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Links
Below you will find a list of relevant links, from research institutes to catalogues, from Summer Schools to exhibitions. Do you have a link that might be of interest for this site? Please send it to simone.olsthoorn@idtv.nl.
The museum discloses traditional and contemporary African art, and building and housing in Africa and African societies. The museum’s inspiring presentations and special activities allow a wide range of visitors to get acquainted with the wealth of Africa’s various cultures.
http://www.afrikamuseum.nl/
Black History Month (BHM) Afrikan History Month (AHM) is held every October in Britain, and February in USA and Canada. The aims are to promote knowledge of the Black History, Cultural and Heritage, disseminate information on positive Black contributions to British Society and heighten the confidence and awareness of Black people to their cultural heritage.
http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/
Buku - Bibliotheca Surinamica is a private collection of Surinamica; books, photographs, paintings, etchings, manuscripts and ephemera. All items are related to the history of Suriname. Each book or photo tells a story of a long neglected past.
http://www.buku.nl
CODART is an international network for curators of art from the Low Countries. This website is the best guide to Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide.
http://www.codart.nl/
An initiative of puma.creative, Creative Africa Network (CAN) is a virtual platform with global reach, connecting the creative world within and outside of Africa, giving visibility to the talents working in contemporary art, film, architecture, design, and the performing arts.
http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/
The mission of the KB is to give researchers and students access to research information. To enable everyone to share in the riches of our cultural heritage. To foster the national infrastructure for scientific information and to further permanent access to digital information within an international context.
http://www.kb.nl/
This collection contains maps, pictures, printed works and more from and about Surinam, from 1599 till 1975, the year of Surinam's independency. The website is only in Dutch.
http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/surinamica
The Arterial Network is an informal, dynamic network of individuals, institutions and funding partners working to support the effectiveness and growth of African arts and culture in civil society and to enhance the sustainability of creative industries in Africa.
http://www.arterialnetwork.org/
The idea of the project is to enable each CAN Centre, on an equal basis, to undertake the digital documentation and archiving of its cultural patrimony, within its chosen areas of interest, especially focusing on African music, dance and art.
http://www.africa-can.org/index.html
The images of black people in European Art help to trace the journey of the African Diaspora from their homelands into Europe. They are evidence of another hidden history, and seen together, they reflect the complexity of black representation.
http://www.theimageofblack.co.uk/
The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) is one of the most important art-historical information centres in the world. The extensive collections, which incorporate the documentation of the ‘Iconographisch Bureau’, relate to Western art from the Middle Ages to the present.
http://website.rkd.nl/
Today, the Institute awards up to twenty fellowships annually to scholars at various stages in their careers in the fields of African and African American studies, broadly defined to cover the expanse of the African diaspora. The Du Bois Institute's Fellows Program forms the vital nucleus around which a stimulating array of lecture series, readings, colloquia, conferences, and forums, as well as research, archival, and publication projects revolve.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~du_bois/
The Warburg Institute of the University of London exists principally to further the study of the classical tradition, that is of those elements of European thought, literature, art and institutions which derive from the ancient world. It houses an Archive, a Library and a Photographic Collection. It also houses the Menil archive: Image of black in Western art.
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 21.300 reproductions.
http://www.wga.hu/
De Werkgroep Caraïbische Letteren, opgericht in 2006, is een zelfstandige Werkgroep binnen de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. De Werkgroep stelt zich ten doel om de literatuur van Suriname, de Nederlandse Antillen en Aruba te ondersteunen en de studie ervan te bevorderen.
http://www.caraibischeletteren.com/
De blogspot van de Werkgroep Caraïbische Letteren staat open voor iedereen die iets te melden heeft over de Caraibische cultuur en literatuur aan beide zijden van de oceaan: nieuwtjes, feestredes, herdenkingstoespraken, aardige invallen, uitdagende stellingen, bijzondere leeservaringen, grappige observaties enz. enz.
http://caraibischeletteren.blogspot.com/
ZAM Africa Magazine is een kwartaalblad over kunst, cultuur en politiek in Afrika. Het verscheen voor het eerst in 1997 als Zuidelijk Afrika, een uitgave van het Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika (NiZA). In april 2008 werd het blad herlanceerd als het onafhankelijke ZAM Africa Magazine. In de nieuwe formule ligt de nadruk nog meer op fotografie, journalistiek, beeldende kunst en vormgeving in Afrika.
http://www.zam-magazine.nl/
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