News items from SCOLMA members
Scolma is pleased to announce that Scolma member Elizabeth Williams (Goldsmiths, London) has published a book – ‘The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa: Black British Solidarity and the Anti-apartheid Struggle’. The book covers British black communities’ support for the Anti-apartheid movement, and how they showed solidarity with events in South Africa. Source … Read more
Two news items about the database AfricaBib: 1. As of January 2015, it is possible to search through all 213,000 records simultaneously in a one-stop search in the database AfricaBib, via http://www.africabib.org/afbib.htm (or just click on a country on the map). 2. During the last months of 2014, Google Scholar approached the African Studies … Read more
This year’s meeting of ELIAS (European Librarians in African Studies) will take place at the 7th of July 2015 in Paris, hosted by BULAC – Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations. Venue: BULAC, 65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris. About BULAC : http://www.bulac.fr/bulac-in-english/who-are-we Registration The meeting is open to ELIAS members and other interested … Read more
African Spiritual States: Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Monday, 23 March 2015 from 13:00 to 19:00 (GMT) How have Christianity and Islam shaped public politics in Africa’s past and how do they do so in the present? To answer these questions, this workshop brings together a … Read more
Registration has opened for the ‘Pursuing Justice in Africa’ conference which will be taking place in Cambridge on 27-28 March 2015. Bringing together scholarship from a wide range of disciplines, the conference will examine alternative approaches to the concept of justice and consider its relationship with law, morality and rights. The keynote speaker will be … Read more
The call for papers for Scolma’s 2015 conference ‘”There came a darkness”: Africa, Africans and World War I‘ is now closed. We have had an excellent response, and this year promises to be very exciting and interesting. It will be held on 17th July at the British Library, and you can stay up to date … Read more
Two million Africans fought in World War I. These troops came from the Caribbean Islands, Africa, America and Africans in Britain. They fought gallantly and heroically as many European soldiers. This workshop is part of the Empire Needs Men Exhibition, will explore how African troops from worldwide were involved in World War I. It will … Read more
Yorkshire African Studies Network Conference 2015 Family, Community and Livelihoods: Perspectives from Africa 19 May 2015, University of Sheffield Recent years have seen impressive levels of economic growth in many parts of Africa, with a new discourse of ‘Africa Rising’ coming to displace the widespread pessimism of the late twentieth century. 2015 is also the … Read more
6th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN STUDIES Paris, 8-10 July 2015 Publish or Perish in African Studies: New Ways to Valorize Research http://www.ecas2015.fr/publish-or-perish-in-african-studies-new-ways-to-valorize-research/ Convenor(s) Bergenthum Hartmut / Africa Department, University Library Frankfurt/Main Kitchen Stephanie / International African Institute, London CALL FOR PAPERS New Deadline January 15, 2015
Congratulations to Terry Barringer, long-time member of SCOLMA and editor of African Research and Documentation, on being awarded the Conover-Porter Award by the African Studies Association for editing Africa Bibliography. The award is presented every two years to recognise outstanding achievement in Africana bibliography and reference tools. Africa Bibliography, published by Cambridge University Press under the … Read more