The Archive and Everyday Life Conference (7-8 May 2010) I will be presenting a paper at the Archive and Everyday Life Conference at McMaster University in Canada in May. This conference will bring together academics, advocates, artists, and other cultural workers to examine the intersecting fields of archive and everyday life theory. “Archive” is understood …
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The Digital Archive and South African Heritage
Last week I attended a pre-proposal workshop, hosted by Digital Innovations South Africa (DISA) and the South Africa Netherlands research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD). The purpose of the workshop was to develop a proposal for a three-year long project looking at digital archives and heritage in South Africa. Participants came from the Vrije …
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Archival Platform: Launch & Guest Blog
The Archival Platform launches in Cape Town today. Archives in South Africa are currently underfunded and understaffed, putting valuable documents at risk. Museums and heritage sites are often still perceived by the public as being part of the old apartheid order, and transforming the sector has not been as easy as we thought in 1994. …
INK Writers Trail launched
Developed with KZN Literary Tourism and the eThekwini Municipality, the INK (Inanda, Ntuzuma, KwaMashu) Writers Trail is an important heritage tourism initiative. The trail includes important cultural and historical sites such as the Phoenix Settlement, Ohlange Institute and Inanda Seminary and writers such as Mandla Langa, Sita Gandhi, Angelina Sithebe, Ellen Kuzwayo and Mewa Ramgobin. …