RADIO AND AUDIO MEDIA AREA, POPULAR CULTURE AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
March 27-30, 2024, CHICAGO
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: NOVEMBER 30, 2023
We invite papers and presentations on all aspects of radio and audio media, including but not limited to: radio and audio media history; radio and audio media programs and content (music, drama, talk, news, public affairs, features, interviews, sports, college, religious, ethnic, community, low-power, pirate, etc.); podcasting (news, public affairs, commentary, drama, branded content); new audio media (internet radio, streaming audio, etc.); audio social media (Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Reddit Talk, etc.); radio literature studies; media representations of radio and audio media; rhetorical research; legal and regulatory policy; economics of radio and audio media; and radio and audio media technology. We welcome U.S., international, or comparative works and media presentations. We are catholic regarding method, theory, or approach. Papers or presentations should be planned for no more than fifteen minutes. We encourage you to emphasize audience involvement and elicit stimulating questions and discussion.
Recent papers have focused on authorship and performance in BBC radio drama (“Sir Lenny Henry & BBC Radio”), actual play podcasts )“Remediating Narrative Experience: The Symbolic Work of Actual Play Podcasts”), and Jordan Peele’s Quiet Part Loud (“The Viral Orality of Hate: Right- Wing Radio in Quiet Part Loud”).
Paper or presentation proposals must include an abstract of 200 words and paper or presentation title, and author’s institutional affiliation and email address. We do not accept undergraduate student submissions. Submit your paper or presentation proposal to: https://www.aievolution.com/pcaaca/
The proposal will include an abstract of 200 words and paper or presentation title, institutional affiliation, and email address. In order to submit a paper or presentation proposal, your PCA membership must be valid for 2023-2024.
Address paper or presentation proposals or inquiries via email to: Matthew Killmeier, PCA/ACA Radio and Audio Media Area Chair, Dept. of Communication and Theatre, Auburn University at Montgomery, mkillmei@aum.edu 334-244-3950 (work) 207-317-7693 (mobile).
November 30, 2023 Deadline for Paper Proposals
December 15, 2023 Travel Grant Applications Due
December 31, 2023 Early Bird Registration Ends for Presenters
January 31, 2024 Regular Registration Ends for Presenters
February 10, 2024 Late Registration Ends for Presenters
*Presenters not registered by Feb. 10 will be dropped from the program.
International Conference Riga, Latvia October 29-31, 2024
Approaching its 100 th anniversary, the Archives of Latvian Folklore (1924), in close cooperation with the SIEF Working Group on Archives and the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property, invites contributions for an international conference addressing a diverse range of issues related to present and future of the archives of traditional culture. The centenary is, of course, a good reason to look back and take stock of what has been done, to understand how the histories of archiving have developed in different countries. But what we would like to do even more at this conference is to assess current situations and to look ahead, say, to the next 10 years.
What is the state of play in archiving and maintaining archives of intangible cultural heritage (in Europe and elsewhere)? What could the near future of tradition archives look like? What can we expect with certainty? What major research and infrastructure projects are planned in the archives? Do the next few years look optimistic for individual archives as well as their networks, or the other way around? What challenges lie ahead of us (legal, ethical, technological, of values)? What new archiving solutions can be offered? What can we learn from the past?
The conference will deal broadly with retrospective and prospective dimensions of archives of folklore, ethnology, and ethnography, encompassing both historical documentation and documentation of living traditions practiced today. We invite folklorists, archivists and researchers from other relevant disciplines to share their studies and critical reflections by submitting paper proposals that would fit into the following thematic sections, all concerning the archives of traditional culture: ● Archives’ history lessons ● International contexts and cooperation ● Current global challenges, including geopolitical and climatic fluctuations ● Archives’ legal issues and current developments, including intellectual property issues and ethics in a digital landscape ● Archival replenishment strategies (cultural memory perspectives and beyond); new structuring and categories; archiving for documentation of ICH projects ● Information technology challenges, including social media and AI; interactivity within digital archives ● Engaging society; community driven / open-source archives; collaboration between archives and community groups; proactively engaging in field research and community projects, especially with under-represented groups and communities ● Repatriation
Please send your proposals by January 31, 2024 to the e-mail address lfk@lulfmi.lv. Submissions should include the name and affiliation of the participant, the paper title and an abstract (up to 300 words).
