Category: Call for Papers

CFP: TRANSPOSITIONES, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2027) Call for Papers: Earth / Sediment / Trace: Geologies, Material Memories, and the More-than-Living World

TRANSPOSITIONES

Journal for Transdisciplinary and Intermedial Culture Studies /
Zeitschrift für transdisziplinäre und intermediale Kulturforschung
ISSN 2749-4128 (print), 2749-4136 (online)

Vol. 6, No. 2 (2027)

Call for Papers

Thematic focus of the issue:

Earth / Sediment / Trace: Geologies, Material Memories, and the More-than-Living World

Across the environmental humanities, increasing attention has been devoted to the geological dimensions of culture and the cultural dimensions of the Earth. Geohumanities, critical mineral studies, energy humanities, environmental justice scholarship, and related fields have opened new perspectives on extraction, sedimentation, toxicity, waste, material memory, and deep time. At a moment marked by accelerating ecological transformations and growing awareness of the material infrastructures that sustain contemporary life, geological matter has emerged as a crucial site for rethinking history, memory, environment, and cultural imagination. Rather than treating the Earth as a passive backdrop to human activity, recent scholarship has approached rocks, minerals, soils, fossils, sediments, and other material formations as archives of planetary processes, environmental change, cultural memory, and political conflict. Questions of resource extraction, environmental justice, and slow violence increasingly intersect with inquiries into deep temporalities, material traces, sacred landscapes, and the long afterlives of human and more-than-human actions.

This issue invites contributions that explore how literature, art, media, philosophy, religion, and cultural practices engage with geological matter, deep time, sedimented histories, and the material conditions of planetary life. We especially welcome work that investigates the cultural significance of rocks, minerals, fossils, soil, waste, ruins, and other forms of more-than-living matter, while also addressing questions of environmental justice, resource extraction, toxicity, and slow violence. We welcome analyses of literary, philosophical, historical, and cultural texts from a wide range of regions and traditions, including comparative and transnational perspectives. Topics may include:

• geohumanities and geological imagination;

• earth, stone, sediment, dust, and soil;

• lithic ecologies and critical mineral studies;

• deep time, planetary temporalities, and environmental history;

• extractivism, mining, resource conflicts, and energy humanities;

• environmental justice and slow violence;

• toxic landscapes and contaminated environments;

• waste, ruins, landfills, and material afterlives;

• fossils, paleontology, and material histories of life;

• material memory, archives, traces, and sedimented histories;

• sacred geographies, holy mountains, stones, and pilgrimage landscapes;

• archaeology, antiquarianism, and the materialities of the past;

• textual strata, sedimented knowledge, and epistemic layers;

• geological trauma, memory, and post-catastrophic landscapes;

• petrofiction, climate fiction, and environmental storytelling;

• artistic and literary engagements with earth materials;

• relations between living and non-living matter;

• fungi, decomposition, and processes of material transformation;

• posthumanist, new materialist, and decolonial approaches to geology and the earth.

Proposals comprising a 250-word abstract in English or German and a brief biographical note should be sent to: transpositiones@uw.edu.pl by October 20, 2026.

A final decision regarding abstract acceptance will be made by October 31.

Deadline for submitting completed manuscripts: February 28, 2027.

The issue is expected to be published in the autumn of 2027.

Call for Submissions: Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources

Submissions are invited for the Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources series sponsored by the Reference, Access, and Outreach (RAO) Section of SAA. This open-ended series of case studies is designed to illustrate the application of the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy. Case studies should detail the full scope of planning, implementing, and reflecting on an initiative that aims to teach one or more of the learning objectives implemented under the Guidelines, such that the reader could then use this case study to develop a similar initiative at their own institution. 

Case studies are accepted on a rolling basis. All submissions should be prepared using the submission form available at https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/TWPS_Case_Study_Submission_Form-2019.docx. Please send questions, inquiries, and submissions to Rachel Duke, Series Editor, at twps-casestudies@archivists.org.

