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Archival Platform Heritage Day 2009 Newsletter
Stand up for arts and culture
Arts and culture matters in society, not just for recreation but for education, health, equality, citizenship and democracy. How should we stand up for it?
In the last Archival Platform blog, we explored the role and mandate of the state in promoting and protecting arts and culture in South Africa. This time we speak to the role of the citizen, academic and practitioner.
Mike van Graan has reminded us that, as citizens, artists and other workers in the culture sector, we need to take action. He says, “If the arts sector spent at least as much time reflecting on our own culpability for the state of our sector as looking for scapegoats elsewhere, we will have to concede that often, we get – or have – what we deserve.” Sifiso Ndhlovu underlined this point on our website last month.
If we hold the conviction that arts and culture matters in society, not just for recreation but for education, health, equality, citizenship and democracy, how do we stand up for arts and culture?
Participate in critical, constructive debate about heritage, citizenship and human rights issues
We live in interesting times politically. South Africans are revisiting some of the questions that were taken for granted in the 1994 transition. Many of these touch on the relationship between cultural practice and human rights.
On the one hand, many community members opposed the recent ban on virginity testing. This month, lobby groups such as the National Interfaith Leadership Council want to reopen the discussion on legalising abortion and same-sex marriages. On the other hand, public debates about issues such as polygamy and traditional circumcision are also growing in scale and complexity.
This Heritage Month, we not only see the launch of a new novel about traditional male circumcision, but also a book about experiences of polygamy. These debates on cultural practice or religion are often very polarised. One side often ends up feeling rejected, disrespected or silenced. As heritage practitioners or archivists and as citizens, these debates affect us. We need to participate in them, developing ethical and sensitive ways of negotiating this difficult territory in productive new ways.
Share information and put yourselves out there
In a small community like the South African arts and culture sector, we paradoxically often find ourselves divided by disciplinary silos, digital divides, institutional hierarchies and other barriers to the free exchange of information. After putting together a monthly sector newsletter for over three years now, I still discover new organisations, initiatives and resources every day.
Support local organisations and foster young talent
The professional organisations in this field are often run by a few dedicated individuals. Many of them only have single-figure memberships. Why not join the organisation most relevant to your interests and help promote their work?
The challenges facing young people in the sector are great: consultants cannot afford to take on student trainees; museums and archives do not have enough guided internships to help young students gain experience; and the learnership system is still weak. Education in the sector usually trains young people as practitioners or as academics, seldom straddling both. We can put more effort into registering learnerships, offering internships, mentoring your professionals and lobbying professional organisations to offer student rates.
Think global, act local
We are still calling for more submissions to our campaign to help the new minister feel the pulse of the sector: write your Letter for Lulu today!
What we need, more than ever, are local networks of practitioners and institutions sharing ideas, skills and resources. The Nelson Mandela Foundation hosts regular workshops on critical issues, such as the Protection of Personal Information Bill, and I’m sure other organisations are doing similar things around the country. Adrienne van Eeden of Doxa recently organised several workshops in which lawyers such as Andrew Rens discussed how digitising archival and heritage collections was affected by copyright and privacy law. We’ve started an online discussion on issues of copyright and privacy for digitised collections.
How can these interactions become more regular? I have to commend the initiative of South African History Online in putting networks of teachers together to strengthen history teaching. We at the Archival Platform would like to encourage the development of a series of informal networks of archive managers, and heritage and archive practitioners across South Africa. If you want to facilitate such a network to address our sector concerns, get in touch with us.
Dr Harriet Deacon
Director, Archival Platform
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
HERITAGE MONTH EVENTS
Heritage Day celebration
On September 24, official Heritage Day celebrations will be held in the Greater Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, under the theme “Celebrating South African craft, our heritage”.
World Summit on Arts and Culture
September 22-25, Johannesburg
The theme of the fourth summit, to be held at Museum Africa in Newtown, is “Meeting of cultures: creating meaning through the arts”.
