Mandela: the man and his legacy

Mandela: the man and his legacy: Rt. Hon. Peter Hain, MP for Neath

Monday 29th November 2010

Lecture to start promptly at 5.30pm and to be followed by a wine reception

Beveridge Hall, South Block, Senate House
Malet Street, University of London
London WC1E 7HU

Peter Hain, MP for Neath, will deliver the lecture ‘Mandela: the man and his legacy’ based on his recently published biography of Nelson Mandela simply entitled ‘Mandela’.

Mandela tells the life and legacy of one of the twentieth centuries most influential statesmen. Charting his development as a lawyer, a protester, and a political leader, Peter Hain MP takes an in-depth look at Mandela’s rise through the ranks of the African National Congress (ANC) and subsequent imprisonment on Robben Island, where his increasingly vocal protests against the injustices of Apartheid brought his struggle against overwhelming prejudice and fear to the eyes of the world.

Encompassing his inauguration as South Africa’s first black president, his “retirement” campaigns for a solution to AIDS, poverty, and human rights, and above all his humanity and compassion, this book shows how Mandela has truly become a legend for our time.

Copies of this book will be available to purchase on the day of the lecture.

RSVP to Troy Rutt (troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk or 020 7862 8853)

http://www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/

Opening Hours

As of today the library returns to term-time opening hours:

Monday 27 September 2010 - Friday 17 December 2010


Monday - Thursday 09.00 - 21.00

Friday 09.00 - 18.30

Saturday 09.45 - 17.30

New archives list - Sir Ivor Jennings - education and constitutional law across the Commonwealth

We're pleased to announce another handlist added to the ULRLS Archives Catalogue.

The Sir Ivor Jennings papers (ICS125) are a vaulable resource for the history of, and hiostory of education in, Sri Lanka, and for constitutional history across many nations within the Commonwealth.

Sir (William) Ivor Jennings, constitutional lawyer and educationalist, was born in Bristol on 16 May 1903 and died in Cambridge on 19 December 1965. Jennigs held academic appointments at Leeds University in 1925-1929, and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he was first lecturer, (1929-1930) and then reader in English Law (1930-1940). His publications in this period included works on the poor law code, housing law, public health law, town and country planning law and laws relating to local government. He also wrote on constitutional matters in The Law and the Constitution (1933), Cabinet Government (1936) and Parliament (1939).

Appointed principal of University College, Ceylon in 1940, he was its first Vice-Chancellor (1942-1955) when it became the University of Ceylon. He described his life there in Road to Peradeniya, an unpublished autobiography, which was posthumously published in 2005 (ref: C/14); see also Jennings' The Kandy Road (ed. H.A.I. Goonetileke, University of Peradeniya, 1993). He was frequently consulted on constitutional, educational and other matters and was Chairman of the Ceylon Social Services Commission (1944-1946), a member of the Commission on University Education in Malaya (1947), a member of the Commission on the Ceylon Constitution (1948), President of the Inter-University Board of India (1949-1950), Constitutional Adviser and Chief Draughtsman, Pakistan (1954-1955), a member of the Malayan Constitutional Commission (1956-1957), and Chairman of the Royal University of Malta Commission. He was also Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, in 1938-1939 and Visiting Professor, Australian National University in 1950.

As the colonial period ended, he became particularly interested in the Commonwealth and the newly independent nations and was valued as a commentator on the subject. He delivered the 1948-1949 Wayneflete lectures at Magdelen College, Oxford on `The Commonwealth in Asia', the 1950 George Judah Cohen Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney on `The Commonwealth of Nations', the 1957 Montague Burton lecture on International Relations at the University of Leeds on `Nationalism, Colonialism and Neutralism' and a series on `Problems of the New Commonwealth' at the Commonwealth Studies Center at Duke University, North Carolina, USA in 1958. He re-published an earlier work on laws of the empire as Constitutional Laws of the Commonwealth (3ed. 1956) and published The Approach to Self-Government (1956) and works on Ceylon and Pakistan. In 1954 he became Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Downing Professor of the Laws of England in 1962, holding both posts until his death. In later life he returned to his study of the British constitution, with the publication of Party Politics (1960-62). He was knighted in 1948, made a QC in 1949, and awarded the KBE in 1955.

The collection of papers held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies comprises of material relating to both the legal and educational career of Jennings.

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  A. Education: material collected by Jennings as Vice-Chancellor of Ceylon University, Chairman of the Royal University of Malta Commission and a member of other educational bodies in or relating to Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kuwait, Malaya and Uganda.
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  B. Constitutional issues: material on constitutional and legal issues in Australia, Canada, Ceylon, Cyprus, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Japan, Malaya, Maldives, Malta, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Singapore, South Africa, and Sudan;
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  C. Books and other writings: including material relating to British Commonwealth of Nations, Colonial Constitution Law, Laws and Liberties of England, Road to Peradeniya (unpublished autobiography);
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  D. Other material: material outside previous other categories, including British government publications and volumes of press cuttings.

