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The Annual Conference of the International Council on Archives (ICA), held in Yaoundé, 26-28 November 2018, received two update reports about our project on Literary Archives in Cameroon, and the…Read More >

A special Literary Archives edition of Comma (the official journal of the International Council on Archives) has been published in November 2018 by Liverpool University Press. Its citation is Comma…Read More >

The conference of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) was held at the University of Birmingham on Monday 10 September 2018, with the subject of African literary…Read More >

The long-awaited collection of essays reflecting the work of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network has now been published. Entitled The Future of Literary Archives (edited by David C. Sutton and…Read More >

ICARUS Hrvatska, together with the ICARUS4all community (the International Centre for Archival Research), EURBICA (the European Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives), the State Archives of Split, and…Read More >

A two-day workshop on literary archives in Cameroon was held in Yaoundé on 13-14 February 2018, jointly organised by the Diasporic Literary Archives Network, the ICA Section for Archives of…Read More >

In two recent presentations on behalf of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network and ICA’s Section for Archives of Literature and Art, David Sutton has adapted one of the key themes…Read More >

The theme of “the politics of location” has been central to the ongoing work of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network, and was the inspiration for the ground-breaking DLAN meeting held…Read More >

At the upcoming conference of ESARBICA (the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives), Lilongwe, Malawi, 7-11 August 2017, Dr David Sutton will give a…Read More >

Archival Afterlives: postwar poetry in English, John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester, 27-29 June 2017 The opening session of this conference is a roundtable discussion which reflects the way…Read More >

Kim Robinson-Walcott   The Jamaican writer Anthony C. Winkler died in September 2015. His death was a personal loss for me in many ways. First of all, I was the…Read More >

The work done by the Diasporic Literary Archives Network on the preservation of archives in Grenada led to an important discussion at the fourth DLA workshop in Trinidad in 2014. …Read More >