Black ephemera: depictions of people of African descent

University of Reading, Centre for Ephemera Studies:
Black ephemera: depictions of people of African descent

 

Wednesday 4 July 2012

 

Nike Theatre, Agriculture Building, University of Reading

10.30 Registration and welcome

Session one - Michael Twyman convenor

 

Introduction to the day, Michael Twyman, Director, Centre for Ephemera Studies

• Patrick Vernon Black Ephemera: consuming stereotypes and identities
• Temi Odumosu The St Giles's "Backbirds": some popular African presences from Georgian and Regency print culture
• Tom Wareham Using and abusing ­ Considering the use of Ephemera in the London, Sugar & Slavery Gallery at the Museum of London Docklands
• Jonathan King Anthropology and ephemera: representing Africa and the Caribbean at the British Museum

Session two - Alison Donnell convenor

• Amoret Tanner Mary Seacole ­ the story behind the iconic carte-de-visite
• Leon Robinson Black Victorian entertainers
• Jeffrey Green Edwardian postcards
• Mary Guyatt Representations of black people in children¹s ephemera 1870-1950

Session three - Patrick Vernon convenor 

• Sandra Shakespeare Caribbean through a lens: Depictions of black people using Photography
• Deborah Sutherland We shall not be silenced: Ephemera as a record of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
• Stefan Dickers Fighting for Justice: Campaign ephemera in the Bernie Grant Archive
• Zoe Whitley Conspicuous absences: branding and un-branding the black body in Magazine 

Final questions/discussion/thanks and farewell Drinks in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication and the opportunity to see the display of printed ephemera

 

For more information and to register please contact: Diane Bilbey d.j.bilbey@reading.ac.uk

 

3-year fully funded AHRC studentship: 'Photographic cultures in Mbouda, Cameroon'

Following the award of an AHRC collaborative studentship to Professor David Zeitlyn (ISCA) and Dr Chris Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum) for 'Photographic cultures in Mbouda, Cameroon' in conjunction with the British Library, a 3-year fully funded AHRC studentship will be available to the best-qualified candidate. The successful candidate will be expected to carry out research for a doctorate in anthropology on visual cultures in Mbouda, west Cameroon, supervised by Professor David Zeitlyn, Dr Chris Morton (Oxford) and Dr Marion Wallace (British Library), with support from Lynda Barraclough (BL/Endangered Archives Programme). The student will undertake fieldwork in West Cameroon.


Candidates should be able to demonstrate an interest in the study of photography and a commitment to ethnographic fieldwork in Cameroon. They should have a good Master's degree and/or first degree in anthropology, museum studies or African studies. Some proficiency in French would be advantageous.

A summary of the project is available from http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/ISCA/FUTURE_STUDENTS/Further_Particulars_AHRC.pdf.

Applicants must follow the usual application rules for admission as a Probationer Research Student (see
http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/admissions/application-process/).

Applicants are bound by AHRC eligibility criteria: only EU citizens can be given awards and for a full award UK residency is required. Please see the Humanities Division and AHRC pages for detailed guidance on this.
http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/prospective_students/graduates/funding/ahrc/notes_of_guidance

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf

The deadline for applications is 1 July 2012 and candidates should be ready to be called for interview for the studentship on 25th July 2012 at the British Library in London. It is expected that the successful candidate will take up the position in October 2012.

Further enquiries about the position may be directed to david.zeitlyn@anthro.ox.ac.uk

Britain Zimbabwe Society’s Annual Research Day 2012 ‘Zimbabwe and the Region’

The Britain Zimbabwe Society’s annual research day will be held on the 16th June at St. Antony’s College, Oxford (corner of Woodstock/Bevington Road, North Oxford, OX2 6JF).

This year participants will explore the historical and contemporary connections between Zimbabwe and her neighbours. The southern African region, broadly conceived, has a rich and inter-connected history of social, cultural and political movements which transcend national boundaries. During the pre-colonial era, polities and territorial cults cut across areas of land later divided by colonial borders. Colonialism also opened up areas of southern Africa to a greater degree of demographic mobility, producing a rich cultural and political heritage. In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the various liberation struggles of southern Africa were closely connected through the formation of governments in exile, expressions of solidarity between nationalist/revolutionary parties, and the establishment of military training camps and bases across borders. Since independence many of these histories have been overshadowed by new political concerns with national security, immigration, and citizenship rights. Still, families, religious groups, economic and political networks continue to stretch across and beyond Zimbabwe’s borders. More recently, as events in Zimbabwe have impacted on the wider region, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has come to play a key role in negotiations to resolve the political impasse.

We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers this year will be Professor Jack Spence, OBE (King’s College London) and Professor Welshman Ncube (Zimbabwe Minister for Commerce and Trade - tbc).

