Category Archives: News and events

ICA has announced that its four-yearly Congress, scheduled to be held in Abu Dhabi in November 2020, will, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, be postponed to a 2021 date to be announced. The full message follows: Dear all, … Continue reading →

ICA supports the Blue Shield International statement on potential specific targeting of cultural sites in Iran Blue Shield International notes with grave concern the recent statements by the President of the United States of America that he is seriously contemplating … Continue reading →

Princeton University has announced that the letters from the Anglo-American poet T. S. Eliot to his friend and “muse” Emily Hale have finally been opened for research, as from 2 January 2020. This follows one of the longest and most … Continue reading →

Details have been announced of an international conference entitled Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future to be held on 29-30 July 2020 at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia. In this 2020 conference special attention will be paid … Continue reading →

From Heather Dean, SLA Secretary Dear Colleagues / Cher(e)s collègues: The ICA Section for Archives of Literature and Art (SLA) needs to elect a new Committee for the period 2020-2024 and nominations are invited. The Committee may have a membership … Continue reading →

From our friends at the Endangered Archives Programme APPLY FOR A GRANT TO DIGITISE COLLECTIONS AT RISK The Endangered Archives Programme seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. We fund digitisation … Continue reading →