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Networking, advocacy and research about archives, heritage and museums in Africa. RTs not endorsements.

[ontologoff 🛜 @ontologoff]

The Histories of Race Workshop is pleased to announce that our Lent Term Card is now out!

And we've got an exciting line-up!

Thank you to our presenters and to everyone who shared their work with us!

We'll be meeting on alternate Weds at 5PM via Zoom. Please join us!

[Archival Platform @the_archive]

An interesting angle on heritage-sensitive commercialisation

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

My book Slavery in the Age of Memory with @BloomsburyHist will be out on October 15, 2020. Want to pre-order it with 35 % discount? Use this flyer https://t.co/pyOUL9AvXJ or the code GLR TW5 if ordering it online at https://t.co/s1P0czWT3w #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians

[Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl]

Crowdsourcing transcriptions allows us to "lift" information from digitized pages, recover lost stories, and trace human lives by linking memory to history. #archivalsilences (h/t @AsociacionACAL)

https://t.co/RTcHZk2Agk

[Mellon Foundation @MellonFdn]

.@MellonFdn President Elizabeth Alexander (@ProfessorEA) on providing $5 million of seed funding to #ArtistRelief, a fund that will give $5,000 emergency grants to individual artists in partnership with @USAforArts and other grantmakers: https://t.co/ymmVUgYylx

[Mawazo Institute @MawazoInstitute]

Opportunity:The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship covers tuition for a one-year Honours degree or a two-year Masters degree in any field at a recognised South African institution of higher education. (Deadline: 16 April)

https://t.co/ykiHhrXjUk

[Kirsten Wright @ktaines]

.@NicolaCLaurent and I are excited about the launch of the online course "A Trauma-Informed Approach to Managing Archives", now available through @ausarchivists https://t.co/Namr7Xtoc3

[Archival Platform @the_archive]

@CirajRassool @goetheinstitut @anthonyrichter @AbitiAdebo @littlegaudy This research and other work presented at the conference would be good to share with EMRIP for their report on restitution. https://t.co/dIS1IXOcIb

[Archival Platform @the_archive]

@CirajRassool @goetheinstitut This research and other work presented at the conference would be good to share with EMRIP for their report on restitution. https://t.co/dIS1IXOcIb

[Ciraj Rassool @CirajRassool]

Thought provoking live art “Vinyango - Indigenous voices” by ASEDEVA at the National Museum of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, about the life and death of masks in and out of the museum. ‘Beyond Collecting: New Ethics for Museums in Transition’, 5-6 March 2020, ⁦@goetheinstitut⁩

[Ciraj Rassool @CirajRassool]

Scenes from conference ‘Beyond Collecting: New Ethics for Museums in Transition’. Intense discussions about politics of restitution, cultural exchange & enduring problems of neocolonialism. ⁦@goetheinstitut⁩ ⁦@anthonyrichter⁩ ⁦@AbitiAdebo⁩ ⁦@littlegaudy⁩

[Dr Mariko Smith @MarikoCurates]

#GLAMSLAM20: Dr @Heidi_Norman talked about a renewed nationhood through reinforcing an Aboriginal land ethic - for the broader Australian public to follow First Nations in embedding systems of responsibility and connections to Country.

[Robtel Neajai Pailey @RobtelNeajai]

If you’re an #African national who has secured admission to @KingsCollegeLon for an MPhil/PhD (or will do by end-March), apply by 1 April for the fully-funded Africa International PGR Scholarships. https://t.co/mM6opfD8A4

[Mawazo Institute @MawazoInstitute]

Call for Applications: The Wells Mountain Initiative Scholars Program provides undergraduate scholarships to students from developing countries to help them study at universities in their home country or neighbouring countries. (Deadline: 1 March)

https://t.co/c9iTFmxgV9

[CRG African History @CRG_AfrHistory]

We would like to invite you to the 5th Biannual AEGIS @CRG_AfrHistory Conference, to be hosted by @ASCLeiden on 18 & 19 June 2020.

Please find the full message in the image below.
You can find the programme in our Facebook group: https://t.co/vL93jQosAT

#CRG_AfrHist2020

[ASnA @ASnA_Editors]

Call for applications: Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards for African students enrolled in South African Ph.D. programmes. Closing Date: Friday 1 May 2020

[ASnA @ASnA_Editors]

The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2021. Closing Date: Friday 1 May 2020.