CFP: Artefacta Conference: Sustainability and Heritage, 14–16 April 2027, Estonia

We are delighted to announce the 5th International Artefacta Conference: Sustainability and Heritage.

The Fifth International Artefacta Conference will be held in Estonia on 14–16 April 2027, organised by the Estonian National Museum and the University of Tartu.

At the core of the Artefacta Conferences are things and artefacts, as well as the materiality and material culture associated with them.

The theme of the Fifth International Artefacta Conference is “Sustainability and Heritage”, which connects objects and material culture to discussions of sustainability and cultural heritage. Sustainability is increasingly significant and relevant to the study of artefacts, material culture, and heritage. Beyond cultural, social, and economic sustainability, concerns about ecological viability and the climate crisis are prompting scholars to view artefacts, material culture, and the materiality of cultural heritage in new light and contexts, and to ask new questions. The meaning of cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, is shifting from an object of preservation to a cultural resource for sustainability and resilience.

The 2027 conference focuses on the importance and advances in the study of objects and material culture through the combined lens of sustainability and cultural heritage. It also examines the inherent and potential innovative links between cultural heritage and sustainability. The conference invites participants to theorise “sustainable artefacts”, “material cultures of sustainability”, and “sustainable cultural heritage”, and to ask what they might be and how best to study them.

Keynote speakers:

– Tim Ingold (Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen; Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
– Chiara Bortolotto (Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development, CY Cergy Paris University)

Abstract proposals and submission

The conference welcomes abstract proposals on the theme “Sustainability and Heritage” from around the world and from interdisciplinary perspectives, including material culture studies, history, archaeology, ethnology, anthropology, folkloristics, craft science, conservation, museology, art history, design, architecture, heritage science, cultural policy, and related fields. The conference is open to all kinds of academic research, including practice-led and artistic research.

The deadline for submissions is 15 November 2026.

Submissions are welcome via the conference web page.

Further details are available on the conference web page: www.artefacta2027.ee

The conference is organised in collaboration with the Estonian National Museum, the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, and the UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the University of Tartu.

Conference e-mail: artefacta@artefacta2027.ee

Sincerely,

Tenno Teidearu (Estonian National Museum), head of the conference committee

Liisi Jääts (Estonian National Museum)

Tiina Kull (Estonian National Museum)

Ave Matsin (University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy)

Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the University of Tartu)

artefacta@artefacta2027.ee

CFP: ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textile Futures: Intersections of Heritage, Craft and Innovation’

Call for Papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles

Special Issue: ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textile Futures: Intersections of Heritage, Craft and Innovation’

Special Issue Guest Editors
Pratibha Mishra
Professor & HoD, Department of Fashion Design & Department of Interior Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
pratibha.mishra@jaipur.manipal.edu

Deepshikha Sharma

Associate Professor, Department of Fashion Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
deepshikha.sharma@jaipur.manipal.edu

To view the full call click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-sustainable-fashion-textiles#call-for-papers

The International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles (SFT) invites contributions to the Special Issue ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textile Futures: Intersections of Heritage, Craft and Innovation’. The issue investigates how heritage knowledge, craft practices, material cultures and carefully governed technological innovation can contribute to socially just, culturally grounded and environmentally responsible fashion and textile systems.

Fashion and textiles sit at a difficult intersection. The sector is under pressure to reduce resource use, waste and emissions, while also addressing opaque supply chains, precarious work, cultural extraction and short product lifecycles. Heritage craft systems are frequently presented as an easy sustainability solution. That claim needs scrutiny. Traditional craftsmanship contains accumulated knowledge of materials, repair, local production, natural processes and intergenerational skill transmission; UNESCO’s safeguarding framework explicitly recognizes the skills and knowledge associated with traditional craftsmanship as intangible cultural heritage (UNESCO 2003). Yet craft is not automatically equitable, low-impact or economically secure. Artisans may remain excluded from design authorship, intellectual-property rights, data ownership and the financial value generated from their cultural labour.

