“Online engagement, African archives & digital public history” – SCOLMA 2024 Online Seminar Series

Join us ONLINE for the last of five seminars in “African Studies in the Digital Age” – SCOLMA’s 2024 Seminar Series

About the seminar: Online engagement, African archives & digital public history

Wednesday April 24th Online from 13:00-14:00 BST. Register now!

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“The exponential development of digital tools and platforms from Whatsapp to Digital Humanities have radically shifted opportunities for public history – new opportunities for collective sense-making and narrating the past. This final round table in the SCOLMA seminar season addresses the work involved in engaging discussion around African collections through these platforms, re-mixing and connecting collections, short-circuiting colonial logics.

In very diverse ways our three panellists have developed projects that have brought together transnational audiences and African collections: Érika Melek Delgado (King’s College, London) co-director of the Freedom Narratives Database, JC Niala (History of Science Museum, Oxford) who has led UK discussion on transforming community access to African collections, and Anne Samson (independent historian) founder of the online Great War in Africa Association. We’ll hear from them about the successes and difficulties of virtual collaboration, in creating and sustaining online audiences and projects, and what they have learned through their processes about the needs and interests of online audiences for UK African collections.”

About the series: This seminar has been added to a series page where you’re able to see all past events in the series. The recordings of all 5 seminars will be posted to the SCOLMA YouTube channel in due time following our last seminar.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the SCOLMA committee had to change the final seminar date from April 17th to April 24th. We look forward to having you join us on Wednesday April 24th at 13:00 BST, and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.