The iPRES Conference brings together experts, practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in the field of digital preservation to share their knowledge, experiences, and innovations. Save the dates, mark your calendars, and join us in Ghent for iPRES 2024.
Together, let’s unlock the past, present and future of digital preservation!
iPRES is the premier international conference on digital preservation, offering a unique platform for the global digital preservation community to:
present groundbreaking research and innovative projects;
share practical experiences and best practices;
discuss emerging trends and challenges;
collaborate on future directions and solutions.
iPRES 2024 has three themes to guide the discussions, workshops and presentations throughout the conference:
From document to data: Across sectors from audiovisual preservation, document management and archiving, digitisation in memory institutions to web archiving, a shift is happening from document to data. This shift prompts some fundamental research questions, e.g. about semantic interoperability over time. What are the research opportunities in preserved data? In an Open Science environment, expectations are for peers to be able to access and process existing data seamlessly… what is needed to bridge generations of researchers with preserved data and documents?
Scaling up: The pioneers of the earliest digitisation & preservation projects are no longer around… Have the choices proven to be sustainable? Are migrations or conversions needed? Does the actual documentation as preserved with the artefacts prove useful? Can the preservation work scale up with influx of new containers and maintenance of existing containers? Can we do that within the boundaries of climate change, budget restrictions and any number of challenges to our institutions? What future tools and technologies do we need? What can AI bring to our mission?
Start 2 preserve: Keynote speakers at iPRES 2022 in Glasgow and 2023 in Illinois sparked a conversation about the responsibilities around community archiving and lowering the barriers to digital preservation. In fact, it’s never too late to start and never too late to learn new things. The iPRES conference is a great place to share your learning curve, to update and share learning materials and to facilitate the learning of colleagues.
Call for Contributions
All contributions to the programme are reviewed by the programme committee, in one of two forms of submission:
Papers: Present original research findings, case studies/practical approaches, or theoretical advances in digital preservation in an academic paper between 2500 and 7500 words.
Abstracts: All other contributions can be submitted with a textual description of 200 to 350 words and filling out a questionnaire specific to the format.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academic Libraries
The Journal of Academic Librarianship is gathering manuscripts for a special virtual issue highlighting library and information science research about equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives, practices, or programs at college and university libraries. To be considered, manuscripts must focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (EDI) within the academic library.
Guest editors:
Prof. Lauren Geiger Mississippi State University Libraries
Prof. Carrie Mastley Mississippi State University Libraries
Special issue information:
Journal of Academic Librarianship Virtual Special Issue: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academic Libraries
The Journal of Academic Librarianship is gathering manuscripts for a special virtual issue highlighting library and information science research about equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives, practices, or programs at college and university libraries. To be considered, manuscripts must focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (EDI) within the academic library; topics of of interest include, but are not limited to:
Professional Development
Organizational Learning
Archives and Special Collections
Information Literacy & Collection Development
Reference & Instruction Services
Technical Services
Library Initiatives & Policies
Manuscript submission information:
We are excited to announce that Lauren Geiger and Carrie Mastley will be guest editors for this special issue.
Lauren Geiger has four years of experience working in metadata and digital archiving at Mississippi State University. Her research interests are on EDI initiatives, specifically reparative descriptions, and accessibility in metadata, and documentation.
Carrie Mastley has five years of experience working as an archivist at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on archival instruction, primarily in relation to archival literacy skills, and EDI work within the scope of GLAM institutions.
This call is for full-length articles to be considered as part of an online, special issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship. A guide for authors is available here to assist in the preparation of your manuscript.
Papers will be accepted for review on a rolling basis, but priority will be given to those submitted by April 01, 2024. Submissions can be made here.
Please send any questions to special issue editor, Bernd Becker (bernd.becker@sjsu.edu).
Submit to Year Two of Intergenerational Conversations This year, the American Archivist Reviews Portal initiated its new series, Intergenerational Conversations, to foster an ongoing dialogue between new voices in the archives profession and authors whose work shaped the literature years ago. The second year will revisit select SAA presidential addresses. Editors Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke are actively seeking authors to contribute to the second year of the series. To apply, fill out this Google form by November 22. Reach out to reviewseditor@archivists.org with any questions.
