Today forwarding a post from the Ruth First Papers team
"The Ruth First Papers team would like to introduce a collection, prepared by Routledge, of articles and book reviews that complement Ruth First. Explore the collection today by clicking on the link below.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/ruth-first.pdf
The Review of African Political Economy has published many articles on Ruth First and they may publish more! Sign up to receive table of contents alerts for this SSCI listed journal today"
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Monday, 23 July 2012
Olympic Opening Hours and Access
Library opening hours during the Summer Olympics 2012
From 27th July - 12th August 2012, inclusive, the Library will operate special Summer Olympics opening hours. During this period the Library will open at 11.00am and close at 4.00pm, Monday to Saturday. The Library apologies for any inconvenience caused. More information about opening hours is available on the website: http://bit.ly/h2E8Kx
Olympic Access Arrangements 15th July-16th August
Access restrictions due to the location of the Olympics Media Hub around the Senate House building restrictions have now commenced and are detailed below:
The key points for library users are that:
1.Russell Square car park is closed
2.Parking for visitors must be pre-booked through reception and can not be guranteed
5.Staff car parking cannot be guaranteed
There are vehicle retrictions, check points and revisions to the normal two-way traffic routes around the Russell Square area. Bus stops in Russell Square have been be relocated and some route changes have taken place. Please plan your journey and check for updates on the day. Anyone driving into the area must expect considerable delays is are advised to use public transport during this period, if possible.
Further details are available at http://www.getaheadofthegames.com/
Pedestrian Access
Pedestrian access will be unaffected, although pedestrian crossing time will be reduced across Woburn Place and Southampton Row to increase the flow of traffic along the Olympic Route.
Taxis
Taxis will not be allowed into the restricted area. The best advice is to try to get a taxi on Gower Street or Tottenham Court Road
Cyclists
Cyclists will not be stopped at the vehicle check points. However, LOCOG stress cyclists should be extra vigilant to ensure they cycle safely with the increased number of pedestrians and vehicles.
From 27th July - 12th August 2012, inclusive, the Library will operate special Summer Olympics opening hours. During this period the Library will open at 11.00am and close at 4.00pm, Monday to Saturday. The Library apologies for any inconvenience caused. More information about opening hours is available on the website: http://bit.ly/h2E8Kx
Olympic Access Arrangements 15th July-16th August
Access restrictions due to the location of the Olympics Media Hub around the Senate House building restrictions have now commenced and are detailed below:
The key points for library users are that:
1.Russell Square car park is closed
2.Parking for visitors must be pre-booked through reception and can not be guranteed
5.Staff car parking cannot be guaranteed
There are vehicle retrictions, check points and revisions to the normal two-way traffic routes around the Russell Square area. Bus stops in Russell Square have been be relocated and some route changes have taken place. Please plan your journey and check for updates on the day. Anyone driving into the area must expect considerable delays is are advised to use public transport during this period, if possible.
Further details are available at http://www.getaheadofthegames.com/
Pedestrian Access
Pedestrian access will be unaffected, although pedestrian crossing time will be reduced across Woburn Place and Southampton Row to increase the flow of traffic along the Olympic Route.
Taxis
Taxis will not be allowed into the restricted area. The best advice is to try to get a taxi on Gower Street or Tottenham Court Road
Cyclists
Cyclists will not be stopped at the vehicle check points. However, LOCOG stress cyclists should be extra vigilant to ensure they cycle safely with the increased number of pedestrians and vehicles.
Thursday, 19 July 2012
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia
Professor Bill Gammage (ANU) in Association with the National History Museum
Wednesday 25 July 2012
18.15, talk followed by book launch and drinks reception
Council Room, 2nd Floor Kings Building, Strand Campus
RSVP to carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk
'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia'
"Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than we have ever realised.
For over a decade, Gammage has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire and the life cycles of native plants to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and now we know how they did it.
With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, The Biggest Estate on Earth rewrites the history of this continent, with huge implications for us today. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires we now experience. And what we think of as virgin bush in a national park is nothing of the kind."
Winner, 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards (Individual category)
Shortlisted, 2012 Kay Daniels Award (Australian Historical Association)
Bill Gammage is a historian and adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is best known as author of the ground-breaking The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War.
Professor Bill Gammage (ANU) in Association with the National History Museum
Wednesday 25 July 2012
18.15, talk followed by book launch and drinks reception
Council Room, 2nd Floor Kings Building, Strand Campus
RSVP to carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk
'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia'
"Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than we have ever realised.
For over a decade, Gammage has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire and the life cycles of native plants to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and now we know how they did it.
With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, The Biggest Estate on Earth rewrites the history of this continent, with huge implications for us today. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires we now experience. And what we think of as virgin bush in a national park is nothing of the kind."
