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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!

An interesting angle on heritage-sensitive commercialisation

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-content/upl… or the code GLR TW5 if ordering it online at bloomsbury.com #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians

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/resear…

.@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

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/scholarship/ap…

.@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/event/a…

Good piece from @profdanhicks: "We must reimagine museums as sites of conscience." This seems key to me if we are to really change popular understanding of our colonial past. theguardian.com/world/commenti…

@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. ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeo…

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

@CirajRassool @goetheinstitut This research and other work presented at the conference would be good to share with EMRIP for their report on restitution. ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeo…

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

#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.

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

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/prospective-sc…

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.Afr… #CRG_AfrHist2020

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