Category: Call for Papers

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…

CFP: (Un)archived: Photography Against/Along the Grain of Absence in Global Asias

The Developing Room’s 8th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium on the History and Theory of Photography

Call for Papers

Submission deadline: January 15, 2024

Event date and venue: Friday, April 26, 2024, 12:30–6:30pm
19 University Place, New York University

The Developing Room, a photography working group at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis, announces its eighth graduate colloquium in collaboration with the positions: asia critique journal and New York University.

With a special focus on Global Asias, this year’s colloquium is organized by three PhD students, from Comparative Literature and Art History at Rutgers and East Asian Studies at NYU. We invite doctoral students—at any stage and from any field of study—whose research critically engages with photography in/as/and/against the archive around the issues of Asia and its diasporas. The colloquium will open with a keynote speech, and each graduate participant will give a 20 to 25-minute presentation and engage in a faculty-led panel discussion. Selected papers will also be considered for publication in positions politics, the online platform of positions.

The optical field of photography paradoxically leaves open as much as it forecloses the possibility of interpretive reimagination and speculation. It is this opening, the utterance that draws attention to what the photograph does not show, that lies at the heart of our concerns. With its line of inquiry oriented toward the discourses on historiography, futurities, temporalities, and contingencies in relation to photography, the “(Un)archived” colloquium turns to the archival absence and silence within, on the edge of, and/or in excess of the visual documents. In so doing, we seek to break with the ideology of empiricism and positivist demands of history, instead making room for what Saidiya Hartman refers to as “critical fabulation.” We call on our participants to consider, without limiting themselves to, the following questions:

– How do absences and silences register in photography?

– How do we attend to and articulate that which is invisible, yet present, in the photograph? How might we do this by turning to the archive?

– What are the instances where photography and the archive stand at odds with one another? What can we learn from such dissonances?

– How do certain photographs activate alternative ways of engaging with the archive?

– What kind of image emerges when we move away from the optical realm of photography? In other words, how does photography engage extra-visual senses?

– What is at stake when we embrace imagination and speculation as viable methods in the face of archival absences?

– How do artists, filmmakers, writers, and other cultural practitioners respond to such absences through photography?

– How do the material and archival conditions of certain photographs speak to or unsettle our notions of the (un)photographed?

To apply:

Please submit the following materials to this web form no later than January 15, 2024:

–  An abstract of 250 words or less

– a summary of your larger project or dissertation progress, 250 words or less

– A short bio of 150 words or less

– CV

CFP: 2024 NAGARA Annual Conference

At the 2024 NAGARA Annual Conference we believe your experiences, guidance, and stories are invaluable and worth sharing!

The Call for Session Proposals is ONGOING through January 12, 2024 and NAGARA seeks your insights, successes, and even failures! We invite submissions from presenters across ALL government levels, backgrounds, and life experiences. Come celebrate 40 years of NAGARA with us in Atlanta, Georgia next July!

1. BRAINSTORM Session Ideas Now

Proposals on all topics and subjects are desired and welcomed, but give extra consideration to some of these hot topics, which members have expressed a desire to learn more about:

  • Archives Community Outreach
  • Development of Policies, Standards, Workflows, and Tools
  • Diversity and Inclusion in Archives and Records Programs
  • Developing and Launching RIM Programs (working with a limiting budget and low maturity)
  • Electronic Records Preservation and Access
  • Intellectual Property (IP) and Copyright Concerns
  • Managing SharePoint and/or Shared Drives
  • Microsoft 365 (implementation, labels, policies, retention, etc.)
  • NARA’s Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI) or the Dept. of Defense Manual 8180.01 Requirements
  • Privacy and Ethics in Archives

2. CONNECT with Other Possible Presenters

We’ve created a special Google Spreadsheet as an informal tool to connect individuals who are seeking ideas and/or collaboration on session proposals. While it is not monitored by NAGARA or the 2024 Program Committee, nor is it part of the official submission process, we encourage you to check it out and begin connecting with other interested presenters. So much good can happen when you link up with others in our community! 

3. REVIEW the Session Submission Questions

Great proposal submissions inform by transferring knowledge, improve by offering actionable insights, inspire with innovative ideas, and involve the audience. Begin preparing your session proposal submission by reviewing the submission form and questions and consider the various range of session formats suggested that might make your presentation more fun and exciting.

Proposals will be evaluated on completeness, speaker expertise, tangible takeaways, relevance to NAGARA’s membership, and diversity of experience and thought. Presenters will also receive a 25% registration discount to help offset costs.

