Jos Damen

Interested in Africa, Open Access & Wiki. From: African Studies Centre, Leiden (The Netherlands) @ASCLeiden @UniLeiden

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Carla Hayden (LoC) fired by Trump https://t.co/L037jtQxS6

[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

The @MedievalAcademy has awarded the 2025 Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize to the Pemm Project (@pemmaryam)!

This groundbreaking digital library preserves centuries of African miracle stories and art, making them accessible to all.

https://t.co/Ft7JiBV845

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Yes. @Harvard has brains - and guts https://t.co/uGmvJmzaSU

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Brewster Kahle: Thank You, Leiden. You were amazing! Me: Thank you Brewster, you were wonderful. @UniLeiden @internetarchive https://t.co/p7xSVI5mLS

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Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) will give a lecture in Leiden about "Copyright in the 21st century, the case of the Internet Archive". Place: Telderszaal, Academy Bld, Rapenburg 73, Leiden. Tuesday 18 March, 16:00 hr. Free entrance, reservation advised https://t.co/kF0oPZUOZr

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Doubleface (by Peter Klashorst, 2016)

[Daniel Korski @DanielKorski]

Winston Churchill in the White House…

Not wearing a suit because he is at war

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Four new #openaccess publications in the AEGIS Brill series (a.o Oil-age Africa) https://t.co/LvqrwTgt5h

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In 1972 Nixon won the US Presidential Elections. Paul Simon wrote a song. "I don't know a soul who's not been battered / I don't have a friend who feels at ease / I don't know a dream that's not been shattered / or driven to its knees / but it's alright" https://t.co/btPldEck5L

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Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese philosopher & antropologist. The Library Weekly @ASCLeiden of 29 Dec. was written by ASCL's young student intern Issa Niang https://t.co/aLwZRklfxk

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Roel Coutinho donated his orginal diary 1973/74 to the Library of @ASCLeiden This diary of a young Dutch medical doctor from within the liberation movement of Guinea-Bissau reveals daily life during a revolution in Africa (1973-1974). Portuguese transl.: https://t.co/kaVwbWeRUP

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"A luta pela libertação da Guiné-Bissau, vista pelos olhos de um jovem médico neerlandês, Roel Coutinho" - book now #openaccess online -about the liberation struggle in #Guinea-Bissau against Portugal in the 1970s https://t.co/kaVwbWfpKn

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Inventory of Stephen Ellis Archive now online: impressive 295 page inventory of the archive of a distinguished #Africa researcher. Thanks to @tavdhoog and @walkurax1 https://t.co/9DayebjfIi

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Hans Muller, Wikipedian in Residence at @ASCLeiden, moves on to @ubleiden in 2025. Talk: Thursday 19 Dec. 16:00 hr, Herta Mohr Building Leiden, 'Highlights of the African Studies Centre image collection' #Wikipedia https://t.co/Ceui5a3DIX

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Nice gift to the Library of @ASCLeiden, from the collection of Leiden professor Carla Risseeuw (1947-2024): a rare specimen of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (from "1001 Nights") in #Swahili

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Deadline paper submission #ECAS2025 extended to 20 Dec. 2024 https://t.co/o8GKViGL2L

[Vincent Hiribarren @bixhiribarren]

@fmadore and I are convening a panel on #DigitalHumanities and #AI in #AfricanStudies #ECAS2025. Please submit your paper before 15th Dec https://t.co/kKflIyEX9V #DH #AfricanHistory

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10th European Conference on African Studies will be held in Prague, 25-28 June 2025. Deadline for paper submission: 15 Dec. 2024. #ECAS2025 List of panels https://t.co/ByFgTD4pab Website: https://t.co/mSWtkw2GNz

[Tycho van der Hoog @tavdhoog]

Over the course of five years, I've catalogued the personal papers of Stephen Ellis - renowned historian of Africa and former director of the @ASCLeiden. The 295 page inventory is now available online: https://t.co/dQyux3Rf30.

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Tanzanian children's and youth literature: @ASCLeiden highlight about information specialist Gerard van de Bruinhorst buying 230 books in Dar es Salaam, among which a selection of Tanzanian children’s and youth literature in English and Swahili #Tanzania https://t.co/bGcySxoJ0v