Category: Call for Presentations

CFP: IPRES 2025

Call for Contributions

We are excited to invite peer-reviewed contributions for iPRES 2025, the premier international conference on digital preservation. We will make a further call for ad-hoc contributions in June 2025.

iPRES 2025 will take place in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa (New Zealand), from 3-7 November 2025, and will offer a combination of in-person and virtual participation opportunities. We warmly invite contributions from researchers, practitioners, and organisations across the globe who are involved in the field of digital preservation.

The themes for iPRES 2025 are: Haerenga (Journey), Tūtaki (Encounter), and Tūhono (Connect). These themes encourage reflections on the evolving practices, innovations and partnerships shaping the future of digital preservation. Each theme reinforces the others, creating a holistic view of how digital preservation research and practice can adapt, innovate and thrive.

  • Haerenga (Journey) – This theme focuses on the broader narrative of digital preservation, emphasising the ongoing processes, challenges, and learning experiences practitioners face.
  • Tūtaki (Encounter) – This theme is focused on innovation, disruption, and the re-evaluation of long-held norms.
  • Tūhono (Connect) – This theme is all about the importance of communities, collaboration and interdisciplinary work in digital preservation.

You can read more about the conference themes, and examples of topics that relate to the themes here.

Types of Contributions

This is a call for the submission types that will be peer-reviewed:

  • Full Papers: In-depth research papers, technical papers, or case studies (max 8 pages).
  • Short Papers: Concise reports on work-in-progress or emerging topics (max 4 pages).
  • Workshops: Interactive, hands-on sessions focusing on tools, methods, or best practices.
  • Tutorials: Educational sessions or demonstrations aimed at teaching participants new skills or technologies relevant to digital preservation. Tutorials should be structured to provide a clear learning outcome and can range from beginner to advanced levels.
  • Panels: Discussions addressing key issues or trends in digital preservation.
  • Posters: Visual presentations of projects or ideas, encouraging one-on-one engagement.

In June 2025 we will have a call for non-peer reviewed submission types (Lightning Talks, Birds of a Feather, Games, etc.) and for participation in a Digital Preservation Bake-Off. These ad-hoc submissions will go through a light internal assessment that will be detailed on the conference website.

You can find the submission instructions, including the link to the online submission portal here.

​Evaluation Criteria

Submissions will be peer-reviewed based on the following criteria:

  • Relevance to the conference themes
  • Originality, innovation, and contribution to the field of digital preservation
  • Clarity and organisation of ideas
  • Significance for the digital preservation field and impact on the community

​Important Dates for Peer-Reviewed Contributions

  • Submission deadline: 14 April 2025, End of Day, Anywhere on Earth (No planned extension of date)
  • Notification of acceptance: 2 June 2025

You can find a more detailed version of important dates here.

​Diversity and Accessibility

iPRES 2025 values manaakitanga – kindness, respect, and hospitality towards others. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. We strongly encourage contributions from Indigenous and underrepresented voices in the digital preservation community.

Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre, the conference venue for iPRES 2025, has been designed and built to be accessible for everyone. You can find more information about Accessibility at iPRES 2025 both for in-person and remote participants here.  

AI Usage

In recognition of the potential benefits and increasing use of AI tools, iPRES 2025 permits their usage, under the conditions outlined in these guidelines . These guidelines are designed to help maintain the integrity and quality of iPRES publications while allowing the beneficial use of AI tools. They are informed by guidelines from international organisations and publishers regarding the use of AI.

​Conference Proceedings and Publication

After the conference, all iPRES 2025 submissions will be made openly available online in one or more forms:

Submission TypesConference Proceedings (in Phaidra)Openly published (OSF, etc.)
Individual citable documentAs part of summary abstract bookAs part of aggregated submissions
Full & short Papers, PostersYesYesYesYes (with presentations)
Workshops, Tutorials, PanelsNoYesYesYes (with presentations)
Ad hoc formats (Lightning Talks, Games, etc.)NoNoNoYes (with presentations)

Contact Information

For questions or support regarding the submission process, please contact us.

CFP: Request for Speakers: Libraries in Unexpected Places – 2025 ALA LHRT Research Forum (Library History Round Table)

Libraries are not confined to traditional institutions; they exist in a myriad of unexpected places, serving diverse communities in innovative ways. From lighthouses and artists’ studios to mobile book vans and digital platforms, libraries continue to evolve, offering knowledge and resources in creative and unconventional settings. This call for papers seeks to explore the rich and often overlooked world of libraries that exist outside the norm—whether in remote villages, repurposed structures, personal collections, or virtual spaces.