Call for Reviewers: October Issue Multimedia & Technology Reviews

ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors seek volunteers to author reviews for the October 2026 issue. To volunteer, choose a resource from the list below and complete our Reviewer Interest form (https://forms.gle/viaCJvMwFUydCN9S8) by Wednesday, July 29th.

Initial draft submissions are due Monday, August 31st.

Contributing to ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews is a great opportunity to get involved with the Society, learn about interesting new resources, and help shape the publication. Please read
the complete review guidelines and direct comments and questions about the reviews to arlisna.mtr@gmail.com.

Know of a resource we should review? Submit ideas here.

Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors:

Matthew Garklavs
Bridget O’Keefe
Abigail Walker

Resources for Review:

We seek reviewers for the following resources. The snippets below are taken
from each resource’s web page and are not necessarily the opinions of the
M&T Reviews Co-Editors.

Americana
The John Carter Brown Library is at once a physical site and a digital space. Americana is the digital door to the library, named for the word chiseled in the limestone above the front door of the library’s 1904 building. The JCB’s collection of books, maps, prints and more, all focused on the early Americas, reside both in the building on George Street, at the corner of the campus green at Brown University, and in this digital location.

Aracne

Aracne is a digital tool that facilitates the analysis of the canvases that artists used for their paintings. This software precisely and objectively characterises fabrics so that paintings can be compared and original formats and added layers studied.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals with Full Text

Produced in collaboration with the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals with Full Text contains full-text journal articles on architecture and design, covering subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design. (MTR editors can arrange for temporary access to this subscription-based resource).

Black Architects Archive

The Black Architects Archive traces the impact of Black creative, intellectual, and physical labor on shaping the built environment, and does so by revealing both the breadth and depth of Black spatial practice in the Americas. It includes the work of Black architects, builders, contractors, engineers, landscape designers, draftsmen and women, mapmakers, and other built environment practitioners working across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The aim of the archive is to recover the historical impact that Black people have had on shaping the towns, cities, and landscapes of the Americas while also making this information publicly available as a resource for local history.

Design Card Decks for Ideation and Exploration

The Design Card Decks for Ideation and Exploration Web Archive is curated by librarians at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Card decks are used in design fields as a game-based methodology for ideation and stakeholder participatory collaboration. The purposes of decks vary; some are used for brainstorming new products and services while others are scenario-based, prompting designers to consider how their products or services may be incorporated into different communities. They function both as a tool for design speculation and as a set of illustrations that visualize design thinking. This archive preserves websites associated with these decks; as design thinking becomes popular in many disciplines, from business to science, the potential user groups for these tools greatly expands outside traditional
design fields.

Digital Scriptorium

Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts. DS is dedicated to building an online national union catalog built on Linked Open Data technologies and practices for premodern manuscripts in US collections.

International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)

IDEA is harnessing the power of Linked OpenData (LOD) to reassemble and re-contextualize archaeological informationrelated to Dura-Europos. Unique circumstances of preservation makeDura-Europos a rare archaeological resource. The city provides unparalleledglimpses into a multicultural religious life, the running of a militarygarrison, and domestic coexistence of different ethnic groups, and haspreserved hundreds of organic materials that survive in the archaeologicalrecord from few other places. But recognition as a singular resource forinformation about the ancient past has come at a price. Excavationsinvolving multiple institutional partners and well-intentioned efforts toshare-out access to physical objects from Dura has led to the dispersal ofthe site’s artifacts and other archival materials into collections acrossthe world. We’re using cutting-edge technology to power a new searchfeature for Dura-Europos archaeological data and archival content as ameans to mitigate this physical dispersal and improve access to informationacross disciplinary and linguistic silos for the (global) public good.

