New Issue: Patrimoines, special issue on photography heritage

Patrimoines 21 (2026)
« 200 ans de photographie / Patrimoine dans la rue »
“200 Years of Photography / Heritage in the Street”
(open access)

S’inscrivant parmi les célébrations du bicentenaire de l’invention de la photographie, ce numéro de la revue Patrimoines retrace l’histoire de la patrimonialisation de la photographie en France, au sein de laquelle l’INP a joué un rôle pionnier. Cette livraison s’intéresse par ailleurs aux problématiques de conservation-restauration et de médiation soulevées par les patrimoines exposés dans l’espace public (monuments historiques, œuvres contemporaines, peintures murales, art urbain, etc.).

200 ANS DE PHOTOGRAPHIE

Support de notre mémoire visuelle, archive du passé, objet artistique et technique, poétique ou politique, la photographie est multiforme et occupe diverses fonctions selon l’intention de son auteur et l’usage qui en est fait. Depuis son invention en 1826, ses techniques, supports et pratiques n’ont cessé d’évoluer, et avec eux le statut de l’image photographique, sujette à expérimentations, manipulations et détournements. Objets fragiles, longtemps ignorés par les professionnels de la conservation et de la restauration, les photographies sont au cœur de la formation à l’Institut national du patrimoine, qui fut pionnier en la matière et continue de proposer une formation unique en Europe.
Afin de célébrer le bicentenaire de l’invention de la photographie, Patrimoines propose un dossier consacré au patrimoine photographique. Ouvert par un grand entretien avec Anne Cartier-Bresson qui revient sur l’histoire de cette patrimonialisation récente, ce dossier expose la diversité des objets photographiques et la place qu’ils occupent dans les institutions. Auteurs, chercheurs, responsables de collection, restaurateurs, artistes partagent leur regard et leur expertise sur les enjeux de la préservation et de la valorisation des collections photographiques.

PATRIMOINE DANS LA RUE

Accessibles à tous, parties intégrantes d’un environnement quotidien et partagé, les œuvres et monuments exposés dans l’espace public sont l’objet d’une attention et d’un attachement qui incitent les communautés locales à s’engager dans leur préservation et leur valorisation. Ils sont aussi confrontés à de nombreuses contraintes qui les fragilisent : dégradations environnementales et anthropiques (volontaires ou non), pollution, oubli… L’espace public étant un lieu d’échanges et de revendications diverses, les patrimoines « dans la rue » (monuments historiques, œuvres contemporaines, peintures murales, art urbain, etc.) sont également susceptibles d’être contestées, appropriées ou détournées.
Les auteurs réunis dans ce dossier présentent les problématiques de conservation-restauration particulières de ces patrimoines, l’usage qu’en fait le public, leur appropriation et les initiatives en matière de médiation.
Enfin, Patrimoines s’achève sur une sélection d’articles rédigés par des anciens élèves conservateurs et restaurateurs de l’INP, ainsi que des doctorants par le projet en « Études patrimoniales » et « Conservation-restauration des biens culturels ».

Cette publication est labellisée Bicentenaire de la Photographie par le ministère de la Culture et s’inscrit dans la programmation officielle du Bicentenaire du 1er septembre 2026 au 30 septembre 2027.

As part of the bicentennial celebrations of the invention of photography, this issue of the journal Patrimoines traces the history of the preservation of photography as heritage in France, in which the INP (National Heritage Institute) played a pioneering role. This issue also examines the conservation, restoration, and public engagement challenges posed by heritage displayed in public spaces (historical monuments, contemporary works, murals, urban art, etc.).

200 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

A support for our visual memory, an archive of the past, an artistic and technical object, poetic or political, photography is multifaceted and fulfills various functions depending on the intention of its creator and its intended use. Since its invention in 1826, its techniques, media, and practices have constantly evolved, and with them, the status of the photographic image, subject to experimentation, manipulation, and reinterpretation. Fragile objects, long ignored by conservation and restoration professionals, photographs are central to the training at the National Heritage Institute, a pioneer in this field and which continues to offer a unique program in Europe.
To celebrate the bicentenary of the invention of photography, Patrimoines presents a special issue dedicated to photographic heritage. Opening with an extensive interview with Anne Cartier-Bresson, who recounts the history of this recent recognition as heritage, this issue explores the diversity of photographic objects and the place they occupy within institutions. Authors, researchers, collection managers, restorers, artists share their views and expertise on the challenges of preserving and promoting photographic collections.

