News items from SCOLMA members
New flickr group Material Culture of Politics in Africa brings together images of contemporary materials produced in Africa with political relevance — posters, leaflets, graffiti, tshirts, portrait cloths, stamps, postcards etc http://www.flickr.com/groups/2548689@N20/
Tuesday, 11 March 2014 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS http://www.abbrv.co.uk/vDj Speakers: Mick Csaky, Series Executive Producer; Gus Casely-Hayford, presenter, Lost Kingdoms of Africa; Professor Stephen Quirke, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. The Royal African Society is proud to announce that it is hosting the 30 anniversary of Basil … Read more
City and Islington College in London is hosting an exhibition in memory of Nelson Mandela at the Centre for Business, Arts and Technology. The exhibition has been created by college staff who were involved in the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the 1980s and 1990s and aims to describe the segregation and racial discrimination of the apartheid … Read more
We note with sadness the passing of Patrick Chabal, a specialist in Lusophone Africa who made an outstanding contribution to the field of African Studies. AEGIS – African Studies in Europe writes that he “made an impact on the field that most can only dream of” and that “the fact that AEGIS is such a … Read more
Lehrstuhl für Internationale Politik und Konfliktforschung The Database of the Constitutions of Sub-Saharan Africa/ offering constitutional documents for 52 Sub-Saharan countries since their independence is now available online. The collection contains constitutions, as well as amendments and constitutional bills. The documents are provided in their original language, and, if available, in their English … Read more
Rhodes House and the Organizing Committee are pleased to invite you to the Bram Fischer Lecture 2014. Bram Fischer: Lawyer, activist,freedom fighter Denis Goldberg Anti-apartheid activist & Rivonia trialist alongside Nelson Mandela Thursday 27 February 2014 17:00 Rhodes House South Parks Road Oxford We expect demand to exceed capacity. To attend, reserve a seat at: … Read more
The Imperial and Global History Network is an exciting new resource for early career researchers and postgraduates at the University of Exeter. The aim of the Network is to connect postgraduate and early career researchers working in the field of Imperial and Global history, providing an inter-disciplinary forum for the discussion of research questions and methodologies, … Read more
Nominations are invited for the Audrey Richards Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in African Studies which is awarded biennially by the African Studies Assocation of the UK. Theses examined in a British institute of higher education between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2013 are eligible and nominations should be made by 31 March … Read more
The African Studies Centre Library, Leiden, has received 3000 books from the library of KIT (Royal Insitute of the Tropics) in Amsterdam following its closure at the end of 2013. The books, all about Africa, mainly in English and not held in any other library in the Netherlands, are already in the ASC library cataloge and available … Read more
Mandela and more The blog ‘Africa at LSE’ has much to offer the Africanist. Regular, well-informed posts on people and issues in the news, book reviews, a list of LSE experts, video, audio and podcasts and useful links. This week of course, there is much on Mandela, also an interesting piece on Jomo Kenyatta at … Read more