Cultural sustainability in fashion requires more than incorporating craft motifs or handmade techniques into commercial collections. It concerns the continuation, recognition and fair transmission of textile knowledge, skills and cultural expression across generations (Boța-Moisin 2017; Fletcher 2014). It also demands attention to who defines innovation, who owns the resulting data and designs, and who benefits when heritage is translated for contemporary markets. Research on craft-led sustainability therefore needs to address material and environmental questions alongside labour, gender, community agency, cultural rights, market access and governance.

Technological change intensifies these questions. Digital documentation, virtual archives, traceability systems, e-commerce platforms, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and smart materials may assist preservation, provenance and market access. They can also reproduce unequal control over knowledge and data.

In the European policy context, Digital Product Passports are being developed to provide standardized digital access to product information that can support sustainability, circularity, traceability and regulatory compliance (European Commission 2026). Their relevance to fashion and textile value chains is clear. Their implications for artisan enterprises, informal producers, small firms and heritage-based production systems remain insufficiently examined.

This Special Issue seeks rigorous work that moves beyond celebratory accounts of both craft and technology. It welcomes empirical, conceptual, methodological and practice-based submissions that examine the conditions under which heritage, craft and innovation can contribute to sustainable fashion and textile futures. Particular attention is encouraged for scholarship based in the Global South, work with artisan communities and craft clusters, and research that takes community knowledge, consent, attribution and benefit-sharing seriously.

Suggested themes

Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

  • Heritage crafts, traditional textiles and sustainable fashion systems
  • Craft communities, artisan livelihoods, social sustainability and equitable value creation
  • Indigenous, vernacular and place-based textile knowledge
  • Traditional dress, identity, memory, folklore and cross-cultural fashion narratives
  • Cultural heritage conservation, regeneration and contemporary fashion practice
  • Craft revival, craft clusters and collaboration between artisans, designers, brands and industry
  • Material heritage, natural fibres, local materials and sustainable textile innovation
  • Traditional knowledge systems, repair, reuse, remanufacturing and circular textile practices
  • Zero-waste design, low-impact production and resilient craft-based material systems
  • Gender, labour, care work and intergenerational knowledge transmission in craft sectors
  • Cultural appropriation, authorship, intellectual property, consent and benefit-sharing in fashion and textiles
  • Digital documentation, digital archives and preservation of textile and craft heritage
  • Digital Product Passports, provenance, traceability and transparency in heritage and craft value chains
  • Data ownership, digital inclusion and technological capability in artisan and small-enterprise contexts
  • Artificial intelligence, parametric design, augmented reality, virtual reality and the ethics of craft digitization
  • Smart textiles, sustainable technologies and material innovation
  • Digital platforms, e-commerce and market access for artisan enterprises
  • Sustainable fashion communication, consumer engagement and representations of heritage
  • Museums, exhibitions, tourism, retail and the commodification of craft heritage
  • Participatory design, co-design, design education and community-centred methods
  • Climate adaptation, material scarcity and sustainable futures for textile and craft communities
  • Methodological and conceptual advances in heritage, craft and sustainable fashion research

This list is indicative, not exhaustive. We invite submissions that critically examine the intersections of cultural heritage, craft, sustainability and innovation in fashion and textile contexts.

Contribution types

SFT invites contributions in the following formats:

  • Research Articles: 6000–8000 words

Submission guidelines

Please submit via the link below: 

https://submission.pubkit.co/publisher/29/journal/670/login

All submissions must follow Intellect’s house style:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-editors-and-contributors#style-guide

Authors are responsible for securing permissions for all copyrighted images, illustrations, tables and other third-party material. All manuscripts will be assessed through the journal’s independent and anonymous peer-review process. Final acceptance remains subject to editorial decision.

