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From SCOLMA (UK Libraries & Archives Group on Africa) website: *March 4, 2013*, 1-2pm, Senate House, 4th Floor *The challenge of the traditional collection and the possibilities of “Tribing and Untribing the Archive: the Material Record of the Thukela-Mzimkulu Region, c. 1750-1910″* A seminar by *Nessa Liebhammer* *BOOKING ESSENTIAL* – contact [log in to unmask] Nessa Liebhammer discusses a collaborative project between the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town (APC) and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, which is the pilot of a larger project *Ethnologised Pasts and their Archival Futures*, launched by the APC. Museum and art gallery displays, and colonial and apartheid knowledge activities, are one aspect with which the project is concerned. It aims to draw attention to the archival capacities and challenges of ethnographic material and to enable ongoing recuperation of pasts denied by colonialism and apartheid. The pilot takes as its focus the material culture of Thukela-Mzimkulu region, c 1750 – 1910. It calls into being an expanded archive for that period, and accounts for its historical disavowal. Nessa Leibhammer is the curator of the Traditional Southern African Art at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Cape Town and currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, Cambridge University. Kind regards Joanne -- Joanne Anthony Archivist Archives & Special Collections SOAS Library SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4181 Fax: +44 (0)20 7898 4189 www.soas.ac.uk