The Integration of Historical Cartography into Present-Day Cartography: The Darfur Case’
3.00–3.30 Tea
3.30–5.00 Panels 4 & 5 in parallel
Panel 4
Simon Tanner, King’s College London ‘The impact of digitisation in Africa’
James Lowry, International Records Management Trust ‘Digitising colonial and post-independence government papers in Kenya’
Edgar Taylor, Ashley Rockenbach and Natalie Bond, University of Michigan ‘Archives and the past: Cataloging and digitization in Uganda’s archives’
Panel 5
Kate Haines, University of Sussex ‘Dialogue, text and memory: Social media and literary responses to the post-election violence in Kenya’
Jenni Orme, The National Archives (UK) ‘Viewing “Africa through a lens”: Using digitisation and online tools at The National Archives to widen audience reach’
Thomas Sharp, University of Manchester ‘A counter-hegemonic archive? The revelation of hidden histories on the internet: a case study from Cameroon’
5.15 Tour of Rhodes House
7.00 SCOLMA Golden Jubilee conference dinner
St Cross College
Guest speaker: Professor John McIlwaine, Emeritus Professor of the Bibliography of Asia and Africa, University College London
Tuesday 26 June
9.30–10.15 Keynote: Christine Kanyengo, Deputy Librarian, University of Zambia Library
10.15–10.45 Coffee
10.45–12.30 Panel 6
Stephanie Newell, University of Sussex ‘From stacks to pixels: How archival preservation shapes (re)search methods in African news’
John Pinfold ‘“Can you write a biography without papers?”: Researching the life of African adventurer Herbert Rhodes’
Diana Jeater, University of the West of England ‘Data, data everywhere, but not a byte to think: Use of digital resources in the HE Humanities sector in southern Africa’
12.30–2.00 Lunch and SCOLMA AGM
2.00–3.30 Panels 7 & 8 in parallel
Panel 7
Michelle Guittar & David L. Easterbrook, Melville J. Herskovits Library, Northwestern University ‘Digitization at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies: A consideration of processes and outcomes’
Geoffrey Mukasa, University Library, Uganda Christian University Library, Mukono (tbc) ‘Digital library information resources in Uganda’
Guy Thomas, Archives and Library, Basel Mission ‘Reconfiguring concepts of living archives through remote access’
Panel 8
Gabriela Redwine, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin ‘At home and abroad: Born-digital African literary archives in the digital age’
Amidu Sanni, Lagos State University (tbc) ‘The West African Arabic manuscript heritage: challenges of the digital revolution in a research economy’
Korklu Laryea, University Library, University of Ghana (tbc) ‘Research pathways in African studies’
Massimo Zaccaria, University of Pavia ‘Recovering the African printed past. The case of a dispersed collection and the attempt to virtually rejoin it: the Eritrean case’
3.30–4.00 Coffee
4.00–5.00 Plenary: Dis/connects: Building and maintaining digital libraries on Africa
Led by Peter Limb, Michigan State University
For enquiries and bookings please contact the SCOLMA Secretary:
Lucy McCann, Archivist, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 270908 Email: mailto:lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
SCOLMA website: http://www.scolma.org/
Rothermere American Institute, Oxford
Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
Provisional Programme
(NB This programme is subject to change)
Monday 25 June
9.00–10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00–11.00 Keynote: Dr John Darwin, Beit University Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth, Nuffield College, Oxford ‘Africa in Global History’
11.00–12.30 Panel 1
Jos Damen, African Studies Centre, Leiden ‘Who needs a paper library in Africa?’
