Category: Call for Presentations

CFP: Borders and Sustainability: Human and Natural Resources across Time and Space (Seminar Series 2026–2027)

Call for Papers: Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027

Following the success of the current edition, the Entangled Histories Seminar Series invites abstracts for its 2026–2027 cycle: 

“Borders and Sustainability: Human and Natural Resources across Time and Space.”

This edition explores sustainability not as an exclusively environmental concern but as a multifaceted concept that intersects with borders across diverse cultural, material, and ecological contexts. 

The series adopts a diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective, spanning from prehistory to the contemporary world.

Sustainability and Borders: A Broad Perspective. We seek to investigate sustainability in its multiple dimensions:

  • Material sustainability: recycling of resources (manuscripts, architectural structures, waste, and landscapes).
  • Ecological sustainability: relationships between humans, animals, and environments; balance between preservation and exploitation.
  • Social, linguistic, and cultural sustainability: transmission of knowledge, endangered languages, healing practices, migration, and community resilience.
  • Symbolic sustainability: representations of ecological limits, hybrid beings, and cultural imaginaries of nature and borders.

Conceptual Framework At the heart of the series lies the concept of borders, understood as dynamic thresholds that shape access to resources and regulate interactions. Borders are not only physical or political: they can be ecological, cultural, social, linguistic, political and material. While we encourage long-term temporalities and global spatial entanglements, we also offer the elements (earth, water, air, fire, ether, wood, etc.) as a possible heuristic framework to explore these dimensions across different historical strata.

Topics of Interest: We encourage contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to:

  • Archaeology and Prehistory: Resource use, landscapes, indigenous practices, and environmental interactions over time.
  • Medieval Studies, Philology, and Manuscript Cultures: Material sustainability of manuscripts, palimpsests, intellectual ecologies, literatures and languages, and the transmission of knowledge.
  • Art History and Visual Culture: Representations of nature, landscapes, borders, and material practices across different periods.
  • Anthropology and Folklore: Vernacular ecological knowledge, oral traditions, liminal beings, and environmental imaginaries.
  • History of Science and Medicine: Healing practices, scientific knowledge, and environmental understanding across cultures.
  • Environmental Humanities and Ecology: Human–non-human relations, ecosystems, climate, and resilience.
  • History of Economy, Trade, and Food Systems: Circulation of resources, subsistence, scarcity, and sustainability practices.
  • Architecture and Infrastructure Studies: Built environments, water and soil management, roads, and material borders.
  • Geography, Cartography, and Media Studies: Spatial representation, mapping, and communication of environmental knowledge across borders.

 High-Impact Publication Opportunity: A selection of the most significant contributions will be published in a dedicated edited volume or a special issue with a leading international publisher (past collaborations and ongoing projects include prestigious venues such as Brill, De Gruyter, and Routledge). This ensures that the research presented reaches a global audience of specialists.

Submission Guidelines

  • Format: Online seminar (approximately 30-minute talk + discussion).
  • Schedule: October 2026 – Summer 2027.
  • Required: Title, Abstract (250–300 words), Short Bio (100–150 words), Affiliation, email address, and preferred months of availability.
  • Deadline: 31 August 2026.
  • Send to: entangledhistories.seminars@outlook.com.

Contact Information

Organized by:

  • Dr. Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi (Üsküdar University)
  • Dr. Elisa Ramazzina (University of Insubria)

Under the patronage of: The Faculty of Communication and the Master’s Programme in Media and Cultural Studies at Üsküdar University.

Contact Email

entangledhistories.seminars@outlook.com

URL

https://sites.google.com/view/entangledhistories/home

CFP: 2026 Dress and Body Association Conference

2026 Dress and Body Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s seventh annual conference, which will be held on November 7-8, 2026. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.

Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.

