Author: Cheryl

CFP: Alaska Historical Society Annual Conference

Call for Papers

CORDOVA, ALASKA • OCTOBER 9-12, 2024

Located near the mouth of the Copper River, the site was a crossroads of trade and interaction among Eyak, Tlingit, Ahtna and Chugach peoples when Europeans sailed into Prince William Sound in the 1700s. Founded in 1909 as a railway terminus to deliver copper from the Kennecott Mines, Cordova also was near Katalla, Alaska’s earliest oil field. Fishing is the town’s major industry today.

OUR THEME

This year’s theme, “Rights and Responsibilities,” speaks broadly to Alaska’s history of determining which people and groups should have rights, and what responsibilities are attached to those rights. Disputes over rights and responsibilities have spanned Alaska history, including voting rights for women and Alaska’s Native people, fish traps and limited entry fisheries, subsistence rights, taxation, the Alaska Permanent Fund and responding to the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

OUR PROGRAM

The conference will open with a Wednesday reception, with papers presented the following three days. Friday’s focus is on Prince William Sound topics and speakers. While presentations that address the conference theme are encouraged, the society welcomes proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, films or workshops on any aspect of Alaska history. The theme echoes the upcoming year’s National History Day theme, and students and teachers are especially encouraged to participate.

OUR KEYNOTE

This year’s keynote presenter is former Alaska Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, an international climate change expert. She brings a broad perspective on Alaska’s history by virtue of her extensive public service as a policy analyst for Gov. Jay Hammond, Juneau mayor and state legislator.

SHARE YOUR RESEARCH

To propose a presentation, please email a title, proposal of 100 words and two-sentence biography to members@alaskahistoricalsociety.org. Typically, presentations are 20 minutes in length. Abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2024.

Political Science & Politics — special journal section on Archives in the History of Political Thought and Beyond

The latest issue of PS: Political Science & Politics (January 2024) includes a special section on Archives in the History of Political Thought and Beyond.

Introduction: The Archival Turn in Political Theory
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson

Political Theory, the Archive, and the Problem of Authority
Matthew Longo

Anarchives: The Labadie Collection
Kathy E. Ferguson

The Archives of Colonial Trauma: Politics and Psychiatry in North Africa
Nancy Luxon

Archival Silence: How Do We Write the History of the Subaltern Who Cannot Speak?
Kevin Olson

“Does it Matter…?” Political Theory in the Archives of William F. Buckley, Jr.
Nicholas Buccola

Murder in the Archive
Alison McQueen

Conclusion: Working in a “Living” Archive
Peter J. Verovšek

CFP: Curtain Up! The Practice of Archiving Performance

Call for Papers

  • Date:  Tuesday 29 October 2024
  • Location:  The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ
  • Abstracts submission deadline: 5pm on 3rd May 2024

This year the British Records Association (BRA) annual conference will be held in partnership with the Association of Performing Arts Collections (APAC), which is a network for all museums, libraries and archives holding performance arts materials in the UK and Ireland. This is an opportunity to share the work of the performing arts archive world with the wider sector and consider the transferability of particular methods and experiences of performing arts information professionals.

The theme of this year’s conference will be active archiving, with, through, and for practitioners. We aim to explore how archives can be developed in collaboration with the record creators, the practitioners themselves, to create more representative collections of performance for use by practitioners, academics, the general public, and beyond. Mirroring this collaboration is the use of these collections by practitioners to advocate for the archives, create new work, or share the collections with new audiences.

This can cover many areas of work:

  • collaborations with practitioners in creating and cataloguing collections
  • challenges and opportunities of practitioners being involved in the archiving of their work
  • how participatory archiving has been used with the performing arts
  • practitioners engaging with and interpreting performing arts archives to widen audience engagement
  • practitioners creating their own archives

Abstracts of papers (20 minutes) or lightning talks as part of a panel (5 minutes) should be a maximum of 200 words and should be accompanied by a biography of all participants of up to 150 words. These should be submitted as Word files to the BRA Hon Secretary, Amanda Engineer.

Enquiries regarding the call for papers should be addressed to APAC

The British Records Association is a charity which aims to promote the preservation, understanding, accessibility and study of our recorded heritage for the public benefit. It is open to anyone interested in records and archives whether local historians, academics, professional archivists, or custodians and owners of collections, or simply those who are curious about the record of our past.

APAC is the membership organisation for professionals, specialists, and other individuals working with or interested in performing arts heritage in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Our activity programme for members and non-members aims to inspire the widest possible participation in the enrichment of the UK’s performing arts heritage.

