Please note that the Senate House Library Slavery archive subject guides have been upgraded.
They now include relevant archives held by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library, including Taylor Family, West India Committee, Castle Wemyss Estate and Sandbach Tinne and Co collections, adding to the Senate House Library collections, including those of the Akers Family and of William Hewitt
http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/archives/slaveryarchivesources.shtml
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Monday, 7 November 2011
Returns Box
Our ground floor book Returns Box is moving to the South Block reception from Monday 7th November.
The Returns Box can be used at anytime, including out of Library opening hours, but is cleared only once a day (just after the library opens in the morning).
The move to the South Block, is being done because the North Block is being closed for refurbishment from next week.
The Returns Box can be used at anytime, including out of Library opening hours, but is cleared only once a day (just after the library opens in the morning).
The move to the South Block, is being done because the North Block is being closed for refurbishment from next week.
Saturday, 5 November 2011
CFP: SUSTAINING CANADA: Past, Present and Future Environments, BACS 37th Annual Conference, 2-4 April 2012
SUSTAINING CANADA: Past, Present and Future Environments
BACS 37th Annual Conference
Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, 2-4 April 2012
The British Association for Canadian Studies encourage contributions on any facet of the topic of Sustaining Canada within and beyond the field of Canadian Studies. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, are invited from any single disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective. Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and comparative panel proposals, including those from postgraduate students, are welcome.
The following aspects are indicative and not comprehensive:
The British Association for Canadian Studies' Literature Group is pleased to issue the following Call for Papers for the 2012 BACS conference. We encourage contributions on any facet of the topic of Sustaining Canada in relation to Canadian literary and cultural study. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, would be particularly welcome in the following areas:
• Ecocriticism in a Canadian context
• Narratives and/or poetics of environmentalism and activism
• Indigenous literature and culture
• Regional literature and culture
• Border studies
• Urban studies
• Landscape
• Representations of animals in Canadian culture
• Settler-invader narratives
• Travel literature
• The impact of literature and culture upon the environment
• Canadian culture in relation to different kinds of 'environment', e.g. domestic environment, national/international environment, linguistic environments, publishing or production contexts, etc.
• Sustaining Canadian culture, materially and/or ideologically
• Sustaining the culture of specific communities in Canada
Enquiries and proposals to:
Jodie Robson, BACS Administrator bacs@canadian-studies.org
Conference website https://sites.google.com/a/canadian-studies.org/bacs2012/
Proposals (panel and individual) and deadline:
Email abstract(s) of 200-300 words and brief CV (please do not exceed one page) which must include your title, institutional affiliation, email and mailing address by 20 November 2011.
Submissions will be acknowledged by email. Postgraduate students are especially welcome to submit a proposal and there will be a concessionary conference fee for students. BACS regrets that it is unable to assist participants with travel and accommodation costs.
BACS 37th Annual Conference
Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, 2-4 April 2012
The British Association for Canadian Studies encourage contributions on any facet of the topic of Sustaining Canada within and beyond the field of Canadian Studies. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, are invited from any single disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective. Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and comparative panel proposals, including those from postgraduate students, are welcome.
The following aspects are indicative and not comprehensive:
- The origins and growth of environmentalism in Canada
- Inter-Provincial contrasts? The impact of NAFTA? The sub-prime recession?
- The environment of Canada and resource extraction
- Long-term sustainability issues for energy and other sectors on a global level
- Actions to sustain the environment of Canada
- Local activism, municipal, provincial, federal dimensions
- The environment of Canada and the human scale
- Actions towards conservation: recycling, non-motorised transport
- The environment of Canada: depicted, remembered, imagined
- Idealised and devoid of human input? Or incomprehensible without it?
- The environment of Canada and policy-making
- A concern only in the good times or an enduring preoccupation?
- The environment of Canada and the Law
- Enforcement, conflict, Indigenous peoples’ land rights etc
- The environment of Canada and ecological fragility#
- Threatened environments: when, where, how?