Provisional schedule

The special issue is scheduled for Volume 7, Issue 1 (2028). The following timeline is proposed for approval:

· Full-paper submission deadline: 30 April 2027

· Peer-review process completed: 30 September 2027

· Final revised manuscript deadline: 30 January 2028

· Issue publication: 30 April 2028

All dates are subject to confirmation by the Journal Editor and Intellect Limited.

References cited in the CFP

Boța-Moisin, A. (2017), ‘The cultural sustainability of fashion: The role of traditional craftsmanship’, in K. Niinimäki (ed.), Sustainable Fashion in a Circular Economy, Aalto University, pp. 1–14. [Please verify page range and final bibliographic details against the source you wish to cite.]

European Commission (2026), ‘Digital Product Passport’, European Commission, https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport_en. Accessed 29 August 2026.

Fletcher, K. (2014), Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys, 2nd ed., London: Routledge.

UNESCO (2003), Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, https://ich.unesco.org/en/convention. Accessed 29 August 2026.

Contact Information

Pratibha Mishra

Professor & HoD, Department of Fashion Design & Department of Interior Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
pratibha.mishra@jaipur.manipal.edu

Deepshikha Sharma

Associate Professor, Department of Fashion Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
deepshikha.sharma@jaipur.manipal.edu

URL https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-sustainable-fashion-textiles#call-for-papers

CFP: IASSIST Conference 2027

Sea Change: Transforming Data Practices

Call for Proposals

The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) invites you to join us in-person in Vancouver, Canada for IASSIST 2027, our annual conference, on May 25-28, 2027.

Nestled between the Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea (Strait of Georgia), Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia. With a population of just over 660,000, Vancouver enjoys two research universities (Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia) along with several comprehensive universities and colleges. It is a beautiful and vibrant city with both cultural and outdoor attractions.

We welcome submissions for papers, individual presentations, panels, posters or demonstrations, lightning talks, or workshops that embrace our conference theme, Sea Change: Transforming Data Practices. We want to hear from data and data services professionals about how their data practices are adapting or changing in the current environment of Artificial Intelligence, budget and funding challenges, climate considerations, and the rapidly changing realities faced by academic and research institutions.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Reproducibility and the integrity of the data record
  • Data reference, consultation, and collaboration
  • Data discovery in a shifting landscape
  • Ethics, governance, and data sovereignty and community-led approaches
  • Data management under pressure
  • Teaching and data literacy
  • The changing data profession
  • Partnerships across boundaries
  • Data rescue and advocacy
  • Data documentation and metadata
  • Technology, platforms, and tools

We request that submitters limit themselves to one proposal per format type.

The deadline for submissions is November 13, 2026.

Decisions regarding submissions will be sent out in early January 2027.

See below for information about different presentation formats. Questions about presentation submissions may be sent to the Program Co-Chairs (Meryl Brodsky and Sandra Sawchuk) at programme [ at ] lists.iassistdata.org.

Financial Support for Attending the Conference

The IASSIST Fellows Program supports data professionals from countries with emerging economies and underrepresented regions who are developing information infrastructures regarding the use and preservation of public and private data, implementing information policy decisions, and providing data services at their home institutions.

The IASSIST Early Professional Fellows Program supports data professionals from under-resourced institutions. It recognizes the value of new and innovative ideas from graduates and professionals new to data in the social sciences, who may not otherwise have the funding to travel.

Applications will close on November 2, 2026. Please address questions about the Fellows Program to Fellows Committee Co-Chairs (Florio Arguillas and Robert Buwule) at fellows [ at ] iassistdata.org.

Submit your fellowship application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_UZN2M7qBK71ucv1A3Vb0WdivmgVwD0_1-nQ7aN96bimOBA/viewform

For information about traveling to Vancouver, check out the conference website.