Announcement: Virtual Roundtable on Publishing, RBM Editorial Board

Join editors for printing history and special collections journals and book reviews on May 1 with your questions about publishing!

Have questions about how to turn your work into an article? Want to know more about the vast landscape that is special collections, printing history, and cultural heritage peer-reviewed publications? Join us for a conversation with editors of the following, who are all confirmed speakers:

  • RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage (Diane Dias De Fazio)
  • RBM book reviews (John Henry Adams)
  • American Printing History Association’s Printing History (Josef Beery)
  • Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (Sarah Werner)
  • Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research (Jennifer Hoyer)
  • Book History, journal of the Society of History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) (Greg Barnheisel)

Attendance to this special one-time-only event is open to the public and free, but you must register in advance through ACRL.

Register at the following link: ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/…

Title: ACRL RBM Editorial Board: Virtual Roundtable on Publishing

When: May 1, 2024

Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

We looking forward to seeing you there!

CFP: AMIA Annual Conference

The AMIA Conference Committee invites proposal submissions for sessions, posters, and workshops for the AMIA Annual Conference to be held December 4-6 in Milwaukee, WI.

The Conference Committee works to present a broad-based program that speaks to a wide range of attendees with a balance of theory and practice, inviting new ideas and concepts that stimulate additional interest, involvement, and educational benefit. In keeping with our goals to be inclusive, we urge proposers to use AMIA Conference sessions as an opportunity to include new voices and offer diverse viewpoints.

We encourage you to read the Call for Proposals Notes and FAQ which explain the review process and offers information and tips on what the reviewers and the Conference Committee consider in the proposal process. You can contact our Proposal Help Desk with any questions throughout the process.

The Committee has created a Google spreadsheet to connect individuals seeking ideas and/or collaborators for session and workshop proposals. The spreadsheet is provided as a means of communication only: the Committee does not monitor the document and it is not part of the official submission process.

As in the past, AMIA 2024 invites various types of presentations (read more about each format here) –

  • Report or Paper Presentation (25 minutes)
  • Panel (60 minutes)
  • Forum/Conversation (60 minutes)
  • Lightning Talks Session (60 minutes)
  • Screening Session (60 minutes) held at conference hotel
  • Poster Presentation
  • Workshop Workshops are a half day (3-4 hours) or full day (6-8 hours) held pre or post-conference

AMIA 2024 will be an in-person event, with a primary emphasis on in-person participation.

More information and the proposal form are here: amia.link/2024CFP

The deadline for submissions is June 6, 2024.

Call for Nominations: AHS Archival History Article Award

The Archival History Section (AHS) is seeking nominations for its annual AHS Archival History Article award. The prize encourages and rewards an article or other short piece of excellence in the field of archival history, regardless of subject, time period, or national boundaries. Stand-alone chapters in edited essay collections or anthologies will also be considered. Nominations may include works by archivists as well as by others writing scholarly works on the history of records and archives. The work must be published in English during the previous calendar year (January-December 2023).

To be considered, please submit your article or short piece to Dane Flansburgh (dflansbu@syr.edu) by May 15, 2024.

Best Regards,

Dane Flansburgh, Chair, Archival History Section steering committee

New Podcast: Tales from the Archives

This new H-Net podcast, Tales from the Archives, features “scholars in the humanities and social sciences sharing interesting tales and discoveries from archives around the world.” Listen on Spotify and Apple.

New Issue: Collections

Collections Volume: 20, Number: 1 (March 2024)
(partial open access)

Focus Issue: Collections Cataloging in the Twenty-First Century: Case Studies of Evolving Practice, Multiple Voices, New Meanings

Introduction
Introduction to the Focus Issue Collections Cataloging in the Twenty-First Century: Case Studies of Evolving Practice, Multiple Voices, New Meanings
Juilee Decker and Barbara Wood

Collections Cataloging in the Twenty-First Century: Case Studies of Evolving Practice, Multiple Voices, New Meanings

Moving On: Rethinking Practice and Transforming Data at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Lucie Carreau and Imogen Gunn

Toward Centering Indigenous Knowledge in Museum Collections Management Systems
Kara Lewis

Collaborative Approach to Updating Object Records at the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum
Alasdair Campbell and Rachael Smith

Enriching Museum Collection with Virtual Design Objects and Community Narratives: Pop-up-VR Museum
Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Leena Svinhufvud, Susanna Thiel, and Gautam Vishwanath

