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CFP: MAC 2024 Pop-Up Session

The 2024 Program Committee invites pop-up session proposals on all aspects of archival practice and research, as well as from related fields. Touching on the conference theme, “Sowing Seeds of Change,” we encourage you to consider areas of growth, cultivation and restoration in our profession that have recently “popped-up.” Proposal submissions from students, new professionals, and first-time presenters are highly encouraged.  Note that membership in MAC is not required to present.

Resubmissions of proposals that were not accepted to the 2024 program are encouraged.

Proposals are due February 5, 2024. 

Call for Presenters: Collection Management and Description Sections webinar

The Collection Management & Description Sections will be hosting a webinar in April on the theme of “Getting Basic Descriptive Control over Collection Holdings” and we are actively seeking presenters!

Have you experienced a collection move and lived to tell the tale? Do you have helpful suggestions for people embarking on a backlog project or barcoding project? Are you a traditional archivist now responsible for getting basic descriptive control over “non-archival” materials, like books, periodicals, or museum-type artifacts? We welcome proposals around any of the following topics:

  • Collection moves
  • Barcoding projects
  • Backlog projects
  • Accessioning as processing
  • Descriptive control over non-archival materials, like books or periodicals

We are looking for speakers to share their experience in a 10-15 minute virtual presentation planned tentatively for a Monday in April, date TBD based on presenters’ availability. We would love to have diverse presenters and institutions represented: speakers from small institutions, HBCUs, and community archives are encouraged.  

If you’re interested in presenting, please send a brief proposal to Sarah Jones (sarah.jones1@unlv.edu) by January 31st. Please feel free to email with any questions!

Call for Submissions to 2024 ALA LHRT Research Forum: Trouble, Trouble, Trouble 

The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) seeks proposals for its annual Research Forum, to be held in advance of the 2024 ALA Annual Meeting. 

To accommodate as many LHRT members as possible, the 2024 LHRT Research Forum will be held virtually on a date to be determined in early-to-mid June 2024.

 The theme of the Forum is “Trouble, Trouble, Trouble.” The Forum will examine libraries facing internal or external crises around the globe and across centuries. Each speaker will be asked to present for approximately 20 minutes, with a 10-minute Q&A to follow.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, histories of: 

  • Censorship, book banning, book burning
  • Libraries during wars and wartime conditions
  • Institutional financial difficulties and funding issues
  • Natural disasters and their impact on libraries and services
  • Survival and loss of libraries and staff
  • Disinformation and the spread of disinformation 

LHRT welcomes submissions from researchers of all backgrounds, including library students, practitioners, faculty, independent researchers, and those retired from the field. LHRT especially encourages submissions from early-career researchers.  

Each proposal must give the paper title, an abstract (up to 500 words), and the presenter’s one-page vita. Please indicate in the abstract whether the research is in-progress or completed. 

The LHRT Research Committee will select up to three authors to present their completed work at the Forum. Proposals are due January 31; successful proposals will be notified shortly thereafter. Completed papers are due May 31. 

Please submit proposals and direct inquiries to Alea Henle, LHRT Vice Chair/Research Committee Chair, at henlear@miamioh.edu. 

Research Committee Members: 

Alea Henle 
Jennifer Bartlett 
Catherine Minter 
Deborah Smith
Leah DiCiesare

Reading Discussion: Eira Tansey’s “A Green New Deal For Archives”

Please join SAA’s Issues & Advocacy Section Steering Committee for our 1st meetup of 2024 in the Hive Mind program series, in which we will be discussing Eira Tansey’s A Green New Deal For Archives on Thursday, January 25th from 2-3pm EST (1-2pmCT/12-1pmMT/11-12pmPST).  Zoom information below.

Tansey’s important work brings up a lot of issues archives and archivists are facing and calls for us to take action in demonstrating the centrality of our work.

