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Interested in Africa, Open Access & Wiki. From: African Studies Centre, Leiden (The Netherlands) @ASCLeiden @UniLeiden

 Leiden, The Netherlands
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Joined September 2010
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Carla Hayden (LoC) fired by Trump nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/po…

Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress (Published 2025)

Dr. Carla D. Hayden was the first African American and the first woman to serve as the head of the Library of Congress. Her firing drew a furious response from Democrats.

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The @MedievalAcademy has awarded the 2025 Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize to the Pemm Project (@pemmaryam)! This groundbreaking digital library preserves centuries of African miracle stories and art, making them accessible to all. brittlepaper.com/2025/04/the…

The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project Wins 2025 Digital Humani...

The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project is the 2025 winner of the Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies (DHMS) Prize awarded by the Medieval Academy of...

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Yes. @Harvard has brains - and guts harvard.edu/president/news/2…

The Promise of American Higher Education

No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

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Brewster Kahle: Thank You, Leiden. You were amazing! Me: Thank you Brewster, you were wonderful. @UniLeiden @internetarchive internetarchive.eu/thank-you…
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Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) will give a lecture in Leiden about "Copyright in the 21st century, the case of the Internet Archive". Place: Telderszaal, Academy Bld, Rapenburg 73, Leiden. Tuesday 18 March, 16:00 hr. Free entrance, reservation advised linkedin.com/events/lectureb…

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Login to LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you know, share ideas, and build your career.

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Doubleface (by Peter Klashorst, 2016)
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Winston Churchill in the White House… Not wearing a suit because he is at war
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Four new #openaccess publications in the AEGIS Brill series (a.o Oil-age Africa) aegis-eu.org/aegis-brill-ser…
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In 1972 Nixon won the US Presidential Elections. Paul Simon wrote a song. "I don't know a soul who's not been battered / I don't have a friend who feels at ease / I don't know a dream that's not been shattered / or driven to its knees / but it's alright" youtube.com/watch?v=AE3kKUEY…

Paul Simon - American Tune (1975)

Al parecer este tema fué emitido en 1975, en la BBC TV durante una ...

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Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese philosopher & antropologist. The Library Weekly @ASCLeiden of 29 Dec. was written by ASCL's young student intern Issa Niang ascleiden.nl/content/library…
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Roel Coutinho donated his orginal diary 1973/74 to the Library of @ASCLeiden This diary of a young Dutch medical doctor from within the liberation movement of Guinea-Bissau reveals daily life during a revolution in Africa (1973-1974). Portuguese transl.: hdl.handle.net/1887/4172557
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"A luta pela libertação da Guiné-Bissau, vista pelos olhos de um jovem médico neerlandês, Roel Coutinho" - book now #openaccess online -about the liberation struggle in #Guinea-Bissau against Portugal in the 1970s hdl.handle.net/1887/4172557
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Inventory of Stephen Ellis Archive now online: impressive 295 page inventory of the archive of a distinguished #Africa researcher. Thanks to @tavdhoog and @walkurax1 ascleiden.nl/news/inventory-…
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Hans Muller, Wikipedian in Residence at @ASCLeiden, moves on to @ubleiden in 2025. Talk: Thursday 19 Dec. 16:00 hr, Herta Mohr Building Leiden, 'Highlights of the African Studies Centre image collection' #Wikipedia commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C…

Commons:Collections of the African Studies Centre (Leiden) - Wikimedia Commons

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Nice gift to the Library of @ASCLeiden, from the collection of Leiden professor Carla Risseeuw (1947-2024): a rare specimen of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (from "1001 Nights") in #Swahili
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Deadline paper submission #ECAS2025 extended to 20 Dec. 2024 ecasconference.org/2025/call…

Call for Papers - ECAS 2025

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@fmadore and I are convening a panel on #DigitalHumanities and #AI in #AfricanStudies #ECAS2025. Please submit your paper before 15th Dec guarant.eu/ecasconference202… #DH #AfricanHistory
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10th European Conference on African Studies will be held in Prague, 25-28 June 2025. Deadline for paper submission: 15 Dec. 2024. #ECAS2025 List of panels ecasconference.org/2025/wp-c… Website: ecasconference.org/2025/
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Over the course of five years, I've catalogued the personal papers of Stephen Ellis - renowned historian of Africa and former director of the @ASCLeiden. The 295 page inventory is now available online: asclibrary.nl/docs/994044800….
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Tanzanian children's and youth literature: @ASCLeiden highlight about information specialist Gerard van de Bruinhorst buying 230 books in Dar es Salaam, among which a selection of Tanzanian children’s and youth literature in English and Swahili #Tanzania ascleiden.nl/content/library…
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