Other speakers include: Timothy Scarnecchia; Joseph Mujere; Francis Musoni; Maxim Bolt; Blessing-Miles Tendi; Andrew Mutandwa; Jocelyn Alexander; Hugh Macmillan; JoAnn McGregor; Tinashe Nyamunda and Ushehwedu Kufakurinani.

Publishers Zed Books (Africa Now, African Arguments and Africa in the New Millennium Series) and James Currey will be selling a selection of their books throughout the day and the event will conclude with a book launch and drinks reception.
Registration fees (for attendance only): £30 standard; £20 BZS members; £15 students and unwaged. To register in advance please contact Marieke Clarke: mariekefclarke@pop3.poptel.org.uk

Registration and payments can be made on the day. Unfortunately, the BZS cannot accept credit or debit card payments.

Conference grants and funded fellowships - ISA

The Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA), School of Advanced Study, University of London, is delighted to announce the launch of two new funding schemes for the academic year 2012-13. Full details are available by following the links below.

Conference Grants

Applications are now sought for Conference Grants for scholars working on any aspect of the Americas. At least six conferences will be funded under this scheme in 2012-13, to a value of up to £2,200 per conference.Closing date: 1 August 2012.

Funded Fellowships

Applications are now sought for funded Fellowships at the Institute for the Study of the Americas. These Fellowships represent an opportunity for scholars working on any aspect of the Americas to undertake research at ISA for a period of up to eight consecutive months during the academic year. These positions attract a modest monthly stipend and at least two funded Fellowship appointments will be made for 2012-13. Fellows will be free to undertake research using the Institute's facilities, including the library, IT and office accommodation. Fellows will be expected to play an active part in the intellectual life of the Institute and the School, whilst also engaging in its mission to promote and facilitate research by assisting with the editing of ISA publications and convening academic events. It should be noted that, because the School does not participate in the Research Excellence Framework (REF), publications and other research outputs resulting from these Fellowships may be used by the Fellow's 'home' institution as part of its submission to the REF. Closing date: 1 August 2012.

New Zealand Studies Network: Kids in the City

The New Zealand Studies Association (UK & Ireland) is pleased to announce

"Kids in the City"
A lecture by Dr Penelope Carroll, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

Tuesday 19th June 2012 at 6 p.m.
Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St (Room 612)

Dr Carroll will talk on her team’s study of children in inner city Auckland, New Zealand, on how different neighbourhoods are experienced by children and parents. Interviews have been conducted with primary school children aged 9 to 11 from schools in six urban neighbourhoods

The study is catalysed by decreasing physical activity, rising obesity, over monitoring of children, and urban intensification.The children were given a GPS and accelerometer, and they kept a travel diary of where they went.

Penelope Carroll, MA (Politics), Grad Dip Psychology, Post Grad Dip Cognitive Therapy, PhD (Health Sciences) is a researcher in public health at SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, School of Public Health, Massey University, Auckland. She obtained her PhD in health sciences from Otago University (Wellington, New Zealand) and has an extensive background in media and communications. Current research activities include the interface between social science research and policy, housing and health inequalities and the well-being of children in urban environments

For booking and details email info.nzsn@gmail.com

Canada, China and the Asia-Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges

Canada, China and the Asia-Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges

Institute for the Study of the Americas
Senate Room, 1st Floor, Senate House, University of London, Friday 29 June 2012

 

Speakers include:

 

• Gordon Campbell (High Commissioner for Canada to the UK) 
• Joseph Caron (former Canadian Ambassador to China, Japan and India and Asia Consultant, Vancouver)
• Nicolas Maclean CMG (Chief Executive, MWM (Asia) and former Senior Fellow for International Affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS))
• Jennifer Welsh (Professor in International Relations, Somerville College, University of Oxford)

 

Attendance is free of charge. To register please email Tony McCulloch by 25 June 2012.

 

 

Programme

9.30 am Registration and refreshments

 

10.00 am Welcome by Professor Iwan Morgan, Institute for the Study of the Americas

 

10.15 am Keynote address: His Excellency Gordon Campbell, the High Commissioner for Canada to the UK  “Canada, China and the Asia-Pacific region – Opportunities and Challenges”

 

11.15 am Refreshments

 

11.30 am Joseph Caron, Former Canadian ambassador to China, Japan and India & Asia consultant, Vancouver,  “Canada in the Asia-Pacific – how did we get there, and where are we going?”

 

Discussant: Alan Hallsworth, Professor, Faculty of Management and Law, University of Surrey

 

12.45 pm Lunch

 

1.30 pm Jennifer Welsh, Professor in International Relations, Somerville College, University of Oxford, 
“Canada’s international policy - the Asia-Pacific region in its global context”

 

Discussant: Tony McCulloch, Associate Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Americas, London

 

2.45 pm Refreshments

 

3.15pm Nicolas Maclean CMG, Chief Executive, MWM (Asia) and former Senior Fellow for International Affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London, “Canada and the Asia-Pacific – the European business perspective”

 

Discussant: Andrew Halper, Head of CMS UK China Group, London

 

4.30pm – End of conference

 

New books - April part 2

Part 2 of our list of some of the new books added to the collection in April, these include election monitoring reports; and books on cities and urbanization; Delhi and the Commonwealth Games; nationalism and national identity; women in Careibbean politics; Zimbabwe and human rights education in India:


Samaddar, Ranabir and Suhit K. Sen (eds). New subjects and new governance in India, New Delhi ; London : Routledge, 2011.


