Author: Cheryl

CFP: 2025 SAA Research Forum

MAY 2 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR THE SAA RESEARCH FORUM 

On behalf of the 2025 Research Forum Committee, we invite you to submit abstracts (of 300 words or fewer) for either 10-minute platform presentations or 5-minute lightning talks. Topics may address research on, or innovations in, any aspect of archives practice or records management in government, corporate, academic, scientific, or other settings. 

The 2025 Research Forum will be conducted as two Zoom-based virtual sessions, each four hours long, on July 23 from 12:00 – 4:00 pm CT and July 30, 12:00 – 4:00 pm CT. 

The 2025 Research Forum will be made up of 10-minute platform presentations and 5-minute lightning talks, extended from 3 minutes. A limited number of presentations will be accepted to allow for longer presentation times, extended Q&A periods, and opportunities for discussion between attendees. An abstract submission rubric will be used by the Committee to evaluate submissions. The 2025 Research Forum webpage provides additional information about the schedule and links to past Forum proceedings.

We invite presentations on research results that may have emerged since the 2024 Joint Annual Meeting Call for Proposals deadline, as well as reports on research completed within the past three years that are relevant and valuable for discussion as defined by the rubric. On the submission form, please indicate whether you intend a platform presentation or a lightning talk. See the full call here: https://www2.archivists.org/am2025/research-forum-2025. 

The Research Forum Committee and CORDA encourage submissions on a range of topics, which may include:

  • Global challenges and their implications for archives and archivists, such as climate change, armed conflicts, environmental disaster, and human rights; 
  • Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (EDISJ) as a core value for archives and archivists; 
  • Collaborating across domains-archives, libraries, galleries, and museums; 
  • Repository-level data: how archives measure their output, outcomes, and activities over time;
  • Centering users in the design of archival systems for discovery; and/or, 
  • Building audiences to increase the impact of archives on society. 

These themes can be found in the SAA Research and Innovation Roadmap (v1.4). 

Abstracts will be evaluated by the 2025 Research Forum Committee convened by Chris Marino (Stanford University) and Emily Lapworth (Kennedy Presidential Library).

Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 2, 2025. You will be notified of the Committee’s decision by June 2, 2025.

Proposals should be submitted here.

CFP: Association for Gravestone Studies Annual Conference

Association for Gravestone Studies Annual Conference – June 17-22, 2025, York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA

Call for Papers, Presentations, Student Posters, and Student Fellowships – Submission deadline March 31, 2025

The Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) is an international organization that promotes the serious study of gravestones and cemeteries from historical and artistic perspectives, educates and expands public awareness of the significance of historic gravestones and burial landscapes, and encourages individuals and groups to document and research gravestones and historic cemeteries.  Recent scholarly presenters have come from the fields of history, African-American studies, archaeology, cultural studies, libraries and archives, historic preservation, public history, religious studies, art history, material culture, anthropology, and art.  Professionals include conservators, cemetery directors, monument company personnel, state and local historic preservation officers, and historic site managers.  AGS welcomes presentation and paper proposals from graduate students, emerging and independent scholars, and advocational researchers as well as established scholars and AGS members.  This year students have the opportunity to submit proposals for a student-only poster session.  In addition, advanced graduate students may apply for one of two conference fellowships to present their research.

Contact Information

Dr. Perky Beisel, pbeisel@sfasu.edu

History Dept., Stephen F. Austin State University

President, Association for Gravestone Studies

Contact Email

info@gravestonestudies.org

URL

https://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences/2025-conference-york-pa

Article Discussion: Teaching with Primary Sources Subcommittee

The Teaching with Primary Sources Subcommittee of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section would like to invite you to an article discussion on Friday, March 21 at 1:00 PM (EDT)/12:00 PM (CDT)/11:00 AM (MDT)/10:00 AM (PDT). We will be discussing the new article “It’s So Liberating To Do The Work: Education In Archives Creates Space For People With Disabilities” by Jen Hoyer and Julia Pelaez. To register for this event, please sign up here: TPS Article Discussion March 2025. 

