In continuation from the discussions at the third and fifth DLAN workshops, the Diasporic Literary Archives Network was represented by Dr David Sutton at an “International Expert Working Meeting” in…Read More >

There will be a presentation on the Diasporic Literary Archives Network at the Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Vienna, 21-27 July 2016. The presentation, by David Sutton,…Read More >

As a follow-up to the work reported at Diasporic Literary Archives workshops in 2013 and 2014, a two-day meeting on collecting literary manuscripts was held in Windhoek in October 2015. …Read More >

The work begun by the Diasporic Literary Archives Network on Authors and Their Papers is nearing completion. It provides advice and guidance for literary authors who are considering placing their…Read More >

The Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association is accepting applications for international scholarships to attend its summer school, ‘World Literature, Global Archives’, to be held at the German Literature Archive in Marbach,…Read More >

Since participating in the penultimate Diasporic Literary Archives Network workshop at NALIS in Port of Spain, Banyan has completed the digitisation and metadata generation of its video cultural archives resulting…Read More >

On 24th November 2014, the Diasporic Literary Archives Network Principal Investigator, David Sutton, gave a talk about the project at the University of Reading as part of the Archives and Texts…Read More >

Fifth Workshop: Diaspora and the digital Yale University, October 23rd/24th, 2014 The fifth and final Diasporic Literary Archives workshop was hosted by the Beinecke Library and held at Yale University…Read More >

A previously unknown notebook belonging to Dylan Thomas will be sold at Southeby’s in December.  The notebook, dating from the 1930s, was apparently saved from destruction by Thomas’s mother-in-law’s domestic…Read More >

The papers of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison are now part of the permanent library collections of Princeton University, where the renowned author served on the faculty for 17 years. Read…Read More >

Fourth workshop:  The politics of location Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, March 25th/26th, 2014 The workshop in Port of Spain, the fourth and penultimate meeting of the Network, focused…Read More >

6-7 November 2014 A collaboration between the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Senate House Library. ‘Forbidden Access’ is a multidisciplinary conference exploring how published…Read More >