Jonathan Harle, Association of Commonwealth Universities ‘Understanding the research environments of African universities and their implications for the use of digital resources’
Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace, British Library ‘African studies in the digital age: Challenges for research and national libraries’
12.30–1.30 Lunch
1.30–3.00 Panels 2 & 3 in parallel
Panel 2
Daniel A. Reboussin, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida ‘Library research behaviour in the digital environment: Implications for librarians’
Brenda van Wyk, UNIZULU Library Service, University of Zululand ‘Information and content management of institutional repositories in southern Africa: A comparative study’
Pier Luigi Rossi, Research Institute for Development (IRD), Bondy ‘Log analysis and text mining on internet access to dissertations of the Dakar sports faculty (INSEPS)’
Panel 3
Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town, and Peter Limb, Michigan State University ‘Southern African history in the digital era’
Angel David Nieves, Hamilton College and Marla Jaksch, The College of New Jersey ‘Using digital history to narrate the liberation struggle in Tanzania and South Africa’
Lucia Lovison-Golob, Afriterra Foundation (tbc) The Integration of Historical Cartography into Present-Day Cartography: The Darfur Case’
3.00–3.30 Tea
3.30–5.00 Panels 4 & 5 in parallel
Panel 4
Simon Tanner, King’s College London ‘The impact of digitisation in Africa’
James Lowry, International Records Management Trust ‘Digitising colonial and post-independence government papers in Kenya’
Edgar Taylor, Ashley Rockenbach and Natalie Bond, University of Michigan ‘Archives and the past: Cataloging and digitization in Uganda’s archives’
Panel 5
Kate Haines, University of Sussex ‘Dialogue, text and memory: Social media and literary responses to the post-election violence in Kenya’
Jenni Orme, The National Archives (UK) ‘Viewing “Africa through a lens”: Using digitisation and online tools at The National Archives to widen audience reach’
Thomas Sharp, University of Manchester ‘A counter-hegemonic archive? The revelation of hidden histories on the internet: a case study from Cameroon’
5.15 Tour of Rhodes House
7.00 SCOLMA Golden Jubilee conference dinner
St Cross College
Guest speaker: Professor John McIlwaine, Emeritus Professor of the Bibliography of Asia and Africa, University College London
Tuesday 26 June
9.30–10.15 Keynote: Christine Kanyengo, Deputy Librarian, University of Zambia Library
10.15–10.45 Coffee
10.45–12.30 Panel 6
Stephanie Newell, University of Sussex ‘From stacks to pixels: How archival preservation shapes (re)search methods in African news’
John Pinfold ‘“Can you write a biography without papers?”: Researching the life of African adventurer Herbert Rhodes’
Diana Jeater, University of the West of England ‘Data, data everywhere, but not a byte to think: Use of digital resources in the HE Humanities sector in southern Africa’
12.30–2.00 Lunch and SCOLMA AGM
2.00–3.30 Panels 7 & 8 in parallel
Panel 7
Michelle Guittar & David L. Easterbrook, Melville J. Herskovits Library, Northwestern University ‘Digitization at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies: A consideration of processes and outcomes’
Geoffrey Mukasa, University Library, Uganda Christian University Library, Mukono (tbc) ‘Digital library information resources in Uganda’
Guy Thomas, Archives and Library, Basel Mission ‘Reconfiguring concepts of living archives through remote access’
Panel 8
Gabriela Redwine, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin ‘At home and abroad: Born-digital African literary archives in the digital age’
Amidu Sanni, Lagos State University (tbc) ‘The West African Arabic manuscript heritage: challenges of the digital revolution in a research economy’
Korklu Laryea, University Library, University of Ghana (tbc) ‘Research pathways in African studies’
Massimo Zaccaria, University of Pavia ‘Recovering the African printed past. The case of a dispersed collection and the attempt to virtually rejoin it: the Eritrean case’
3.30–4.00 Coffee
4.00–5.00 Plenary: Dis/connects: Building and maintaining digital libraries on Africa
Led by Peter Limb, Michigan State University
For enquiries and bookings please contact the SCOLMA Secretary:
Lucy McCann, Archivist, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 270908 Email: mailto:lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
SCOLMA website: http://www.scolma.org/
Thursday, 22 September 2011
CFP: Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
SCOLMA: The UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa
50th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
Oxford, 25–26 June 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
The digital revolution is profoundly affecting African studies. New digital resources are making available large areas of content, as well as greatly improving access to bibliographies. In Africa, governments and NGOs are publishing online, some publishers are moving to print on demand and e-books, and international academic journals are increasingly becoming available in university and national libraries.
Yet the story, as is well-known, is far from straightforward or unproblematic. This conference will mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of SCOLMA by taking a critical look at the field of African studies and how it is changing. In particular, although there has been much discussion of new digital resources and what their creators plan to do, we have a limited understanding of their impact on their users and on knowledge production in general. For example, what are the implications for historical research of the availability of digitised sources, and of the choices made in their selection? How do social science researchers work in a field in which much, but not everything, is now available online? Are e-journals – or indeed mobile phones – beginning to change the research process in Africa? And, more generally, how have broader historical and political developments changed African studies and librarianship over the last half-century?
We welcome papers on these themes across the humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences. Papers may deal with digital content, whether digitised or born-digital, of any kind, e.g. archives and manuscripts; audio-visual material; maps; newspapers; books, journals and theses; photographs, prints, drawings and paintings; ephemera; statistical databases; and social media.
The conference will bring together academics and other researchers with librarians and archivists. We aim thus to have a productive exchange of expertise, experience and analysis on the question of knowledge production in African studies.
Themes may include, but are not limited to:
• How scholars, researchers, librarians and archivists use digitised resources.
• How African studies is changing, and the place of the digital revolution in these changes.
• Access to, selection of, and training in the use of digital resources in the library context. Are resources under-used?