Presentation Formats

The Program Committee welcomes proposals for the following formats:

  • Individual Presentation: This format is a 15-minute talk. It can be accompanied by a written paper, but it is not required. If your proposal is accepted, you will be grouped into an appropriate session with similar presentations.
  • Paper Competition: Paper writers are required to submit an original research paper in advance of the conference by April 15, 2027. You need not be present or attend the conference to submit a paper for the competition. A winning paper will be selected based on this rubric. The paper selected as “Best Paper” will win a prize of one free registration for a future IASSIST conference. All papers will be eligible for publication consideration in IASSIST Quarterly.
  • Panel: You may propose an entire session (90-120 minutes) with a minimum of three speakers to “deep dive” into a specific resource or concept. The session can take a variety of forms, e.g., a set of three to four presentations, a discussion panel, a tutorial (with less substance than a pre-conference workshop), a discussion with the audience, etc. If accepted, the person who proposed the session becomes the session organizer and is responsible for securing speakers and a Chair. Please note: the names of all speakers and the moderator must be included in the proposal.
  • Poster or Demonstration: Proposals in this category should be clear about the message being conveyed in the poster or demonstration.
  • Lightning Talks: A lightning talk is a short, highly visual presentation. Presentations in this category are timed, and each speaker is restricted to 5 minutes. Presentations may have a maximum of 15 slides, but there is no restriction on how many minutes you stay on each slide or the exact format of the presentation as long as you stay within the strict time limit. These are not your typical conference presentations. They tend to be “lighter” either in the topic or delivery.
  • Workshops: Successful workshop proposals will blend lecture and active learning techniques. The conference planning committee will provide classroom space and, possibly, computing supplies for workshops. Proposals should outline needed computer hardware and software, if any, or specify if participants should bring their own. Workshops are typically half-day with 2-hour and 3-hour options. PLEASE NOTE: All workshop leaders are required to register and pay the registration fee for the conference; registration for individual days will be available.
  • Other Formats: Session formats are not limited to the ideas above; session organizers are welcome to suggest other formats. We will consider interactive formats that encourage audience participation.

NOTE: When submitting you will be required to select one of the proposal formats above, but it is possible that your submission may be accepted on the condition of adapting it to another format (e.g., an individual presentation proposal might be accepted if you are willing to adapt it to a poster or a Lightning Talk). If this is the case, you will be given the choice to accept this format change or to decline being in the conference program when notified of its acceptance.

Submitting a Presentation Proposal

Please use the online submission form on Openconf to submit your presentation proposal (below).

Submit your proposal: https://www.openconf.org/iassist27/openconf.php

All submissions should include the proposed title and an abstract. The abstract should be no longer than 300 words and written for a general audience. NOTE: Abstracts longer than 300 words will be returned to be shortened before being considered. Also, if the reviewers can’t understand what a proposal is about, it will be rejected.

About IASSIST

The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) is an international organization of professionals working with information technology and data services to support research and teaching.

CFP: NAGARA 2027

NAGARA’s strength is the collective knowledge of its members, and we want to learn from you. If your work has solved a hard problem, tested a new approach, or taught you something the hard way, we invite you to submit a proposal for NAGARA’s 2027 professional development lineup.

You choose which program or programs your proposal is for, and it is considered only for those, so each session lands in the setting it was designed for. Pre-conference workshops have their own proposal form, so they are reviewed separately from general sessions.

  • The most-requested training topics have barely changed in four years: long-term preservation of electronic records, data governance, shared drives, email, records systems, retention schedules, and training the people who create records. Project management tops the program administration list every year.
  • Most attendees work in local or state government and identify as records managers, usually in a small unit inside a large organization.
  • Attendees want the “how”: case studies from people who did the work, including what went wrong; panels and discussions; hands-on demonstrations; and templates, checklists, and policies they can take home.
  • Sessions should say who they are for. Attendees asked for content labeled by experience level and audience, with real depth for experienced practitioners and clear fundamentals for people new to the job.
  • Archivists asked for more sessions on processing, digital accessioning, preservation, and conservation.
  • Because so many members learn virtually, Online Forum and webinar proposals matter as much as conference sessions. The best-attended NAGARA webinars of the last three years were on retention schedules, disposition, records audits, disaster preparedness, standard operating procedures, and email.