 

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Decolonization Research Seminar

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Decolonization Research Seminar

Autumn Term 2010

5.30-7.00 pm
Room G35, Senate House, Malet Street, London

Mon. 11 Oct:
Rory Cormac (King’s College, London) ‘The Joint Intelligence Committee and Colonial Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire’

Gregor Davey (King’s College, London) ‘Professional factors affecting the activity and machinery of the 'Imperial' intelligence system 1948-1956’

Mon. 25 Oct:
A discussion of Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, War and Decolonization (CUP, 2009) by Daniel Branch. Discussants: Dr Joanna Lewis (LSE) and Professor David Anderson (University of Oxford). Response by Dr Daniel Branch

Mon. 22 Nov:
Professor Martin Thomas (University of Exeter) ‘Oil and Order: Repressive Violence in Trinidad’s Oilfields before 1939’.

Commonwealth Research Seminar Series, 2010-11

Commonwealth Research Seminar Series, 2010-11


Time: 1.00-2.00 pm, always Wednesday

Venue: Room 104, 1st Floor, Senate House

Convenors: Shihan de Silva and Susan Williams, Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Autumn Term

Wednesday 20th October 2010

‘Domestic Migration in India: a Gujarat-Southern Rajasthan Remittance Corridor Study’
Howard Jones (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)


Wednesday 17th November 2010

‘Bombs, burdens, and book reviews: Africans at war 1939-47'.
David Killingray (Institute of Commonwealth Studies/Goldsmiths)


Wednesday 15th December 2010

‘Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’
Marika Sherwood (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)


Winter Term

Wednesday 19th January 2011

‘Militant philosopher of the third world revolution: Frantz Fanon 50 years on’.
Leo Zeilig (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Wednesday 16th February 2011
Title: TBC
Mary Turner (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Wednesday 16th March 2011

‘Transnational Education in the Commonwealth’
Balasubramanyam Chandramohan (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)


Summer Term

Wednesday 20th April 2011

‘Education in Cyprus during the 1940s’
Antigone Heraclidou (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Wednesday 18th May 2011

‘Zimbabwe - state failure’
Richard Bourne (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Wednesday 15th June 2011

"We want new settlers of British stock": Race and the Politics of Migration to
Southern Africa, 1939-1960”
Jean P Smith (Institute for Historical Research).

Black and Asian Britain seminars

Institute of Commonwealth Studies, in conjunction with the Black and Asian Studies Association

Black and Asian Britain seminars

Seminars September to November: 6 to 7.30 pm, Senate House, University of London, Russell Square, London WC1. Everyone is welcome. You do not have to pre-book/register.

Tuesday, September 14 (Room G37)

Marika Sherwood, Malcolm X’s visits to Africa and Britain.
Historians of Malcolm usually almost ignore these visits: I shall outline his activities and question reasons for these omissions. My book Malcolm X: visits abroad April 1964 – February 1965 will be available at a reduced price.

Tuesday, October 12 (room G34)

Rev. Israel Oluwole Olofinjana, History and Contributions of African Churches in Britain.
The seminar will trace the history of African Churches in Brittan, explore why Africans are starting churches in the UK and their contributions to the British society. Rev. Olofinjana’s recent book Reverse in Ministry and Missions: Africans in the Dark Continent of Europe will be available at a reduced price. (Rev. Olofinjana is the minister of the Crofton Park Baptist Church, Brockley Grove, Lewisham)

Wednesday, 17 November (room G34)

Stephen Bourne will talk about his new book Mother Country which acknowledges the wartime contributions of Britain's Black community to the Home Front in WW2.

Linguistic Human Rights: Policy/Practice in the Commonwealth and Symposium 2010-11

Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies

University of London

Linguistic Human Rights: Policy/Practice in the Commonwealth and Symposium 2010-11

Theme (2010-11): Language, Communication and Culture in the Commonwealth

Time: 5.30-7.30 PM


Organiser:
Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan PhD (Shef), FHEA, FRSA
bala.chandra@sas.ac.uk
Phones: 020 7862 8866/07779 162674

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The Seminar Series and Symposium examine issues of language policy and practice in the Commonwealth. The Seminars aim to provide an overview of the situation in different areas of Commonwealth, both the ‘new’ and the ‘old’ Commonwealth, by highlighting evolving/current policies and practice that impact on the use of language in a range of domains.

The Symposium in July 2011 will focus on language issues in relation to the work of specific institutions and/or initiatives that cover the Commonwealth as a whole.

The presentations and discussions will be of interest to attendees who have specialist interest in the Commonwealth and also to those with academic and/or general interest in areas such as linguistics, literature, culture and society in the Commonwealth and beyond.

Seminar Series: Autumn Term 2010-11

14th October 2010
Venue: Room G22

Portuguese linguistic legacies in the Indian Ocean Commonwealth: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Malaysia

Speaker: Dr Shihan de Silva, Jayasuriya, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies

18th November 2010
Venue: Room 275

Balancing Monolingual and Multilingual Imperatives: a policy/practice challenge for the Commonwealth

Speaker: Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan, Council for Education in the Commonwealth/Kingston University/Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London


9th December 2010
Venue: Room G34

Language and Globalization of Higher Education: A Practitioner's Viewpoint

Speaker: Elizabeth Thussu, Director of Administration, Heythrop College, University of London.