Symposium: Commemoration of the Khoisan-Dutch confrontation of 1659
September 26, Iziko Rock Art Gallery, Cape Town
2009 marks 350 years (semiseptcentennial) since the Khoisan-Dutch confrontation of 1659 in the Cape. It was here, in the sand dunes of the Cape, that the indigenous people resisted the inevitable colonial expansion that later changed the destiny of every black African child, man and woman born on the continent.
The symposium takes place in the Iziko Rock Art Gallery at the Iziko South Africa Museum in Cape Town from 09h00-13h30.
Conference: The African City Centre (Re)sourced
September 24-28, Pretoria
African Perspectives 2009, the third international conference on urbanism and architecture in the series to be hosted in Africa, will focus on the unique and diverse character of the African city as resource, as well as resourcing the city.
The conference will take place on the campus of Tshwane University of Technology.
Conference: Spreek, Thetha, Talk: ’n Suid-Afrikaans-Nederlandse Dialoog oor die Dinamika van Taal, Kultuur en Erfenis
September 22-23, Cape Town
This conference is part of the “Afrikaanse Taalprojek Roots”, an initiative of the Department of Arts and Culture, in collaboration with the University of the Western Cape and the embassies of the Netherlands and Belgium.
The conference will take place at the University of the Western Cape’s School of Government.
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Exhibition: GR Naidoo: A Generous Eye
September 30, Johannesburg
The launch of the Nelson Mandela Foundation exhibition, “GR Naidoo: A Generous Eye”, will take place at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, 107 Central Street, Houghton, at 13h00.
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
NEWS and COMMENT
Conclusions of the Third Conference of Ecowas Ministers of Culture
Held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire from July 27-August 1 2009, the conference, themed “Culture and regional integration: commitments to achievements and prospects”, enabled the participants to evaluate the state of implementation of the regional cultural action plan, as well as the decisions and recommendations of the Second Conference, held in August 2005 in Abuja, Nigeria.
At the end of the meeting, the ministers adopted several recommendations on cultural programmes, the regional cultural agenda, copyright protection, statutes of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Regional Culture Fund and the strategy for resource mobilisation. They agreed to establish national committees on co-ordination and implementation of the cultural programmes.
Other resolutions were taken on the creation of a regional museum of contemporary arts and institutionalisation of an Ecowas Day for the fight against piracy and fraud. The ministers also adopted resolutions on the creation of a radio and television station, as well as an Ecowas website on cultural issues. The station will aim to facilitate and promote integration of West African countries and specialise in promoting community arts and culture. It may also serve as medium for all cultural events.
In addition to adopting the statutes of the Regional Cultural Fund, the ministers recommended the establishment of a copyright and Ecowas Hologram Observatory to fight piracy. On the strategy for resource mobilisation, the conference recommended that the use of taxes be considered for the Culture Fund, as is practised in Côte d’Ivoire.
http://news.ecowas.int/presseshow.php?nb=077&lang=en&annee=2009
Fossil find outside Africa
Do we have to redo our marketing? An early hominid skull found in Georgia questions Africa’s status as the only cradle of humankind.
From OCPA
Comment: Woza Biko … SA needs you!
Onkgopotse JJ Tabane on the lack of respect for indigenous heritage versus clothes and cars.
Conservationists call for protection of endangered heritage sites in Africa
Alan Boswell, Nairobi, Kenya September 3 2009
Representatives from around Africa gathered in Nairobi, Kenya in early September to seek new ways of protecting World Heritage Sites threatened by conflict and political instability on the continent. Africa is host to the largest number of sites named as endangered by the United Nations.
www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-03-voa42.cfm?rss=africa
Did you study with CHDA? Researcher needs you!
Patrick Abungu is undertaking a master’s degree in museology at the Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam School of the Arts, Netherlands. The Centre for Heritage Development in Africa (CHDA) in Mombasa, Kenya will be the case study for his thesis. The study will analyse the activities, outcomes and effects of the CHDA since its inception nine years ago. A comparative study will be done with other heritage training institutions in the Africa and beyond.