Opening the Archives of Dress and the Body

This year’s theme focuses on the many types of archives that inspire learning and making such as libraries, museums, corporate archives, personal wardrobes, costume shops, photo albums, and diaries. It also invites reflection on histories of scholarship and activism. How do we know what we know about dress and the body?

Proposals on any topic related to dress and the body will be considered, but abstracts related to this year’s theme are most likely to be accepted. Topics might include:

  • Well-known and little-known collections
  • Historical costumes as inspiration for new designs
  • Interacting with physical artifacts in the era of AI
  • Stories that are told (and not told) by archives
  • Addressing biases and privilege in archives
  • Decolonizing archives (theories, methods, practices, activism)
  • The science of historical colors and materials
  • Old and new technologies for imaging the body
  • The ethics of displaying bodies and personal artifacts
  • What is ‘archival fashion’ and who buys and wears it?
  • Scholarship and activism informed by archival discoveries
  • Recreating historical moments/eras in media (films, TV, games, and literature)
  • Practices of the archive/archiving

Both beginning and advanced scholars are welcome. Abstracts should be 200-300 words. Presenters do not need to submit a paper before the conference. Depending on the number of submissions and the time zones of presenters, each person should have approximately 20 minutes to speak with additional time for discussion.

Although we welcome scholars, educators, artists, designers, and activists from any country, the language of the conference will be English. We will consider a group of presentations in another language if there is sufficient interest.

Abstracts must be written in English and should be drawn from your own, original work. We ask that presenters not simply recycle presentations from classes or other conferences. Pre-recorded presentations are allowed, but presenters must join the Zoom meeting to hear other speakers and participate in the discussion in real time.

Please submit your abstract by July 15, 2026. All submissions will be read by at least two reviewers in a single-blind review process. If there is no extension on the deadline, authors can expect letters of acceptance by mid- to late-August. (Given the challenging times we are living in, please be patient with any delays… we are doing our best.)

To submit an abstract, go to this link: https://forms.gle/uoz3ohs9bG21pQDFA

Curious about past conferences? Check out our programs for 2020-2024 on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@dress_and_body_association.

Whether you choose to submit an abstract or not, you’re welcome to attend the conference!

There is no charge. Just email us (dress.body.assoc@gmail.com) to join our Google Group and stay informed.

The Dress and Body Association is registered as a non-profit organization (501(c)(3)) in the state of Indiana (United States).

Dress & Body Association | dress.body.assoc@gmail.com

Contact Email

dress.body.assoc@gmail.com

URL

https://forms.gle/uoz3ohs9bG21pQDFA

CFP: Advancing Foundation Archives 2026

The Advancing Foundation Archives (AFA) 2026 organizing committee invites proposals for lightning talks at the group’s third conference. AFA 2026 will take place at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York City on October 21 & 22, 2026. Registration will open in the coming months with no cost to attendees.  

About the Conference 

Philanthropy archives hold an essential record of how individuals and communities organize, fund, and sustain efforts to address society’s most pressing issues. These archives and knowledge systems are facing unique challenges from AI disruption to leadership transitions to sunsetting trends as philanthropies grapple with changing local and global conditions.   

The AFA conference will bring together archives and philanthropy professionals to navigate these challenges, discuss solutions, and shape the future of how foundations manage and preserve their records and share the knowledge in their archives.  

Theme for lightning talks 

The history of a philanthropy is found in its records – the documents, data, and institutional knowledge that tell the story of what they have accomplished and what they have learned. Across departments, and sometimes organizations, people work every day to create, manage, preserve, and draw knowledge and insight from this information.    

But the ground is always shifting. As surely as processes and systems are developed and instituted to support these tasks, change inevitably arrives. It could be a new tool that streamlines a workflow, a reorganization that reshapes responsibilities, a sunsetting deadline that accelerates grant making, or a new goal to share more records, learning, and impact with external groups.    

