Month: March 2023

CFP: SEAA/SGA Virtual Summer Symposium

SEAA/SGA Virtual Summer Symposium:  

Navigating the Pitfalls and Possibilities of Contested Collections 

June 23, 2023 

Call for Proposals 

The Southeastern Archives Association and the Society of Georgia Archives are pleased to share a call for proposals for a virtual summer symposium to be held June 23, 2023. The theme is Navigating the Pitfalls and Possibilities of Contested Collections. The program committee invites proposals for presentations that focus on the challenges and opportunities associated with working with collections that document violence and oppression and resistance to that oppression. Potential topics include: 

  • Considerations when acquiring and managing collections that are at risk of political scrutiny and that may be impacted by current legislation 
  • Responding to legislative threats to collections in your repository 
  • Teaching with primary sources–how to approach using collections that document violence, oppression, and resistance, and other sensitive topics in instruction 
  • Outreach and reference for collections that document violence, oppression, and resistance  
  • Practical and ethical considerations for digitization and for collecting born-digital records 
  • Self-care for archivists and students when working with challenging collections 

Tell us a story, but also tell us what you learned. What advice would you give to someone else in the same position? The committee welcomes proposals from anyone involved with archives, including archival staff, new professionals, students, and allied professionals. We encourage potential presenters to consider how their proposed session will support the SGA Statement on Diversity and Inclusion. 

The following types of virtual presentations will be considered: 

  • 15 minute presentation (a single presentation by one or more individuals, which the committee will assemble into panels) 
  • 45 minute panel (individual or group presentation that may include a roundtable discussion, interactive discussion, or traditional presentation; OR a complete panel with 3 separate individual presentations) 
  • 5-10 minute lightning talk 

Proposals can be submitted through the online submission form. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 31, 2023. 

Call for Contributions: Updating Visual Materials Bibliography

The Visual Materials Section steering committee has formed a working group to update our resources and bibliography for visual materials. If this project interests you, consider joining the working group by contacting Angela Schwartz at schwarzleo13@gmail.com.

The 38-page bibliography started in the 1980s by Richard Pearce-Moses and later donated to VMS has been updated periodically over last thirty years. This current revision will include:

· Member submitted resources. If you have a favorite resource that helps you with your visual materials work, please submit it via this form.

· Links to digital copies of available resources.

· Expansion of visual material types. The bibliography currently includes photographs, moving images, selected print technologies, visual ephemera, and architectural records. We will be adding resources for cartographic materials and born-digital. If there are additional formats you’d like to see represented, let us know!

Stefanie
VMS Chair

CFP: Professional Development Panel or Workshop, SSA

The Society of Southwest Archivists (SSA) Professional Development Committee (PDC) is accepting proposals for a virtual workshop series or panel presentation to be held starting early May 2023.**

**Please note that this call for proposal is not for the 2023 SSA Pre-Conference Workshop selection process.

Workshop/panel topics can cover any aspect of the archival enterprise (including analog, digital, and records management.) Such topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Digital archives and applications of technology
  • GIS mapping
  • Environmental controls for archival materials
  • Rare books for archivists
  • Social Media and marketing in Archives
  • Project Management for archivists
  • Advocating for yourself in the workplace
  • Digital Humanities
  • Archival Management
  • Copyright in Archives
  • Diversity in the Profession
  • Oral histories

Workshops

Timeframe: 60 to 90 minutes

Should include: Objectives and learning outcomes for the session, target audience, technical requirements, prerequisite knowledge or experience, time expectation.

Panels Presentations

Timeframe: 60 minutes, including Q&A

The PDC is open to review any new and innovative initiatives and conceptual work (completed or under development) for training and professional development sessions with consideration to diversity and inclusion.

We strongly encourage panel/presentation sessions that address topics from multiple perspectives and institutions.

Proposals should address the target audience, an explanation of hands-on/interactive components, and the learning objectives and outcomes for attendees to come away with a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills that can be applied to the field of archives.

Proposals are due by midnight on Thursday, March 16, 2023, and must be submitted using the following form.

The PDC highly encourages co-presenters, first-time presenters, early-career professionals, lone arrangers, current graduate students, community members who work with archival (analog and digital) materials in less traditional or unconventional settings to apply.

For any questions, please contact the SSA Professional Development Committee at pdc@southwestarchivists.org.Please submit proposals using the SSA Professional Development Call for Proposals form.

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science, Volume 23, issue 1, March 2023

Farewell and thank you to Beth Yakel; welcome to Fiorella Foscarini
Karen AndersonGillian Oliver

Archives and the Digital World
Ricardo L. Punzalan

US–soviet fisheries research during the cold war: data legacies
Adam KriesbergJacob Kowall

The representation of NARA’s INS records in Ancestry’s database portal
Katharina Hering

In search of the item: Irish traditional music, archived fieldwork and the digital
Patrick Egan

The impact of the shift to cloud computing on digital recordkeeping practices at the University of Michigan Bentley historical library
Dallas PillenMax Eckard

Digital knowledge sharing: perspectives on use, impacts, risks, and best practices according to Native American and Indigenous community-based researchers
Diana E. Marsh

“The only way we knew how:” provenancial fabulation in archives of feminist materials
Jessica M. Lapp

CFP: Association for Gravestone Studies 45th Annual Conference

The Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) was founded in 1977 for the purpose of furthering the study and preservation of gravestones. AGS is an international organization with an interest in gravemarkers of all periods and styles as well as the larger cemetery as a cultural landscape. Through its publications, conferences, workshops and exhibits, AGS promotes the study of gravestones and cemeteries from historical and artistic perspectives, expands public awareness of the significance of historic gravemarkers, and encourages individuals and groups to record and preserve gravestones and historic cemeteries.  

The annual conference, to be held in person June 20-25, 2023 in Denver, Colorado at the University of Denver, features lectures, guided cemetery tours, paper sessions, roundtables, exhibits, classes, and documentation and conservation workshops.  The Association for Gravestone Studies welcomes proposals from graduate students, emerging and independent scholars, as well as established scholars and members of the Association.  Presenters are strongly encouraged to use images in their talks.  The AGS conference audience is a diverse mix of academics and members of various professions.  Scholars come from the fields of history, archaeology, cultural studies, archives, historic preservation, cultural resources management, art history, material culture, anthropology, and art.  Professionals include conservators, cemetery directors, monument company personnel, and historic site managers.  The call for papers is available on the AGS website at https://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences/2023-conference.

We are accepting applications for general paper and workshop proposals through April 1, 2023 at AGSConfProposals@gmail.com.  All paper presentations visuals should be formatted as PowerPoint-compatible projection files.

Applications are open until April 15, 2023 for the Slater Scholarship and Stockton Scholarship – both of which are for students to present their research during the conference. Application Here.

Contact Info: 

Perky Beisel, AGS Vice President and 2023 Conference Co-Organizer, professor of History, Stephen F. Austin State University, pbeisel@sfasu.edu 

Contact Email: pbeisel@sfasu.edu

URL: https://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences/2023-conference