We invite you to join us for this conversation to talk about this thought (and hopefully action)-provoking piece.  Topics we plan to discuss include: 

  • Gaps inarchival education: How do we effectively create opportunities to understand the impacts of climate change on communities and collections in both graduate archival programs and continuing professional education?)
  • Advocacy: What strategies if any are archival professionals currently using to advocate for engaging with communities impacted by climate change? Are any institutions actively changing collecting practices in ways that adapt to climate change?) 
  • Cross-institutional collaboration: How are institutions supporting one another against the threat of climate change in their region? Are there networks that might be activated to ensure the safety of both communities and collections as threats associated with climate change are realized?

We look forward to seeing you there!  Please reach out with any questions or concerns.  

Issues and Advocacy Section Steering Committee 

Elizabeth Call is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: I&A Hive Mind

Time: Jan 25, 2024 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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New/Recent Publications

Books

Sonja Boon, Laurie McNeill, Julie Rak, Candida Rifkind. The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada. Routledge Introductions to Canadian Literature.
Routledge, 2023

Paulina L. Alberto, George Reid Andrews, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, eds. Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870–1960. Afro-Latin America.
Cambridge University Press, 2022

Matthew Dennis. American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory. Public History in Historical Perspective.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2023

Shaping Archaeological Archives: Dialogues between Fieldwork, Museum Collections, and Private Archives
Rubina Raja (ed)
Brepols Publishers, 2023

Claiming Back Their Heritage: Indigenous Empowerment and Community Development through World Heritage
Geneviève Susemihl
Springer, 2023

Music Borrowing and Copyright Law: A Genre-by-Genre Analysis
Enrico Bonadio (Anthology Editor), Chen Wei Zhu (Anthology Editor)
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

Archives: utilité publique, exigence démocratique
[Archives: public utility, democratic requirement]
Barbara Roth-Lochner, Alain Dubois
L’Esprit de la Lettre Editions, 2023

Michael Moss on Archives: Beyond the Four Corners of the Page
Edited By Julie Mcleod, Andrew Prescott, Susan Stuart, David Thomas
Routledge, 2023

Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the Carceral State
Christopher Perreira
University of Minnesota Press, 2023

The Archives of Critical Theory
Isabelle Aubert, Marcos Nobre
Springer, 2023

Exploring New Temporal Horizons: A Conversation between Memories and Futures
Carmen Leccardi, Paolo Jedlowski and Alessandro Cavalli
Bristol University Press, 2023

Caring for Cultural Heritage: An Integrated Approach to Legal and Ethical Initiatives in the United Kingdom
Charlotte Woodhead
Cambridge University Press, 2023

Archives et droits humains
[Archives and human rights]
Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, Antonio González Quintana
Institut Francophone pour la Justice et la Démocratie, 2023

Articles

Yaming Fu, Simon Mahony, Wei Liu. “Reconstruction of cultural memory through digital storytelling: A case study of Shanghai Memory project.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 4, December 2023

Liina Repo and others. “In search of founding era registers: automatic modeling of registers from the corpus of Founding Era American English.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 4, December 2023

Tong Wei, Yuqi Chen. “A methodology for building domain ontology of cultural heritage Get access Arrow.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 4, December 2023

Grimes, Lorraine, Dr.; Cassidy, Kathryn Dr; Dias, Murilo; Lanigan, Clare; O’Carroll, Aileen Dr; and Singhvi, Preetam (2023) “Archiving “sensitive” social media data: ‘In Her Shoes’, a case study,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 10, Article 19

Podcasts

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 183: Andres Guadamuz on the Battle Over Copyright and Generative AI

Archives and Things Podcast: Elaine Young and Cody Groat, Canadian Commission for UNESCO

New Issue: Journal of Digital Media Management

Journal of Digital Media Management
Volume 12 / Number 1 / Autumn/Fall 2023
(subscription)

Case Study

The Curricular Asset Warehouse at the University of Illinois: Case study of a digital archive’s sustainability
Jones, Karin Hodgin; Bianconi, Robyn; Jones, Jimi; Moran, Liam

Digitising images from the first tests of HDTV in Europe: The 1992 Summer Olympic Games
Sánchez, Isabel; Marchand, Etienne

Collection insight and interconnectivity through artificial intelligence image analysis: A collaboration with the National Archives of Estonia
Storch, Hannah

Practice Paper

Diversity, equity and inclusion principles for custom taxonomies
Mizota, Sharon

Case Study

The 6K restoration of Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight
Dawson, Michael; Fritz, Scott; Beckel, John; Leonard Rubin, E.; Matusek, Michael

Magnifying Gwendolyn Brooks: Creating a digital collection at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
Rodríguez, Ana D.; Vasquez-Braun, Kate M.; Waarala, Angela M.; Johns, Rachael; Luke, Stephanie M.; Mowry, Ruthann E.

Making African Academic Resources Accessible at the University of Ghana: A sustainable collaborative project
Opoku-Boateng, Judith

New Issue: Museum Worlds: Advances in Research

Museum Worlds: Advances in Research
Volume 11 (2023) 
 
Editorial 
Conal McCarthy and Alison K. Brown 

Articles 
National Showing Off and Telling Off: Reflections from the Ethnological Museum in Germany’s Humboldt Forum 
Sharon Macdonald 

“What Am I Supposed To Say?”: Engagement, Epistemic Friction, and Exhibitionary Practice at the South African Museum and !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre 
Megan Mulder 
 
“The Museum is for All Cultures”: Monologue and Multivocality—The Dilemma of the Nambya Community Museum in North Western Zimbabwe 
Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya and Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi 
 
We Need to Talk about Class: Towards a Class-Based Approach in Contemporary Museum Theory and Practice 
Serena Iervolino and Domenico Sergi 
 
Climate Change and the Museum: Decolonizing and Decarbonizing Parallels and Consequences 
David C. Harvey 
 
Revisiting Cultural Participation in Museums: An Early Community Outreach Experience in Mexico City 
Leticia Pérez-Castellanos  
 
Memories from the Margins: Remembering China’s ‘Red Age’ in a Minjian Museum 
Lisheng Zhang 
 
The Arts as a Vocation: National Cultural Policymaking in a Time of Uncertain Everything 
Julian Meyrick 
 
Research in Other Forms: Reports, Articles, Conversations, etc 
Look Left and Right: Resetting Museology in a Culture of Crisis 
Kylie Message 
 
The Future of Museums: Why Real Matters More Than Ever 
David Prince and Daniel Laven 
 
Air Connectivity and Proximity of Large Airports as an Added Value for Museums 
Lázaro Florido-Benítez 
 
Managing Quality and Motivating Innovation: Revisiting Museum Industry Awards in China and Their Effects 
Jin Yang and Jingfang Ai 
 
Virgin in a Condom and Te Papa: 25 Years On 
Mark Stocker 
 
Empowering Learners through the Integration of Museum Experiences and Digital Technologies 
Chang Xu and Tara Fagan 

Dispatches 
Photographs from the Poignant Project at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge; The Solidarity in Action Network; The Canadian Museum Association’s Moved to Action Report; Towards a Decolonization of the Ethnographic Displays at the National Museum of Namibia; MuseumFutures Africa Project; Museum Matters in Africa 
Kirsty Kernohan, Bernadette Lynch, Lucy Bell, Goodman Gwasira, Sophia Olivia Sanan, and Jesmael Mataga 

Leading Thinkers in the Field 
Centering the Museum: A Conversation with Elaine Heumann Gurian 
Conal McCarthy 
 
Review Essays 
Arte de los Pueblos de México: Disrupciones Indígenas; Arte Popular: The Creative and Critical Power of Latin Americans; Creating a Wellbeing Experience in an Art Gallery; Outwitting Knowledge Silos in the Museum; The Museum Is Dead, Long Live the Museum 
Anthony Alan Shelton, Laura Osorio Sunnucks, Joanna Cobley, Hannah Star Rogers, Adam Bencard, Andrea Krieg, and Ken Arnold 