However change arrives, it asks something of those who steward organizational knowledge. Whether you manage knowledge, information, or archives, we want to hear how you responded. What changed at  your foundation or philanthropic organization, and how did you adapt?  What lessons did you learn? How has your organization emerged better positioned to inform grantmaking, deepen learning, or tell the story of a philanthropy?   

Proposal submission guidelines:   

This panel is a lightning round of 5 to 10 minute presentations.   Submit your proposal via this form. 

Proposals must be submitted by July 15. Those submitting proposals will be notified of selection by July 31. There is no fee to attend the conference.  Presenters will need to arrange their own travel and accommodation. 

 For additional information or questions, email Lori Eaton at  lori.eaton@rcwjrf.org.   

The conference is sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation and the Gates Archive, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, the Mellon Foundation, the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the Rockefeller Foundation.   

CFP: Access Conference 2026 (Canada)

The Access Conference Committee invites proposals for Access 2026, Canada’s annual library technology conference, hosted by McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, from October 14-16, 2026.

Access brings together people working with library systems, digital projects, and emerging technologies to share ideas, learn from each other, and build community.

We’re looking for proposals (max 300 words) for the following formats:

  •  Presentations (20 minutes including Q&A)
    • Share your work, a project, a case study, or something you’ve learned. This can be technical or conceptual, but should be relevant to a broad audience.
  • Keynote presentations (60 minutes including Q&A)
    • Long form presentation to provide more details and get into bigger topics than a regular presentation slot will allow.
  • Panels (60 minutes, including Q&A)
    • Self-organized sessions with multiple speakers offering different perspectives on a topic.
  • Lightning Talks (5 minutes)
    • Short, focused talks about new ideas, works in progress, or things you want to share quickly.
  • Posters
    • Present your work in a visual format during a dedicated poster session. Posters are a great way to share projects, ideas, or early-stage work and engage in informal conversations with attendees.
  • Workshops/Hackfest
    • We are also seeking proposals for workshops and Hackfest activities, which will take place on October 14, 2026 for hands-on sessions or collaborative activities. These will be hosted in a lab with computer stations.

We welcome proposals on any aspect of library technology and digital practice, including but not limited to:

·      Systems, hosted software, and infrastructure

·      Discovery and access

·      Metadata, linked data, spreadsheets, and data ethics

·      Open access and publishing

·      Artificial intelligence and automation

·      User experience and accessibility

·      Digital preservation

·      Ethics, barriers, and privacy

·     Open source and collaboration

·   Relevant digital humanities and digital scholarship projects

If you’re not sure your topic fits—send it anyway!

Submission deadline: Saturday June 6th, 2026

Submit your proposal here: [Submission link]

Find more information at https://accessconference.ca/call-for-proposals/ 

CFP: Mapping Post-Truth across Disciplines

Key Information
Proposals due June 30th, 2026 to posttruthconference@gmail.com
Decision of acceptance communicated by July 15th, end of day 

Dates: October 29th-30th, 2026
Location: University of Memphis, specific locations TBD 
Fee: TBD

Overview
“Post-truth,” broadly understood, denotes a general erosion of mutually shared reality, resulting in what some term an “epistemic crisis.” Such an ostensible epistemic crisis ranges in degree from the outright negation of commonly understood truth to a shift in how we categorically define, measure, or use truth. “Post-truth” as conceptual problematic has thus also been instantiated and reflected in various practical applications: mis-/dis-information; “fake news”; the rise of conspiracy theorization; artificial intelligence; censorship, suppression/repression, and manipulation; etc. 

The growing pervasiveness of such an epistemic crisis (i.e., “post-truth”) has implicated numerous academic disciplines: communication and rhetoric; psychology; journalism; political science; history; sociology; philosophy; writing studies; etc. While practical divergences emerge between disciplines in terms of how “post-truth” is pursued in specificity, there is now an exigence for inter- and trans-disciplinary collaboration on such an epistemic crisis. 

