Tonight we launch our Digital Culture 2019 report with Arts Council England that examines the impact and usage of technology in the arts and culture sector bit.ly/2ur3mFH

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/index.php/deco…

We would like to invite you to the 5th Biannual AEGIS CRG African History Conference, to be hosted by AfricanStudiesCentre 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.

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…

If you’re an #African national who has secured admission to King's College London 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

#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.

Scenes from conference ‘Beyond Collecting: New Ethics for Museums in Transition’. Intense discussions about politics of restitution, cultural exchange & enduring problems of neocolonialism. ⁦goetheinstitut⁩ ⁦Anthony Richter⁩ ⁦Abiti Adebo Nelson⁩ ⁦Subhadra Das⁩

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

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…

.Nicola Laurent 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…

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…

.Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander (Dr. Elizabeth Alexander) 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

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 Archiver@s de CyL) time.com/5816482/resear…

My book Slavery in the Age of Memory with Bloomsbury History 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

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