Conferences that are organised by SCOLMA
SCOLMA 60th Anniversary Conference Africa and the Environment: Documenting and Archiving a Changing Climate Wednesday 29 June 2022 SOAS, London CALL FOR PAPERS Africa’s natural environment is rich and diverse, ranging from its wildlife and plants to its land and resources. It is also one of the continents most severely affected by climate change, … Read more
Booking is now open for the SCOLMA Conference 2021, Monday 14th June. The conference will be split into a morning session (10:00-12:50) and an afternoon session (14:00-16:00) please book both events to receive the links to attend both of the sessions. Bookings close 24 hours before the start of each event, and you will receive … Read more
Oun a ní la ? gbé l’árug? – (It is the heritage we have that we must celebrate): Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials *Monday 14 June 2021* What is the state of African-language publishing and creativity today, and how has it changed? How should libraries and archives collect, provide access to and promote African-language … Read more
SCOLMA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2020 POSTPONEMENT Oun a ní la ? gbé l’árug? (It is the heritage we have that we must celebrate): Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials Postponed from: 8 June 2020 It is with great regret that SCOLMA has decided to postpone its annual conference, which was due to be held on 8 June … Read more
SCOLMA Annual Conference 2020 Oun a ní la ? gbé l’árug?[1] (It is the heritage we have that we must celebrate : Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials Monday 8 June 2020 SALT, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, University of London CALL FOR PAPERS The question of writing in African languages has frequently been a … Read more
SCOLMA Annual Conference Decolonising African Studies : questions and dilemmas for libraries, archives and collections Monday 10 June 2019 University of Edinburgh Appleton Tower 2.12, 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE CALL FOR PAPERS There has been an increasing call for the decolonisation of the curriculum across the disciplines in Northern institutions and elsewhere, … Read more
Bookings are now open for the SCOLMA 2018 Conference which will be held at the University of Birmingham, Monday 10th September. ‘Things come together?: Literary archives from, in and for Africa’ will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and multi-lingual. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall … Read more
SCOLMA’s annual conference, ‘Things come together?: literary archives from, in and for Africa’, will take place at the University of Birmingham on Monday 10 September 2018. This conference will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and multi-lingual. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) … Read more
Bookings are now being taken for SCOLMA’s annual conference which will take place at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh on Monday 11th September 2017. The theme is ‘Document to Digital: how does digitisation aid African research?’ and speakers from Africa, Europe, the USA and the UK will consider projects which have digitised archives, … Read more
SCOLMA’s annual conference will take place on Monday 11 September 2017 at the National Library of Scotland and have the theme ‘Document to Digital: How does Digitisation Aid African Research?’. The Call for Papers can be seen at http://scolma.org/event/scolma-annual-conference-2017-document-to-digital-how-does-digitisation-aid-african-research-call-for-papers/ and abstracts are invited by 24 April 2017.