CFP: for Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) events

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is currently inviting proposals for events that will take place between June 2025 and August 2025. The deadline for applications is April 1 2025

The BSA can offer financial and logistical support for a variety of events, including lectures, panel presentations, hands-on workshops, conference sessions, or other online or in-person events.  Examples of past and upcoming events can be found here. Please reach out to the Events Committee if you have questions about event formats, financial support, or topics.

In all BSA events, the material text – that is, handwritten, printed, or other textual or visual artifacts, broadly conceived – as historical evidence, and/or the theory and practice of descriptive, historical, and/or critical bibliography, should be a central concern to participants and organizers.

BSA requests a general overview of the content of sessions and a short bio for presenters as well as information about the budget, promotion, and general organization of the event. For full details about the application process, and to submit an application, please visit the following webpage: https://bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

For additional questions or queries, please contact events@bibsocamer.org.

Call for Posters: Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting

The Northwest Archivists 2025 Program Committee welcomes poster proposals in broad support of the Annual Meeting theme Redefining Resilience: Advocacy, Values, and Creative Solutions. The conference will be held virtually May 13-16, 2025.  In the past decade or more, archives have lost staff and funding but are continually asked to do the same amount of work or even add more work. It is time to reframe the conversation from “doing more with less” to “doing our best with less.” What core functions of archives should be prioritized? What can we let go of? As archivists, how are we finding tools and building skills to fill the gap of what has been lost? How do we empower representation while protecting personal and professional boundaries? This theme invites proposals that cover practical solutions to these problems, ideas for advocating and collaborating for more resources, and suggestions for how to incorporate the new realms of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and digital preservation into our work. Students, new professionals, first-time presenters, and those in allied professions are encouraged to submit proposals.

Posters can be used to convey a variety of outcomes and ideas related to practice, theory, or research. Examples include – but are not limited to – summarizing an internship project, highlighting a workflow, demonstrating the use of a tool or technology, conveying an outreach or advocacy strategy, getting feedback about projects in progress, or sharing research findings.

Submit your proposal using the 2025 Poster Proposal Form. 

Proposals will be evaluated on clarity, originality, relevance to the field, and relation to the annual meeting theme.

The deadline for proposals is March 14, 2025. Notification will be made the week of March 17.

Questions? Please contact Program Committee Co-Chairs Libby Hopfauf orBecky Butler Gallegos. 

Best,

Members of the Program Committee

Kaitlynn Anderson 

Erin Baucom

Becky Butler Gallegos (Co-Chair)

Megan Garbett-Styger

Libby Hopfauf (Co-Chair)

Alexandra Joyaux

Laury Loftis

Emily Moore

Elinor Robinson

CFP: “Stitched Together: Needlework Making and Research”

United Kingdom

Stitched Together: Needlework Making and Research
21st-22nd August 2025
Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace

CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote speakers: Dr Lynn Hulse, Raisa Kabir, Rose Sinclair MBE, Hannah Sutherland ACR

The Royal School of Needlework and Pasold Research Fund invite papers for the Royal School of Needlework’s first conference on historical needlework, ‘Stitched Together: Needlework Making and Research’. This conference will imagine needlework in its broadest sense, classified as all art and craft involving a needle, hook, or shuttle. This includes embroidery, plain sewing, lace making, knitting, crocheting, and weaving.

Needlework is universal, made around the world in countless ways for nearly all of human history. Through needles, hooks, and shuttles, we see economic, social, political, religious, and cultural changes. Needlework demonstrates who had access to what materials, how designs and stitches travelled the world via the Silk Road and across oceans, how the rise and fall of empires affected design and resources, how technology influenced changing aesthetics and craft practices, and how people have spent their time in business and leisure. 

