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ICA's Section for Archives of Literature and Art (SLA) has taken a particular interest in copyright issues over the past ten years, and has worked jointly with other groups,

The latest issue of Comma, dedicated to Literary Archives, is available online for members. Follow this link to read it

The conference of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) will be held at the University of Birmingham, UK, on Monday 10 September 2018, with the subject of African literary archives, and the pleasing title of Things come together?

The work of SLA on literary archives in Cameroon & Namibia will be presented during a varied and interesting session at the annual ICA conference on Tuesday 26 November 2018 in Yaoundé, Cameroon

The long-awaited collection of essays reflecting the work of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network has now been published. Entitled The Future of Literary Archives (edited by David C. Sutton and Ann Livingstone), the book is published jointly by ARC Humanities Press and Amsterdam University Press.

Tras dos años de tensiones y retrasos, los manuscritos, pinturas, fotografías y cartas de Federico García Lorca comienzan su viaje desde Madrid a Granada. Aunque el traslado real del legado del poeta está previsto para antes de verano, el desbloqueo administrativo que da luz verde a su mudanza se ha iniciado este miércoles con un acuerdo entre la Fundación García Lorca y las Administraciones unidas en un consorcio (Ministerio de Cultura, Junta de Andalucía, Ayuntamiento y Diputación de Granada). “Por fin, vamos a poder desarrollar el proyecto completo del centro, que incluye numerosas actividades, en consonancia con la importancia del archivo”, ha asegurado la sobrina del poeta, Laura García Lorca, quien ha mostrado a este diario su satisfacción por ver “el final de un proceso muy largo”.

ICARUS Hrvatska, together with the ICARUS4all community (the International Centre for Archival Research), EURBICA (the European Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives), the State Archives of Split, and other partners, have organised the 4th Croatia ICARUS days under the theme European archival landscape: Reaching out for new horizons. The conference took place at the Hotel Medena, Trogir, Croatia, 14-16 March 2018.

A two-day workshop on literary archives in Cameroon was held in Yaoundé on 13–14 February 2018, jointly organised by the Diasporic Literary Archives Network, the ICA Section for Archives of Literature and Art, the National Archives of Cameroon, and ESSTIC (the Advanced School of Mass Communication at the University of Yaoundé).