Hosting and Integrating a Hawaiian Language Taxonomy in the British Museum’s Collection Database
Alice Christophe, N. Haʻalilio Solomon, Hina Kneubuhl, Victoria Donnellan, and Leah Caldeira

Finding the Marginal in Marginalia: The Importance of Including Marginalia Descriptions in Catalog Entries
Zoe Screti

Documenting the Divine: The Future of Sacred Objects in Museum Databases
Emma Cieslik

Museums Will Forget: Critical Approaches to Catalog-Centered Historical Research
Tehmina Goskar

Cataloging Architectural Drawings: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age
Tom Drysdale

Defining Digital Design in the National Collection
Jessica Walthew, Andrea Lipps, and Wendy Rogers

Provisional Semantics: Addressing the Challenges of Representing Multiple Perspectives Within Public Collections
Anjalie Dalal-Clayton and Ananda Rutherford

Reflections

Inclusive Description in the Glasgow School of Art Library’s Published Catalog
Carissa Chew

Acknowledging the Colonial Bias in Early Museum Collection Records
Tharron Bloomfield

CFP: Archival Practices in Contemporary Visual Arts: A Model and a Source

ARCHIVAL PRACTICES IN CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS
A MODEL AND A SOURCE

26-27 SEPTEMBER 2024
virtual event

Archivo Platform and the Archivo Papers Journal, are pleased to announce the 5th edition of the Reframing the Archive – International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture. Titled Archival Practices in Contemporary Visual Arts: A Model and a Source, the conference aims to gather contributions on archival art and archival research for contemporary art, considering them as two complementary aspects of a broad and complex field of investigation. On one hand, the archive serves as a structural model for artists from diverse backgrounds and engaged in various fields. On the other hand, authors’ archives provide essential resources for historiographical studies on contemporary art, offering valuable information and direct testimonies. This dual focus necessitates engagement not only with the present but also with a relatively short historical span.

Since at least the 1960s, artists have been grappling with the concept of the archive, influenced by post-structuralist studies and early achievements in conceptual art. By employing tools of collection, classification, and indexing borrowed from archival theory and practice, artists of that (sociologically changing) era explored artistic languages capable of transcending the objecthood prevalent in post-World War II art. This exploration led to the development of an expressive form that remains relevant today. Indeed, much of contemporary art continues to yield compelling results when its semantic and formal contents are mediated by the archival model, particularly in genres such as photography, installation and performance. Despite the vast productivity of this global trend, critics are currently challenged with defining and contextualising archival art, often grappling with the complexities of its heterogeneity. In what perspective, with what tools, and according to what possible definitions or counter-definitions is it possible to historicise or reinterpret archival art today? What new proposals can contemporary artists offer by drawing inspiration from traditional paradigms of archival art or inventing new formal possibilities and codifications?

These questions underscore the extensive and complex dimension of contemporary archival art. However, While the archive serves as an artistic model, its contemporary incarnation as an institution offers a formidable resource for reconstructing recent art history. In recent years, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to the author’s archive as a vital component in studies on the preservation of historical documents and art objects. Research efforts are expanding to develop criteria for the conservation and administration of contemporary art archives, describe case studies on the acquisition or museamisation of art document collections, and critically reinterpret artistic and artists’ correspondence sourced from archives of artists, critics and scholars. Through such resources, the reconstruction of contemporary art gains detailed descriptive capacity, thanks to the archival documents containing first-hand information about artists’ studios, relationships, contracts and exchanges with patrons, family memories, and personal research contained in notebooks, sketches, photographic negatives and other repertoires. How, then, do archives speak about contemporary art? What approaches can be taken to utilise visual archives as sources for art history? How are visual archives employed in constructing national narratives and how can they be decolonised? What does an overview of emerging case studies yield? How can institutions dedicated to preserving historic knowledge be further promoted?

