{"id":2986,"date":"2023-03-27T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:45:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T09:45:03","slug":"save-the-date-africa-the-environment-archives-data-in-the-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"Save the date! – Africa & the Environment: Archives & Data in the Climate Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa and the Environment<\/strong>
\nArchives and Data in the Climate Emergency<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\n23 June 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\nA one-day conference at SOAS, London, and online<\/h4>\n

Please save the date! Registration details to follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

9.50\u201310.00 Welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n

10.00\u201310.40 Keynote<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Sources on the Visual History of African Wildlife, 1945-1980: Images that Changed the
\nAnimal World\u2019
\nWilliam Beinart, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford<\/p>\n

10.40\u201311.00 Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

11.00\u201312.30 Panel 1: Environmental Histories, Archives and Mining<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Exploring the Historical Climatology of Southern Africa using Documentary Evidence from UK
\nArchives\u2019
\nDavid J. Nash, University of Brighton, George C.D. Adamson, Georgina H. Endfield, Stefan W. Grab, Matthew J. Hannaford, Clare Kelso and J\u00f8rgen Klein<\/p>\n

\u2018Documenting Lived Experiences of Resource Extraction and Environmental Transformation
\non the Copperbelt\u2019
\nIva Pe\u0161a, University of Groningen<\/p>\n

\u2018A Preservation History of Mining Archives: The Case of the Selection Trust and Anglo-American Corporation Environmental Archives in Zambia\u2019s Copperbelt\u2019
\nMiyanda Simabwachi, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein<\/p>\n

12.30\u201313.15 Lunch break<\/strong><\/p>\n

13.15\u201314.00 SCOLMA AGM<\/strong><\/p>\n

14.00\u201315.30 Panel 2: Material Heritage, Data and the Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The Climate Emergency and Coastal Heritage Sites: Archival Data and Environmental
\nModelling for Heritage Preservation in Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania\u2019
\nMapping Africa\u2019s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (MAEASaM), University of Cambridge<\/p>\n

\u2018The Activating the Archive Project \u2013 Using Museum Collections to Understand Colonial
\nLegacies of African Environmental Histories\u2019
\nAshley Coutu, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford and Tabitha Kabora, Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, University of York<\/p>\n

\u2018Documenting Environmental Knowledge through\/with\/in Material Practices\u2019
\nCeri Ashley, British Museum\/Nottingham Trent University<\/p>\n

15.30\u201316.00 Break<\/strong>
\n16.00\u201317.25 Panel 3: Archival Resources and Environmental Change<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The Archival Trail and the History of International Cooperation in Environmental Control:
\nThe Case of Locusts in Southern Africa\u2019
\nAdmire Mseba, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

\u2018The Effects of Harmattan Haze on the British Colonial and Administrative records at the
\nPublic Records and Archives Administration (PRAAD) Tamale (Ghana)\u2019
\nIsmael M. Montana, Northern Illinois University<\/p>\n

\u2018Complementary and Competing but Neglected: Understanding the State of Private
\nEnvironmental Archives in Zimbabwe using the Boulton Atlantica Foundation\u2019
\nLivingstone Muchefa, Curator for Education and Public Programming, National Gallery Of Zimbabwe<\/p>\n

17.25\u201317.30 Conference close<\/strong><\/p>\n

This programme is subject to change.<\/em>
\nPlease note that some speakers will be giving their papers in person, and others online.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please save the date! Registration details to follow. <\/em><\/strong>
\n(Other enquiries can be sent to Sarah Rhodes, SCOLMA Secretary, <\/em>
\nsarah.rhodes@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Notice of event at the UK National Archives on 22 June<\/strong>
\nKnowledge exchange workshop on the historic use of insecticides in collections<\/strong>
\nAttendees at the SCOLMA conference 2023 are also cordially invited to a hybrid workshop hosted at the National Archives, UK on the 22nd of June. The knowledge exchange workshop will be exploring how several archives, libraries and museums are investigating and managing the presence of historic pesticide treatments of their paper-based collections. This follows recent research into TNA collections, the results of which are available in an open access paper published by Heritage Science here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Collection specialists at King\u2019s College London, the National History Museum London, and Durham University, as well the Collections Care Department at the National Archives, UK, have confirmed participation.<\/p>\n

The workshop will be running as a hybrid event with options to attend onsite at Kew, and online. Please save the date and look out<\/a> for more details about timing and registration in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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