• To pay or not to pay? How easy is it for researchers to find subscription e-resources? And for libraries to fund them? What is the balance of free and charged resources in the research process? How well do the models for making e-resources available in Africa work?
• How well does user consultation work?
• Access to the technology that underpins e-resources.
• Digital scholarship: are scholars in African studies using digital collections to generate new intellectual products?
• The impact of mobile phone technology on African studies.
• How patchy is the creation of digital resources, and what – and who – is being left behind?
• Language in Africa and new technology.
One-page abstracts of papers on these themes are warmly welcomed. If you would like to give a paper, please send your abstract to
Lucy McCann
SCOLMA Secretary
Email: lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Tel.: 01865 270908
THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 31 OCTOBER 2011.
Papers in French are welcome if a summary is provided in English.
50th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
Oxford, 25–26 June 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
The digital revolution is profoundly affecting African studies. New digital resources are making available large areas of content, as well as greatly improving access to bibliographies. In Africa, governments and NGOs are publishing online, some publishers are moving to print on demand and e-books, and international academic journals are increasingly becoming available in university and national libraries.
Yet the story, as is well-known, is far from straightforward or unproblematic. This conference will mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of SCOLMA by taking a critical look at the field of African studies and how it is changing. In particular, although there has been much discussion of new digital resources and what their creators plan to do, we have a limited understanding of their impact on their users and on knowledge production in general. For example, what are the implications for historical research of the availability of digitised sources, and of the choices made in their selection? How do social science researchers work in a field in which much, but not everything, is now available online? Are e-journals – or indeed mobile phones – beginning to change the research process in Africa? And, more generally, how have broader historical and political developments changed African studies and librarianship over the last half-century?
We welcome papers on these themes across the humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences. Papers may deal with digital content, whether digitised or born-digital, of any kind, e.g. archives and manuscripts; audio-visual material; maps; newspapers; books, journals and theses; photographs, prints, drawings and paintings; ephemera; statistical databases; and social media.
The conference will bring together academics and other researchers with librarians and archivists. We aim thus to have a productive exchange of expertise, experience and analysis on the question of knowledge production in African studies.
Themes may include, but are not limited to:
• How scholars, researchers, librarians and archivists use digitised resources.
• How African studies is changing, and the place of the digital revolution in these changes.
• Access to, selection of, and training in the use of digital resources in the library context. Are resources under-used?
• To pay or not to pay? How easy is it for researchers to find subscription e-resources? And for libraries to fund them? What is the balance of free and charged resources in the research process? How well do the models for making e-resources available in Africa work?
• How well does user consultation work?
• Access to the technology that underpins e-resources.
• Digital scholarship: are scholars in African studies using digital collections to generate new intellectual products?
• The impact of mobile phone technology on African studies.
• How patchy is the creation of digital resources, and what – and who – is being left behind?
• Language in Africa and new technology.
One-page abstracts of papers on these themes are warmly welcomed. If you would like to give a paper, please send your abstract to
Lucy McCann
SCOLMA Secretary
Email: lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Tel.: 01865 270908
THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 31 OCTOBER 2011.
Papers in French are welcome if a summary is provided in English.
Friday, 15 July 2011
CFP: SCOLMA 50th Anniversary Conference: Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
SCOLMA: The UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa
50th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
Oxford, 25–26 June 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
The digital revolution is profoundly affecting African studies. New digital resources are making available large areas of content, as well as greatly improving access to bibliographies. In Africa, governments and NGOs are publishing online, some publishers are moving to print on demand and e-books, and international academic journals are increasingly becoming available in university and national libraries.
Yet the story, as is well-known, is far from straightforward or unproblematic. This conference will mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of SCOLMA by taking a critical look at the field of African studies and how it is changing. In particular, although there has been much discussion of new digital resources and what their creators plan to do, we have a limited understanding of their impact on their users and on knowledge production in general. For example, what are the implications for historical research of the availability of digitised sources, and of the choices made in their selection? How do social science researchers work in a field in which much, but not everything, is now available online? Are e-journals – or indeed mobile phones – beginning to change the research process in Africa? And, more generally, how have broader historical and political developments changed African studies and librarianship over the last half-century?
We welcome papers on these themes across the humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences. Papers may deal with digital content, whether digitised or born-digital, of any kind, e.g. archives and manuscripts; audio-visual material; maps; newspapers; books, journals and theses; photographs, prints, drawings and paintings; ephemera; statistical databases; and social media.
The conference will bring together academics and other researchers with librarians and archivists. We aim thus to have a productive exchange of expertise, experience and analysis on the question of knowledge production in African studies.
