News & Events

On the occasion of the Slavery Memorial Year in the Netherlands, the ASCL library presents its updated web dossier on Dutch involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and abolition. The selection focuses on Dutch involvement, African perspectives, and personal narratives of enslaved persons and those involved in the trade.

On  27 June 1948, South African-born German anthropologist and philologist Dorothea Frances Bleek died in Newlands, Cape Town at the age of 75. She is known for her research on the San in Southern Africa.

This seminar on 2 November by Sharyn Spicer, University of the Western Cape, uses a social justice lens to shed light on human-animal relationships and to develop contextually appropriate and culturally competent animal welfare interventions.