The last three years have seen substantial changes in the world—a global pandemic, calls for social justice, climate change, economic uncertainty, and political division. Changes that are often beyond our control but affect our work and work life. We must consider the lasting impact of these changes—and ones still to come—as we look to the future of our profession.
Rather than offer a theme to focus the conference around, the Program Committee seeks a multitude of opinions and perspectives from a wide variety of regions and institutions about the state of the field and its future. For those looking for somewhere to start, the Program Committee suggests thinking about the following concepts:
Artificial intelligence and its impacts and opportunities
The future of archival work
Fundraising
Community building and engagement
Public programming and exhibits
Supporting professional growth and leadership
Embedding the archives mindset into the DNA of your organization
Navigating political uncertainty
We are also open to proposals on other topics related to archives and archival work.
Proposal Evaluation
The Program Committee invites submissions for 60–75 minute sessions (live and/or hybrid) and poster presentations. This year, we are introducing one new proposal format and one new session format, which are described below. Proposals are welcome on any aspect of archives, records, and information management—local, state or territorial, national, and international—especially their intersections with other professions and domains. Each proposal will be evaluated on its completeness and the strength of the 150-word abstract. Proposals should incorporate one or more of the following:
Statement of potential impact on archives, records, and information management;
Diversity of presenters, including but not limited to racial diversity, gender diversity, experiential or professional diversity, institutional diversity, diversity of ability, and/or geographic diversity;
Relevance of the topic for SAA members and other interested attendees; and/or
A plan for, or description of, how the session will incorporate interaction and engagement with session attendees.
We expect program sessions to reflect SAA’s commitments to a diverse and inclusive program and profession. Each session should include individuals and/or organizations with varied personal and professional experiences, perspectives, and identities. Please indicate—in a summative way—how your proposal reflects individual, organizational, or geographic diversity and/or supports the development, inclusion, and stewardship of a diverse profession or cultural record. This could include positionality statements that reflect on the unique identities of the panelists in relation to the work they will discuss, a recognition of dominant positionality inherent in your identity or organization, or the ways in which privilege and power manifest in the session and how you will use or respond to it.
Session Formats
The Program Committee encourages submission of proposals that may include, but are not limited to, the following formats:
NEW in 2024!Bring Your Own Breakfast (BYOB). To foster more connection for in-person attendees, we are introducing “Bring Your Own Breakfast” sessions in the morning, before the convening of the main conference. These informal sessions are an opportunity to gather archivists interested in similar topics, particularly emerging areas (like Artificial Intelligence) for connection and collaboration. By proposing a BYOB session, you are committing to facilitating discussion amongst attendees. Similar proposals may be combined.
NEW in 2024! Mix and Match. “Mix and Match” is a new proposal format that will allow individuals to propose an individual talk, rather than a full session. We hope this option will encourage individuals who have not previously submitted a proposal to do so and to provide an opportunity to connect archivists who might not have otherwise met one another. We will accept proposals for 5 or 20-minute presentations.
Lightning Talks. Session consisting of eight to ten lively and informative 5-minute talks. The session chair secures commitments from speakers and compiles all presentation slides into one single presentation to ensure timely speaker transitions.
Panel Presentation. Session consisting of a panel of three to five individuals discussing or presenting theories or perspectives on a given topic. Session may consist of a series of prepared presentations or a moderated discussion, and should include time for audience feedback. If giving prepared presentations, presentation titles should be provided and will be printed in the program. A moderator is required (this role may be performed by the chair); a commentator is optional.
Poster Presentation. Report in which information is summarized using brief written statements and graphic materials, such as photographs, charts, graphs, and/or diagrams mounted on poster board (if in person) or in a PDF document (if virtual). Presenters will be assigned a specific time at which they must be with their poster to discuss it with attendees, if presenting in-person.
Alternative Format. Don’t feel confined by the prescribed formats—suggest an alternative or create your own! Alternative format sessions may take a variety of forms. Examples include world café and fishbowl discussions. Propose a moderated debate offering opposing points of view, or an “experiential” format involving simulation, role play, or games to convey key principles and learning objectives. We welcome your creative ideas about how your topic might best be addressed! Proposals in this category must: 1) specify the format and session facilitator and 2) describe briefly how the format will enhance the presentation of the material. You may suggest up to four presenters for the session.