Odeuropa

Odeuropa is a European research project which bundlesexpertise in sensory mining and olfactory heritage. We develop novelmethods to collect information about smell from (digital) text and imagecollections. Our goal is to show that critically engaging our sense ofsmell and our scent heritage is an important and a viable means forconnecting and promoting Europe’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

Reg-Arts : the register of enrolments at Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1813 to 1968

Created by threeinstitutions, the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the INHA and the CNRS, the Reg-Artsdatabase provides access to the Beaux-Arts de Paris enrolment registers of more than 12,000 student painters, sculptors and engravers between 1813 and1 968. Reg-Arts provides a central resource for art history, enabling researchers, descendants, museums and galleries to explore the data.

Remodeled Getty Provenance Index and Tracing Art interactive

https://www.getty.edu/research/provenance/https://www.getty.edu/tracingart/
Arches is a Getty-supported, open-source database platform hosting Getty Provenance Index records that have been transformed into linked open data resources. By treating Provenance Index records as a structured web of related resources, Arches enhances accessibility and discoverability, surfaces existing connections within Getty Provenance Index resources, enables linkages with other cultural heritage datasets, and provides powerful federated search and data visualization tools. These enhancements
make provenance research more efficient and adaptable to evolving scholarly needs.

Trois Crayons Museum Forum

The Trois Crayons Museum Forum is aninnovative, free-to-use digital platform dedicated to deepening theunderstanding of pre-modern drawings in public collections. Join a globalnetwork of art historians, curators, and enthusiasts to collaborativelyexchange ideas, discuss, and re-examine both familiar works and overlookedsheets – shedding new light on old questions and bringing lesser-seendrawings into focus.

VisColl

VisColl is a system for building models of the physical collation of manuscripts, and then visualizing them in various ways. The core of VisColl is the data model, which defines the structure of individual manuscripts and which can be built and visualized by different tools.

Call for Proposals: Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene Colloquium II (LAAC II)

The Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene Colloquium II (LAAC II), sponsored by Library Juice Press,will take place at University of California, Davis on March 24 and 25, 2027.

Proposals for LAAC II should pull on collective wisdom to address the intersection of information science and the environmental crisis. We encourage submissions that explore how we can channel joy and passion into our work on climate, conservation, and sustainability while navigating the logistical and ethical complexities of the Anthropocene and generating new questions.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Intersectional Environmentalism: Centering equity, justice, and diverse voices in library and archive climate action.
  • Technological Impacts: Fostering literacy regarding the environmental costs (water, power, and waste) of AI and large-scale digital infrastructure, cycles of obsolescence, and AI.
  • Grassroots & Community Efforts: Highlighting local initiatives and radical collaborations outside of traditional institutional frameworks.
  • Resilience & Restoration: Strategies for disaster preparedness, recovery of cultural heritage, and institutional sustainability.
  • Radical Imagination: Shifting our professional paradigms to “see things differently” and move beyond a business-as-usual approach.
  • Questioning Worldviews: Deep questioning of worldviews that may have implications for our guiding assumptions as information professionals.

Proposals should include:

  1. a title
  2. a 300-word abstract
  3. preferred session format (see below for details)

We particularly welcome proposals that emphasize a connection to the natural environment and foster communal learning.

Session Formats

We invite proposals for a variety of session types to ensure a dynamic and inclusive program:

  • Full Sessions: (1–1.5 hours): In-depth presentations, panel discussions, or interactive workshops.
  • Lightning Talks: Brief, high-impact presentations (5–10 minutes) on specific projects or “seed” ideas.
  • Breakout/Roundtable Sessions: Facilitated discussions focused on collective problem-solving.
  • Poster Sessions: Visual displays of research or case studies to be shared during dedicated networking time.
  • Tours & Site Visits: Proposals for guided explorations of relevant local sites or ecological features.