- The environment of Canada and the Business sector
- Implications for corporate social responsibility: business costs, business practices
The British Association for Canadian Studies' Literature Group is pleased to issue the following Call for Papers for the 2012 BACS conference. We encourage contributions on any facet of the topic of Sustaining Canada in relation to Canadian literary and cultural study. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, would be particularly welcome in the following areas:
• Ecocriticism in a Canadian context
• Narratives and/or poetics of environmentalism and activism
• Indigenous literature and culture
• Regional literature and culture
• Border studies
• Urban studies
• Landscape
• Representations of animals in Canadian culture
• Settler-invader narratives
• Travel literature
• The impact of literature and culture upon the environment
• Canadian culture in relation to different kinds of 'environment', e.g. domestic environment, national/international environment, linguistic environments, publishing or production contexts, etc.
• Sustaining Canadian culture, materially and/or ideologically
• Sustaining the culture of specific communities in Canada
Enquiries and proposals to:
Jodie Robson, BACS Administrator bacs@canadian-studies.org
Conference website https://sites.google.com/a/canadian-studies.org/bacs2012/
Proposals (panel and individual) and deadline:
Email abstract(s) of 200-300 words and brief CV (please do not exceed one page) which must include your title, institutional affiliation, email and mailing address by 20 November 2011.
Submissions will be acknowledged by email. Postgraduate students are especially welcome to submit a proposal and there will be a concessionary conference fee for students. BACS regrets that it is unable to assist participants with travel and accommodation costs.
Friday, 4 November 2011
Canada-European Union Free Trade Agreement Conference - 18 November 2011
Canada-European Union Free Trade Agreement Conference
Macdonald House, Grosvenor Square, London, UK
18 November 2011
Since 2009, diplomats from Canada and the European Union have been in negotiations to produce a comprehensive trade agreement known as CETA. For people in the EU, the agreement would provide improved access to the Canadian market, a relatively small but prosperous country. For Canadians, CETA is perhaps even more important, for it provides alternatives to export dependency on the United States.
On 17 October, the ninth and final round of negotiations began. It is now a good time for academics to discuss the agreement and its implications for Canadians and Europeans. A small conference about CETA has been organized. It will take place at Macdonald House in London, UK on 18 November. [Nearest Tube Station: Bond Street]
Programme: Canada-EU Trade Agreement Conference
1pm Brian Parrot, Minister Counsellor (Commercial and Economic), Canadian High Commission. Welcome statement.
1:10pm Alan Hallsworth, Portsmouth Business School, and Tim Rooth, University of Portsmouth (40 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion). "Historical Perspectives on CETA"
2:00pm Malcolm Fairbrother, Lecturer in Global Policy and Politics, University of Bristol. "Canadian Trade Policies from the FTA to the CETA: Myths and Facts" (20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for Q&A)
2:30pm Andrew Smith, Coventry University. "Applying the Concepts of Cultural Distance and Imagined Communities to Understanding Canadian Economic Diplomacy" (20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for Q&A)
3:00pm COFFEE BREAK
3:15pm Robert Hage, (retired Canadian diplomat), "Changing Canada: the Canada-EU Free Trade Agreement." (20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for Q&A)
3:45pm Roundtable Discussion
4:15pm Conference Ends
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP Andrew Smith before 15 November 2010.
This conference has been generously supported by Coventry University, the London Canadian Studies Association (LoCSA), and the Canadian High Commission.
Macdonald House, Grosvenor Square, London, UK
18 November 2011
Since 2009, diplomats from Canada and the European Union have been in negotiations to produce a comprehensive trade agreement known as CETA. For people in the EU, the agreement would provide improved access to the Canadian market, a relatively small but prosperous country. For Canadians, CETA is perhaps even more important, for it provides alternatives to export dependency on the United States.
On 17 October, the ninth and final round of negotiations began. It is now a good time for academics to discuss the agreement and its implications for Canadians and Europeans. A small conference about CETA has been organized. It will take place at Macdonald House in London, UK on 18 November. [Nearest Tube Station: Bond Street]
Programme: Canada-EU Trade Agreement Conference
1pm Brian Parrot, Minister Counsellor (Commercial and Economic), Canadian High Commission. Welcome statement.
