SCOLMA Annual Conference – British Library 17th July 2015
“There came a darkness”: Africa, Africans and World War I
Friday 17th July 2015 9.15am – 5.00pm
Programme
9.15 Registration
9.30 Welcome
9.40 Keynote speech
Edward Paice
The Pike Report and Captain Caulfeild: Emerging Voices and Commemoration of the Great War in Africa
10.30 Coffee
10.50 Panel 1
10.50-11.10 Holgar Hansen, Copenhagen
Karen Blixen: a Danish view on the War in Africa
11.10-11.30 David Stuart-Mogg, Society of Malawi
Frederick Njilima, M.M.: an unlikely African hero of the Western Front
11.30-11.50 John Pinfold, Oxford and Alison Metcalfe, National Library of Scotland
The African Experience of the East African Campaign: some new oral and photographic evidence
11.50-12.00 Questions
12.00 Panel 2
12.00-12.20 Anne Samson, Independent Researcher
Duty to Empire? South Africa’s invasion of German South West Africa
12.20-12.40 Terry Barringer, Cambridge
“ When you hear of wars and rumours of war”: reading about the War in Africa in missionary periodicals
12.40-1.00 Martin Plaut
Imagery of African Troops
1.00-1.10 Questions
1.10 Lunch
1.50 SCOLMA AGM
2.15 Panel 3
2.15-2.35 Daniel Steinbach, King’s College London
Colonial Encounters in War Photography by British Soldiers during the First World War in East Africa
2.35-2.55 Allyson Lewis, Essex County Record Office
The Forgotten Front – experiences of Essex men fighting in East Africa
2.55-3.15 Dan Gilfoyle, National Archives
Critical reading: the war diaries of the King’s African Rifles
3.15-3.30 Questions
3.30 Tea
3.50 Panel 4
3.50-4.10 Sarah Longair, British Museum
A fitting memento of Peace”: compromise and conflict in constructing Zanzibar’s Peace Memorial Museum
4.10-4.30 Ben Knighton, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
Consequences of World War One for Empire in East Africa: Mission as political grievance among Christian Agikuyu, Kenya
4.30-4.50 Iris Wigge, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University
The transnationality and intersectionality of Anti-Black racism in the aftermath of the Great War. Revisiting the ‘Black Horror’ Campaign.
4.50-5.00 Questions
5.00 Close
5.00-6.00 Reception
SCOLMA thanks the following for support for the conference: The British Library; Taylor and Francis; Adam Matthew.
Conference venue:
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB.
For more details, and to book, go to http://scolma.org/events/
or contact:
Terry Barringer
Email: TABarringe@aol.com
This programme is subject to change.