Proposals Due: August 1, 2026

For more information see https://libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/laac-ii/ (More details coming soon)

Call for Chapter Contributors: Loss, Time, and Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Understanding and Reconciliation

Loss, Time, and Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Understanding and Reconciliation

Mitchel Stimers, PhD & Luma Mahairi, PhD, PharmD, Editors

We are seeking a contributor for the following chapter in our forthcoming two-volume interdisciplinary collection:

Volume I: Humanities and Social Sciences: Chapter 2: History: Erasure, Memory Wars, and Historical Grief

This collection is built on a conviction that loss takes genuinely different forms depending on the disciplinary position from which it is observed. We are not looking for a chapter that applies history to the topic of grief. We are looking for a scholar who can write from inside the discipline’s own way of seeing: one for whom the archive, the gap in the record, the contested account, and the silenced testimony are not illustrations of loss but the terrain in which a specific form of loss becomes visible in the first place.

History and oral history bring to this collection something no other field can offer: the capacity to show how loss is structured into the record itself, how erasure operates not only as an event but as an ongoing condition of what can be known, remembered, and mourned. The discipline encounters grief not as a private emotion but as a collective and political phenomenon, one whose weight accumulates across generations precisely because it was never acknowledged in its own time. Whether the chapter engages the suppression of testimony, the destruction of archives, the rewriting of official memory, contested monuments and memorials, or the communities whose losses were never entered into the historical record, the discipline’s encounter with loss should drive the argument rather than illustrate it. Oral history’s particular contribution, the recovery of testimony that the written archive could not or would not hold, makes this chapter’s terrain especially immediate for members of this community.

The collection asks each contributor to engage two anchoring concepts. Embodiment means that loss is not only a cognitive or emotional event but something that happens to bodies, structures, and material worlds, leaving traces that alter what can be perceived, inhabited, and remembered. Temporality means that loss disrupts the relationship among past, present, and future in ways that resist being located at a single moment on a timeline. For history, temporality is particularly pointed: losses that were never mourned in their own time do not stay in the past. Their weight accumulates, resurfaces, and reshapes the present in ways the discipline is uniquely equipped to trace. Contributors are not required to engage these concepts philosophically, but the chapter should reflect awareness of how the discipline’s encounter with loss is shaped by both.

The collection is designed to be read across disciplines. Contributors are asked to write with enough clarity that a careful reader outside history can follow the argument, without flattening the disciplinary perspective to reach that reader.

Full chapter description, contributor guidelines, word count, timeline, and submission details are available at: tinyurl.com/stimersmahairi

CFP: 2026 issue of the Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists

J-SNCA is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to support the theoretical, practical, and scholarly aspects of the archival profession. The editorial board of J-SNCA invites members of the research and archival communities to submit articles for a general issue on archival topics to be published winter 26/27. Submissions on archival methodology, metadata, collecting practices, outreach, and rethinking the goals of archival work in our current age, are all welcome. We especially welcome submissions related to the theme of this year’s annual meeting, “Many Voices, Stronger Archives: Advocacy through Community” which calls us to reflect on the roles and impacts of advocacy and community within the archival profession.

The deadline for article submission is August 15, 2026. All members of the archival community, including students and independent researchers, are welcome to submit articles. Contributors need not be members of the Society of North Carolina Archivists or live in the state of North Carolina.

Submission contact: jsncajournal@gmail.com

Manuscript Submission and Preparation

The Journal accepts a range of articles related to the research, study, theory, or practice in the archival professions.

All members of the archival community, including students and independent researchers, are welcome to submit articles and reviews. Contributors need not be members of SNCA or live in the state of North Carolina.

A Word document via email attachment will be requested for accepted articles.

Please submit original, unpublished manuscripts only. The Journal will not reprint or republish articles submitted and accepted by other publications. If the article was presented at a conference, please supply the name and date of the conference on the cover page.

Submissions should be no longer than 30 pages or 7500 words, including citations. On the cover page, please provide a title for the article as well as the author(s)’s names, position(s), institutional affiliation(s), and business address(es). No other page of the manuscript should have the author’s name on it.

CFP: Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Meaning: Language, Images and Interpretation in the Digital Age

Call for Chapters

Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Meaning: Language, Images and Interpretation in the Digital Age

Edited by  Ester Cristaldi

Under contract with Anthem Press

Chapter proposals are invited for the edited volume Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Meaning: Language, Images and Interpretation in the Digital Age, under contract with Anthem Press.

The volume examines artificial intelligence as a cultural, semiotic, social and media phenomenon. Rather than approaching AI only as a technical system or computational tool, the book investigates how AI participates in the production, circulation and transformation of meaning in contemporary digital culture.

The central premise of the volume is that AI does not simply process information. It increasingly mediates how people write, read, see, classify, imagine, remember and interpret the world. AI systems generate texts and images, organise visibility, shape public attention, classify social subjects, predict behaviour and participate in the construction of cultural narratives.

The book is grounded in semiotics and linguistics, but it also welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural studies, media and communication studies, media sociology, digital sociology, digital humanities, visual culture, platform studies, critical data studies, journalism studies, environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and related fields.

Topics

Possible topics include:

  • AI, language and meaning
  • Large language models and linguistic authority
  • AI and language inequality
  • AI-generated images and visual culture
  • Synthetic media and visual disinformation
  • AI, public trust and the crisis of mediation
  • AI, platforms and public attention
  • Algorithmic visibility and digital inequality
  • AI, datafication and social classification
  • AI, creativity and cultural production
  • AI, cultural labour and the creative industries
  • AI, archives and cultural memory
  • AI, embodiment, interfaces and everyday experience
  • AI, environment, infrastructure and digital materiality
  • AI, interpretation and cultural authority
  • AI, media ecologies and affective publics
  • AI, memory, archives and the digital humanities

Submission Guidelines

Interested contributors are invited to submit:

  • a provisional chapter title;
  • an abstract of approximately 250–300 words;
  • a short biographical note of approximately 100 words;
  • institutional affiliation and contact details.

Full chapters will be expected to be approximately 6,000–8,000 words, including references.

Timeline

Proposal submission deadline: 30 June 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2026
Full chapter submission: 30 November 2026
Editorial feedback: January 2027
Revised chapter submission: 28 February 2027
Final manuscript preparation: March–April 2027

Submission

Chapter proposals should be sent to:

Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi
Üsküdar University
mariapia.cristaldi  @ uskudar. edu.tr

Please include “Chapter Proposal – Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Meaning” in the subject line.

Contact Information

 Ester Cristaldi
Üsküdar University
mariapia.cristaldi @uskudar.edu.tr

Contact Email

mariapia.cristaldi@uskudar.edu.tr

CFP: Chapters on Conspiracies and Visual Culture

Conspiracies and Visual Culture

Editor Information: Stephanie Beene (sbeene@unm.edu) and Katie Greer (greer@oakland.edu)

Abstract

Conspiracy ideation in America is on the rise and has infected popular culture and social media. This phenomenon is deeply concerning, not least because it moves beyond fringe groups to influence mainstream discourse and belief systems. Despite extensive academic work on the psychological underpinnings of conspiracy belief and the linguistic/rhetorical analysis of related texts, a crucial gap remains. Specifically, there is an underdeveloped area of study concerning the sophisticated and widespread influence of the visual, not only in disseminating conspiracy ideation generally but at the juncture where it intersects with evangelical subcultures. 

The information landscape is currently saturated with visual content designed to sow distrust and disseminate disinformation. The tools of digital media creation have become powerful vectors for this spread. Examples abound, from the unsettling realism of DeepFake TikToks and sophisticated AI-generated imagery, which blur the lines between reality and fiction, to seemingly innocuous visuals—photographs, charts, or video clips—that are removed from their original, legitimate contexts and weaponized to promote baseless narratives.  The ease of production and viral distribution of this visual misinformation and disinformation means that educators must become acutely aware of the mechanisms by which visuals, more than just text, are influencing conspiracy ideation in novel and increasingly alarming ways.