Themes may include, but are not limited to:
• How scholars, researchers, librarians and archivists use digitised resources.
• How African studies is changing, and the place of the digital revolution in these changes.
• Access to, selection of, and training in the use of digital resources in the library context. Are resources under-used?
• To pay or not to pay? How easy is it for researchers to find subscription e-resources? And for libraries to fund them? What is the balance of free and charged resources in the research process? How well do the models for making e-resources available in Africa work?
• How well does user consultation work?
• Access to the technology that underpins e-resources.
• Digital scholarship: are scholars in African studies using digital collections to generate new intellectual products?
• The impact of mobile phone technology on African studies.
• How patchy is the creation of digital resources, and what – and who – is being left behind?
• Language in Africa and new technology.
One-page abstracts of papers on these themes are warmly welcomed. If you would like to give a paper, please send your abstract to
Lucy McCann
SCOLMA Secretary
Email: lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Tel.: 01865 270908
THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 31 OCTOBER 2011.
Papers in French are welcome if a summary is provided in English.
Monday, 9 May 2011
SCOLMA Conference: Sport in Africa: History, Politics and the Archive
Sport in Africa: History, Politics and the Archive
SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Annual Conference
The National Archives, Kew, London, Wednesday 29th June 2011
Programme
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Welcome
10.10 Keynote Address
Professor Tony Mangan, formerly of the University of Strathclyde
‘A COLLAGE OF COMMENTARIES ON A CULTURAL IMPERIAL COMPULSION’
‘ ... this is the game for gentlemen
Till on our race the sun shall set.
The greatest glory of our land
Whose crimson covers half the maps
Is in the field where the wickets stand
And the game is played by DECENT CHAPS’
"The Short Cut" Donald Hughes
11.00 Dean Allen, University of Stellenbosch
‘South African Sports History and the Archive’
11.40 Susann Baller, University of Basel
‘The politics of match reports, minutes and archives in national neighbourhood football championships in Senegal’
12.20 Holly Collison, Brunel University
‘Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction: the role of sport in post war Liberia’
And
Michelle Sikes, University of Oxford
‘The Only Sport in [Eldoret] Town: Lessons from the Fastest Women in Kenya’
1.15 Lunch and SCOLMA AGM
A display of photographs of elite women’s football in Africa will be shown by Wisemove Productions during the lunch break.
2.15 Michelle Guittar and David Easterbrook, Melville J. Herskovits
Library of African Studies, Northwestern University
‘Materials relating to sport in Africa in the collections of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University: an overview’
3.00 Pascal Charitas, Université Paris Sud 11
‘Colonial and post-colonial sport and the Olympic movement in English-speaking Africa after the Second World War (1945-1965): review, reflection and perspectives’
3.40 Karl Magee, University of Stirling
‘Boycotts and bailouts: the archives of the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland’
4.20 Jonty Winch, University of Stellenbosch
‘Cricket and War in early Rhodesia, 1890-7’
5.00 Conclusion
5.15 Drinks
SCOLMA would like to thank The National Archives for providing the venue.
Please note that this programme is subject to change.
To register for the conference, please contact Lucy McCann at lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
SCOLMA website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/
SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Annual Conference
The National Archives, Kew, London, Wednesday 29th June 2011
Programme
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Welcome
10.10 Keynote Address
Professor Tony Mangan, formerly of the University of Strathclyde
‘A COLLAGE OF COMMENTARIES ON A CULTURAL IMPERIAL COMPULSION’
‘ ... this is the game for gentlemen
Till on our race the sun shall set.
The greatest glory of our land
Whose crimson covers half the maps
Is in the field where the wickets stand
And the game is played by DECENT CHAPS’
"The Short Cut" Donald Hughes
11.00 Dean Allen, University of Stellenbosch
‘South African Sports History and the Archive’
11.40 Susann Baller, University of Basel
‘The politics of match reports, minutes and archives in national neighbourhood football championships in Senegal’
12.20 Holly Collison, Brunel University
‘Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction: the role of sport in post war Liberia’
And
Michelle Sikes, University of Oxford
‘The Only Sport in [Eldoret] Town: Lessons from the Fastest Women in Kenya’
1.15 Lunch and SCOLMA AGM
A display of photographs of elite women’s football in Africa will be shown by Wisemove Productions during the lunch break.
2.15 Michelle Guittar and David Easterbrook, Melville J. Herskovits
Library of African Studies, Northwestern University
‘Materials relating to sport in Africa in the collections of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University: an overview’
3.00 Pascal Charitas, Université Paris Sud 11
‘Colonial and post-colonial sport and the Olympic movement in English-speaking Africa after the Second World War (1945-1965): review, reflection and perspectives’
3.40 Karl Magee, University of Stirling
‘Boycotts and bailouts: the archives of the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland’
4.20 Jonty Winch, University of Stellenbosch
‘Cricket and War in early Rhodesia, 1890-7’
5.00 Conclusion
5.15 Drinks
SCOLMA would like to thank The National Archives for providing the venue.
