The Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS) at the University of Dundee invites proposals for the fourth inter-disciplinary conference in the ‘Investigating the Archive: Memory & Identity’ programme, being held on 24-25 April 2014.
Language: English
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2014
Organisers:
• Center for World Music (CWM), University of Hildesheim (Germany)
• Department of Music & Dance, University of Cape Coast (Ghana)
• Department of Education, University of Maiduguri (Nigeria)
• African Music Archives (AMA), Department of Anthropology and African
Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)
N.B.: The conference languages are French, Portuguese, Spanish and English, without giving priority to any of them.
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