viernes, 23 de marzo de 2012
jueves, 22 de marzo de 2012
miércoles, 21 de marzo de 2012
martes, 20 de marzo de 2012
Sudan Studies Association 31st Annual Conference
31st Annual Conference May 18 - 20, 2012
Hosted by Arizona State University and organized to mark the birth of the two Sudans, this conference seeks to reflect on recent work on the Sudan from present-day South Sudan Republic, new scholarship of Sudan in the world and to open up new discussion, incite discourses, and to encourage progressions for future research. We expect to bring together scholars working in different disciplines to consider the connections, comparisons, and contrasts between faces and facets of the Sudan in the world. With this in mind, we invite scholars working on any aspect of Sudan in the world from antiquity to over the last two centuries to contribute theoretically innovative and empirically grounded papers, panels and presentations that might enhance our understanding of such multifaceted experiences, processes of movements and events. Though the central focus of the conference will be on that broader issue, we would welcome contributions on other topics that revolve around greater Sudan in general.
The Sudan is entering the 21st century in a very different form and substance than that which we have seen any time before. July 9, 2011, will go down in history not only as a momentous day for the newest state of South Sudan, but also as a significant signpost in the lives of millions of people in that state, in the greater Sudan, in Africa and in the world at large. Neither the issues of unity and separation are yet over nor are the consequences of past developments now settled. The complex past and current experiences of the Sudan are going to be a subject or study and investigations for years to come. Sudan Studies Association, in its first conference after the split of the country into two Sudans, welcomes the opportunity to initiate the future of Sudan studies by revisiting this gigantic corpus of existing knowledge, and by being the primary academic forum for scholars to share their latest work in the field of Sudanese studies at large. The Sudanese experience and its developments have not just encouraged studies of the past of the Sudan; they also open the door wider to scholars from all disciplines, intellectuals and knowledge workers the possibility of arriving at a new, and more refined, understanding of the Sudan, its people, human experience, institutions of power and their entanglements with time, place and the world.
http://sudan.shprs.asu.edu/2012_Conference
lunes, 19 de marzo de 2012
African Past & Present
http://afripod.aodl.org/
Africa Past and Present is a podcast about history, culture, and politics in Africa and the diaspora. The show highlights interesting and significant people, ideas, and discussions in African Studies from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. Our mission is to broaden the availability and accessibility of cutting-edge knowledge relating to African experiences and to do so in a down-to-earth and informed manner. Shows feature interviews with eminent scholars and persons, commentary on current events, and issues and debates of relevance to Africans at home and abroad.
Africa Past and Present is hosted by Michigan State University historians Peter Alegi and Peter Limb and produced by MATRIX—The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online at MSU. Thanks to funding from Matrix and the MSU Department of History, this web site includes an online digital archive of all shows, as well as links to multimedia resources and collections of relevance to African experiences, past and present.
domingo, 18 de marzo de 2012
Tombouctou Manuscripts
http://www.tombouctoumanuscripts.org/
Timbuktu has often been invoked as a symbol of the most distant place on Earth, as a mysterious and exotic, but unreachable, attraction. Yet, it is a real city with a history.
Indeed, it has a rich and diverse heritage and a fascinating past. The city and its desert environs are an archive of handwritten texts in Arabic and in African languages in the Arabic script, produced between the 13th and the 20th centuries. The manuscript libraries of Timbuktu are significant repositories of scholarly production in West Africa and the Sahara. Given the large number of manuscript collections it is surprising that Timbuktu as an archive remains largely unknown and under-used. Timbuktu’s manuscript collections deserve close study. It is a significant starting-point for reflecting on Africa’s written traditions.
Recognising its significance as a site of African architecture and of its scholarly past, Unesco declared Timbuktu a World Heritage Site in 1990.
A South Africa-Mali Timbuktu Manuscripts Project was officially launched in 2003 and a major achievement of this project was the new library-archive building, which was inaugurated in Timbuktu in January 2009.
The Tombouctou Manuscripts Project at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is dedicated to research various aspects of writing and reading the handwritten works of Timbuktu and beyond. Training young researchers is an integral part of its work.
International Slavery Museum
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/learning/slavery-today/
Slavery is outlawed in every country, but that doesn't mean it no longer exists. Today, as many as 27 million people across the world endure forms of treatment that merit the term "slavery" just as surely as those bought and sold in the Transatlantic slave trade 200 years ago.. Many victims of contemporary slavery are young people - the same age as those taught in schools in England and Wales.
We hope that when students encounter this material, they will learn about how basic human rights, including those of people their own age, continue to be violated, and that they will develop empathy with those enduring slavery today and become motivated to contribute to their fight for freedom.
Who is the website for?
The site has been produced with particular reference to the teaching of Citizenship within the National Curriculum of England and Wales. We hope it will also be used beyond these borders among students aged 10-14.
What's included?
information on contemporary forms of slavery and initiatives to outlaw and combat it
teaching resources consisting of a set of lesson plans with supporting materials such as worksheets, and case studies
a list of campaigns and organisations that can help with research
a glossary with clear explanations of key concepts to help understand, think about and discuss contemporary slavery.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/learning/slavery-today/
Slavery is outlawed in every country, but that doesn't mean it no longer exists. Today, as many as 27 million people across the world endure forms of treatment that merit the term "slavery" just as surely as those bought and sold in the Transatlantic slave trade 200 years ago.. Many victims of contemporary slavery are young people - the same age as those taught in schools in England and Wales.
We hope that when students encounter this material, they will learn about how basic human rights, including those of people their own age, continue to be violated, and that they will develop empathy with those enduring slavery today and become motivated to contribute to their fight for freedom.
Who is the website for?
The site has been produced with particular reference to the teaching of Citizenship within the National Curriculum of England and Wales. We hope it will also be used beyond these borders among students aged 10-14.
What's included?
information on contemporary forms of slavery and initiatives to outlaw and combat it
teaching resources consisting of a set of lesson plans with supporting materials such as worksheets, and case studies
a list of campaigns and organisations that can help with research
a glossary with clear explanations of key concepts to help understand, think about and discuss contemporary slavery.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/learning/slavery-today/
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