CALL FOR PAPERS: SCOLMA 60th Anniversary Conference

  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

*SAVE THE DATE!* – SCOLMA Conference (Online) Monday 14th June

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

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

Call for Papers – ‘Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials’

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

Call For Papers – 'Decolonising African Studies: questions and dilemmas for libraries, archives and collections'

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 now open for SCOLMA 2018 Conference

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

Call for Papers out for African Literary Archives Conference

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 open for SCOLMA's 'Document to Digital' conference

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

Call for Papers 'Document to Digital: How does Digitisation Aid African Research?' SCOLMA Annual Conference 2017

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.