The University of Memphis Post-Truth Collective invites 250-word (max) abstract proposals for the Mapping Post-Truth across Disciplines Conference, to be held at the University of Memphis on October 29-30th, 2026. We invite submissions from graduate students and faculty from all disciplines on a range of related topics, including but not limited to:

  • Epistemology
  • Social Ontology
  • Fake news
  • Mis- and Dis-information
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Rhetorical Invention
  • Conspiracy Theories
  • Censorship, Repression/Suppression, Manipulation
  • Journalism Ethics and Laws
  • Bots and Algorithms
  • The Mandela Effect
  • Affect
  • Aesthetics
  • Screen Culture
  • Education Policy
  • Media Literacy
  • Jurisprudence
  • Writing Studies
  • History
  • Group Psychology
  • Popular Culture
  • Media Studies/Theory
  • Religious Studies

We are particularly interested in proposals that produce generative solutions to the “post-truth” problematic, rather than critical, analytic diagnostics and descriptions of what it is. The goal of this conference is to seek trans- and inter-disciplinary collaboration on potential resolutions, (re)appropriations, and productive rethinking of (post-)truth, especially in the service of common good well-being. 

Conference Objectives
Because the primary objective of the conference is to facilitate inter- and trans-disciplinary collaboration on similar sub-topics pursued by scholars in different disciplines, panels will include 3-4 presenters from different disciplines. In the event a group of inter- and/or trans-disciplinary scholars would like to propose a complete panel, please submit an abstract with 250-word (max) abstracts and a 250-word (max) summative rationale for the panel. As an alternative to publication of conference proceedings, this conference will generate a white paper at the conclusion of the conference. Such a white paper could turn into an edited collection, contingent upon conference attendees’ interest. 

Conference Information
Please submit all conference proposals, as well as any questions or concerns, to Dr. Scott Sundvall: posttruthconference@gmail.com by June 30th, 2026. Decisions of acceptance will be communicated by July 15th, end of day. Keynote Speaker: Zahid R. Chaudhary, Princeton University. Thursday evening (October 29th). 

Contact Information

Dr. Scott Sundvall, Associate Professor, University of Memphis

Contact Email

posttruthconference@gmail.com

CFP: 2026 AMIA Conference

The AMIA Conference Committee invites proposal submissions for sessions, posters, and workshops for the AMIA Annual Conference to be held December 2-4 in Pittsburgh, PA.

The Conference Committee works to present a broad-based program that captures the work and perspectives across the field and speaks to a wide range of attendees. Sessions should balance theory and practice while introducing new ideas and approaches that stimulate engagement, participation, and learning. In keeping with our commitment to inclusion, we encourage proposers to use conference sessions as an opportunity to highlight new voices, perspectives, and experiences.

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

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

As in the past, AMIA 2026 invites various types of presentations (read more about each format here) –

  • Paper/Report Presentation (25 minutes)
  • Project Reports (10 minutes)
  • Panels (60 minutes)
  • Forum/Conversation (60 minutes)
  • Lightning Talk (4-5 minutes)
  • Screening Session (60 minutes) held at conference hotel
  • Poster Presentation
  • Workshop Workshops are a half day (3-4 hours) or full day (6-8 hours) held pre or post-conference

AMIA 2026 will be an in person event, with a primary emphasis on in-person participation. We do ask for those submitting a conference proposal to be fully committed to being part of the event on acceptance of your conference proposal. We will do our best to honor and accommodate requests from those wishing to participate in the conference, and we appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

Submit proposal

Digital Humanities and Global Inequalities: Call for Contributions

Outputs of Humanities and Social Science projects of transnational interest often include some kind of online product: Virtual archives, websites, multimodal publications, and social media presences are intended to digitally bridge what physically could only be reached by a select few. But how do these outputs actually account for global power asymmetries when inspected in detail? How do they include or exclude Indigenous communities? How do digital outputs claiming to be collaborative or participatory consider global inequalities of digital access and literacy? While the digital offers significant possibilities towards achieving interim justice through methods like digital restitution, digitizing can also lead to virtue signalling and neocolonial forms of extraction, exploitation and exoticization.