We encourage your submissions and look forward to seeing you shine at next year’s 2024 NAGARA Annual Conference!

Call for Proposals 2024. Archives for All: Enhancing Accessibility and Inclusivity

Society of Ohio Archivists Annual Meeting, May 2024

The Society of Ohio Archivists is planning a hybrid Annual Meeting on Thursday (virtual only) and Friday (hybrid), May 16-17, 2024. The in-person portion of the conference (Friday, May 17) will be held at Capital University in Bexley, Ohio.

This year, we welcome proposals that explore the theme of Archives for All: Enhancing Accessibility and Inclusivity. We encourage presentations that address any one (or more) of the definitions of accessible: 

ac·ces·si·ble (adjective) /əkˈsesəb(ə)l/

  • (of a place) able to be reached or entered;
  • Able to be easily obtained or used;
  • able to be reached, entered, or used by people who have a disability;
  • easily understood or appreciated.
  • (of a person, typically one in a position of authority or importance) friendly and easy to talk to; approachable.

Proposals may provide specific workflows as well as examples of

  • How we can make our physical spaces, collections, finding aids (and other descriptive tools) more accessible; or 
  • How we can make ourselves as archival professionals more accessible to our constituents; or 
  • How we can plan public programs and professional development opportunities with accessibility in mind.

Proposals will be evaluated on interest, creativity, relevance, diversity of content and speaker representation, and completeness of proposal. The Educational Program Committee also encourages proposals from students, new professionals, first-time presenters and attendees, individuals from related professions, as well as those from outside the state of Ohio. Deadline to submit proposals: Friday, January 26, 2024 at 5pm.

Proposals must include:

  • Session title and type;
  • Preference (if any) for an in-person or virtual session;
  • Abstract (250 words) describing the session/poster and how it will be of interest to SOA attendees, how it relates to this year’s theme, and how presenters will engage with participants;
  • Session description (150 words) for the program;
  • Contact information for the primary presenter and any other participants;
  • A/V or technology requirements; and
  • Any additional special needs.

The Program Committee encourages proposals of panel sessions, student and professional posters, as well as alternative formats such as a debate, fish bowl, lightning, mini-workshop, pecha kucha, world café, and other session formats that encourage interaction between presenters and attendees. See the proposal form for detailed information about alternative sessions.

Please complete the proposal form by January 26, 2024. A PDF proposal form can be found here.

Further meeting details will be posted on the meeting website as they develop. Follow the conversation online at #soaam24.

Questions? Please contact Sara Mouch or Michelle Sweetser, Co-Chairs, Society of Ohio Archivists Educational Programming Committee. 

Call for Chapters: DEIA in Faith-Based HigherEd Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs)

Chapter submissions are welcome to be published in the forthcoming Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in Faith-Based Higher Education Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs), an edited volume to be published by Litwin Books.

Book Description

In light of the Library and Information Science (LIS) field’s ongoing challenges with racial equity, there is a pressing need to disrupt traditional paradigms and reimagine the discipline through critical frameworks like Critical Race Theory (CRT). This reimagining aligns with “a commitment to social justice and the eradication of racial and all forms of oppression” (Leung & López-McKnight, 2021, p. 18). Building on existing DEIA scholarship to address significant gaps examining critical race theory and faith-based library work, this volume seeks to expand upon the current body of DEIA scholarship by specifically addressing the intersection of critical theories and frameworks with the operations of faith-based higher education institutions’ GLAMs.

Recent scholarship has underscored several critical areas for exploration:

  • The necessity for a dedicated forum where library workers in faith-based higher education can voice their experiences and insights.
  • The tension between the implicit religious teachings at these institutions and their direct or indirect perpetuation of racial, gender, and sexual prejudices and inequalities.
  • The scarcity of effective decolonization initiatives within faith-based institutions, particularly those with legacies of Black and Indigenous subjugation.

Aim of the Volume

This anthology aims to consolidate contributions from LIS scholars, practitioners, and organizations to critically assess the prevalence of white supremacy within LIS and propose strategies to dismantle racial oppression and inequalities within the field.

