The History of Medicine research group will hold its third workshop on 4 July 2012 at The Open University in London. Attendance is free, but places are limited, so please email Yvonne Bartley to reserve a place by 20 June. Further details and the workshop programme are available online.
The History of Medicine research group will hold its third workshop on 4 July 2012 at The Open University in London. Attendance is free, but places are limited, so please email Yvonne Bartley to reserve a place by 20 June. Further details and the workshop programme are available online.
Dr Hack’s War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (Singapore: NUS Press, 2012) has just been published.
Further information about this book is available from NUS Press’s website. He presented some of its findings to a public audience of more than 200 at Singapore’s Supreme Court, on 16 February 2012 at an academic conference on The Causes and Impact on the Fall of Singapore.
Dr Janice Holmes has been awarded an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award valued at £54,500 to be run in partnership with the Irish Temperance League from 2013 to 2016.
Empire is a major five-part series telling the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and fall of the Empire but also the complex effects of the Empire on the modern world – political, technological and social – and on Britain.
Members of the Empire: 1492-1975 (A326) module team assisted in the preparation of the series and some of the content and activities associated with it. Karl Hack, A326 chair, wrote the text for the free wallchart to accompany the series. RSVP Empire, an interactive Empire themed activity, was written by A326 Associate Lecturer, John Kirkaldy.
To find out more, order a free Empire poster or play Empire interactive, go to: www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/empire.
Rodney Harrison’s article ‘Excavating Second Life: Cyber-Archaeologies, Heritage and Virtual Communities’ published in Journal of Material Culture 2009 14: 75 was the most downloaded article in 2010 in this journal (of all articles published in 2009 and 2010).
Follow this link to read the article as a free download.
This symposium was held at the British Library in London on 9 September 2011, and involved scholars from Kenya, the UK, Sweden and the US, including Dr Rodney Harrison (History Dept., OU). Hosted by Lotte Hughes (PI, OU), with Profs. Annie Coombes (Co-I, Birkbeck College, University of London) and Karega-Munene (United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya), this closed event featured presentations on a wide range of heritage and history-related subjects, including: memorialization as a human right; exhibiting photographic histories in Western Kenya; an examination of memorials to Barack Obama at K’Ogello; Akamba carving; memorialising Mau Mau; managing heritage as a resource for building nationhood and social cohesiveness; community conservation of sacred forests; an examination of displays on material culture and Kenyan identity at National Museums of Kenya; the challenges of commemorating former president Daniel arap Moi; and efforts to commemorate Giriama heroine Mekatilili wa Menza.
The Crime And Punishment Collections Network and the International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing, and Justice are holding a seminar on “Oral History & Criminal Justice Museums, Libraries & Archives” on Friday 28th October 2011, Library Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, The Open University Library, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. Follow this link for more information.
Lotte Hughes is the guest editor of African Studies Volume 70 Number 2, August 2011 Special Issue: Heritage, History and Memory: New Research from East and Southern Africa with Annie E Coombes and Karega-Munene. This is one of two main written outputs from the AHRC-funded research project ‘Managing Heritage, Building Peace: Museums, memorialization and the uses of memory in Kenya’, led by PI Lotte Hughes, that ends on 30 September 2011. It contains articles by the 3 guest editors, and by another member of the research team, Dr Neil Carrier (University of Oxford) who was employed as a field-based consultant.
Lotte Hughes has been appointed reviews editor of the top-ranked journal in area studies, African Affairs, published by the Royal Africa Society. It is ranked number 1 in the ISI citation index for Area Studies (http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/), and has a wide and influential readership of politicians, policy-makers and business people as well as academics. To contact Lotte, if you wish to review new titles, please email l.hughes@open.ac.uk.