See full call for proposals.

Reading Discussion: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies Reading Group

Free Event | Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join New England Archivists for a discussion and Q&A with the author of “Factors Associated with the Implementation of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials: An Exploratory Study.” The paper highlights results from a 2023 survey of archivists and memory workers at non-Tribal institutions with collections related to Indigenous communities, and discusses the factors affecting the implementation of PNAAM. Anyone interested in ethical stewardship, culturally responsive care of Indigenous collections, and best practices is welcome to attend.     

Attendees are invited to join in an open discussion of the article, where they can hear more from the author, pose questions to the group, and discuss how the article reflects or informs their own work. 

Article link: Factors Associated with the Implementation of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials: An Exploratory Study
Protocols link: Protocols for Native American Archival Materials

This event will not be recorded so please plan to attend live.

For questions about the event please contact education@newenglandarchivists.org. Questions about registration? Please contact NEA’s Registrar, Becky White at registrar@newenglandarchivists.org.

ACCESSIBILITY & CODE OF CONDUCT
New England Archivists is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all of our events. For questions or concerns about accessibility, interpretive services, religious observance, or any other accommodations that would make the meeting more accessible for you, please contact NEA’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee at diversity@newenglandarchivists.org. 

All participants including presenters, instructors, vendors, or others involved in the event are required to abide by the NEA Code of Conduct, which can be found here: https://www.newenglandarchivists.org/Code-of-Conduct

CFP: Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies

Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies

Call for Proposals

We invite proposals for a virtual symposium on February 19–20, 2027, focused on archival preservation, digital publication, and community collaboration in projects that relate to African, African American, and Diaspora studies. We seek proposals for individual 15-minute presentations or panels consisting of 3–4 presentations (15 minutes each) that focus on ways that researchers, archivists, students, community members, and others are using digital tools and methodologies to recover archival materials and make them available and accessible to expand our understanding of the past and reclaim and promote histories that have been overlooked, suppressed, or erased. Through this event, we hope to highlight innovative work being carried out in the context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, and to create opportunities for scholars to connect and build community. This symposium is co-sponsored by the Association for Documentary Editing, the Society for Textual Scholarship, Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities, African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum), and eLaboratories.

Submission information:

  • For individual presentations: please submit a title and abstract (250 words max.) and a short bio (2–3 sentences) for each presenter.
  • For panel presentations: please submit a panel title and description (150–250 words), a title and abstract for each presentation (250 words max.) and a short bio (2–3 sentences) for each presenter.

All proposals should be submitted by November 20, 2026, by completing this survey. 

If you have questions, contact Clayton McCarl, clayton.mccarl@unf.edu.

CFP: MATTER & MEMORY: The Preservation of Cultural and Material Heritage

SESSION CALL:

MATTER & MEMORY: The Preservation of Cultural and Material Heritage

PORTO 

Conference: Heritages 2027

Dates: 16-18, June, 2027

Abstracts due: 10 Dec, 2026

https://amps-research.com/porto-ipca-themes/

SESSION CALL

Cultural heritage is continually interpreted, preserved and transformed through changing historical, social and artistic contexts. This session builds on this and examines how societies construct, transmit and reassess cultural memory through objects, monuments, artworks, archives and historic environments. We argue that within history and art history, such processes raise important questions about authenticity, authorship, representation and the changing meanings attached to cultural artefacts and sites. 

Contributions might consider contemporary interventions in historic buildings, restoration and reconstruction, digital technologies, museum practices, or new approaches to documenting and interpreting the past. 

The broader strand also invites examination of contested heritage, colonial and postcolonial histories, changing approaches to monuments and memorials, conservation ethics, provenance and restitution, and the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage.

Together, we hope that these debates will encourage reflection on how acts of preservation and reinterpretation shape historical narratives, cultural identities and understandings of the past for present and future communities.