Exhibition Reviews 
Arktis: Medan isen smälter (The Arctic: While the Ice Is Melting); Empowering Art: Indigenous Creativity and Activism from North America’s Northwest Coast; The New Austronesia Hall; Changsha Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tombs Exhibition; Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion; The Tenth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 
Isabelle Gapp, Rose Taylor, Ching-yueh Hsieh, Jingjing Zhou, Caroline Colbran, and Emily Poore 

Book Reviews 
Stephanie Sipei Lu, Aayushi Gupta, Linnea Wallen, Jesmael Mataga, Jason Gibson, Peter Brunt, Una Dubbelt-Leitch, Liam Holmes, Yimamu Dilinuer, and Jayne Warwick 

CFP: Southern Cultures: The Future of Textiles

Special issue of Southern Cultures
The Future of Textiles (Winter 2024)
Guest Edited by Natalie Chanin
Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2024

Southern Cultures encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, The Future of Textiles, to be published Winter 2024. We will accept submissions for this issue through March 1, 2024.

In a moment when the textile industry is fueled by exploited overseas laborers, toxic chemicals, and artificial intelligence over craft, we ask: What is the future of textiles? What happens to a community, state, or nation when its people no longer make clothing, utilitarian fabrics, and textile-related artifacts? The widely held image of the South as an agrarian economy belies the reality of the region as a cradle for modern industry, unions, and global capitalism. We seek submissions that connect the past, present, and future of textile production, from raw material to finished goods. How might we imagine a progressive way forward for textiles in the United States, with attention to sustainability, craft preservation, cultural heritage, justice and equity, entrepreneurship, creativity, and global economics? Stories should connect the hyperlocal and the global, examining how the act of making has shaped the lives of individuals and communities.

How do we preserve the craft and industrial knowledge of making and producing textiles? What happens when textile manufacturing supply chains are broken? How is the South impacted when our textile goods and services are imported from somewhere else? How can making and manufacturing create stronger southern communities? How do we explore, honor, and document the South’s histories of making and manufacturing textiles? How might one restore dignity to the craft and labor of textiles while honoring its makers and a fragile ecosystem?

Submissions may explore any topic or theme related to textiles. We welcome investigations of the region in the forms Southern Cultures publishes: scholarly articles, memoir, interviews, surveys, photo and art essays, and shorter feature essays. Possible topics and questions to examine might include (but are not limited to):

  • Agriculture and raw materials
  • Machine manufacturing
  • Large- and small-scale factory work
  • Hand work and hand craft
  • Small-town economics and community health
  • Generational knowledge
  • The geography of the factory
  • Living, evolving Indigenous textiles
  • Quilt and other textile arts’ curation and exhibition
  • Examples of radical or activist entrepreneurship
  • Gendered empowerment
  • Sustainability in an era of greenwashing
  • Mission-driven textile production
  • Textiles and food landscapes
  • The meaning of craft preservation
  • How hyperlocal becomes a global story

As Southern Cultures publishes digital content, we encourage creativity in coordinating print and digital materials in submissions and ask that authors submit any potential video, audio, and interactive visual content with their essay or introduction/artist’s statement. We encourage authors to gain familiarity with the tone, scope, and style of our journal before submitting. For full submissions guidelines, please click here.

CFP: Sustainability in Practice: DIY Repair, Reuse and Innovation

Sustainability in Practice: DIY Repair, Reuse and Innovation
30 October–2 November 2024 
Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
Conference webpage: http://enmconferences.ee/sustainability-2024

This conference addresses ecological sustainability through do it yourself (DIY) practices, and through consumer behaviour and heritage. The focus on DIY repair, reuse and vernacular innovation seeks to examine sustainability in the context of everyday life and domestic and community settings. By bringing together anthropological, ethnological, sociological and craft studies perspectives, the conference aims to show and discuss contemporary, traditional and vernacular sustainable practices.

Repair, reuse and repurpose of diverse commodities and materials, and vernacular innovation, are today increasingly perceived as part of sustainable consumption culture. However, the role and meaning of these practices have changed over time, depending on social, economic and political environments. Facing the global climate crisis, we are looking for lessons from the past and present for more sustainable and resilient ways of life.