Your format choice will not affect the Program Committee’s decision. The Committee may, however, recommend that the proposed format be changed if it believes that a different format may better serve the session’s learning objectives or desired audience.
Submit Proposal
Proposals for the 2024 Annual Meeting are due on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. CT. The Program Committee will not consider proposals received after the deadline.
Submission form will be available by November 20, 2023.
The 2024 Program Committee has created a Google spreadsheet to be used as an informal tool to connect individuals who are seeking ideas and/or collaboration on session proposals for the 2024 Annual Meeting. It is not monitored by SAA or the Program Committee and is not part of the official submission process.
Questions? Contact the Conference Office at conference@archivists.org.
The Society of California Archivists (SCA) invites submissions of session proposals for our second all-virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) which will be held from April 15-19, 2024.
The Program Committee welcomes proposals, particularly those based on next year’s theme of Pivoting: Responding to Changes in the Archives. The theme can be broadly interpreted to address how we respond to changes in the field, in the workplace, or how personal pivots affect our careers. We aim to include a broad and diverse range of sessions and topics including, but not limited to:
Career transitions
Disaster planning and recovery
Changes in institutional partnerships
Space renovations
Moving physical collections
Migrating digital collections
Pandemic-specific pivots
Institutional reorganizations
New approaches to processing/collection management
Please note that proposals do not have to fit into the theme to be included. Other aspects of archival practice and research are also welcomed.
First-time presenters, current graduate students, early-career professionals, solo archivists, community members, and other individuals who work with archival materials in less traditional or unconventional roles are encouraged to submit a proposal. We welcome proposals from archivists and memory workers at all stages of their career.
Or if you have a session topic in mind and want to reach out to possible co-presenters, feel free to use thisAGM Session Idea Sheet to help make connections.
The deadline for proposals is Monday, December 4, 2023 (11:59p PT).
We look forward to your proposals and thanks for helping us make the 2024 AGM a successful one!
2024 Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting — Spokane, WA
May 8 – 10, 2024
Seeking Balance: Sustainability and Adaptation
Northwest Archivists’ 2024 Annual Meeting will be held in Spokane, Washington, from May 8-10. In 2024, the Spokane community will observe and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Expo ‘74, Spokane’s World’s Fair, the first such exposition to focus on the environment. Taking inspiration from the Fair, our theme is Seeking Balance: Sustainability and Adaptation. This theme invites consideration of how issues related to the environment, sustainability and adaptation intersect with archives and allied professions. While we seek balance, we are frequently required to adapt and react to changing circumstances. We must also be responsive to the changing climate, to different resource allocations, to new staffing models, and much, much more.
Call For Proposals:
Session proposals for the NWA 2024 Annual Meeting are due on Friday, December 8 by 11:59pm Pacific Time. Acceptances will be communicated to presenters in January 2024. Submission Form. See the full Call for Proposals HERE
Call for Papers Date: September 18, 2023 – November 28, 2023 Location: Finland
The new history of experience seeks to comprehend the complex, multidimensional relationships between history and experience. As a burgeoning field of study, it is self-reflective and dynamic, with scholars constantly refining their approaches, and indeed reassessing the notion of experience itself. To develop the history of experience into a robust historical approach, scholars continually ask probing questions regarding sources, concepts, methods, and methodologies. In this vein, the organisers of the sixth annual HEX conference have chosen to interrogate the concepts of memory and temporality as modes of experience. This thematic focus aims to encourage scholars to reflect on experience beyond its external traces, and to mine the more elusive spheres of the internal, the cognitive, and the unconscious. We are looking for panels and papers that consider how, or even if, memory and temporality are complicit in processes of experiencing; that is, how memory and temporality might influence, nurture, define, or disrupt individual and group experiences.