Winner, 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards (Individual category)
Shortlisted, 2012 Kay Daniels Award (Australian Historical Association)
Bill Gammage is a historian and adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is best known as author of the ground-breaking The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War.
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE
INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES
University of London
TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE
The Trevor Reese Memorial Prize was established by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in 1979. It is in the name of Dr Trevor Reese, a distinguished scholar of Australian and Commonwealth history, who was Reader in Imperial Studies at the Institute until his death in 1976. He was the author of several leading works in his field, and was both founder and first editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. The Prize was established with the proceeds of contributions to a memorial fund by friends and colleagues of Trevor Reese throughout the Commonwealth and United States.
The Prize, of £1,000, is awarded every three years to the author of a work which has made a wide-ranging, innovative and scholarly contribution in the broadly-defined field of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
A public call for nominations for books in the relevant field published in the calendar year 2010, 2011 or 2012 is now open. Publishers or authors willing to submit titles for consideration should send two copies to Alegria Perez, Academic Support Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, at the address below. Please note that multi-authored works are eligible but edited books are not. The deadline for submissions is 07 January 2013, 5.00pm.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
2nd Floor, South Block, Senate House
Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
alegria.perez@sas.ac.uk
University of London
TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE
The Trevor Reese Memorial Prize was established by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in 1979. It is in the name of Dr Trevor Reese, a distinguished scholar of Australian and Commonwealth history, who was Reader in Imperial Studies at the Institute until his death in 1976. He was the author of several leading works in his field, and was both founder and first editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. The Prize was established with the proceeds of contributions to a memorial fund by friends and colleagues of Trevor Reese throughout the Commonwealth and United States.
The Prize, of £1,000, is awarded every three years to the author of a work which has made a wide-ranging, innovative and scholarly contribution in the broadly-defined field of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
A public call for nominations for books in the relevant field published in the calendar year 2010, 2011 or 2012 is now open. Publishers or authors willing to submit titles for consideration should send two copies to Alegria Perez, Academic Support Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, at the address below. Please note that multi-authored works are eligible but edited books are not. The deadline for submissions is 07 January 2013, 5.00pm.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
2nd Floor, South Block, Senate House
Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
alegria.perez@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
NZ-UK Link Foundation: Visiting Professorship Programme - 2013
NZ-UK Link Foundation: Visiting Professorship Programme - 2013
The NZ-UK Link Foundation is pleased to announce that applications are now sought for the Visiting Professorship Programme 2013. The London-based educational charity is keen to promote cultural links between New Zealand and the UK with a series of talks (four lectures, one in London and three in other venues) and events through a secondment to the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) see http://www.sas.ac.uk/ in the University of London) over a three-month period in the Spring or Autumn 2013.
Required academic focus
The Foundation anticipates that its Visiting Professor (VP) will establish a high profile in the UK, especially in London. It, therefore, seeks high calibre candidates whose research interests must contribute to an understanding and appreciation of some important aspect of the contemporary relationship between the UK and NZ. It is also essential that the proposed research field and expertise of the candidates be relevant to the Foundation’s purpose and of sufficient interest and contemporary importance as to engage leading opinion formers and key decision makers in the UK. It is felt important that the chosen VP to have rhigh communication skills and be capable of attracting and engaging the Foundation’s target audiences.
The Foundation’s VPs can come from almost any academic discipline - from history to environmental science, from economics to social policy, from political science to trade, and so on.
However, for 2013 the Foundation is particularly interested in applicants whose areas of interest are in one of the following fields:
• The economic relationship e.g. trade/financial institutions (governance and regulation/investment)
• Immigration/workforce mobility including the contribution which immigrants from each country make in the other
• Issues related to civil emergency planning - dealing with natural disasters at home and abroad
• Community issues such as the role of community groups, charities, and volunteers in providing practical support and services to society.
Applicants will be senior academics working at Professorial level.
The Foundation does not expect that candidates should be limited to those with NZ nationality but candidates must have an excellent understanding of the circumstances in both the UK and NZ so as to be able to make a significant contribution to intellectual debate about an aspect of the bilateral relationship.
Please feel free to send this to your contacts and networks in time for the deadline of 31st July 2012.
http://www.nzuklinkfoundation.org/news/
The NZ-UK Link Foundation is pleased to announce that applications are now sought for the Visiting Professorship Programme 2013. The London-based educational charity is keen to promote cultural links between New Zealand and the UK with a series of talks (four lectures, one in London and three in other venues) and events through a secondment to the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) see http://www.sas.ac.uk/ in the University of London) over a three-month period in the Spring or Autumn 2013.