To effectively combat this rising tide of visual disinformation, there is an urgent need for scholarly and practical intervention. Incorporating robust frameworks of visual literacy—the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in images—and the broader concept of metaliteracy—the comprehensive understanding of how to produce, evaluate, and share information across various media—can significantly enhance our collective ability to analyze and deconstruct these narratives. This approach would allow us to move beyond simply identifying a conspiracy and delve into how semiotics and imagery—the signs, symbols, and visual language employed—influence and solidify conspiracy beliefs. Addressing the visual dimension of this crisis represents a crucial step toward filling a significant, and currently dangerous, gap in current scholarship and public awareness, especially as it relates to communities where these visual narratives are most readily accepted.

This edited volume aims to bring together leading scholars from both conspiracy studies and visual literacy studies to examine visual messaging in conspiracy theory culture.

The book will be divided into the following sections:

  • Part 1: The participatory environment: Visuals and conspiracy engagement
  • Part 2: Hidden messages: The semiotics of visuals in conspiracy communities
  • Part 3: Critical visual thinking: Educating for conspiracy avoidance
  • Part 4: Nefarious Tropes: Historical intersections of visuals and conspiracy theories

Chapter topics could include:

  • Visual analysis of conspiracist aesthetics on social media
  • Mis/ mal/disinformation as political tools
  • Visual Literacy to inoculate against conspiracism
  • Generative artificial intelligence and conspiracy visual culture
  • Analyses of the attention economy, platform capitalism, or recommendation algorithms driving conspiracist content
  • “Do your own research” communities or movements
  • Historical analyses of the use of visuals to promote conspiracy theories
  • Cultural influences of conspiracy theories
  • Gender and sexuality studies and the “manosphere” or “trad” communities
  • Information overload & culture
  • Cognitive visual processing and conspiracy imagery

Logistics and Timeline

Proposals between 250 and 500 words, CVs, and brief author bios (50-80 words) should be

submitted to Stephanie Beene (sbeene@unm.edu) and Katie Greer

(greer@oakland.edu) by COB July 31, 2026.

The editors will review all submitted proposals and notify applicants by COB August 31, 2026.

Chapters should be approximately between 7,000-8,000 words, and first drafts of completed

manuscripts will be due COB March 31, 2027. The expected publication date will be in 2028. 

CFP: RBM Fall 2026 Issue

RBM: Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage is accepting proposals for its Fall (November) 2026 issue! We welcome articles related to special collections librarianship, archives, or museum practice.

Articles should be written in a formal style and range between 3,000 and 5,000 words. The submission deadline is June 20th. If interested in submitting, get in touch with the Editor, Diane Dias De Fazio (diane.diasdefazio@gmail.com). Guidelines for authors can be found here.

CFP: Printing History Themed Issue: Printing Across Borders

Printing History 39 will spotlight print practices that engage critically with the theme of borders and border crossings. The topic can be approached literally and/or conceptually. We are particularly interested in articles that challenge, upend, or otherwise interrogate notions of national identity, imagined communities, and borderlands. 

We invite interested researchers, professionals, and practitioners to share work engaged with the following topics:

  • Print production straddling geographic and/or figurative borders
  • Printed materials that resist xenophobia and challenge nationalist impulses 
  • Activist print cultures: posters, broadsides, zines, ephemera
  • Anticolonial, radical, revolutionary printing
  • Print as political and cultural critique
  • Print practices of underresearched and/or marginalized groups and individuals

In general, Printing History follows the Chicago Manual of Style. An APHA style guide and further information for contributors can be downloaded here. 

Submissions should be emailed to editor@printinghistory.org. If you have questions about this issue, the process, or the journal in general, do not hesitate to write. We do not solicit proposals for articles, but we are happy to discuss ideas and abstracts via email.

Submission deadline: June 12, 2026