We invite scholars, librarians, historians, and researchers from various disciplines to present their research at the 2025 LHRT Research Forum, which will focus on how libraries in unexpected places serve communities, preserve history, and expand access to knowledge. The forum aims to highlight historical studies of library outreach and development, including 20th and 21st-century topics. Single-case studies, theoretical perspectives, and other approaches are welcomed, but use of primary sources is expected. Each speaker will be asked to present for approximately 20 minutes, with a 10-minute Q&A to follow.

To accommodate as many attendees as possible, the 2025 Research Forum will be held virtually after the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition, on Wednesday, July 23, 2:00-3:30 EST.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

Libraries in Unconventional Spaces

  • Libraries and library collections housed in unique buildings or premises.
  • Personal and private libraries with public impact.
  • Community-based initiatives such as Little Free Libraries and other book-sharing projects.
  • Rural and mobile libraries that reach remote and underserved populations.

Library Outreach and Collaboration

  • Librarians bringing books and services to nontraditional settings.
  • Novel partnerships between libraries and other institutions and organizations.
  • Efforts to preserve and document library collections that exist outside formal institutions.

Access Beyond Physical Spaces

  • Online and open-access libraries in areas lacking traditional library services.
  • Hybrid models that combine physical and digital library services to reach broader audiences.
  • The role of technology in expanding knowledge beyond geographic and economic barriers.

Submission Guidelines:

We welcome submissions from a variety of perspectives, including historical studies, case studies, ethnographic research, theoretical analyses, and reflective essays. We will consider research projects already underway or, if at the beginning of the project, a discussion of new methodologies to be used in the work. Please note that projects or project plans should include a primary source research component.

  • Each proposal must include the paper title, an abstract (up to 500 words), and the presenter’s one-page vita. Please indicate in the abstract whether the research is in progress or completed.
  • Proposals are due March 15, and decisions will be communicated shortly thereafter.
  • Completed papers are due May 31.

Please submit proposals and direct inquiries to Jennifer Bartlett, LHRT Vice Chair/Research Committee Chair, at jen.bartlett@uky.edu.

We encourage interdisciplinary approaches and diverse voices to contribute to this exciting exploration of libraries in unexpected places. If you have a unique perspective or case study that falls outside these categories but aligns with the theme, we welcome your proposal! We look forward to your submissions and to celebrating the vast and varied ways libraries continue to inspire, adapt, and serve.

Research Committee Members:

Jennifer Bartlett

Bernadette Lear

Catherine Minter

Deborah Smith

Rachel Trnka 

CFP: Histories of Disabilities and Living Spaces from Ancient to Modern Worlds

Histories of Disabilities and Living Spaces from Ancient to Modern Worlds

Royal Holloway’s Bodies and Material Culture Research Group invites papers for a one-day workshop in Central London on histories of disabilities and living spaces from the ancient to the modern world. The relationship between historical actors with physical and mental disabilities and the places they live is complex, with embodied experiences and the material world offering scope for both agency and frustration. Drawing on the recent expansion in histories of disabilities across ancient, medieval, early modern and modern studies, this workshop applies this new critical approach to the study of past living spaces. The workshop will focus on how people with physical impairments, mental illness, chronic illness, degenerative, and age-related conditions (including any intersection of the above) interacted with historic domestic environments. The workshop will use comparative histories – from the ancient past to the contemporary present – to look at similarities and differences across time and space. We will explore new methodologies for interpreting embodied experiences, drawing on ideas of co-production and participatory research. We aim to further shared understandings of lived experiences, and to explore how these might be represented in public histories and heritage.

Keynote Speakers: Kyle Jordan (Independent Curator and Researcher) and India Whiteley (QMUL)

Papers might address, but are not limited to, the experience of people with disabilities, chronic or mental illness, degenerative, and/or age-related conditions (including any intersection of the above) in relation to the following themes:

  • The planning, design, building and adaptation of living spaces
  • Embodiment and the interaction of bodies with domestic material culture
  • Development of historic assistive technologies and therapies 
  • Household structures and hierarchies e.g. Roman households and their extended family members, early modern apprentice households, nuclear families including: development of support networks; exploitation and/or abuse
  • Changing patterns of individual, family and collective residence e.g. monasteries or schools
  • Identification with domestic space and home as an emotional construct 
  • New approaches to interpreting historic embodied experiences e.g. participatory research or co-production 
  • Methods and source materials that reveal living spaces including archaeological, textual, legislative, visual and material 
  • Strategies for representing historical actors in domestic heritage 

The workshop will take place on Tuesday June 24th 2025 at Senate House, University of London. Please send proposals (300 word abstract and 100 word biography) to Jane Hamlett jane.hamlett@rhul.ac.uk and Hannah Platts Hannah.platts@rhul.ac.uk by March 31st. We welcome proposals from those at all career stages of academia, independent scholars, heritage and museum professionals. Papers can be presented in person or online.