Part of the University of Porto, AMPS & IPCA Conference: Critical Heritages, 2027

Abstracts due: 10 Dec, 2026

https://amps-research.com/porto-ipca-themes/

Contact Information

May Thorpe, Lígia Lopes, Claudia Lima, Raj Kumar

Contact Email

program@amps-research.com

URL https://amps-research.com/porto-ipca-themes/

New Issue: IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal- Volume: 52, Number: 3 (October 2026)
(partial open access)

Essays

The resistance and resilience of Ukrainian public librarians
Ulia Gosart, Sara Clair and Abbie Swanson

Original Articles

Media portrayals of libraries in Indonesia: A large-language-model-assisted content analysis
Radhitya Purnama, Edwin Rizal, Herlina Agustin and Wina Erwina

AI implementation and Middle East librarians’ anxiety: A survey
Amr Fatouh and Ahmed Shehata

Impact of library anxiety on user comfort with services and technology
Md. Jahangir Alam, Rozifa Akhtar and Muhammad Mezbah-ul-Islam

Metaverse ethics in libraries: Insights from global library professionals
A Subaveerapandiyan

Knowledge democratization and accessibility in the Fifth Industrial Revolution: A qualitative study of sustainability in Nigerian public libraries
Yusuf Ayodeji Ajani, Oluwaseun Omowumi Akin-Fakorede, Racheal Daniel Ama-Abasi, Ayotola Olubunmi Onanuga, Nkechi Margaret Amaechi, Ibrahim Biodun Ayegun, Gombe Ahmed Baba, Bolaji David Oladokun and Sadiya Abubakar

Content analysis of the future of Filipiniana collection access via controlled digital lending
Lady Catherine R. de Leon

Data-driven analysis of library-ambassador success factors in library campaigns in Indonesia
Irhamni Ali, Nelwaty Sikumbang, Regina Lisa Firstia, Siti Fatimatuz Zahra, Fredy Ilafi, Alfa Husna, Andika Setiana Putra, Hartoyo Dharmawan, Awan Kurniadi, Rizki A Gumilar and Amara Putri

Innovative library management for lifelong learning
Liu Hu, Chanita Rukspollmuang and Pongsin Viseshsiri

Integrating educational robotics technologies in the library programs of Zanzibar’s innovation hubs: Opportunities and challenges
Abbas Mohamed Omar, Grace Msoffe and Edda Tandi Lwoga

Growth of private reading spaces in Lucknow, India: A case study
Vinit Kumar, Aman Kumar Kushwaha, Abhishek Shekhar Nigam and B Preedip Balaji

Assessing disability inclusivity in UAE university libraries: A regulatory and empirical perspective
Zafar Imam Khan

Australian public library mission statements and the IFLA–UNESCO Public Library Manifesto
Philip Hider and Mary Coe

Transforming academic libraries through Internet of Things integration: Evidence from United Arab Emirates universities
Zafar Imam Khan and Mahammad Gulam Ghouse Pasha

Assessment of researchers’ criteria for identifying predatory publishers in Tanzania
Sevelina Selestine Moshi, Frankwell Dulle and Ronard Bernard Tarimo

Demographic and technological influences on students’ search self-efficacy and skills
Manisha Saha and SM Zabed Ahmed

Can generative artificial intelligence detect common errors in library survey design?
Margaret K Merga and Zakir Hossain

Review Articles

Opening the ‘black box’ of AI for credible IRS: A rapid review
Magnus Osahon Igbinovia

A systematic literature study on organizational communication in libraries
Arief Wicaksono, Atwar Bajari, Ninis Agustini Damayani and Ute Lies Siti Khadijah

Impact of green librarianship in academic settings: A systematic literature review of impact-factor articles and conference papers from 2015 to 2025
Khurram Shahzad, Muhammad Tariq, Mukhtar Ahmmad and Abid Iqbal

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to “Beyond uniform standards: Rethinking libraries for marginalised regions in the Global South”

Announcing RBM open board meetings for 2026/2027

The editorial board for RBMS’ flagship journal, RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage will gather for four open business meetings. All are welcome to attend!