This theme will provoke some important and challenging questions, for example:
how might experience influence ephemeral concepts such as memory and temporality?
how might structures and understandings of time and memory shape experience?
how does experience, or remembered experience, change over time and what conditions impact on the changes?
how might one experience memory and temporality (materially, visually, physically, psychologically, emotionally, collectively, individually, institutionally – the list could go on) and what evidence can historians effectively use to capture this?
what is the impact of situated contexts on what is remembered (or deemed worth remembering)?
what role does historical consciousness have in selective memory, challenges to memory or experiences of the past?
how might temporality affect ways of remembering and the experience of what is remembered (including forgetfulness, situated trauma, silence, repression, and lying or truth telling)?
what methodologies are best suited to exploring the intersection of experience, memory, and temporality?
Panel Proposals and Individual Paper Proposals
The organisers invite scholars working both within the history of experiences (ancient, mediaeval, modern, from all regions of the world) to submit proposals. Contributions from disciplines other than history are warmly welcome, as long as they take a view on historical experience. We anticipate that a diversity of perspectives will be most effective in broadening our current conceptions of experience, gaining insight into the broader processes that impact it and expanding the pool of source materials deemed effective in the pursuit of historical experience. We encourage proposals for both coherent panels comprising three to four papers, or individual paper proposals.
Please submit your proposal by 28 November 2023via this link according to the following instructions. All proposals MUST address the concept of experience in addition to memory and/or temporality. The conference will take place in person only.
For complete panels, send a joint 400-word abstract, together with brief bios and paper titles for each proposed speaker.
For individual papers, send a 250-word abstract together with a brief bio.
Online Video Poster Competition
We also invite submissions for an online video poster session and competition. We especially encourage submissions from doctoral students and early career researchers who cannot make it to Finland but who would like both to share their ideas and to discuss them with scholars working in the field. As per the conference theme, posters must directly engage with the concept of experience along with memory and/or temporality. The posters will be strictly 5 minutes maximum in length. Posters that fit the criteria will be uploaded to the HEX website before the conference where an associated discussion board will be available for commentary and critical discussion. A selection of posters will be chosen by a committee for a hybrid screening and discussion session at the conference. €To participate in the poster video competition, please send an email to hexconference@tuni.fi. We will send you detailed information on how to make and submit the video. The deadline for video posters is 1 February 2024.
A one-day symposium sponsored by Historic Deerfield, and the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College
Date: Saturday, March 9, 2024
CFP Deadline: December 11, 2023
Location: Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA
This symposium will explore the textual, visual, and material cultures of queer New England from the time of European settlement to the present. Conceptions of sex, gender, and sexuality changed dramatically from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, and scholars continue to assess the consequences of those changes for diverse historical subjects. Ideas about sex operated in tandem with ideas about race and class and these perceptions shaped the ways some New Englanders created queer spaces and places by blurring normative boundaries. The symposium will address echoes of queerness where it was expressed explicitly and implicitly and consider the implications of locating queer pasts among more traditional narratives of America’s history, art, literature, and built environment.
We invite paper proposals that evaluate some of the terminological and methodological challenges inherent in scholarly approaches to determining queer expressions in the past. Is it fruitful to question the apparent shift from conceiving of same-sex eroticism as based in acts as opposed to individual identities? What comprised queerness in visual and literary sources, and how did that differ from its resonance in design, architecture, and social spaces? How did New Englanders’ race, class, ethnicity, or disability factor into conceptions and expressions of queerness? How did New Englanders leverage notions of queerness both to restrict and to amplify individuals’ self-expression? How should twenty-first-century museums and historical sites interpret queer pasts for public audiences?
The symposium aims to attract scholars from various disciplines and those working in public-facing cultural organizations who are undertaking work on topics as varied as the New England resonances of particular queer identities (such as indigenous two-spirit people), intersections between queer artists, authors, and architects and their creative work (such as same-sex relationships and the Colonial Revival), and ways in which New Englanders imbued landscapes and social spaces with queer meanings (as in queer resort towns).
Papers should be theoretical or analytical in nature rather than descriptive and should be approximately 20 minutes long. All proposals will be peer-reviewed. Speakers invited to present papers will receive overnight accommodation and are expected to participate fully in the in-person symposium program on site.
Please submit via email a 250-word proposal and a two-page c.v. to Erika Gasser egasser@historic-deerfield.org and Martha McNamara mmcnamar@wellesley.edu. Proposals should include the title of the paper and the presenter’s name. The deadline for submissions is December 11, 2023.
Publishing in the Archives Profession 