If you studied with CHDA, please contact Patrick to complete his questionnaire. The questionnaire will also be available on the Archival Platform website.
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
African feature film digitised
The Rose of Rhodesia (1918) by Harold M Shaw is one of the earliest remaining feature films shot in Africa.
www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/
The South African Music Archive Project (SAMAP) launches new website
SAMAP is an online resource of South African music associated with our cultural heritage, promoting multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research in the field of popular music and culture. This site currently contains about 13 000 audio samples and associated metadata from five music collections.
Comment: Mike van Graan on arts advocacy
“Our recent history is littered with letters and e-mails to different levels of government and to the National Arts Council and their provincial equivalents making proposals, suggesting alternatives to current policies and practice, pointing out – quietly at first – the incompetence, mismanagement and corruption that undermine the sector, only for these to be ignored…
“With regard to the lack of advocacy for the arts, the hands of artists are often not clean either.”
Comment: Mercy Madonna of Malawi and conceptual colonialism
Eduard Miralles, president of the board of the Interarts Foundation, speaks about the play Mercy Madonna of Malawi and conceptual colonialism in the latest Cyberkaris newsletter of the Interarts foundation.
www.archivalplatform.org/news/entry/comment_mercy_madonna_of_malawi/
Comment: Lionel Faull on ubuntu, social justice and entrepreneurship
Mandela Rhodes Scholars recently met in Grahamstown to discuss the practice of ethical leadership — a gathering that could grow in time to become Africa’s premier conference of young leaders.
The Craft Trade Company
Marlene Chitonga of The Craft Trade Company is setting up an art agency in the UK to bring contemporary African art to the European market. She has made contact with various galleries that would be interested and she’ll also be looking to work with art exhibitions and events. She wants to develop links or contacts with African artists who have work that is competitive on the international market. She is after pieces that are abstract, contemporary, bright, distinctive and unique.
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
African colours: http://international.africancolours.net/content/20075
MEETINGS and CONFERENCES
Workshop: The Protection of Personal Information Bill and its implications
September 30 2009, Johannesburg
The Nelson Mandela Foundation is holding a workshop on the Protection of Personal Information Bill and its implications for archival and other memory institutions. This is a follow-up to a workshop hosted by the Foundation three years ago, when the Bill was first published for public comment. The Bill has now been tabled in Parliament.
Conference: Cultural Organisations in Times of Economic Crisis
December 3-4 2009, Cape Town
Abstract submission deadline: September 15
The First Conference on Cultural Organisations in Times of Economic Crisis is themed “Managing aesthetics and excellence with shrinking budgets”. The conference discusses and reflects on the relationship of culture, arts and management in times of economic crises. The current global financial meltdown has slashed the myth of unrestricted liberalism and forced governments to actively support their former flagships of endless economic growth. These emergency actions have far-reaching consequences.
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Conference: The Creative Museum
October 24-29 2009, Chief Albert Luthuli Museum, Stanger
The Commonwealth Association of Museums GCAM Workshop Four is themed “The creative museum: museums using culture for the development of children and youth”. The workshop will look at methods and examples of programme design in museums, with an emphasis on utilising the museums’ skills and knowledge of local conditions and culture to work creatively within the community and with multiple partners to address contemporary issues with innovative programmes.
E-mail: Lois Irvine at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Anthropology Southern Africa Conference
October 4-7 2009, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg
The conference includes a panel on “Performance, publics and the politics of authenticity”.
E-mail: Chris Colvin at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Call for papers: Historical Association of South Africa Biennial Conference: Milestones – commemorating Southern African history
July 7-9 2010, Potchefstroom
The conference will focus on “Commemorating 50 years of union and 50 years beyond, 1910-1960-2010”.
