The Archive & Public Culture Research Initiative has just launched the first phase of a promising new project, the Five Hundred Year Archive. This project builds on a resurgence of research interest in the history of Southern Africa in the five-hundred-year period before the advent of colonialism, manifest most notably in the recent work of …
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Digital media training for Kenneth Gardens residents
Niall McNulty will be running a digital media workshop for Kenneth Gardens residents tomorrow, as part of the Kenneth Gardens Online project, a digital community archive of the housing estate. Together with Thula Zungu, he will be providing training on oral history methodology, digital media production, basic information literacy and online publishing. The project holds …
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Digital Libraries at IST-Africa
Niall McNulty has recently returned from a trip to Kenya, where he presented at the IST-Africa Conference on the Ulwazi Programme, a digital library initiative we have managed for the past five years. The project uses the public library infrastructure, the local community and social web technologies to collect and disseminate indigenous knowledge and local histories. …
Special Issue of South African Historical Journal
A recent special edition of the South African Historical Journal brings to life the shifting contexts and varied social imperatives out of which archives are initiated and sustained. This just-published special focus on Archive put together by NRF Chair, Carolyn Hamilton, showcases five papers by Archive & Public Culture research associates and is available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshj20/65/1. Hamilton’s overview …
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