1:10pm Alan Hallsworth, Portsmouth Business School, and Tim Rooth, University of Portsmouth (40 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion). "Historical Perspectives on CETA"
2:00pm Malcolm Fairbrother, Lecturer in Global Policy and Politics, University of Bristol. "Canadian Trade Policies from the FTA to the CETA: Myths and Facts" (20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for Q&A)
2:30pm Andrew Smith, Coventry University. "Applying the Concepts of Cultural Distance and Imagined Communities to Understanding Canadian Economic Diplomacy" (20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for Q&A)
3:00pm COFFEE BREAK
3:15pm Robert Hage, (retired Canadian diplomat), "Changing Canada: the Canada-EU Free Trade Agreement." (20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for Q&A)
3:45pm Roundtable Discussion
4:15pm Conference Ends
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP Andrew Smith before 15 November 2010.
This conference has been generously supported by Coventry University, the London Canadian Studies Association (LoCSA), and the Canadian High Commission.
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Royal Society journal archive - free open access
The Royal Society has announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available. These include both historic and modern papers on Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific and South Asia, as well as the British colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Early papers include descriptions of plants, animals and diseases; observations of earthquakes, magnetism, meteors, and atmospheric conditions; and letters and reports from expeditions.
The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665. Henry Oldenburg – Secretary of the Royal Society and first Editor of the publication – ensured that it was “licensed by the council of the society, being first reviewed by some of the members of the same”, thus making it the first ever peer-reviewed journal.
The move is being made as part of the Royal Society’s ongoing commitment to open access in scientific publishing. Opening of the archive is being timed to coincide with Open Access Week, and also comes soon after the Royal Society announced its first ever fully open access journal, Open Biology.
Search the journal archive here
The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665. Henry Oldenburg – Secretary of the Royal Society and first Editor of the publication – ensured that it was “licensed by the council of the society, being first reviewed by some of the members of the same”, thus making it the first ever peer-reviewed journal.
The move is being made as part of the Royal Society’s ongoing commitment to open access in scientific publishing. Opening of the archive is being timed to coincide with Open Access Week, and also comes soon after the Royal Society announced its first ever fully open access journal, Open Biology.
Search the journal archive here
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Trotskyist collections
Please note that the Senate House Library Trotskyist archive subject guide has been upgraded. This now include relevant archives held by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, including material from the CLR James, Baruch Hirson, Workers' Party of South Africa, and political pamphlets collection:
http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/archives/archivestrotskyistsources.shtml
http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/archives/archivestrotskyistsources.shtml
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Lift now in operation!
With a sigh of relief I am pleased to announce that lift access is now available between 4th, 5th and 6th floors of the Senate House Library.
The old lift was stripped out in the refurbishment process and it has taken a little while to set up list access. This has now been done and the lift went operational yesterday morning.
IHR lift that will, for the time being at least, act as the public lift within Senate House Library will open to readers shortly after I send this email.
The sets of double doors on the 4th, 5th and 6th floors will be wedged open. New secondary doors have been fitted to screen off the stairwell (staircase 7). These doors have been fitted with “screamer” style alarms and obviously signs that instruct readers not to use the doors except in an emergency. For those who may not already know I will leave instructions at the Enquiry Desk as to how the alarms can be re-set in the event of activation and will also tell those whose offices are nearest on each floor.
Please ask library staff for directions. The lift is located next to the Convocation Hall (ex-Exhibition Hall) on the 4th floor, in area 529 by the French collection on the 5th floor, and adjacent to the Commonwealth Studies collection and start of the Philosophy sequence on the 6th floor. The new lift (like the old one) unfortunately does not serve the 7th floor.
The old lift was stripped out in the refurbishment process and it has taken a little while to set up list access. This has now been done and the lift went operational yesterday morning.
IHR lift that will, for the time being at least, act as the public lift within Senate House Library will open to readers shortly after I send this email.
The sets of double doors on the 4th, 5th and 6th floors will be wedged open. New secondary doors have been fitted to screen off the stairwell (staircase 7). These doors have been fitted with “screamer” style alarms and obviously signs that instruct readers not to use the doors except in an emergency. For those who may not already know I will leave instructions at the Enquiry Desk as to how the alarms can be re-set in the event of activation and will also tell those whose offices are nearest on each floor.
Please ask library staff for directions. The lift is located next to the Convocation Hall (ex-Exhibition Hall) on the 4th floor, in area 529 by the French collection on the 5th floor, and adjacent to the Commonwealth Studies collection and start of the Philosophy sequence on the 6th floor. The new lift (like the old one) unfortunately does not serve the 7th floor.
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