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Archival Platform

@the_archive

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

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ontologoff 🛜@ontologoff18 Jan 2021
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!
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An interesting angle on heritage-sensitive commercialisation
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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 analuciaaraujo.org/wp-conten… or the code GLR TW5 if ordering it online at bloomsbury.com #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians
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Amalia S. Levi@amaliasl13 Apr 2020
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) time.com/5816482/research-mi…

How New Efforts Are Finding People Deleted From History

Until we recover the stories of the people who were deleted from history, we will carry forward the bigotry of the past

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Mellon Foundation@MellonFdn8 Apr 2020
.@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: ow.ly/wMkf50z8YXO
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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) mandelarhodes.org/scholarshi…
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Kirsten Wright@ktaines9 Mar 2020
.@NicolaCLaurent and I are excited about the launch of the online course "A Trauma-Informed Approach to Managing Archives", now available through @ausarchivists archivists.org.au/events/eve…
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Ciraj Rassool@CirajRassool6 Mar 2020
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
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Ciraj Rassool@CirajRassool6 Mar 2020
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
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Dr Mariko Smith@MarikoCurates5 Mar 2020
#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.
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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. bit.ly/399xNPE
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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) wellsmountaininitiative.org/…
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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: facebook.com/groups/CRG.Afri… #CRG_AfrHist2020
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ASnA@ASnA_Editors14 Feb 2020
Call for applications: Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards for African students enrolled in South African Ph.D. programmes. Closing Date: Friday 1 May 2020
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ASnA@ASnA_Editors14 Feb 2020
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.
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Nesta@nesta_uk11 Feb 2020
Tonight we launch our Digital Culture 2019 report with @ace_national that examines the impact and usage of technology in the arts and culture sector bit.ly/2ur3mFH
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diegomaranan@diegomaranan12 Feb 2020
Very interesting-sounding book mentioned during the #TEI2020 closing keynote "Beyond Imperial Tools: Future-proofing technology through Indigenous Governance and Traditional Knowledge Systems" ojs.decolonising.digital/ind…
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diegomaranan@diegomaranan12 Feb 2020
And there's a tantalizing mention of the concept of "decolonizing hardware" from the Indigenous Protocols & Artificial Intelligence Workshop lavaflow.info/post/manage-yo…
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