HERITAGE IN THE STREET

Accessible to all and integral to a shared daily environment, the works and monuments displayed in public spaces are the object of attention and attachment that encourage local communities to commit to their preservation and promotion. They also face numerous constraints that weaken them: environmental and human-induced degradation (intentional or unintentional), pollution, neglect, and more. As public space is a place of exchange and diverse demands, heritage “in the street” (historical monuments, contemporary works, murals, urban art, etc.) is also susceptible to being contested, appropriated, or misappropriated.
The authors gathered in this collection present the specific conservation and restoration challenges of this heritage, its use by the public, its appropriation, and initiatives in the field of public engagement.
Finally, Patrimoines concludes with a selection of articles written by former students of the INP, conservators and restorers, as well as doctoral students from the project in “Heritage Studies” and “Conservation-restoration of cultural property”.

This publication is labeled Bicentenary of Photography by the Ministry of Culture and is part of the official Bicentenary program from September 1, 2026  to September 30, 2027.

New Issue: International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Special Issue: Digital Futures: Archives, AI and Access in Indian Digital Humanities

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 20, no. 2 (October 2026)
Special Issue: Digital Futures: Archives, AI and Access in Indian Digital Humanities
(subscription)

Associate Editor’s Note
Maya Dodd

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Digital Futures: Archives, AI and Access in Indian Digital Humanities
Shanmugapriya T, Simran Bhimjyani, Sourav Ghosh, and Mehulkumar Desai

Articles

Decolonizing Digital Dialogues: How New Archival Practices are Transforming the Art, Culture and Heritage of India
Sudeshna Rana and Akash Bharadwaj

SINDHU: An Audio-Digital Archive of Rare Historic Sindhi Books for Revitalizing Sindhi Language and Literary Heritage in India
Vandana Govindani and Nirmala Menon

Beyond Nationalism: A Digital Humanities Intervention in the Canon of Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Pallavi Singh and Yashee Singh

The Digital Turn in the Sarala Mahabharata: Text Variance and Pedagogy
Urmishree Bedamatta

Bengali Literary Texts at Scale: Opportunities and Challenges for Digital Humanities
Vinayak Das Gupta

Synthetic Reading: Towards a Hermeneutic-Computational Method for Literary Interpretation through Tagore’s ‘A Wife’s Letter’
Sourav Ghosh, Shanmugapriya T, and Sanatan Mandal

The Role of Wildlife Deepfakes in Shaping Digital Discourses in India: Anthropocentric Gaze, Digital and Cognitive Divides
Sabeela Rasheed and Tonisha Guin

New Issue: Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture

Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 55, no. 3 (2026)
(open access)

Editor’s Note
Bogdan Trifunović

Articles

Building Better Environments: A Baker’s Dozen of Methodologies for Configuring and Selecting Emulation Environments in EAASI
Cynde Moya, Melanie Swalwell

Traveling Salesman Problem Algorithm-Based Uniqueness Explainable Features of the Jawi-Arabic Manuscript for Digitalization
Dian Andriana, Zulhaj Aliansyah, Anto Satriyo Nugroho, Risnandar

Digital Materiality and Archival Discursivity: A Unified Approach to Archival Processes
Arian Rajh

Interoperability of Indonesian Manuscripts Digital Repositories: Readiness and Challenges
Agus Iswanto, Cahyo Trianggoro, Husnul Fahimah Ilyas, Ilham Nurwansah, Moch. Lukluil Maknun, Foni Agus Setiawan, Mahmudah Nur, Koharudin, Dede Hidayatullah, Muhammad Fadly Suhendra

A Post-Quantum Digital Preservation and Secure File Sharing Framework for Library Repositories
Shanmugam Balachandran, Sivankalai Sivankalai

