Please see below for details of a conference which may be of interest to geographers.
Please contact Lucy McCann rather than me for further details, or visit http://scolma.org/events/
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SCOLMA Annual Conference 2014
“African Trajectories: Travel and the Archive”
This conference will consider the role of scholars, libraries, archives and information sources in documenting and interpreting the complex inter-relationship of travel, tourism and heritage in, to and from Africa.
Wednesday 2nd July 2014
9.15am - 5.30pm
The Danford Room
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
Arts Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
Enquiries to:
Lucy McCann, Archivist, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 270908
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http://scolma.org/events/
SCOLMA Annual Conference 2014
African Trajectories: Travel and the Archive
Wednesday 2nd July 2014
9.15am - 5.30pm
Programme
9.15 Welcome
9.30 Keynote speech
Noo Saro-Wiwa, author of Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
10.15 Introduction to the Special Collections at the Cadbury Research
Library, University of Birmingham
Martin Killeen, Rare Books Librarian, Cadbury Research Library
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Panel 1
Travel writing as journalism and social media
‘Nigerian Domestic Travel Writing and the Archive: Historicising a Century of Nigerian Travel Writing Pioneers in Yoruba and English’
Rebecca Jones (University of Birmingham)
‘On the Historical Trail of African Travel(ler)-Writers: A Century since Solomon Plaatje’s 1914 Sea Narrative and South African Native National Congress Museum’
Janet Remmington (University of York)
‘How to Blog about Africa: Travel Writing in the Digital Age’
Caitlin Pearson (SOAS, University of London)
12.45 Lunch
1.30 SCOLMA AGM
2.00 Tour of Special Collections, Cadbury Research Library
2.30 Panel 2
Travel writing as memoir
‘Tackling Africa: The Resourceful Mrs J. Theodore Brent’
Gerald Brisch (Independent Researcher)
Brenda Stones (Freelance Publishing Consultant, Editor and Lecturer)
‘Travel, Conflict and Futurity in Isaac Fadebayo’s A Stroke of Unbelievable Luck’
Oliver Coates (Researcher)
3.30 Tea
4.00 Panel 3
Travel in the archives
‘Ocean Liner Tickets and Unstamped Passports: Ocean Liner Travel Ephemera in The Gambia National Museum Collection, Banjul’
Hassoum Ceesay (Gambia National Museum)
‘Cartography and Travel: Records in the British Library’
Ian Cooke (British Library)
‘An Eagle Eye: African in the Twentieth Century as Viewed by Barclays Bank’
Maria Sienkiewicz (Barclays Plc)
5.30 Close
SCOLMA thanks the following for support for the conference: Taylor and Francis; the University of Birmingham; and the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.
Conference venue:
The Danford Room, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, Arts Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
For more details, and to book, go to http://scolma.org/events/
or contact:
Lucy McCann, Archivist, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 270908
Email: [log in to unmask]
