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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, online.

Zoom Link: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/9544610031

Linked Open Data and the Future of the African Literary Archive, Campus Condorcet, Paris and Online, 10 April 14:00-16:00 CET.

Join us for a talk by Ashleigh Harris on the ways in which the ALMEDA project uses Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web to create sustainable data on African Literature and expressive culture.

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Locating Film in the Multiple Geographies of the Audiovisual Archive: 26 March 2026, Uppsala University

We are delighted to invite you to this symposium, which focuses on the ways in which audiovisual archives and film historiography in African and diasporic contexts are entangled with one another.   Bringing together film and screen media scholars, filmmakers, curators, and archivists, the symposium will explore the impact of…

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Materialities of Oral Cultures in East Africa: An Online Symposium, 12 March 2026

Join us for a symposium organised by ALMEDA postdoctoral fellow, Gloria Ajami Makokha, on the ‘Materialities of Oral Cultures in East Africa’.

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ALMEDA signs Memorandum of Understanding with AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions)

We are delighted to announce that AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions) and ALMEDA have formalised a collaboration in which ALMEDA will create an online course for AfLIA members titled ‘From Collections to Data Publications: a workflow for Librarians and Archivists’. The course aims to train librarians and…

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