Though needlework has long been the subject of academic, socioeconomic, and object-centric study, there have been very few opportunities for those who create needlework and those who research needlework to collaborate and learn from one another. It is the hope that this conference will bridge the gap between visual and historiographical analysis and knowledge of the historical, socioeconomic, and literary contexts of needlework with embodied knowledge of materials, techniques, and artistic choices. 

This conference is a meeting place for anyone working on topics related to historical embroidery to present their work and research. This includes work happening in academia, museums and heritage institutions, art studios, classrooms, and independent research environments. We encourage proposals from established and emerging scholars, makers, curators, conservators, and anyone whose work is relevant to discussions about historical needlework in any capacity.  

We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations. These can take any format, such as academic papers, conversations between makers and researchers, or demonstrations. We are especially interested in presentations that explore the potential of collaboration between those who use historical needlework in different ways. Topics may include but are not limited to: 

  • New discoveries in the field of historical needlework 
  • The relationship between making and research
  • Conservation of historical needlework
  • Curating historical needlework
  • Marginalised needleworkers (race, gender, class, region, technique) 
  • Historic needlework networks, especially global ones 
  • Studying historical needlework through making 
  • Potential for collaboration between various stakeholders in the world of historical embroidery

Proposal deadline: Monday, 14th April 2025

Please send a paper title, abstract (maximum 250 words), and bio (maximum 50 words) to collection@royal-needlework.org.uk. Decisions will be made by mid-May.

The conference will allow for virtual attendance via Zoom webinar but only in-person presentations will be considered.

Contact Email

collection@royal-needlework.org.uk

URL: https://royal-needlework.org.uk/stitched-together-conference-call-for-papers/

CFP: ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section Research Committee – Virtual Program – May 21, 2025

The ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section Research Committee invites you to submit proposals for lightning talks that explore critical topics in library and information science, possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • Intellectual Freedom
  • Gender and Technology
  • Women’s Health
  • LGBTQ+ Experience, perspectives, support
  • Teaching and Learning

We seek dynamic, thought-provoking presentations that can spark discussions, share strategies, and inspire action within the library and information profession.

Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Time: 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST

Location: Virtual via Zoom 

Submission Deadline: Monday, March 24, 2025 (Extended)

Submission link: ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section Research Committee Call for Lightning Talks 2025

Please reach out to the committee with any questions via email: wgssresearch@gmail.com

Warmly,

Melissa Chomintra

WGSS Research Committee Chair

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science 25, no. 1 (2025)

Breaking the boxes: archival praxes and dignity in messiness
Lingyu Wang

“Until dignity becomes customary” archiving the #28A strike in Colombia
Marta Lucía Giraldo, Sandra Arenas, Duan Ramirez

“Provenance informing restitution: the case of Isleta paintings”
Peter Botticelli

Permission to archive: curating and contesting Palestinian history
Anne Irfan, Jo Kelcey

Conceptualizing aggregate-level description in web archives
Emily Maemura

Divergence and dialogue: analyzing the linguistic turn of the archive in digital humanities research
Jiaqing Long, Viviane Frings‑Hessami, Huiling Feng

Archive and library special collections as proxy data: reconstructing the American chestnut blight through digitized collections
Nicole Wood

Introducing the legacies and trajectories of trauma to the archival field
Anna Sexton

An archival world turns: Armenian women’s archives in Southeast Michigan
Nazelie Doghramadjian, Patricia Garcia, Ricardo Punzalan

Seventy years of strenuous efforts: tracing the development of archival higher education in China (1952–2022)
Jiarui Sun

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Rebecca Carlson, Emily P. Jones, Christopher S. Wisniewski, Jennifer N. Wisniewski, Emma Barrett-Catton, Michael Wolcott, Fei Yu. “Librarians’ contributions to and impact on pharmacy scholarship: A bibliometric analysis using a systematic approach.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 51, Issue 2, 2025

Fleischhacker, D., Kern, R. & Göderle, W. “Enhancing OCR in historical documents with complex layouts through machine learning.” International Journal on Digital Libraries 26, 3 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00413-z

