Talks
- ‘The Portability of West African Things in Print Culture: Ownership, Extraction, Appropriation and Repatriation‘. Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives, and the Power of Things Stream, African Studies Association of the UK Conference. Durham University. 10th-12th September. Michelle Kelly and Jarad Zimbler.
- ‘A Woman’s Work: Ruth Harnett’s New Coin‘. ESPRit Conference: Periodicals and the World. Royal Library, Brussels. 9th-11th September, 2026. Jarad Zimbler, Michelle Kelly, Henry Brefo and Jade Bentil.
- ‘Archives in Action’. SCOLMA Work in Progress Seminar Series. Online. 24th June, 2026. Jarad Zimbler, Michelle Kelly, Henry Brefo and Jade Bentil.
- ‘Itineraries of Literary Decolonization’. African Literature Association 51st Annual Conference. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. 28th-30th May, 2026. Jarad Zimbler.
- ‘Make a Mask: Wood, Bronze and Words’. African Literature Association 51st Annual Conference. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. 28th-30th May, 2026. Jarad Zimbler.
- ‘Make a Mask: Wood, Bronze and Words’. Culture, Politics, Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference. King’s College London. 7th-8th May, 2026. Jarad Zimbler.
- ‘Itineraries of Literary Decolonization: Ghana, Africa & the African Diaspora, 1953-1964’. Oxford Postcolonial Research Seminar. 23 October 2025. Jarad Zimbler.
- ‘Make a Mask: Wood, Bronze and Words’. Of Intermediality: Global Modernism Network Symposium. 19th-20th June, 2025. Jarad Zimbler.
- ‘Kamau Brathwaite in Ghana: Migrant Labour in the Literary Field’. Decolonisation and the Literary Field. American Comparative Literature Association Conference. 29th May-1st June, 2025. Jarad Zimbler.
- ‘Cultural Institutions and the Emerging Postcolonial State: Gold Coast/Ghana 1950-1965’. Decolonisation and the Literary Field. American Comparative Literature Association Conference. 29th May-1st June, 2025. Michelle Kelly.
- ‘Ghanaian Print Culture in the Mid-twentieth Century’. ALMEDA Workshop on West African Literary and Cultural Metadata. Uppsala University. 26th-27th November, 2024. Michelle Kelly.
- ‘Richard Wright: Print Power. Ghana Studies’. African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) Conference. 29th-31st August, 2024. Jarad Zimbler.
- ‘The Madness in a Method: Mapping the Ghanaian Literary Field 1945-1965’. Ghana Studies. African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) Conference. 29th-31st August, 2024. Michelle Kelly.
- ‘Kamau Brathwaite’s Broken Lines’. Of Precariousness/ de la précarité: Global Modernism Network Symposium. Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie. 20th-21st June, 2024. Jarad Zimbler.
- ‘Oxford—Ife—Kumasi—Grahamstown: An Itinerary of Literary Decolonization, 1954-55’. South Africa Discussion Group, University of Oxford. 6th March, 2024. Jarad Zimbler.
Datasets & Digital Resources
- Contrast: Full Contents of the South African Literary Magazine 1960-1976, Jarad Zimbler, Michelle Kelly (2026)
- Archives in Action Toolkit. Jarad Zimbler, Michelle Kelly, Henry Brefo, Jade Bentil (2026)
- New Coin Poetry: Full Contents 1965-1969, Hyei Jin Kim, Jarad Zimbler, Michelle Kelly (2025)
- Okyeame: Full Contents of the Ghanaian Literary Magazine 1961-1972, Michelle Kelly, Jarad Zimbler, Henry Brefo (2025)
Articles & Chapters
- ‘Anibue (“eyes open”): education, Patronage, and Chiefly Authority in Asante‘. Henry Brefo, In Paedagogica Historica (2026), 1-23.
- ‘Writing and Photography in Sub-Saharan Africa’. Jarad Zimbler and Michelle Kelly, in Photography and Literary Studies, ed. by Christine Fouirnaies and Christos Hadjiyiannis. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
- ‘Edward Braithwaite: Education Officer’. Jarad Zimbler and Hyei Jin Kim. In preparation.