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SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) 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 The introduction of Western medicine Medicine and the missionary movement The documentation of HIV/AIDS and Ebola Medical research in Africa Access to medical information and research in and from Africa Researchers, archivists and librarians are invited to submit abstracts for consideration for this conference. Abstracts of up to 500 words may be sent to Terry Barringer at [log in to unmask] by 30 April 2016. http://scolma.org<http://scolma.org/> Lucy McCann Senior Archivist The Bodleian Library Weston Library Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BG Tel: 01865 270911 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra