CHANGE OF VENUE – SCOLMA SEMINAR Monday 13th June 2016
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES 2016 Vanessa Platt University College London Addressing community trauma through the Ken Saro-Wiwa Digital
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Addressing community trauma through the Ken Saro-Wiwa Digital Archive – 13th June 2016 – Senate House Library
LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES 2016 Vanessa Platt University College London Addressing community trauma through the Ken Saro-Wiwa Digital Archive 13:00 – 14:00 Monday
1905, 2016
Vernacular Scripts of the Indus Valley and Beyond
The following exciting workshop is taking place at the British Library. Come and be a part of it: Vernacular Scripts of the Indus Valley and Beyond Friday, 20 May 2016 The Eliot Room, British Library Conference Centre London 10:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks – Nur Sobers-Khan (British Library) 10:30 – 11:15 Personal Reflections and Observations on the Indus Valley Scripts Christopher Shackle, SOAS (London) 11:15 – 12:00 An Anthropological Perspective
2004, 2016
British Library’s Hebrew manuscripts project blog launched today
(image from http://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts/articles/shedding-new-light-on-marginalia-mysteries) – free from copyright restrictions The British Library’s Hebrew Manuscripts Project official blog has been launched today. The blog showcases over 1000 years of Jewish culture and social life from across the world – from the Middle East to China, and from North Africa to Europe – with a key collection of digitized manuscripts in Hebrew from the British Library’s own collections accompanied by expert commentary and
0104, 2016
Church Missionary Society Periodicals trial extended to 30th April
News flash for all SOAS staff and students The Church Missionary Society Periodicals trial from Adam Matthew Digital has, by popular request, been extended until 30th April. You can access the resource via the AMD website at www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk You can also gain access via the ‘trial access login’ link, which is located on the homepage and throughout our website at www.amdigital.co.uk. (Please ensure that you select the ‘Access Via IP’ option). Remember: The PDF download option
1403, 2016
Call for papers – SCOLMA Annual Conference – African Medicine Matters: documenting encounters in medical practice and healthcare, 6 September 2016, Cambridge
Annual Conference African Medicine Matters: documenting encounters in medical practice and healthcare Tuesday 6 September 2016 Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge CALL FOR PAPERS This conference will explore aspects of medicine and healthcare, traditional and western, historic and contemporary, and their traces in the documentary and digital records in all regions of Africa Subjects might include: Medicine and indigenous knowledge The revival and regulation of traditional medicine
0203, 2016
Church Missionary Society Periodicals: free trial of digital resource
The College of the Church Missionary Society in Islington (London) – image via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:College_of_the_Church_Missionary_Society_-_Shepherd,_Metropolitan_Improvements_%281828%29,_p293.jpg) The new Church Missionary Society Periodicals collection from digital resource provider Adam Matthew allows library users to browse archives of publications from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and latterly the South American Missionary Society covering the whole scope of their missionary activity from 1804 to 2009 Founded in 1799,
1901, 2016
Artist and Empire exhibition at the Tate
Follow the links to an illustrated article by Inigo Thomas on the London Review of Books website discussing the portraiture of the British imperial age showcased in the Tate Britain’s current exhibition “Artist and Empire” which explores “how artists from Britain and around the world have responded to the dramas, tragedies and experiences of the Empire” from the 16th century to the present day Click here to read the London Review of
0912, 2015
Digitized Hebrew manuscripts from the Library of Congress
The Hebraic manuscripts section of the Library of Congress houses over 220 manuscripts, mostly in Hebrew, but including other related languages such as Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Persian. These date from the 11th to the 20th centuries and come from Jewish communities across the world. They cover an eclectic range of subjects. Fifty texts have currently been added to the website. Content is indexed by language, name, subject, place and by
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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