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Registration open for Pursuing Justice in Africa Conference

Registration has opened for the ‘Pursuing Justice in Africa’ conference which will be taking place in Cambridge on 27-28 March 2015. Bringing together scholarship from a wide range of disciplines, the conference will examine alternative approaches to the concept of justice and consider its relationship with law, morality and rights. The keynote speaker will be Kamari Maxine Clarke, Professor of Anthropology at Yale/Pennsylvania. For the programme, abstracts and to register see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25640 .

Scolma 2015 conference

The call for papers for Scolma’s 2015 conference ‘”There came a darkness”: Africa, Africans and World War I‘ is now closed. We have had an excellent response, and this year promises to be very exciting and interesting. It will be held on 17th July at the British Library, and you can stay up to date here –

http://scolma.org/events/.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The Empire Needs Men: Workshop, Holborn Library

Two million Africans fought in World War I. These troops came from the Caribbean Islands, Africa, America and Africans in Britain. They fought gallantly and heroically as many European soldiers. This workshop is part of the Empire Needs Men Exhibition, will explore how African troops from worldwide were involved in World War I. It will bring to live some of the heroic stories of the African soldiers who joined in the fight. It will discuss what happened to them before, during and after the war.
Saturday 7th February 2015
11.30am- 1.00pm
@ Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre,
Holborn Library,
32-38 Theobalds Road
London WC1X 8PA
Book your place call: 020 7974 6342 or email: localstudies@camden.gov.uk