The Society of Mississippi Archivists will hold its annual meeting at the Mississippi University for Women’s Fant Library on March 27-28, 2025.
Theme: “Praise the Bridges that Carried Us Over”: Mississippi Women in the Archives
Mississippi archives are brimming with women’s stories. Our collections contain letters and diaries of wealthy women who lived on the fruits of stolen labor, records and photographs of dedicated educators and home demonstration agents, notes of trail-blazing journalists, political materials saved by bold civil rights activists, scrapbooks and cookbooks produced by women’s clubs, and even sentimental keepsakes like hair and baby teeth. The record cartons in our stacks document what women in the United Daughters of the Confederacy and women in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party wanted history to remember about them.
For our 2025 meeting, we invite proposals related to women in Mississippi archives, including:
- Interesting stories uncovered while processing collections or working with researchers
- Writing finding aids and metadata that make women’s materials more discoverable
- Obtaining more collections related to women
- Exhibits (physical or digital) of materials that document women
- Working in the archival field as a woman
- Projects that research and document prominent alumnae of educational institutions
- Stories of Mississippi women preserved in out-of-state archives
Proposals are not restricted to the conference theme. All proposals related to archives will be considered.
This call is open to non SMA members, and student proposals are encouraged!
Please write your proposal in roughly 250 words and send to DeeDee Baldwin at dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu) by January 15, 2025.
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