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Diasporic Literary Archives will be on the agenda at this event in Helsinki. Programme:   Morning session venue (before lunch): Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Hallituskatu 1, Helsinki Accessible entrance is…Read More >

Work is continuing on the updating and promotion of this reworked Diasporic Literary Archives website. It was recently publicised on the blog of ICA’s Section for Archives of Literature and…Read More >

The Diasporic Literary Archives Network has held several discussions with its partners about the possibilities of building maps to illustrate the careers of literary authors, their sometimes diasporic lives and…Read More >

The presentation with the full title Collecting Policies and Place : comparative perspectives : examples of other collecting policies – UK, Brazil, Portugal and Turkey, given by David Sutton in…Read More >

Members and friends of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network can now read online David Sutton’s article about the project on Safe Havens for Archives at Risk. The article was published…Read More >

Some countries have a concentrated focus in respect of locations of literary manuscripts (we have noted the key role of the National Library of Uruguay, for example). Other countries have…Read More >

The Diasporic Literary Archives Network grieves together at the death of one of its founding members, Veno Kauaria. Our condolences also go to her family, friends and comrades in Namibia….Read More >

The Guiding Principles for Safe Havens for Archives at Risk, produced by an international group of experts, convened by swisspeace and including the Director of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network,…Read More >

Diasporic locations within the British Isles are also of interest to the Diasporic Literary Archives Network, based at the University of Reading (UK), and three particularly pleasing examples have been…Read More >

La Fondation pour la Mémoire de l’Esclavage est créée Annoncée par le Président de la République Emmanuel Macron le 10 mai dernier, la Fondation pour la Mémoire de l’Esclavage a…Read More >

Details have been announced of an international conference entitled “Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future” to be held on 29-30 July 2020 at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains…Read More >

One of the sister projects of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network is entitled Caribbean Literary Heritage and is based primarily at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. The project has…Read More >