Books

Preservation in Perspective: International Strategies for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage
Edited by: Koordinierungsstelle für die Erhaltung des schriftlichen Kulturguts (KEK)
De Gruyter, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities
Edited By Isabel Galina Russell, Glen Layne-Worthey
Routledge, 2024

Reconstructing Performance Art: Practices of Historicisation, Documentation and Representation
Edited By Tancredi Gusman
Routledge, 2024

Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums: An Anthropology of Donations
By Paul van der Grijp
Routledge, 2024

Collecting Practices and Opisthographic Collections in Qumran and Herculaneum
Ayhan Aksu
Brill, 2025

Trends in Archive Archaeology: Current Research on Archival Material from Fieldwork and its Implications for Archaeological Practice
Jon Frey, Rubina Raja (eds)
Brepols, 2024

Sonic Pasts: Acoustical Heritage and Historical Soundscapes
By Mariana J López
Routledge, 2024

Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature
by Emma Bond
Northwestern University Press, 2024

Working with Conservation Data
By Athanasios Velios
Routledge, 2024

UNESCO, Religious Cultural Heritage and Political Contestation: Conflict of Values or Values in Conflict?
Clizia Franceschini
Springer Nature, 2024

Streaming Media and Cultural Memory in a Postdigital Society
By Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, Johannes Heuman
Routledge, 2024

3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V: Paradata, Metadata and Data in Digitisation
Marinos Ioannides, Drew Baker, Athos Agapiou, Petros Siegkas
Springer Nature, 2025

Visualizing Film History: Film Archives and Digital Scholarship
by Christian Gosvig Olesen
Indiana University Press, 2025

Collections, archives sonores et objets musicaux : un patrimoine à préserver
Europe-Amériques, XIX-XXIe siècles
Collections, sound archives and musical objects: a heritage to preserve
Europe-Americas, 19th-21st centuries
Rivalan Guégo Christine (dir.) , Borras Gérard (dir.) , Oleksiak Julie (preface)
Rennes University Press, 2025

Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences
Gabrielle Durepos, Amy Thurlow
Emerald Publishing, 2025

Amending Our Pasts and Futures: Observing Media and Place as Means to Memory
Edited by Nina Gjoci
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Conference Proceedings

Document et Archivage: Pratiques Formelles et Informelles dans les Organisations
Document and Archiving: Formal and Informal Practices in Organizations
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on digital documents (CiDE.23)
Laurence Balicco, Viviane Clavier and Aude Inaudi (under the direction)

Reports

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
by Luca Messarra; Chris Freeland; Juliya Ziskina
Internet Archive, 2024

Theses/Dissertations

Archiving Social Media: a Comparative Study of the Practices, Obstacles, and Opportunities Related to the Development of Social Media Archives
Beatrice Cannelli
Ph. D. Thesis (University of London)

Linked Open Usable Data for Cultural Heritage: Perspectives on Community Practices and Semantic Interoperability
Julien Antoine Raemy
Ph. D. Thesis (University of Basel)

CFP: ARMA InfoCon 2025

ARMA InfoCon 2025 is heading to Phoenix, Arizona, this October 19-22, 2025, and we’re thrilled to announce that the call for speaker proposals is officially open! As the largest Information Governance event of the year, InfoCon is where innovators, visionaries and industry experts converge to shape the future of our profession. We’re seeking fresh, groundbreaking presentations that will inspire and inform our audience of thought leaders, professionals and change-makers in the information governance space. This is your chance to showcase your expertise on the premier stage for information governance. By becoming a speaker, you’ll not only gain industry recognition but also position yourself as a leader and propel your career to new heights. Don’t wait — submissions are open now until April 1, 2025. Seize this opportunity to share your knowledge, engage with top minds and leave your mark on the InfoCon community. Submit your proposal today — we can’t wait to see what you bring to the table!

More information here.