Please find below the programme for this year's SCOLMA Conference, on 8th June at the British Library:
The Real Story? Personal Papers, Life Histories and Africa*
SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Annual Conference*
British Library Conference Centre, London, 8th June 2010*
*Programme*
*9.30 Registration*
*10.00 Introduction*
*10.10 Keynote:*
*David Killingray, **Goldsmiths** College, University of London*
*'"Tin Trunk Literati" and Beyond: Hidden Sources for Africa's History'*
*11.00 Coffee and tea*
*11.30 Panels 1 and 2 (in parallel)*
*Panel 1*
*Private Papers, Politics and Activism*
Hakim Adi
'The Solanke Papers and the West African Students' Union'
M. Amzat Boukari-Yabara, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
'Looking at the Walter Rodney Papers: Atlanta, Georgetown and London'
Gwil Colenso
'The Colenso Papers'
Kate Law, University of Sheffield
'Making Marmalade and Imperial Mentalities'
*Panel 2 *
*New Ways with Old Papers*
Marion Frank-Wilson, Librarian for African Studies, Indiana University
'Africana Personal Papers at Indiana University - Issues and Questions'
Rose Kgosiemang, University of Botswana Library
'Libraries and Personal Archives, with Reference to the University of
Botswana Library'
Liz Stanley, University of Edinburgh
Helen Dampier, Leeds Metropolitan University
'The Olive Schreiner Letters Project'
*1.00 Lunch*
*2.00 SCOLMA AGM (SCOLMA members and observers welcome)*
*2.30 Rahim Rajan, **Content Development Manager, Aluka*
Presentation of the Aluka digital resource*
*3.00 Panels 3 and 4 (in parallel)*
*Panel 3*
*Individuals and the State: What Private Papers Tell Us*
Ackson Kanduza, University of Botswana
'Who Leaves Private Papers? The Example of Msindazwe Sukati in Swaziland'
Miles Larmer, University of Sheffield
'Chronicle of a Coup Foretold: The Life-writing of Valentine Musakanya and
the Role of Biography in Post-Colonial Zambian History'
Sylvia Lynn-Meaden
'The Long Garden Master, Charles Lynn'
*Panel 4*
*Diaries and Life-writing*
Olufunke Adeboye, University of Lagos
'The Private Papers Of Akinpelu Obisesan: Prospects And Limits'**
Victoria Cranna, Archives of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine
'Life in Uganda in the 1920s - the Diary of Geoffrey and Amy Carpenter'
Aldwin Roes, University of Sheffield
'Following Milestones and Breaking New Ground: the Robert Williams Papers
and the Expansion of the South African Mining Frontier'
*4.30 Coffee and tea*
*5.00 Plenary panel*
*Personal Papers: What are the Issues for Libraries and Archives?*
David Clover, Librarian, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of
London
Dag Henrichsen, Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Jeremy John, Curator, e-Manuscripts, British Library
Peter Limb, Africana Bibliographer /Associate Professor, History, Michigan
State University
Lucy McCann, Archivist, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies
at Rhodes House, Oxford
Janet Topp Fargion, World and Traditional Music Curator, British Library
*6.00 Reception*
*SCOLMA would like to thank JSTOR / Aluka and the Cambridge University
Press for generous sponsorship of this conference and the preceding
librarians' meeting, and the British Library for providing the venue.*
*Please note that this programme is subject to change.*
*To register for the conference, please contact Lucy McCann at* *
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*SCOLMA website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/*
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