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If you have any questions about the ALMEDA project, please feel free to contact us on almeda@uu.se.

You can find us at: Room 16-1065, Campus Engelska Parken, Uppsala University. (Click the room number to get directions)

Postal address: P.O. Box 527, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Shipping address: Thunbergsvägen 3G, 752 38 Uppsala, Sweden

PI Ashleigh Harris

For any questions regarding the methods, activities and results of ALMEDA, please contact Ashleigh at ashleigh.harris@engelska.uu.se.

Room 16-1069, Campus Engelska Parken, Uppsala University. (Click the room number to get directions)

Lecture: Flora Losch on West African audiovisual archives

Join us for the next lecture in the ALMEDA seminar series! Flora Losch (EHESS – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) will present her research on West African audiovisual archives – past and present. The lecture will be held on Zoom Time and Date: Wednesday 27 November, 13:15-14:45 CEST,…

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Popular Cultural Responses to Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: Machakos Book Workshop

Between 1–4 October, team member Nicklas Hållén visited Machakos University, where he and Dr. Charles Kebaya ran a second of three planned PhD and MA student workshop on popular cultural production in Kenya. The student participants have been working diligently on six different projects which will be collected in a…

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Lecture: Afrikaaps and the Literary Archive, Riaan Oppelt

On Tuesday 15 October, our case-study researcher Riaan Oppelt (Stellenbosch University) gave a lecture on his ALMEDA case-study material. You can watch the lecture here:

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Two ALMEDA PhD Courses – Uppsala University

ALMEDA will be offering two project-related PhD courses in 2025. One on the methods of Distant Reading and its implications for African Literature, and the other on Literary Metadata and the Digital Humanities and their importance for the future African literary archive. Please spread the word. These courses are free,…

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