Please send abstract of maximum 300 words to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) before November 30 2009.
www.nwu.ac.za/conference/2010/HASA/
Conference: African Seminar on Festival Management
November 18-20, Johannesburg
This is a three-day seminar on festival management.
E-mail: Simon Chireshe at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Call for papers: Territorial Origins of African Civil Conflicts
January 29-30 2010, Pietermaritzburg
Abstracts by September 25 2009
The conference will examine the extent of sub-national regional inequality in present-day sub-Saharan Africa, assess the extent to which sub-national regional disparities play a role in armed conflict, review the extent to which African systems of governance address and redress territorial differences and grievances, and review and analyse peace accords in Africa in which decentralisation, civic engagement and citizen empowerment play a role.
From Africinfo, a cultural diary for Africa
http://cas.osu.edu/pdf/Call%20for%20Papers%20-%20TO%20final.pdf
Conference: African Diaspora Heritage Trail
October 25-30 2009, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tanzania will host the Fifth International African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference, an annual forum to enhance cultural tourism in the African Diaspora.
From OCPA
For a comment on this conference and likely controversies: http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/-/434746/653416/-/15kmfqnz/-/
Conference: The Second Pan-African Cultural Congress
Inventory, Protection and Promotion of African Cultural Goods
November 9-11, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Commission of the African Union is organising the second session of the Pan-African Cultural Congress with a view to follow-up on the first congress and to evaluate existing strategies and policies with a view to developing new strategies and policies for the development of the African cultural sector, and the legal and technical aspects of inventorying, protecting and promoting African cultural goods.
Third World Culturelink Conference
November 13-15 2009, Zagreb, Croatia
Culturelink Network’s members, researchers and professionals in the field of culture are invited to investigate the role and relevance that cultural networks hold for cultural development.
http://www.culturelink.org/conf/clinkconf03/clinkconf03prog.html
Registration: http://www.culturelink.hr/conf/clinkconf03/clinkconf03reg.html
Symposium: The Realities and Representations of Reconciliation in Africa
October 24 2009, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Africa in Motion 2009 is planning a number of screenings and events that confront issues of trauma, conflict and reconciliation. This symposium aims to foster discussion and understanding of old and new research dealing with the various realities and representations of reconciliation in Africa.
http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/symposium.php
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Call for papers: Portugal and Africa
October 21-22 2010, Paris, France
The aim of the conference, themed “Portugal and Africa: accounts, connections, identities (15th to 18th centuries)” is to revisit the Portuguese presence in Africa between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries – an often neglected era in contemporary research.
http://www.archivalplatform.org/news/entry/call_for_papers_portugal_and_africa/
CFP: World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the Global and the Local
Quebec City, Canada, 3-4 June 2010
Submission of abstracts by 15 Dec 2009
The conference aims to address theoretical, empirical, methodological, comparative and practical perspectives on the fullest array of themes associated with the management of Unesco World Heritage.
Conference: Heritage in Conflict and Consensus
November 9-10 2009, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
This conference will explore “New approaches to the social, political and religious impact of public heritage in the 21st century”.
http://www.umass.edu/chs/news/workshop.html#themes
CFP: Culture and Politics – towards cultural democracy?
December 3-4 2009, Barcelona, Spain
Discussions will include: “The crossroads of proximity”; “Imagination, memory and affectivity in the experience of migration”; “The building of culture in the visual paradigm”; and “Culture in the practice of counter-power and global transformation”. Proposals to take part should be sent by September 30 in the form of a summary of between 600 and 800 words. A limited number of travel and accommodation grants is available.
Conference: Cities and Nationalisms
June 17-18 2010, London, UK
The deadline for abstracts is November 30 2009.
From Cyberkaris, nº 83 – September 2009
http://www.archivalplatform.org/news/entry/conference_cities_and_nationalisms/
Workshop: Connected Histories/Connected Sociologies
December 9-11 2009, University of Warwick, UK
Three fully funded places are available at this workshop, themed “Translation and the challenge of (methodological) difference”, for PhD students and early career academics and researchers (within five years of submitting their PhD) from around the world.
Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
September 28-October 2 1009, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The fourth session of the Committee will focus on inscribing the first intangible cultural heritage elements on the Urgent Safeguarding List and the Representative List, among other things.
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=EN&pg=home
OPPORTUNITIES
Call for papers: cultural promotion policies in ACP countries
In November 2009, Africa e Mediterraneo will publish a dossier on policies relating to the promotion of cultural co-operation, including North-South as well as South-South co-operation in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP). Rather than focusing on the national policies of ACP countries (a topic too vast to be covered in this framework), the dossier will focus on the international and intergovernmental policies of these countries.
The topics it would like to examine include:
• The policies adopted by international institutions to promote ACP culture
• The cultural policies adopted by national European organisations: recent trends
• The activities of European cultural institutions in ACP countries
• The policies of private institutions with regard to cultural promotion
• The importance of the cultural industry to the economies of ACP countries
• An overview of the policy documents on cultural promotion in ACP countries
• The policies of individual ACP countries
Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 20 2009.
Deadline for article submission: October 31 2009.
E-mail Sandra Federici at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Call for visiting lecturers
Oral history, anthropology and heritage scholars are needed as visiting scholars for one-month periods, teaching at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, on a PhD in folklore.
E-mail Prof Fekade Azeze at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Jobs at District Six Museum
Position in Collections, Archives and Exhibitions. Closing date: September 25 2009. For more information, contact +27 21 466 7200.
Funders
A number of funders have been added to the Archival Platform resources pages. See: http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/
Call for applications: Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues
The Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues, relating to the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, was established to promote, support and implement the objectives of the Decade. The fund will give priority to projects concerning the main areas of the Second Decade: culture, education, health, human rights, the environment, and social and economic development.
Indigenous organisations or organisations working for indigenous people can apply for grants of up to US$10 000 from the fund to cover one year’s expenses. Proposals will be accepted between August 1 2009 and November 1 2009.
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/second_trustfund.html
Funding for art projects from Pro Helvetia
Pro Helvetia Cape Town, the Swiss Arts Council, is inviting applications for grants to support Southern African art projects that are innovative, professional and contemporary, and planned for 2010.
From OCPA
UK studentship: performing memory in the “new” South Africa
Applications are invited for a three-year full-time PhD studentship at the Open University in the UK, associated with a parallel PhD studentship in the department of theatre and performance studies at the University of Warwick (advertised separately).
Application deadline: October 31 2009.
GUEST BLOGS
Art, heritage or craft?
By Nessa Leibhammer
Curator: Traditional Southern African Collections
Johannesburg Art Gallery
The traditional Southern African collection at the Johannesburg Art Gallery is now viewed as “art” and celebrated as “national heritage”, but this was not always so. Nessa Leibhammer considers the traditional Southern African collection at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and asks: “Was this material ever ‘craft’ and what is its relationship to craft, in the past and today?”
Are the heritage learnerships working?
By Uthando Baduza
Research Fellow (Policy and Development Support)
Department of Higher Education and Training
Wits School of Arts
Much has been said and written about the learnerships funded and administered by the Sector Education and Training Authorities (Setas) across the various sectors and industries. It is difficult not to acknowledge the huge strides that have been made by some Setas in addressing the skills shortage in their sectors. And yet one cannot ignore the challenges that remain in addressing the skills training needs in all sectors of our economy.
Policy development challenges for the digitisation of African Heritage and Liberation Archives
By Michele Pickover
Curator of Manuscripts in Historical Papers
University of the Witwatersrand
It seems astonishing but, up until the First International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives, which took place in the United Nations Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from July 1-3 2009, there has never been a continent-wide discussion on policy frameworks and notions of partnerships in relation to the digitisation of African heritage and resources, or dialogue on a way forward for the development of a digitisation agenda.
History-in-motion: Craft as living heritage
Erica Elk, the manager of a craft development institute firmly rooted in the contemporary world, talks about craft as living heritage.