The 5th edition of the International Conference Reframing the Archive invites scholars at any stage of their careers, as well as visual artists and other professionals in the field of visual arts, to reflect on contemporary archive-based visual arts and contemporary archival sources and collections. We welcome proposals for 15-minute theory and practice-led presentations (followed by 15-minute panel discussion) from various disciplines, including: photography, cinema and new media, art history and theory, anthropology, museology, philosophy, cultural studies, visual and media studies, and fine and graphic arts. These presentations should offer an in-depth investigation into the conference topic. Please note that the conference will be conducted in English.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
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— Interpreting contemporary artistic culture through archive material
— The history of contemporary art documented in archives: sources and resources
— Artists’ archives: a complex source for contemporary art history
— Digital sources of art history: new challenges for preservation and usability
— The contemporary Archive: history of studies and the role of artistic historiography
— The artistic and documentary value of photographic archives
— Critical pathways through the Archive
— Documentary art histories: old models and new questions
— Acquisition or purchase? The economic and cultural value of artist’s archives
— The hidden archive: anti-archives and antinomies of the archive
— Museography, topology, and architecture of art archives
— The archive as artistic practice: comparative analyses
— Curating exhibitions of archival art
— The archive in contemporary art: case studies
— Spaces, materials, and technologies in archival art
— Preserving archival art
— Decolonising visual archives
— Archival art and synaesthesia
— Social-political meanings of archival art
— Archives, performance, and body art
— Archival art and the linguistic turn in contemporary art
— Anti-archival experiences in Modern and contemporary art
— Meanings of archival art in artistic tendencies, movements, and groups

Following the conference, extended versions of the conference papers will be published in a forthcoming volume (2025) of the Archivo Papers – Journal of Photography and Visual Culture (ISBN 2184-9218). Conference speakers are welcome and encouraged to submit their articles, which will undergo a double-blind peer-review process.

SUBMITTING YOU PAPER
Paper proposals for the RTA 2024 should be submitted in English, following two possible formats: individual papers, or, pre-constituted panels.
:: Guidelines for individual papers submission
Individual presentations have a duration of 15 minutes.
Candidates are required to submit a proposal that includes:
— Author information (name, email, affiliation, ORCID)
— Paper title, abstract (250 words), and keywords (maximum 5),
— Bibliographical references (maximum 5),
— Author short biographical note (written in third person, 100 words).

:: Guidelines for pre-constituted panels submission
Submission of proposals for pre-constituted panels should consist of three papers.
The panel organiser is requested to submit a panel proposal that includes:
— Panel title and abstract (250 words)
— Information regarding the three speakers and their individual papers, as described in the guidelines for individual papers above.
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Candidates should submit only one proposal only.
Paper submissions are accepted through our submission form at http://www.reframingthearchive.com

SELECTION PROCESS
The submitted proposals will undergo a blind peer-review process, and authors will be notified of the results of their proposals by July, 2024.

PUBLICATION
Selected speakers are invited to submit extended versions of theirs papers for publication.
Following a double blind peer-review process, the chosen authors will be featured​ ​in​ ​an​ ​edited​ ​volume of the scholarly open-access publication Archivo Papers Journal, scheduled for publication in 2025.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline​ ​for​ ​submission:​ ​June 15,​ ​2024
Notification​ ​of​ ​selected speakers:​ July,​ ​2024
Deadline​ ​for​ ​speakers​ ​registration​:​ ​one week after confirmation of acceptance
Conference:​ ​September 26-27,​ ​​2024

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Ana Catarina Pinho, IHA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Annalisa Laganà, Uni. degli studi di Napoli Federico II / Uni. della Calabria, Italy

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
The Scientific Committee will be announced once the peer-review process is completed.

Contact Information

Ana C. Pinho

Contact Email

info@reframingthearchive.com

URL

https://www.reframingthearchive.com

Call for proposals open for DigiCAM25: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference

Digital research in the arts and humanities has traditionally tended to focus on digitised physical objects and archives. However, born-digital cultural materials that originate and circulate across a range of digital formats and platforms are rapidly expanding and increasing in complexity, which raises opportunities and issues for research and archiving communities. Collecting, preserving, accessing and sharing born-digital objects and data presents a range of technical, legal and ethical challenges that, if unaddressed, threaten the archival and research futures of these vital cultural materials and records of the 21st century. Moreover, the environments, contexts and formats through which born-digital records are mediated necessitate reconceptualising the materials and practices we associate with cultural heritage and memory. Research and practitioner communities working with born-digital materials are growing and their interests are varied, from digital cultures and intangible cultural heritage to web archives, electronic literature and social media.

To explore and discuss issues relating to born-digital cultural heritage, the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in collaboration with British Library curators, colleagues from Aarhus University and the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum, are currently inviting submissions for the inaugural Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference, which will be hosted at the University of London and online from 2-4 April 2025. The full call for proposals and submission portal is available at https://easychair.org/cfp/borndigital2025.

(Source: British Library Digital Scholarship blog)