Celebrate African World Heritage Day
May 6 – MAEASaM Annual Lecture
Join us as we celebrate African World Heritage Day (2025) with the project’s inaugural annual lecture series on 6 May 2025 at 17:00 GMT +1. Guest speaker Dr Vuyiswa Lupuwana, from the University of Cape Town (South Africa), will explore the virtual continuity of canon myths in an age of digital mutability and active forgetting, with a particular focus on examples drawn from South Africa and other parts of the continent. This is a hybrid event and open to all. Read full abstract and biography.
To register follow the link (open until 5 May).
DAAD-University of Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies Workshop
May 20 – Making and Recording Histories, Memories, and Heritage of German and British Colonialism in Tanzania
The aim of this DAAD-supported workshop is to compare and contrast the work, opportunities and challenges of working with colonial heritage and the heritage legacies of colonialism across Africa, with a focus on eastern Africa.
Register by 19 May, follow the link.
SAfA 2025, “Crossroads Through Time”
July 21 – 26
MAEASaM will be in Algarve, Portugal this year to present on a number of project activities at the 27th Biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference. We are holding a number of sessions and will also provide a demonstration of our Arches project database. If any MAEASaM collaborators are planning on making their own way to Faro for the conference, please email MAEASaM-Admin as it would be good to meet there!
In other news
We’re on Bluesky and LinkedIn
We are delighted to announce that we have two new social media accounts for sharing our exciting research! A warm welcome to our LinkedIn page and Bluesky. We hope you enjoy sharing in our news.
Open-access publications
- Ochungo, Pamela, et al. “Shoreline dynamics and cultural heritage sites in Kenya, Tanzania, and Senegal: integrating remote sensing and archaeological knowledge.” Journal of Maps, 21(1) 2025 [Link]
- Lane, P.J. “Institutionalizing a “developer pays” principle for Commercial Archaeology as part of changing China-Africa economic relations”. Afr. Archaeol. Rev. 2025 [Link]