The meetings times/dates are as follows:

Weds October 21, 3-4:30 Eastern (1st quarter),
Weds Jan 13, 3-430 Eastern (midyear), 
Weds Apr 21, 3-430 Eastern (third quarter), 
Weds June 16, 3-430 Eastern (annual)

For information on how to join us virtually, please contact Editor Diane Dias De Fazio at diane.diasdefazio@gmail.com. 

RBM is always looking for individuals to join our team of peer reviewers! Complete the form at https://bit.ly/RBMPeerReview

Interested in writing a book or media review? Complete our form at https://bit.ly/RBM_Reviews_Reviewer

Suggest a title or website to review at https://bit.ly/RBM_SuggestReview

Thanks for your time and consideration! On behalf of the Board, we hope you’ll join us for an upcoming meeting.

New Issue: Oral History Review

The Oral History Review, Volume 53, Issue 2 (2026)
(subscription)

Special Issue: Indigenous Oral History

Introduction
Listening Forward: An Introduction to the Oral History Review’s Special Issue on Indigenous Oral History
Sara Sinclair

Research Articles

Mi’kmaw Oral History as Law: Narrative Authority and Indigenous Legal Sovereignty
Pamela Palmater

Aunt Helen and Navajo Code Talkers: Oral Histories with Diné Warriors
Farina King

Fichi Ukiin and Kuleana: Ancestors, Genealogy, and Island Responsibilities in Oral History
Micah Mizukami

Amazonian Storytelling as Co-Learning Within the Land of More-Than-Human Beings and Environmental History from Indigenous Perspectives
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Sidney da Silva Facundes, Francisco Apurinã & Vesa Matteo Piludu

“All of Us, We Are Relatives”: The Hudum Framework in Conducting Chakma Oral History and Indigenizing Colonial Narratives
Dinalo Chakma

Oral Histories of Displacement: The Mizo Diaspora in Happy Valley, Shillong
Karen L. Donoghue & Donskobar Junisha Khongwir

Theorizing Indigenous Feminist Oral Histories: A Methodological Intervention in Indigenous Oral Histories from an Indigenous Feminist
Lindsey Willow Smith

uqaalaiharlutit uqaruk (say it slowly)
Norma Jean Dunning

Teaching and Learning with Indigenous Oral History: Intergenerational Truthtelling of Boarding Schools in Oklahoma
Rene Kemble, Tandra Morris & Erin Dyke

Reconciling a Sovereign Debt: The FWP Slave Narratives and the History of Chickasaw Slaveholding
Rozanne Gooding Silverwood

From the Archives: Preserving the Past, Empowering the Present Through the Doris Duke Native American Oral History Revitalization Project
Molly Stothert-Maurer & Jolene Dezbah Manus

Əstą: Reflections on a Community-Based Indigenous Oral History Research Trip in ’Iihts’ii nùtsudawit’į̀į̀h (March) 2012
Daniel Sims

Book Reviews

Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (10th Anniversary Expanded Edition). By Deborah A. Miranda. Heyday Books, 2022.
Fanny García

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. By Robin Wall Kimmerer. Milkweed Editions, 2015.
Savannah Apedaile

Indigenous Oral History Manual: Canada and the United States. By Winona Wheeler, Charles E. Trimble, Mary Kay Quinlan, and Barbara W. Sommer. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2024.
Nina Knight

Nishga. By Jordan Abel. McClelland and Stewart, 2021.
Hilary Seeley

We Survived the Night. By Julian Brave NoiseCat. Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Hannah Conway

Book Review: Classics Revisited

Storyteller. By Leslie Marmon Silko. 3rd ed. Penguin Group, 2012.
Lindsey Willow Smith

Media Reviews

Mukurtu CMS
Christopher Mario Pandza

Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness
Clarissa A. Shane