Call for Contributions

We invite submissions from professionals associated with GLAMs in faith-based higher education contexts. We are looking for:

  • Empirical research
  • Narrative accounts
  • Practitioner-developed curricula
  • Creative works that address DEIA efforts and their impact within LIS environments

Topics of Interest

We welcome proposals that are theoretically informed and empirically grounded, including but not limited to:

  • DEIA initiatives and their outcomes in GLAM settings
  • Experiences with DEIA assessment and implementation
  • Creation and impact of DEIA statements, committees, or strategic plans
  • Audits of DEIA in collections, facilities, and digital spaces
  • Roles and reflections on DEIA-specific positions
  • Projections for the future of DEIA in LIS GLAMs
  • Other relevant themes

Collaborative Peer Feedback Process

In alignment with our dedication to collective scholarship, this project will incorporate a structured peer feedback mechanism. Contributors will participate in a transparent, community-driven review, providing critical yet supportive feedback on each other’s chapters, enriching the academic rigor and cohesion of the volume.

Submission Guidelines

  • Research articles and narrative accounts should be between 6,000 to 9,000 words.
  • Case studies, reflective essays, and creative contributions may be shorter.
  • All submissions must adhere to the Library Juice Press Author Guidelines.

Abstract Submission

Submit a 250-500 word abstract outlining your proposed chapter by January 22, 2024

Important Dates

  • Proposal Submission Deadline: January 22, 2024
  • Acceptance Notification: February 19, 2024
  • Full Chapter Submission Due: July 22, 2024
  • Anticipated Publication: Spring 2025

Contact and Submission

Questions and completed proposals should be directed to the co-editors at editorsdeiaglams@gmail.com. Proposals can be submitted via the provided Google Form link: https://forms.gle/m3HCcnoRPTbsktyk7

We encourage you to distribute this call for papers within your professional networks.

Co-Editors

V. Dozier, Associate Professor and Education Librarian, University of San Diego

Martha Adkins, Associate Professor and Research and Instruction Librarian, University of San Diego

CFP: Southern Cultures “Home”

Home (Fall 2024)
Guest Editors: Rhon Manigault-Bryant and Blair LM Kelley
Deadline for Submissions: February 12, 2024 

Southern Cultures encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Home, to be published Fall 2024. This issue, the capstone to the journal’s thirtieth anniversary, will explore home as a place that many of us seek, a place that is always “there,” or a place to which we may wish to return. We will accept submissions through February 12, 2024.

Contemporary works of literature, anthropology, religious studies, geography, sociology, and history have readily explored the ways that notions of home are laid bare in the archives, records, wills, oral histories, Bibles, tall tales, and community narratives. This work is complicated for people of the American South, a region where notions of home are never simple and where, for some, the red clay of home is always intermingled with the blood of our ancestors.

What is the meaning of home? What image does “home” evoke: A house? A backyard? A tree? A place of worship? Mountains? Fields? Countryside? Cityscape? Temporary Shelter? A photograph? A text? A graveyard? An ancestor? Trauma? Sanctuary? Nostalgia? Return?

Home holds dualities and contradictions: celebration and lament; threat and safety; disaster and sanctuary; stability and mobility; ownership (heirs’ property) and displacement (gentrification, climate catastrophes); rootedness and migration; steadiness and instability; happy reunions and complicated returns.

We are seeking critical reflections of home that invoke the necessity of grounding in place, understanding that while the meanings of home are myriad (and both universal and discrete), the word home, as a concept, invokes something for everyone. What does home mean for a particular community in a particular place? How do we understand our home in relation, and perhaps opposition, to communities near and far? How have understandings of home changed sociohistorically, amid globalization, climate catastrophe, and shifting geographies? What is it to make a home? What is it to be unhoused/homeless/landless? How have our conceptions of home shifted in light of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Submissions can explore any topic or idea related to the theme, and we welcome investigations of the region in the forms Southern Cultures publishes: scholarly articles, memoir (first-person or collective), interviews, surveys, photo and art essays, and shorter feature essays.

Possible topics and questions to examine might include (but are not limited to):

  • Interrogations of genealogy
  • Intersections of self, family, and geography
  • Explorations of the power of collective return
  • Questions of land holding, land rites (rights), and land ownership
  • The complications of home in the afterlives of slavery, lynching, racial massacres, segregation, and violence/hate crimes against religious and ethnic groups
  • Surprising intersections of home in the past and present
  • The unexpected elements that invoke home
  • The pageantry of homecoming and homegoing
  • Street performance, grandeur, and fashion as remembrances of home

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.

Call for Student Proposals: Archives and The Environment: Land, Colonialism, and the Climate Crisis

The student chapter of the Association of Canadian Archivists at the University of British Columbia (ACA@UBC) invites any interested archival or information studies students from all universities around the world to participate in its 15th annual Conference, which will be held on February 16, 2024 (PT). The 2024 Conference is titled “Archives and the Environment: Land, Colonialism, and the Climate Crisis” and will consider presentations related to this theme.