Please note that this programme is subject to change.
To register for the conference, please contact Lucy McCann at lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
SCOLMA website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Film as a powerful tool for social change in Africa
SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminars
Film as a powerful tool for social change in Africa - Dr Dominique Chadwick, Cambridge-based practitioner in film and development.
Monday 9th May, 1pm
Friends House
173 Euston Road
London NW1 2BJ
This discussion-based seminar will explore different applications of film in social development: as a campaigning tool; as a documentation tool; and as an empowering tool through the participative processes of film-making.
It will draw on a variety of short clips of films set in Africa, taken from the work of Dr Chadwick. The clips will be used to stimulate discussion on a range of themes such as development process, power relations, and the role of the external filmmaker.
Please note that as this event is being held in the Library at Friends House, food and drink are not permitted.
Contact Marilyn Glanfield if you would like to attend: meg23@cam.ac.uk or 01223 334398
Film as a powerful tool for social change in Africa - Dr Dominique Chadwick, Cambridge-based practitioner in film and development.
Monday 9th May, 1pm
Friends House
173 Euston Road
London NW1 2BJ
This discussion-based seminar will explore different applications of film in social development: as a campaigning tool; as a documentation tool; and as an empowering tool through the participative processes of film-making.
It will draw on a variety of short clips of films set in Africa, taken from the work of Dr Chadwick. The clips will be used to stimulate discussion on a range of themes such as development process, power relations, and the role of the external filmmaker.
Please note that as this event is being held in the Library at Friends House, food and drink are not permitted.
Contact Marilyn Glanfield if you would like to attend: meg23@cam.ac.uk or 01223 334398
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
CFP: SCOLMA Conference, SPORT IN AFRICA: HISTORY, POLITICS AND THE ARCHIVE
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library is a member of SCOLMA the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa. SCOLMA's conference this year look at sports, opening up the opportunity to consider topics such as sporting links with and boycotts of apartheid South Africa, the recent World Cup, development of specific sports in African countries, the relationship of sport and gender, sport and development, sport and society, and sport and imperialism.
CALL FOR PAPERS: SPORT IN AFRICA: HISTORY, POLITICS AND THE ARCHIVE
Proposals are sought for a one day conference to be organised by SCOLMA, the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa.
Date: Wednesday 29 June 2011
Venue: The National Archives, Kew, London
We are interested in proposals from librarians, archivists and academic researchers on any aspect of the history and politics of sport in Africa, from any period, particularly those that focus on sources, whether printed, manuscript or audio-visual, including memorabilia.
Please send proposals (max. 200 words) to:
Lucy McCann
Secretary, SCOLMA,
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House
Lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS: SPORT IN AFRICA: HISTORY, POLITICS AND THE ARCHIVE
Proposals are sought for a one day conference to be organised by SCOLMA, the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa.
Date: Wednesday 29 June 2011
Venue: The National Archives, Kew, London
We are interested in proposals from librarians, archivists and academic researchers on any aspect of the history and politics of sport in Africa, from any period, particularly those that focus on sources, whether printed, manuscript or audio-visual, including memorabilia.
Please send proposals (max. 200 words) to:
Lucy McCann
Secretary, SCOLMA,
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House
Lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2011
Thursday, 20 May 2010
The Real Story? Personal Papers, Life Histories and Africa
The final programme is now available for this years SCOLMA Conference, focusing on personal papers. There are limited places remaining for this conference so if you would like to attend please register as soon as possible.