Contact Information

Jane Hamlett

Contact Email

jane.hamlett@rhul.ac.uk

URL

https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-education/research/research-enviro…

CFP: Association for Gravestone Studies Annual Conference

Association for Gravestone Studies Annual Conference – June 17-22, 2025, York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA

Call for Papers, Presentations, Student Posters, and Student Fellowships – Submission deadline March 31, 2025

The Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) is an international organization that promotes the serious study of gravestones and cemeteries from historical and artistic perspectives, educates and expands public awareness of the significance of historic gravestones and burial landscapes, and encourages individuals and groups to document and research gravestones and historic cemeteries.  Recent scholarly presenters have come from the fields of history, African-American studies, archaeology, cultural studies, libraries and archives, historic preservation, public history, religious studies, art history, material culture, anthropology, and art.  Professionals include conservators, cemetery directors, monument company personnel, state and local historic preservation officers, and historic site managers.  AGS welcomes presentation and paper proposals from graduate students, emerging and independent scholars, and advocational researchers as well as established scholars and AGS members.  This year students have the opportunity to submit proposals for a student-only poster session.  In addition, advanced graduate students may apply for one of two conference fellowships to present their research.

Contact Information

Dr. Perky Beisel, pbeisel@sfasu.edu

History Dept., Stephen F. Austin State University

President, Association for Gravestone Studies

Contact Email

info@gravestonestudies.org

URL

https://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences/2025-conference-york-pa

CFP: for Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) events

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is currently inviting proposals for events that will take place between June 2025 and August 2025. The deadline for applications is April 1 2025

The BSA can offer financial and logistical support for a variety of events, including lectures, panel presentations, hands-on workshops, conference sessions, or other online or in-person events.  Examples of past and upcoming events can be found here. Please reach out to the Events Committee if you have questions about event formats, financial support, or topics.

In all BSA events, the material text – that is, handwritten, printed, or other textual or visual artifacts, broadly conceived – as historical evidence, and/or the theory and practice of descriptive, historical, and/or critical bibliography, should be a central concern to participants and organizers.

BSA requests a general overview of the content of sessions and a short bio for presenters as well as information about the budget, promotion, and general organization of the event. For full details about the application process, and to submit an application, please visit the following webpage: https://bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

For additional questions or queries, please contact events@bibsocamer.org.

Call for Posters: Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting

The Northwest Archivists 2025 Program Committee welcomes poster proposals in broad support of the Annual Meeting theme Redefining Resilience: Advocacy, Values, and Creative Solutions. The conference will be held virtually May 13-16, 2025.  In the past decade or more, archives have lost staff and funding but are continually asked to do the same amount of work or even add more work. It is time to reframe the conversation from “doing more with less” to “doing our best with less.” What core functions of archives should be prioritized? What can we let go of? As archivists, how are we finding tools and building skills to fill the gap of what has been lost? How do we empower representation while protecting personal and professional boundaries? This theme invites proposals that cover practical solutions to these problems, ideas for advocating and collaborating for more resources, and suggestions for how to incorporate the new realms of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and digital preservation into our work. Students, new professionals, first-time presenters, and those in allied professions are encouraged to submit proposals.

Posters can be used to convey a variety of outcomes and ideas related to practice, theory, or research. Examples include – but are not limited to – summarizing an internship project, highlighting a workflow, demonstrating the use of a tool or technology, conveying an outreach or advocacy strategy, getting feedback about projects in progress, or sharing research findings.

Submit your proposal using the 2025 Poster Proposal Form. 

Proposals will be evaluated on clarity, originality, relevance to the field, and relation to the annual meeting theme.

The deadline for proposals is March 14, 2025. Notification will be made the week of March 17.

Questions? Please contact Program Committee Co-Chairs Libby Hopfauf orBecky Butler Gallegos. 

Best,

Members of the Program Committee

Kaitlynn Anderson 

Erin Baucom

Becky Butler Gallegos (Co-Chair)

Megan Garbett-Styger

Libby Hopfauf (Co-Chair)

Alexandra Joyaux

Laury Loftis

Emily Moore

Elinor Robinson

CFP: “Stitched Together: Needlework Making and Research”

United Kingdom

Stitched Together: Needlework Making and Research
21st-22nd August 2025
Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace

CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote speakers: Dr Lynn Hulse, Raisa Kabir, Rose Sinclair MBE, Hannah Sutherland ACR

The Royal School of Needlework and Pasold Research Fund invite papers for the Royal School of Needlework’s first conference on historical needlework, ‘Stitched Together: Needlework Making and Research’. This conference will imagine needlework in its broadest sense, classified as all art and craft involving a needle, hook, or shuttle. This includes embroidery, plain sewing, lace making, knitting, crocheting, and weaving.

