Applications are invited for a University of Sheffield and British Library PhD scholarship: Freedom, Oppression and Resistance: Evolving Stories in South African Political Ephemera and Propaganda, 1948- 2004. The project will work with the British Library's collections of political ephemera, to examine the evolving nature of political participation within contested public spheres in South Africa. The studentship will be supervised by Dr Daniel Hammett and Professor Charles Pattie at University of Sheffield and Ian Cooke at the British Library. There are more details of the studentship at: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships/projects/freedom Applications and enquiries are welcome from interested applicants with a first class or upper second class first degree in a relevant subject area and who hold or expect to complete a Masters level degree before September 2013. Deadline for applications: 5pm 31st May 2013. Enquiries and applications to Dr Daniel Hammet,D.Hammett@sheffield.ac.uk NB The contact at the British Library is Ian Cooke, ian.cooke@bl.uk
Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Templeton Prize Forum
PhD scholarship on South African political ephemera and propagandaAFRICA WRITES, 5-7 JULY 2013 AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY
British Empire and Commonwealth Museum archival collections
B.R.A. annual conference 2012 “Jewels in the Crown? The archives of Empire”Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa – Online database
Ngugi wa Thiong’o “Africa in the Language of Scholarship”
5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5) – call for Panels
SCOLMA Statement on the Situation in Mali2012 AGM minutes