The Real Story? Personal Papers, Life Histories and Africa
SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Annual Conference
British Library Conference Centre, London, 8th June 2010
Programme
9.30 Registration
(Refreshments available from the British Library’s Piazza café, The Last Word)
10.00 Welcome (Meeting Room 2)
10.10 Keynote (Meeting Room 2)
David Killingray, Goldsmiths College, University of London '“Tin Trunk Literati” and Beyond: Hidden Sources for Africa’s History’
11.00 Coffee and tea (Meeting Room 2)
11.30 Panels 1 and 2 (in parallel)
Panel 1 (Meeting Room 4)
Private Papers, Politics and Activism
Hakim Adi ‘The Solanke Papers and the West African Students’ Union’
M. Amzat Boukari-Yabara, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris ‘Looking at the Walter Rodney Papers: Atlanta, Georgetown and London’
Gwil Colenso ‘The Colenso papers: documenting an extensive chain of influence from Zululand to Britain’
Kate Law, University of Sheffield ‘Making Marmalade and Imperial Mentalities’
Panel 2 (Meeting Room 3)
New Ways with Old Papers
Marion Frank-Wilson, Librarian for African Studies, Indiana University ‘Africana Personal Papers at Indiana University – Issues and Questions’
Rose Kgosiemang, University of Botswana Library‘Libraries and Personal Archives, with Reference to the University of Botswana Library’
Liz Stanley, University of Edinburgh and Helen Dampier, Leeds Metropolitan University ‘The Olive Schreiner Letters Project’
1.00 Lunch (Meeting Room 2)
2.00 SCOLMA AGM (Meeting Room 4) All SCOLMA members and observers welcome
2.30 Panels 3 and 4 (in parallel)
Panel 3 (Meeting Room 3)
Individuals and the State: What Private Papers Tell Us
Ackson Kanduza, University of Botswana ‘Who Leaves Private Papers? The Example of Msindazwe Sukati in Swaziland’
Miles Larmer, University of Sheffield ‘Chronicle of a Coup Foretold: The Life-writing of Valentine Musakanya and the Role of Biography in Post-Colonial Zambian History’
Sylvia Lynn-Meaden ‘The Long Garden Master, Charles Lynn: An Agricultural Officer in Gold Coast and Northern Rhodesia’
Panel 4 (Meeting Room 4)
Diaries and Life-writing
Olufunke Adeboye, University of Lagos‘The Private Papers Of Akinpelu Obisesan: Prospects And Limits’
Victoria Cranna, Archives of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ‘Life in Uganda in the 1920s – the Diary of Geoffrey and Amy Carpenter’
Aldwin Roes, University of Sheffield ‘Following Milestones and Breaking New Ground: the Robert Williams Papers and the Expansion of the South African Mining Frontier’
4.00 Coffee and tea (Meeting Room 2)
4.30 Rahim Rajan, Content Development Manager, Aluka (Meeting Room 2)
‘Building Scholarly Digital Collections to Enhance the Research and Teaching of Africa’
5.00 Plenary panel (Meeting Room 2)
Personal Papers: What are the Issues for Libraries and Archives?
David Clover, Librarian, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Lucy McCann, Archivist, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, Oxford
Dag Henrichsen, Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Jeremy John, Curator, e-Manuscripts, British Library
Janet Topp Fargion, World and Traditional Music Curator, British Library
Peter Limb, Africana Bibliographer /Associate Professor, History, Michigan State University
6.00 Reception (Meeting Room 4)
SCOLMA would like to thank JSTOR / Aluka and the Cambridge University Press for generous sponsorship of this conference and the preceding librarians’ meeting, and the British Library for providing the venue.
Please note that this programme is subject to change.
To register for the conference, please contact Lucy McCann at lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
SCOLMA website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/
The Real Story? Personal Papers, Life Histories and Africa
SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Annual Conference
British Library Conference Centre, London, 8th June 2010
Programme
9.30 Registration
(Refreshments available from the British Library’s Piazza café, The Last Word)
10.00 Welcome (Meeting Room 2)
10.10 Keynote (Meeting Room 2)
David Killingray, Goldsmiths College, University of London '“Tin Trunk Literati” and Beyond: Hidden Sources for Africa’s History’
11.00 Coffee and tea (Meeting Room 2)
11.30 Panels 1 and 2 (in parallel)
Panel 1 (Meeting Room 4)
Private Papers, Politics and Activism
Hakim Adi ‘The Solanke Papers and the West African Students’ Union’
M. Amzat Boukari-Yabara, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris ‘Looking at the Walter Rodney Papers: Atlanta, Georgetown and London’
Gwil Colenso ‘The Colenso papers: documenting an extensive chain of influence from Zululand to Britain’
Kate Law, University of Sheffield ‘Making Marmalade and Imperial Mentalities’
Panel 2 (Meeting Room 3)
New Ways with Old Papers
Marion Frank-Wilson, Librarian for African Studies, Indiana University ‘Africana Personal Papers at Indiana University – Issues and Questions’
Rose Kgosiemang, University of Botswana Library‘Libraries and Personal Archives, with Reference to the University of Botswana Library’
Liz Stanley, University of Edinburgh and Helen Dampier, Leeds Metropolitan University ‘The Olive Schreiner Letters Project’
1.00 Lunch (Meeting Room 2)
2.00 SCOLMA AGM (Meeting Room 4) All SCOLMA members and observers welcome
2.30 Panels 3 and 4 (in parallel)
Panel 3 (Meeting Room 3)
Individuals and the State: What Private Papers Tell Us
Ackson Kanduza, University of Botswana ‘Who Leaves Private Papers? The Example of Msindazwe Sukati in Swaziland’
Miles Larmer, University of Sheffield ‘Chronicle of a Coup Foretold: The Life-writing of Valentine Musakanya and the Role of Biography in Post-Colonial Zambian History’
Sylvia Lynn-Meaden ‘The Long Garden Master, Charles Lynn: An Agricultural Officer in Gold Coast and Northern Rhodesia’
Panel 4 (Meeting Room 4)
Diaries and Life-writing
Olufunke Adeboye, University of Lagos‘The Private Papers Of Akinpelu Obisesan: Prospects And Limits’
Victoria Cranna, Archives of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ‘Life in Uganda in the 1920s – the Diary of Geoffrey and Amy Carpenter’
Aldwin Roes, University of Sheffield ‘Following Milestones and Breaking New Ground: the Robert Williams Papers and the Expansion of the South African Mining Frontier’
4.00 Coffee and tea (Meeting Room 2)
4.30 Rahim Rajan, Content Development Manager, Aluka (Meeting Room 2)
‘Building Scholarly Digital Collections to Enhance the Research and Teaching of Africa’
5.00 Plenary panel (Meeting Room 2)
Personal Papers: What are the Issues for Libraries and Archives?
David Clover, Librarian, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Lucy McCann, Archivist, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, Oxford
Dag Henrichsen, Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Jeremy John, Curator, e-Manuscripts, British Library
Janet Topp Fargion, World and Traditional Music Curator, British Library
Peter Limb, Africana Bibliographer /Associate Professor, History, Michigan State University
6.00 Reception (Meeting Room 4)
SCOLMA would like to thank JSTOR / Aluka and the Cambridge University Press for generous sponsorship of this conference and the preceding librarians’ meeting, and the British Library for providing the venue.
Please note that this programme is subject to change.
To register for the conference, please contact Lucy McCann at lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
SCOLMA website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/
Friday, 9 October 2009
SCOLMA UK Library and Archives Group on Africa Seminar
The Library is pleased to be hosting the next SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminar:
Dr Susan Williams, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
"Jazz, photographs and YouTube: using modern media to enrich research on twentieth century Africa"
1PM; Wednesday 21st October , 2009
Room ST275, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN
Coffee and sandwiches from 12.30pm
Please contact Marilyn Glanfield (email: meg23@cam.ac.uk; telephone 01223 334398) if you wish to attend, indicating whether you would like sandwiches )
For information on SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminars and other events are see the SCOLMA website http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma
Dr Susan Williams, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
"Jazz, photographs and YouTube: using modern media to enrich research on twentieth century Africa"
1PM; Wednesday 21st October , 2009
Room ST275, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN
Coffee and sandwiches from 12.30pm
Please contact Marilyn Glanfield (email: meg23@cam.ac.uk; telephone 01223 334398) if you wish to attend, indicating whether you would like sandwiches )
For information on SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminars and other events are see the SCOLMA website http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma
Thursday, 30 April 2009
SCOLMA Annual Conference 2009
SCOLMA - UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa
Annual conference 2009: “Africa and the Moving Image: the role of libraries and archives”
Wednesday 17th June 2009
This day conference will explore questions relating to the production and preservation of moving image from and about Africa. What is happening in the world of African film and DVD production? What is the role of moving image in university teaching and research? How do image-based formats help us to understand African history, culture and politics? And what are libraries and archives doing to acquire and preserve this material, and to make it available?
Speakers:
Dr Guido Convents (anthropologist, historian and organiser of the Belgian African Film Festival)
Keith Shiri (Director, London African Film Festival)
Dr Sloan Mahone (University Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Oxford)
Prof. Vivian Bickford-Smith (Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town)
Dr Emma Hunter (Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge)
Dr Emma Sandon (Lecturer in Film and Media, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Susanne Hammacher (Film Officer, Royal Anthropological Institute, London)
Newnham College
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DF
Fee for the conference, which includes lunch and refreshments, is £40 (concessions £20)
For further information on the Conference go to: http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/conference.htm
Or contact Lucy McCann, SCOLMA Secretary, email: lucy.mccann@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Annual conference 2009: “Africa and the Moving Image: the role of libraries and archives”
Wednesday 17th June 2009
This day conference will explore questions relating to the production and preservation of moving image from and about Africa. What is happening in the world of African film and DVD production? What is the role of moving image in university teaching and research? How do image-based formats help us to understand African history, culture and politics? And what are libraries and archives doing to acquire and preserve this material, and to make it available?