RESOURCES
New book: Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography
By Clifton C Crais and Pamela Scully.
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8749.html
Research report: Towards an African fund for arts and culture
The Arterial Network commissioned research into the viability, structure and operational modes of a transnational fund for the arts on the African continent. The final research report – “Towards an African fund for arts and culture: the need for an accessible, independent and efficient fund to promote African creativity and its regional and international distribution” – has been received from the research team, comprising Nicky du Plessis, Khadija El Bennaoui and Lou Mayitoukou.
http://www.arterialnetwork.org/
Report: Training seminar on cultural policies for local communities in Africa
June 26-28 2009, Maputo, Mozambique
Organised in the framework of Acerca (Programa de Capacitación de la AECI para el desarrollo en el sector cultural) by the Spanish Agency for International Co-operation for Development, the Embassy of Spain in Mozambique and OCPA, the seminar took place with the participation of some 20 specialists from Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The programme included lectures about theories, concepts, methods and tools, followed by discussions and short presentations by participants.
The final report of this event is on the OCPA website at:
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Paper: A tool for reversing recession
This paper sets out 10 arguments that ministers of culture can use in discussions with their colleagues – especially finance ministers and prime ministers – when annual budgets come under scrutiny. It suggests reasons why cultural investment can be an important tool in combating the effects of recession and – perhaps more importantly – in leading the way back to prosperity.
From OCPA
Paper: A moving story: Is there a case for a major museum of migration in the UK?
Institute for Public Policy Research, 2009
In “Stories old and new: migration and identity in the UK heritage sector”, Mary Stevens makes the case for representation of migration in the heritage sector. On the other hand, “A moving story: is there a case for a major museum of migration in the UK?” presents the working group’s outline for a major museum of migration.
Study: The potential for cultural exchanges between the EU and third countries – the case of China
Media Consulting Group, 2009
This Media Consulting Group study provides an overview of the cultural sector in China before going on to describe the current state of cultural exchanges between the EU and its member states and China. The study concludes by providing ideas for policymakers on how such exchanges could be strengthened, China being taken as a test case for the EU’s cultural policy towards third countries in general.
From Cyberkaris, nº 83 – September 2009
Book review: Museums of the Mind
Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting by Peter McIsaac. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xiii + 322 pp. US$60, ISBN 978-0-271-02991-7. Reviewed for H-German by J Laurence Hare.
From Cyberkaris, nº 83 – September 2009
Conference report: Children and young people in the new culture and media landscape
In early September 2009, the Swedish presidency organised a public conference on ways to promote children and young people’s access to the new culture and media and, as a consequence, the emergence of a “creative generation”. Webcasts of the plenary discussions, keynote speeches and reports of the working groups are available.
Report: FDI and tourism: the development dimension in East and Southern Africa
UN report, 2008
This report is part of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development research and policy analysis project, FDI in Tourism: The Development Dimension.
WHAT IS THE ARCHIVAL PLATFORM?
The Archival Platform is a new strategic research, networking and advocacy initiative. We aim to promote collaboration and information sharing within the broad archive sector – including archives, museums and heritage, tangible and intangible – enabling effective dialogue between government, academics, practitioners and the public. Key areas of focus for the Platform in the medium term will include the economics of heritage, digitisation and use of digital tools in archives and heritage management, and heritage education.
Our networking efforts will reach out beyond South Africa, to elsewhere in Africa and other continents to expand this debate.
Entries for this newsletter come from lists such as South African History Online, the Southern African NGO Network, International Council on Museums and Sites (Icomos), Australia Icomos, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), International Council of Museums (Icom), Icom-SA, the International Council of African Museums (Africom), H-Net, International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa (OCPA), Unesco Forum, the Getty Conservation Bulletin and your contributions.
Feel free to pass the newsletter on, and let me know if you don’t want to be on the list.
The Archival Platform is funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, supported by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the University of Cape Town.
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