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Britian Zimbabwe Society Research Day, 18 June 2016

The Britain Zimbabwe Society will be holding its annual Research Day on Saturday 18 June 2016 at St Antony’s College, Oxford. The theme is ‘Health and Politics in Zimbabwe and the Diasporas’ and the keynote address will be given by Dr Portia Manangazira, Director of Disease Control in the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health. Panels will address epidemics (particularly cholera, AIDS/HIV and bilharzia) and politics, mental health in Zimbabwe, and  health and the Zimbabwean diaspora (focusing on the problems of stress and trauma, health education and skills, and the dynamics of the care sector). The draft programme can be found at http://www.britain-zimbabwe.org.uk and registration is now open.

European Librarians in African Studies (ELIAS) Annual Meeting 2016

The ELIAS network is an informal network for librarians, archivists, documentalists and other information workers working with materials from and about Africa in institutions (libraries, archives, organisations, NGOs etc.) within Europe.

This year’s ELIAS meeting will be held at the Royal Museum for Central Africa at Tervuren, Belgium on Friday 17th June 2016, with an evening programme on Thursday 16th June. If you have any contributions for the meeting please send them to Fleur De Jaeger, who is hosting the meeting – fleur.de.jaeger@africamuseum.be.

More details about ELIAS and previous meetings can be found at http://eliasnet.pbworks.com/w/page/25672398/FrontPage.

Global History of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Workshop

A workshop on the Global History of the Anti-Apartheid Movement will take place in Oxford on 11-12 March 2016, jointly hosted by the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College and Maison Française d’Oxford. Saul Dubow of the University of London will give the key-note address, speaking on ‘Apartheid, anti-apartheid and anti-anti-apartheid’, and panels will consider the globalisation of anti-apartheid; shared identities, ideologies and cultures; networks and levers and anti-apartheid and transnational solidarities. Speakers included Håkan Thörn of the University of Gothenburg, Sifiso Ndlovu of the South African Democracy Education Trust and Christopher Saunders of the University of Cape Town. A selection of posters of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement will be exhibited during the workshop.

Further information can be seen at http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/global-history-anti-apartheid-movement .