Speakers:
Dr Guido Convents (anthropologist, historian and organiser of the Belgian African Film Festival)
Keith Shiri (Director, London African Film Festival)
Dr Sloan Mahone (University Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Oxford)
Prof. Vivian Bickford-Smith (Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town)
Dr Emma Hunter (Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge)
Dr Emma Sandon (Lecturer in Film and Media, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Susanne Hammacher (Film Officer, Royal Anthropological Institute, London)
Newnham College
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DF
Fee for the conference, which includes lunch and refreshments, is £40 (concessions £20)
For further information on the Conference go to: http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/conference.htm
Or contact Lucy McCann, SCOLMA Secretary, email: lucy.mccann@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Friday, 20 June 2008
SCOLMA Conference 2008
Last week’s SCOLMA conference focused on two projects, the Endangered Archives and Endangered Languages projects.
The Endangered Archives Programme, funded by Arcadia (formerly the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Trust) provides grants, administered by the British Library, to safeguard archival material at threat of being lost or destroyed. Archives have been defined widely to include rare printed sources (books, serials, newspapers, ephemera, etc.), manuscripts in any language, visual materials (drawings, paintings, prints, posters, photographs, etc.), audio or video recordings, digital data, and other objects and artefacts - but normally only where they are found in association with a documentary archive. The programme provides pilot project grants to investigate, survey collections and assess the feasibility of projects, as well as major research project grants which provide for surrogate copying and cataloguing of collections.
We heard from two projects that had been funded – David Zeitlyn talked about archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio; that of the studio photographer Jacques Touselle, with a collection of about 40,000 negatives; and Dr Siddig Elzailaee, discussed the endangered archives of Sudanese trade unions, 1899-2005. Both projects were extremely interesting and the talks revealed the risks archive collections face, as well as the richness of the content made available through these projects. Other countries in which projects have been funded include Tuvalu, Nigeria, India, East Timor, Cameroon, Ghana, Tanzania, Nevis, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Jamaica. Details of the programme and projects funded can be accessed at http://www.bl.uk/endangeredarchives
The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, also funded by Arcadia, is hosted at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies. Presentations by Prof Peter K. Austin and Dr Friederike Luepke, gave an overview of current research on endangered languages, and a case study of the Bainouk language in Senegal. It was enlightening to hear how attitudes to languages, the social spheres in which languages are used, and trends towards moving to cities impacted on indigenous and ancestral languages. The website for the project is available at: http://www.hrelp.org
The Endangered Archives Programme, funded by Arcadia (formerly the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Trust) provides grants, administered by the British Library, to safeguard archival material at threat of being lost or destroyed. Archives have been defined widely to include rare printed sources (books, serials, newspapers, ephemera, etc.), manuscripts in any language, visual materials (drawings, paintings, prints, posters, photographs, etc.), audio or video recordings, digital data, and other objects and artefacts - but normally only where they are found in association with a documentary archive. The programme provides pilot project grants to investigate, survey collections and assess the feasibility of projects, as well as major research project grants which provide for surrogate copying and cataloguing of collections.
We heard from two projects that had been funded – David Zeitlyn talked about archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio; that of the studio photographer Jacques Touselle, with a collection of about 40,000 negatives; and Dr Siddig Elzailaee, discussed the endangered archives of Sudanese trade unions, 1899-2005. Both projects were extremely interesting and the talks revealed the risks archive collections face, as well as the richness of the content made available through these projects. Other countries in which projects have been funded include Tuvalu, Nigeria, India, East Timor, Cameroon, Ghana, Tanzania, Nevis, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Jamaica. Details of the programme and projects funded can be accessed at http://www.bl.uk/endangeredarchives
The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, also funded by Arcadia, is hosted at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies. Presentations by Prof Peter K. Austin and Dr Friederike Luepke, gave an overview of current research on endangered languages, and a case study of the Bainouk language in Senegal. It was enlightening to hear how attitudes to languages, the social spheres in which languages are used, and trends towards moving to cities impacted on indigenous and ancestral languages. The website for the project is available at: http://www.hrelp.org
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
SCOLMA conference and ALUKA, online African resource
SCOLMA: The UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa had its annual conference last week. One presentation was from conference sponsor ALUKA, an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. The name, ‘Aluka’, derives from a Zulu word meaning ‘to weave’, reflecting Aluka’s mission to connect resources and scholars from around the world.
The ALUKA resource contains digitised content from Africa and elsewhere in three content areas or themes:
The ALUKA resource contains digitised content from Africa and elsewhere in three content areas or themes:
- African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes
- The African Plants Initiative
- Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa
The resource includes a wide variety of material, including photographs, letters, published works, illustrations, site plans, rock art images, maps, articles, plant specimens, oral testimonies, personal papers and newspaper reports.
Access from UK universities is free until the end of June: http://www.aluka.org/
ALUKA logo reproduced with permission
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