Student presentations will take the form of lightning talks: you will present for approximately 10 minutes and then answer questions. The total amount of time for both the presentation and Q&A should take around 20 minutes. This year, student presentations have four slots and will take place from 9:40 AM to 10:20 AM (PT) and 2:35 PM to 3:15 PM (PT).

Your work does not have to be a completed project. It could be a class project, an ongoing project, or an idea for a future project. You could also talk about an experience you’ve had as an archives or information studies student.

This is a great opportunity to share your work, discuss with others, and get some presentation experience! We are also offering an honorarium to thank you for your time in preparing and presenting.

If you are interested in participating, please submit your proposal to aca [dot] slais [at] gmail [dot] com by December 11, 2023.

We will send you an email to let you know whether your application has been selected by January 1st, 2024.

We welcome proposals in all formats, but your submission must include:

  • The title of your presentation and full name(s) of contributor(s);
  • An introduction to your work/idea and your motivation for it;
  • A brief explanation of how your proposal is related to the theme of the conference.

The written portion of your proposal should be at least 150 words but no more than 500 words.

We look forward to receiving your submissions! 

About the Conference

The Association of Canadian Archivists Student Chapter at the University of British Columbia (ACA@UBC) is pleased to present its 15th annual conference—Archives and the Environment: Land, Colonialism, and the Climate Crisis. This event will be held virtually on Zoom on Friday, February 16th, 2024, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM (PST).

As an online event, attendees and presenters will join this gathering from many different places around the world. We wish to expressly acknowledge that the University of British Columbia School of Information is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. We are grateful to study and host our conference on this beautiful land.

The 15th annual ACA@UBC Conference considers the relationship between the environment and the archival profession at large. Reflecting on the “inextricable relationship between archivy and the environment” (Winn), the Conference asks: what is the responsibility of the archivist in a time where the climate crisis presses upon the sustainable reality of all forms of cultural heritage? How does land, as and with archival records, play into reparative justice for historical brutalities dealt by colonialism and capitalism? This virtual conference brings together students, scholars, and practitioners whose work explores the reciprocal relationship between archival practice and the changing conditions of the land and environment. Through virtual discussions and presentations, the ACA@UBC Conference will explore archival and recordkeeping practices amidst rapid climate change, the capacity of the land as record, and archival applications informed by the impacts of colonialism and capitalism upon the environment.

CFP: New Zealand Oral History Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu: Working Together

The National Oral History Association of New Zealand invites proposals for presentations for its 2024 biennial conference to be held 15-17 November 2024 in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Successful oral histories are built upon creative working relationships between interviewers and interviewees. The 2024 conference encourages discussion about ‘working together’ and the stories people tell, to whom, when, and why. Two key themes will be explored. Kōrero mai, or ‘speak to me’, focuses on relationship building in oral history. It reflects upon questions of trust and reciprocity that underpin oral history work and how these relationships may shape the stories people tell.

Kōrero atu, or ‘speak out’, considers the responsibilities interviewers and interviewees face both during and after the interview. This includes the obligations interviewees may feel to their iwi, hapū, whānau, or community, how these relationships affect the stories they tell (or don’t tell), and the restrictions they place on the use and archiving of interviews. It also includes how oral historians honour the stories people share as we move the project from interviewing to archiving, analysis, and publication in print or in other forms.

We invite you to submit proposals on relevant topics. These may include, but are not limited to:
· Working in partnership with communities and storytellers, sharing authority
· Upholding te mana raraunga (Māori intellectual property) in oral history research
· Oral history as testimony in activism and advocacy: the power of the voice to enact change
· Ethical archiving – where and how to store oral histories; innovative approaches to archiving
· Obligations to communities and to each other in oral history research
· Publishing oral histories and oral history research online
· Working with the Privacy Act
· Using oral history in the classroom
· Negotiating ethical issues that arise when undertaking oral history research

The conference also invites presentations on recent oral history projects, which do not need to address the conference themes. Proposals for panel discussions or presentations are welcome.

Please submit your abstract to nohanz2024@gmail.com by 31 March 2024.

Proposals should include a paper title, abstract of no more than 200 words, presentation style (individual paper or panel), name and affiliation (if applicable) of presenter/s, and contact details.

Contact Information
Cheryl Ware 
Contact Email: c.ware@auckland.ac.nz