With this two-day workshop, we invite communities of knowledge producers into conversation, locally in Tübingen and internationally, who are at the cutting edge of fostering digital epistemic justice but who are rarely able to share the same spaces of scholarly discussion: social and cultural anthropology, digital humanities, ethnomusicology, museums, archives, social media content creators, UI/UX design, web development, software architecture and any related fields facing the challenge of reaching audiences often underserved by Humanities and Social Sciences research outputs. Together, we will critically examine practical implications of digital return in collaborative research: Can or should it be a service for, an offer to, or conversation with (non-)academic communities of data providers, co-producers, and reusers, especially in the Global South? What can collaboratively produced digital research outputs achieve beyond buzzwords that merely reproduce academic extractivism? How can they create impact in and beyond digital spaces to assist in actual societal change?

✨ With this Call for Contributions, we aim to move past theoretical reflection. We want to bring together actual practitioners of digital research outputs across all stages of project progression. We invite contributions of upcoming, ongoing and completed projects of all sizes with concrete digital research outputs beyond traditional academic writing geared towards communities of research participants and data (co-)producers by addressing specific digital media habits or challenges of accessibility.

📌 Contributions can touch upon, but are not limited to:

• Digital Archives to Globalize Access

• Artistic Interventions

• Participatory Ethnography

• Multilingualism

• Decolonizing Knowledge Representation

• CARE Principles of Indigenous Data Governance

• Traditional Knowledge Labels

• Collaborative Authorship

• Web / Software Development for austere environments

📝 Modes of submission

Abstract of 300 words. Please describe aims, research questions and methods of your project, how the project is organized, how collaboration or participatory research is understood and practiced in your project, core characteristics of the digital research outputs and how their development relates to the project (required!)

A (working!) hyperlink to your digital research output and your code repository (if applicable). For unpublished, work-in-progress or deprecated digital research outputs, please provide screenshots, screen recordings, concept art, … for a tangible assessment (required!)

Bionote of 100 words (optional, but appreciated)

📅 Deadline: 20 May 2026

📧 Submit via email to: edda.schwarzkopf@uni-tuebingen.de

📂 Larger files can be securely uploaded to this folder:

https://data.mantrams.eu/s/WEys4s5HGPyae4d

✅ Confirmation of Selection: Mid June 2026

🎥 Modes of workshop participation

Participation (in person and online) is free of charge. Travel & Accommodation needs to be organized and funded by you, though we will gladly help. Online presentation is possible.

🤝 Workshop host and Funding acknowledgement

This workshop is organized and convened by the Digital Humanities Center, the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and the ERC Synergy Grant project MANTRAMS at the University of Tübingen, namely by Edda Schwarzkopf, Prof. Carola Lorea and Dr. Michael Derntl

CFP: Symposium – Papering Over the Audiovisual Archives

The FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Commission together with the Entangled Media Histories invite you to a two-day international symposium to be held at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on 19-20 November 2026.

The symposium focuses on paper archives and their uses in media historical research. The aim is to foreground these discussions as points of departure for showcasing the value of paper archives in media historiography and their indispensable contributions to appraising and valorising audiovisual archival records.

Call for Papers

The symposium is open to media historians, archivists, artists and media professionals doing archive-based work. We invite papers that shine a light on the use of paper archives in the writing of media histories. Papers that showcase the theoretical and methodological versatility of paper archives in media historical research are particularly welcome. We are interested in contributions that deal with archived paper (paper preserved as historical records) as well as archival paper (catalogues, index cards, maps, etc.). The following topics can serve as a point of inspiration, however proposals do not need to be limited to these:

  • paper archives as signifiers of archiving politics;
  • (re)orientations towards politics of digitisation, preservation and archival
    access;
  • practices of appraising historical records and their archival value;
  • intermediality in archive-based media histories;
  • archival precarity;
  • the gendering of paper archives;
  • paper archives and women’s media histories;
  • paper and (gendered) archival labour;
  • embodied approaches to archives;
  • archival paper (catalogues, inventories, memos, etc.) and its digital afterlives;
  • materiality of paper records;
  • silences in the archives as orientations towards re-sounding and re-visioning the archives;
  • polyvocality in the archives and imaginative processes of historical meaning-making;
  • paper archives as grounds for self-reflexivity in institutional media archives.

Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to msc@fiatifta.org by May 31st, 2026.

Queries can be sent to Alec Badenoch (Utrecht University) or Dana Mustata (University of Groningen).

CFP: Playing with History

PLAYING WITH HISTORY, 15 – 16 JULY

The Centre for Historical Studies at the University of Northampton welcomes submissions for our interdisciplinary and panhistorical conference Playing with History. This event brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners interested in examining how play—across its many forms—shapes, reflects, and reimagines the past. Play is often framed as leisure or diversion, yet it has long been central to cultural expression, technological innovation, learning, and socialization. From ancient board games to contemporary digital worlds, from childhood toys to serious games in education, play offers a rich archive for historical inquiry and creative engagement.

We welcome papers that address (but are not limited to) the following themes:

1. Histories of Games, Toys, and Play

  • Archaeologies and material cultures of play
  • Play and identity (gender, class, race, age)
  • Collecting, preserving, and curating play artefacts
  • Performance as play (acting, dressing up, theatre)

2. History and Gaming

  • Historical representation in tabletop, board, and role-playing games
  • Video games as sites of historical storytelling and memory
  • Game mechanics as historiographical tools
  • Histories of gaming technologies and industries

3. Pedagogy and Play

  • Game-based learning in history education
  • Role-playing and experiential learning in the classroom
  • Designing educational games and playful curricula
  • Critical perspectives on gamification
  • Play as a method of engaging with difficult or contested pasts

We encourage contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, anthropology, education, media studies, game studies, museum studies, theatre studies and more. If you have something to say about play, you are welcome!

We welcome 200-word abstracts for traditional 20-minute papers, but also welcome submissions for more creative formats, such as game demonstrations, poster presentations and workshops. We warmly welcome abstracts from practitioners outside higher education and postgraduate students. 

Please email Rachel.Moss@northampton.ac.uk and Tim.Reinke-Williams@northampton.ac.uk your abstract and contact details by Monday 11 May.

Contact Information

Rachel.Moss@northampton.ac.uk and Tim.Reinke-Williams@northampton.ac.uk 

CFP: 2026 OHA Biennial Conference

Proposals are now being accepted to present at the 2026 OHA Biennial Conference to be held in Tardanya/Adelaide, South Australia, on the lands of the Kaurna people, from 3-6 December. The deadline for submission is 11 May 2026.

The conference is being presented jointly by Oral History Australia (OHA) and Oral History Australia SA/NT. The theme is the very timely ‘Human voices, modern technology: Oral history & authenticity’ and features world-leading oral history and technology expert Doug Boyd as keynote speaker.

Professor Doug Boyd PhD is the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries and is a recent president of the Oral History Association. Boyd  envisioned, designed and implemented the open source and free OHMS system, which synchronizes text with audio and video online.  In 2019 Boyd received a Fulbright Scholars Research Grant to collaborate with the National Library of Australia on innovative access to online oral history. He is the author of Oral History: A Very Short Introduction  published by Oxford University Press in 2025. 

For further information go to:

Please note that concession rates will be available for members of Oral History Australia state associations and the National Oral History Association of New Zealand (NOHANZ) who wish to attend the conference.

Contact Information

Conference organisers

Contact Email

conference@oralhistoryaustralia.org.au

URL

https://oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/biennial-conference-2026/cfp/