Required academic focus
The Foundation anticipates that its Visiting Professor (VP) will establish a high profile in the UK, especially in London. It, therefore, seeks high calibre candidates whose research interests must contribute to an understanding and appreciation of some important aspect of the contemporary relationship between the UK and NZ. It is also essential that the proposed research field and expertise of the candidates be relevant to the Foundation’s purpose and of sufficient interest and contemporary importance as to engage leading opinion formers and key decision makers in the UK. It is felt important that the chosen VP to have rhigh communication skills and be capable of attracting and engaging the Foundation’s target audiences.
The Foundation’s VPs can come from almost any academic discipline - from history to environmental science, from economics to social policy, from political science to trade, and so on.
However, for 2013 the Foundation is particularly interested in applicants whose areas of interest are in one of the following fields:
• The economic relationship e.g. trade/financial institutions (governance and regulation/investment)
• Immigration/workforce mobility including the contribution which immigrants from each country make in the other
• Issues related to civil emergency planning - dealing with natural disasters at home and abroad
• Community issues such as the role of community groups, charities, and volunteers in providing practical support and services to society.
Applicants will be senior academics working at Professorial level.
The Foundation does not expect that candidates should be limited to those with NZ nationality but candidates must have an excellent understanding of the circumstances in both the UK and NZ so as to be able to make a significant contribution to intellectual debate about an aspect of the bilateral relationship.
Please feel free to send this to your contacts and networks in time for the deadline of 31st July 2012.
http://www.nzuklinkfoundation.org/news/
Friday, 13 July 2012
Digital New Zealand
Digital NZ - A-Tihi te Aotearoa Digital NZ is an initiative with more than 120 partners, led by the National Library of New Zealand .
Digital NZ provides access to and aims to make New Zealand digital content more useful. This includes helping people use digital material from libraries, museums, government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.
Users can find NZ digital material that is hidden or buried on the internet and search across more than 20 million digital items to discover New Zealand treasures such as amazing aerial photos, old posters and memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artworks, and publications. Items are contributed from partners including Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many many more.
You can also create your own collections or sets of material (and browse those of others), or for those more technically minded, get access to NZ search data for your own projects. All the data used in this search service is available for free public use and a developers section provides access to an API key and further details.
Current sets on the site are diverse and include seed catalogues, Marmite, sickness and medicine, and my own created Commonwealth set http://digitalnz.org/user_sets/094341b5326ecc2b as an example showing different media (cartoons, photographs, text, audio, television and documentary) and a range of Commonwealth related material and topics.
Digital NZ provides access to and aims to make New Zealand digital content more useful. This includes helping people use digital material from libraries, museums, government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.
Users can find NZ digital material that is hidden or buried on the internet and search across more than 20 million digital items to discover New Zealand treasures such as amazing aerial photos, old posters and memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artworks, and publications. Items are contributed from partners including Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many many more.
You can also create your own collections or sets of material (and browse those of others), or for those more technically minded, get access to NZ search data for your own projects. All the data used in this search service is available for free public use and a developers section provides access to an API key and further details.
Current sets on the site are diverse and include seed catalogues, Marmite, sickness and medicine, and my own created Commonwealth set http://digitalnz.org/user_sets/094341b5326ecc2b as an example showing different media (cartoons, photographs, text, audio, television and documentary) and a range of Commonwealth related material and topics.
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop
The Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop is currently inviting abstract submissions for the 2012-13 academic year
"Established in 2008, the workshop is designed to provide a forum for postgraduates and new researchers to gather and present their work in an informal and friendly environment. Seminars run on a bi-weekly basis at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), intercalated with the Imperial and World History series (www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/124). Papers are generally 25-30 minutes long, followed by discussion.
We welcome papers on any aspect of colonial or postcolonial history, and encourage new and interdisciplinary approaches (eg. anthropology, art, history, geography, literature). Potential paper topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Borders, Encounters, Conflict Zones
- Family, Kinship, Childhood, and Memory
- Bodies, Health, Welfare
- Sexualities, Genders, and Intimacies
- Indigenous Histories and Encounters
- Representation and Performance
- Environment, Social and Spatial Landscapes
- Diasporas, Migration and Identities
- Labour, Commodities, and Consumption
- Transnational Comparisons/Comparative Empires
- Technological and Scientific Advances (eg. medicine, communications, information exchange)
- Caribbean, Latin America, and Afro/Francophone Worlds
- Methodology, Current Issues in Colonial/Postcolonial Studies
Anyone interested in presenting their work, whether finished pieces or works in progress, is encouraged to submit an abstract of between 250-350 words to cpnewresearchers@gmail.com.
For the first time, this year the IHR is offering to podcast seminars through their website (http://www.history.ac.uk/digital/podcasts). If you are interested in having your paper recorded, please indicate with your abstract submission."
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