Web Application at Heritage Site: A Case Study at Sungai Batu Archaeological Complex (SBAC), Bujang Valley, Kedah, Malaysia
Mohd Hasfarisham Abd Halim, Hilman Nordin, Giselle Su Hong Gick, Kevin Chan Leong Kit, Mokhtar Saidin

Archiving Built Heritage Façades: Reprocessing LiDAR and Photogrammetric Data from OpenHeritage3D
Chung-Ting Esmond Lo, George Bevan

New Issue: Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material

Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material 47, no. 3 (2026)
(open access)

Original Works

Inks and Pigments in Greek Codices of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Period: Material Analysis and Insights into Scribal and Artistic Practices
Vassiliki Kokla, Agamemnon Tselikas

Detection of Gypsum and Syngenite in Gelatine-Alum Sized Papers by ATR-IR and Raman Measurements
Enrico Pigorsch, Tina Grette Poulsson

Letters to the Editors

Information on Handling Potentially Harmful Colourants in Historical Library Collections (in this Case: Arsenic-Containing Pigments)
Torsten Arndt, Almuth Corbach, Michael Vogel, Roland Suchenwirth, Stephanie Preuss

Review

A Review of Emerging Contaminants in Library Indoor Spaces: Sources, Exposure, and Health Risks
Xiaofen Zhao, Jinxiu Zhang, Yun Zhao, Xiaofang Zhao, Ruijuan Zhu, Yan Zhang

New Issue: Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association

Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association 61, no. 1-2 (2026)
(subscription)

FOREWORD
Sir Geoffrey Vos

INTRODUCTION: THE 1922 LAW AND PROPERTY ACT, AND MANORIAL DOCUMENTS
Mark Bailey

Research Articles

KEYNOTE: A LIFE IN MANORIAL RECORDS – FROM PHD TO MDR
P.D.A. Harvey

ACCOUNTING FOR ABSENCE: EXHIBITING THE MANORIAL RECORDS OF RAVENSER ODD
Kathryn Maude and Emily Robinson

LET THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE PERSON: MANORIAL AMERCEMENTS FOR BLOODSHED IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY YORKSHIRE
Stephanie Emma Brown

TENURES, TITHES AND THE MANAGEMENT OF A SMALL ECCLESIASTICAL MANOR: KINGSTON (SUFFOLK) IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
Mark Bailey

THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND LEGAL IMPORTANCE OF LATE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MANORIAL LORDSHIP: THE BLOUNT FAMILY OF THE WEST MIDLANDS
Elizabeth Norton

MANOR FROM HEAVEN: MANORIAL RECORDS AT LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY
Rachel Freeman

THE EVERYDAY LIFE IN A NORTHUMBRIAN MANOR PROJECT
Bethany Elliott

THE WELSH MANORIAL DOCUMENTS DATABASE PROJECT, 1993–6: AUTOMATING THE MANORIAL DOCUMENTS REGISTER (MDR)
Helen Watt

Tribute

P.D.A. HARVEY (1930–2025) and the British Records Association
David Robinson

Obituary

P.D.A. Harvey (1930–2025): A life in records
Angus J.L. Winchester

New Articles: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

“A Historian and a Sociologist Walk into a Bar: A Data Archive for Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Hosted at a National Archives Institution” by Benjamin Peuch, Oliver Lenaerts, Rolande Depoortere, Johan Van der Eycken, and Youssef Ouahalou of Archives de l’État en Belgiquehttps://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/19/

“Curating the Liberal Arts: High-Impact Approaches to Teaching Medical Humanities in the Archives” by Alyssa Culp and Liz Bloodworth of Illinois Wesleyan University: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/20/

“Assessing the Ability of a Large Language Model to Perform Recall Searches of Archival Finding Aids” by Will J. Gregg of Washington State University Libraries Pullman and Perry Gowdy: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/21/

CFP: IPRES 2027

Get ready for the next installment of iPRES! iPRES 2027 will be happening in Quebec City, Canada, October 4-8, 2027.  We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Call for Proposals<https://event.fourwaves.com/ipres2027>.