Nigeria National Assembly and presidential elections : 9 and 16 April 2011. Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.

Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian, Palace, political party, and power : a story of the socio-political development of Malay kingship, Singapore : NUS Press, c2011.

Schlee, Günther and Abdullahi A. Shongolo. Pastoralism & politics in northern Kenya & southern Ethiopia, Woodbridge : James Currey, 2012.

Chaudry, Aminullah. Political administrators : the story of the Civil Service of Pakistan, Karachi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Hope, Kempe R. The political economy of development in Kenya, New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2012.

Wilson, Stacey-Ann, Politics of identity in small plural societies : Guyana, the Fiji Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Jha , Pravenn (ed), Progressive fiscal policy in India, New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2011.

Mouton, F. A. Prophet without honour : F.S. Malan : Afrikaner, South African and Cape liberal, Pretoria : Protea Book House, 2011.

Sivaramakrishnan, K. C. Re-visioning Indian cities : the urban renewal mission, New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2011

Dunkley, Daive A. Readings in Caribbean history and culture : breaking ground, Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.

Jackson, Paul and Peter Albrecht, Reconstructing security after conflict : security sector reform in Sierra Leone, Basingstoke, Hampshire [U.K.] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Saunders, Chris, Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa and Dawn Nagar (eds). Region-building in Southern Africa : progress, problems and prospects, London : Zed, 2012.

Deol, Harnik, Religion and nationalism in India : the case of the Punjab, London : Routledge, 2011.

Bajaj, Monisha. Schooling for social change : the rise and impact of human rights education in India, New York : Continuum, 2012.

Essof, Shereen and Daniel Moshenberg,( eds). Searching for South Africa : the new calculus of dignity, Pretoria : Unisa Press, c2011.

Majumdar, Boria and Nalin Mehta. Sellotape legacy : Delhi & the Commonwealth Games, New Delhi : Harper Collins Publishers India, a joint venture with The India Today Group, 2010.

Ooi, Kee Beng. Serving a new nation : Baey Lian Peck's Singapore story, Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.

Seychelles presidential election, 19 - 21 May 2011 : report of the Commonwealth Expert Team. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.

Zips, Werner, Nanny's Asafo warriors : the Jamaican Maroons' African experience, Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, c2011.

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi, Talking back : the idea of civilization in the India nationalist discourse. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Francis, Andrew, 'To be truly British we must be anti-German' : New Zealand, enemy aliens, and the Great War experience, 1914-1919, Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012.

Phelan, Craig (ed) Trade unions in West Africa : historical and contemporary perspectives, Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.

Sparks, Allister and Mpho A. Tutu. Tutu : the authorised portrait , Johannesburg : Pan Macmillan South Africa, 2011.

Pang, Eul-Soo. The U.S.-Singapore free trade agreement : an American perspective on power, trade, and security in the Asia Pacific. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.

Cornell, Drucilla and Nyoko Muvangua (eds), uBuntu and the law : African ideals and postapartheid jurisprudence, New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Chattopadhyay , Rupak and Gilles Paquet. The unimagined Canadian capital : challenges for the federal capital region, Ottawa : Invenire Books, c2011.

Schöttli, Jivanta. Vision and strategy in Indian politics : Jawaharlal Nehru's policy choices and the designing of political institutions, London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Carrin , Marine and Lidia Guzy (eds) Voices from the periphery : subalternity and empowerment in India, New Delhi ; London : Routledge, 2011.

Sachikonye, Lloyd. When a state turns on its citizens : 60 years of institutionalised violence in Zimbabwe, Sunnyside, Auckland Park [South Africa] : Jacana Media, 2011.

Zack-Williams , Tunde (ed), When the state fails : studies on intervention in the Sierra Leone civil war, London : Pluto Press, 2012.

Witness to history : transition and transformation of India, 1947-1964. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Barrow-Giles, Cynthia, Women in Caribbean politics, Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami [Fla.] : Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.

Falola, Toyin and Adam Paddock. The Women's War of 1929 : a history of anti-colonial resistance in eastern Nigeria, Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011.

Whyte, Iain. Zachary Macaulay 1768-1838 : the steadfast Scot in the British anti-slavery movement, Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011

McGregor, JoAnn and Ranka Primorac (eds). Zimbabwe's new diaspora : displacement and the cultural politics of survival, New York : Berghahn Books, c2010.