Needlework is universal, made around the world in countless ways for nearly all of human history. Through needles, hooks, and shuttles, we see economic, social, political, religious, and cultural changes. Needlework demonstrates who had access to what materials, how designs and stitches travelled the world via the Silk Road and across oceans, how the rise and fall of empires affected design and resources, how technology influenced changing aesthetics and craft practices, and how people have spent their time in business and leisure. 

Though needlework has long been the subject of academic, socioeconomic, and object-centric study, there have been very few opportunities for those who create needlework and those who research needlework to collaborate and learn from one another. It is the hope that this conference will bridge the gap between visual and historiographical analysis and knowledge of the historical, socioeconomic, and literary contexts of needlework with embodied knowledge of materials, techniques, and artistic choices. 

This conference is a meeting place for anyone working on topics related to historical embroidery to present their work and research. This includes work happening in academia, museums and heritage institutions, art studios, classrooms, and independent research environments. We encourage proposals from established and emerging scholars, makers, curators, conservators, and anyone whose work is relevant to discussions about historical needlework in any capacity.  

We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations. These can take any format, such as academic papers, conversations between makers and researchers, or demonstrations. We are especially interested in presentations that explore the potential of collaboration between those who use historical needlework in different ways. Topics may include but are not limited to: 

  • New discoveries in the field of historical needlework 
  • The relationship between making and research
  • Conservation of historical needlework
  • Curating historical needlework
  • Marginalised needleworkers (race, gender, class, region, technique) 
  • Historic needlework networks, especially global ones 
  • Studying historical needlework through making 
  • Potential for collaboration between various stakeholders in the world of historical embroidery

Proposal deadline: Monday, 14th April 2025

Please send a paper title, abstract (maximum 250 words), and bio (maximum 50 words) to collection@royal-needlework.org.uk. Decisions will be made by mid-May.

The conference will allow for virtual attendance via Zoom webinar but only in-person presentations will be considered.

Contact Email

collection@royal-needlework.org.uk

URL: https://royal-needlework.org.uk/stitched-together-conference-call-for-papers/

CFP: ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section Research Committee – Virtual Program – May 21, 2025

The ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section Research Committee invites you to submit proposals for lightning talks that explore critical topics in library and information science, possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • Intellectual Freedom
  • Gender and Technology
  • Women’s Health
  • LGBTQ+ Experience, perspectives, support
  • Teaching and Learning

We seek dynamic, thought-provoking presentations that can spark discussions, share strategies, and inspire action within the library and information profession.

Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Time: 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST

Location: Virtual via Zoom 

Submission Deadline: Monday, March 24, 2025 (Extended)

Submission link: ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section Research Committee Call for Lightning Talks 2025

Please reach out to the committee with any questions via email: wgssresearch@gmail.com

Warmly,

Melissa Chomintra

WGSS Research Committee Chair

CFP: ARMA InfoCon 2025

ARMA InfoCon 2025 is heading to Phoenix, Arizona, this October 19-22, 2025, and we’re thrilled to announce that the call for speaker proposals is officially open! As the largest Information Governance event of the year, InfoCon is where innovators, visionaries and industry experts converge to shape the future of our profession. We’re seeking fresh, groundbreaking presentations that will inspire and inform our audience of thought leaders, professionals and change-makers in the information governance space. This is your chance to showcase your expertise on the premier stage for information governance. By becoming a speaker, you’ll not only gain industry recognition but also position yourself as a leader and propel your career to new heights. Don’t wait — submissions are open now until April 1, 2025. Seize this opportunity to share your knowledge, engage with top minds and leave your mark on the InfoCon community. Submit your proposal today — we can’t wait to see what you bring to the table!

More information here.

CFP: SEAA/SGA Summer Symposium

The Southeastern Archives Association and the Society of Georgia Archivists are pleased to share a call for proposals for a virtual summer symposium to be held July 10-11, 2025. This year’s theme is “Note to Self: Find Joy”. The program committee invites proposals for lightning talks (5-10 minutes) on topics related to aspects of your archival practice that bring you joy. We want to hear your success stories!

Potential topics include:

  • Successes in the archives
  • Connecting archives and communities
  • Unexpected connections and learning opportunities
  • Your repository’s hidden gems (including materials, events, partnerships etc.)
  • Personal archiving (how do you archive your personal life and/or what’s your collection development or deaccession policy)

Tell us a story, but also tell us what you learned. What questions did you answer, what problems did you solve, and what advice would you give to someone else in the same position? The committee welcomes proposals from anyone involved with archives, including archival staff, new professionals, students, and allied professionals. We encourage potential presenters to consider how their proposed session will support the SGA Statement on Diversity and Inclusion.

Proposals can be submitted through the online submission form. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 21st, 2025 at 5:00PM EST.

Link to submit proposals: forms.gle/x4Nc4ei1PMuodUu56