Our themes for this conference are Accountability, Authenticity and Adaptability<https://event.fourwaves.com/ipres2027/pages/c1507c8f-9a8b-4d29-8d00-133f5e820202>.

Deadline for peer-reviewed submissions: 12 March 2027
Deadline for Non-Peer Reviewed Submissions: 14 April 2027
More information to come on Digital Preservation ‘Bake Off’

For more details on how to prepare your proposals, please refer to our website<https://event.fourwaves.com/ipres2027> for more information.

We look forward to seeing everyone next year!

iPRES 2027 General Committee

info@ipres2027.ca

About iPRES

Held since 2004, iPRES<https://ipres-conference.org/> brings together colleagues from all over the world to share, learn, and foster relationships on the topic of digital preservation.

CFP: RBM Spring 2027 Issue

RBM: Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage is accepting proposals for its Spring (May) 2027 issue! We welcome articles related to special collections librarianship, archives, or museum practice.

Articles should be written in a formal style and range between 3,000 and 5,000 words. The submission deadline is December 20th. If interested in submitting, get in touch with the Editor, Diane Dias De Fazio (diane.diasdefazio@gmail.com). Guidelines for authors can be found here.

New Issue: Digital Library Perspectives

Digital Library Perspectives 42, no. 3 (September 2026)
Special Issue: Cultivating human-centered digital libraries through transdisciplinary collaboration, Guest Editors: Anna Maria Tammaro, Emanuele Bellini and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti
(partial open access)

Guest editorial: Cultivating human-centered digital libraries through transdisciplinary collaboration Free
Anna Maria Tammaro

Large language models in cyber humanities: companionship, stewardship and repeatability Available to Purchase
Ernesto Damiani

Assessing the impact of cultural misinformation deepfakes through AI-based user engagement analysis Available to Purchase
Salvatore Venticinque; Alba Amato; Gennaro Junior Pezzullo; Beniamino Di Martino

EHLD: a general data framework for harmful language detection and evaluation Available to Purchase
Fatemeh Mohammadi; Paolo Ceravolo; Samira Maghool; Marta Annamaria Tamborini; Maria Elisa D’Amico

From prompts to programmes: natural language programming as a metacognitive scaffold for GenAI-assisted problem solving Available to Purchase
Giovanni E. Adorni; Daniele Grosso

Rare books as socio-technical research infrastructure in hybrid digital libraries Open Access
Irene Guidotti

Participatory practices in AI design for cultural heritage: a scoping review on methods, inclusion, and epistemic justice Open Access
Elena María Gómez-Rico; Núria Ferran-Ferrer; Miquel Centelles

Transdisciplinary strategies and challenges for digital librarians: early Italian findings from a Delphi study Available to Purchase
Chiara Cauzzi; Elena Corradini; Fabio Mercanti

Transforming academic libraries into GenAI-enabled libraries: proposing experience, evaluation and engagement (3Es) dimensions through UGT and TAM perspective Available to Purchase
Lokesh Jasrai; Amanpreet Kaur

From traces to heritage: transdisciplinary steering of the AI footprint Available to Purchase
Caterina Perri; Francesco Pupo; Giancarlo Fortino

Toward a cultural cyber-critical ecosystem: concepts, threats and challenges Open Access
Emanuele Bellini; Emiliano Degl’Innocenti

The human element in digital heritage: an interview with Ines Vodopivec Free
Ines Vodopivec; Anna Maria Tammaro

CFP: Special Issue – Power and vulnerability in the in-depth interview: exploring a new ‘ethic of care’

We invite papers that problematise the ways in which ideas about abuse, harm, trauma, ‘victimhood’ and vulnerability risk limiting our research ambitions and pathologizing our research subjects.

Oral historians, biographers, anthropologists, sociologists and narrative journalists, as well as archivists are increasingly encouraged to reflect on whether their interviewing and archival practices are ‘trauma-informed.’ The feminist therapeutic and organisational practices that situated harms against women and children within systems of oppression (Herman, 1992; Bloom, 1994) have been displaced by individualising models of trauma and trauma-informed practice (Harris and Fallot, 2001; SAMHSA, 2014). Trauma-informed approaches have been adopted uncritically in many settings and contexts, with little opportunity for questioning the concept or the way it has been operationalised. Its emphasis on values and relational practice means a certain vagueness and a difficulty in thus measuring how much it is used and its effectiveness.