Keynote speakers:
Prof. Steven J. Jackson (Cornell University)
Prof. Tomás Errázuriz (Universidad Andrés Bello, Campus Creativo)
Assoc. prof. Ricardo Greene (Universidad de las Américas)

We invite presentations, workshops and documentaries that explore various forms of DIY practice, solutions, innovation and material culture related to sustainability in a variety of settings and regions. Apart from academics, experts from memory institutions and craft scholars, this conference also invites activists, craftsmen and designers to share their experience and knowledge.

Possible topics include:

  • Repair and maintenance
  • Reuse and repurpose
  • Vernacular innovation and invention
  • The material culture of sustainability
  • Sustainable and resilient lifestyles and communities
  • Forms of activism (for example, repair cafés, the right to repair movement, low-tech, etc.)
  • Heritage and applied heritage
  • The role of museums and memory institutions in maintaining and promoting sustainability
  • Insights from activists and craftsmen or designers

The deadline for submission is 31 March 2024. Please send an abstract (200–300 words) of the presentation, workshop or documentary film with the title and your details. In addition, for workshops please add special requirements, and for documentaries please add online access to the film with English subtitles.

Please send your submission to the conference e-mail: sustainability@erm.ee

The conference is organised by the Estonian National Museum in collaboration with the Washing Machine Made of Beetroot joint exhibition project, curated by the Estonian Road Museum, the Estonian Agricultural Museum, and the Tartu City Museum. The conference programme involves organised tours of the exhibition on invention, ingenuity, recycling and DIY mentality, and visits to various public repair workshops in Tartu.

The conference and the exhibition are part of and supported by the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 programme.

Sincerely,
Tenno Teidearu
Estonian National Museum
sustainability@erm.ee

Contact Information
Estonian National Museum, Muuseumi tee 2, Tartu, Estonia
sustainability@erm.ee

Contact Email
sustainability@erm.ee

URL: http://enmconferences.ee/sustainability-2024

CFP: Making Nature: The Labor of Natural History

Inspired by the APS Museum’s upcoming exhibition Sketching Splendor: Natural History in America, 1750-1850 the American Philosophical Society is organizing a daylong conference that will explore the ways humans have imagined, depicted, and constructed representations and knowledge about the natural world over time. The conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists, naturalists, and collection professionals, as well as artists, filmmakers, climate activists, and others to consider the different forms of labor and expertise that have contributed to shaping past, present, and future understandings of nature as well as the place of humans within it. The conference will be held in-person at the Society in Philadelphia on June 6-7, 2024.

The program committee invites paper proposals from scholars in all fields as well as scientists, curators, artists, educators, collections stewards, and others whose work bears upon this theme. The committee especially welcomes proposals that situate natural history in a wide range of geographic and historical contexts.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • The economic, social, and political implications of natural history collections and collecting practices over time.
  • The role of institutions, including botanical gardens, zoos, arboretums, libraries, museums, aquariums, and others, in shaping scientific and public understandings about the natural world.
  • The impact and contributions of local and Indigenous labor and expertise within natural history projects.
  • Critical studies addressing the relationship between natural history and empire.
  • Studies of how nature and the natural world inform art, music, film, literature, and other creative pursuits in the past and present.
  • The role of images, visualizations, and other non-text based approaches in conveying ideas about nature and natural history.
  • Discussions about specific techniques and craft knowledge used in the preservation and display of natural history.
  • The needs and opportunities of digital tools and platforms for past, present, and future work in natural history.
  • The impact of climate change and extinction narratives on understandings and depictions of nature.
  • Papers exploring decolonial and antiracist approaches to natural history.

Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word proposal along with a C.V. by February 15, 2024 via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/137229

All presenters will receive travel subsidies and hotel accommodations. Presenters may also have the opportunity to publish revised papers in the APS’s Transactions, one of the longest running scholarly journals in America.

Contact Information
Adrianna Link (alink@amphilsoc.org)
Thomas Johns (tjohns@amphilsoc.org)

Contact Email
alink@amphilsoc.org

URL: https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/cfp-making-nature-labor-natural-history-june-6-7…