This is the case across the disciplinary cultures within which we attempt to recover, preserve and centre the voices of a diverse cohort of survivors, whether of, for example, child abuse, institutional harms, medical malpractice, natural disasters, acts of terrorism or genocide. The uncritical deployment of trauma as an ahistorical concept is applied equally to political and cultural catastrophes as to distressing events in individual lives. 

The ‘trauma-informed care’ concept has crept beyond health services into humanities research and has become de rigueur in grant and ethics applications, usually without expounding on how the practice will be operationalised. The avoidance of methods that might ‘retraumatise’ participants or activate ‘traumatic memories’ (Mocnik, 2023) is favoured. Some scholars have offered alternative non-clinical concepts to trauma (Das, 2007; Bourke, 2022; Marecek, 1999). However, the common use of ahistorical, neuro/ psycho-centered notions of trauma raises questions about epistemologies, ethics and our everyday interviewing practices.

This special issue asks how we can work ethically and equitably with living subjects to research recent history or contemporary themes in the arts and humanities via long-form or multi-sessional interview(s). Can we define a new ethic of care that attends to structural harms and systemic failures, power dynamics and intersectionalities rather than individual pathology? Within the interview process, the concept of trauma and the notion of being ‘trauma-informed’ can pose a risk of reducing interviewees to a state of victimhood and in so doing obscure their agency, resilience and fortitude. It can imply that every interviewee is in need of special care and protection, skewing the power and authority towards the interviewer. And in the broader sense, this mode of understanding the dynamic relationship does not appear conducive to achieving historical accountability and justice – personal and political.

Shifting the lens from one of private, personal trauma to a new ethic of care can help to transform in-depth interviewing about individual suffering and resilience, into a tool for addressing issues around historical accountability and justice and to support contemporary advocacy, policy critique and institutional accountability. Moving beyond viewing harm solely as an individual experience, historians adopting a new approach might better trace how state, cultural and economic systems continue to perpetuate and maintain harm, exposing this violence as an ongoing everyday reality, and thereby shifting the focus from individual recovery/healing and instead placing the responsibility onto fixing the cultures and institutions that caused and perpetuated that violence. Can a new ethic of care attend to sensitive topics, vulnerability and painful experiences in a way that neither reproduces harms nor silences participants? Must we reduce this positive ethic of care to a negative: ‘avoiding retraumatisation’? 

We invite proposals for papers reflecting on these challenges. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Feminist ethics of care 
  • Gatekeeping – who gets to adjudicate what and who is researchable, sayable, and ethical
  • Critical reflections of ‘trauma-informed’ interviewing practices
  • Care within research practices – theoretical considerations
  • Care and ‘vulnerability’ – what are the boundaries of scholarly responsibilities
  • Intersectionality and positionality in relation to care practices in interviewing
  • Care – making our methodologies visible
  • Positionality and working across difference including class, race, age, Global North/South, disability, neurodiversity
  • Gender stereotypes and care labour
  • Incorporating lived experience expertise in approaches
    • Institutions
    • ‘lived experience’ 
    • Power, collaboration, equity
  • The interviewer as an ally in the fight for social justice 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO NOTE:

Papers should draw on individual original research experience and their own research concerns and dilemmas. To express your interest, please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along with a short bio to r.beecher@bbk.ac.uk cc claudia.soares@newcastle.ac.uk by 14 December 2026.

Contact Information

Dr Ruth Beecher, Birkbeck University of London, UK. r.beecher@bbk.ac.uk

Dr Claudia Soares, Newcastle University, UK. claudia.soares@newcastle.ac.uk

Contact Email

r.beecher@bbk.ac.uk

URL https://shra.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-for-papers-power-and-vulnerability-in-the-in-depth-interview-exploring-a-new-ethic-of-care/