Category: Call for Presentations

CFP: Treinta y tres (Latinx Oral Histories)

The Center for Latino and Latin American Studies at Northern Illinois University invites you to submit proposals for its sixth annual interdisciplinary conference, Treinta y tres, to be held on November 21-22, 2024. This year’s theme is “Latinx Oral Histories: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the NIU Latinx Oral History Project.” 

The Center for Latino and Latin American Studies began collecting oral history materials in 2014 to document, disseminate, and promote better understanding of the lives and experiences of Latinxs in the Midwest. The NIU Latinx Oral History Project was founded as an undergraduate student research engagement project with students conducting interviews and generating transcripts as part of a course assignment, summer research opportunity, and/or independent research project. Today, the project holds more than 300 oral history interviews in audio and video formats. 

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant, in the amount of approximately $350,000, to support the full digitization of sound/video and text files in the collection. In collaboration with the NIU Libraries, this groundbreaking project will culminate in a large collection of free-use, online materials documenting Latinx experiences and history in the Midwest. 

To commemorate the significant contributions of the NIU Latinx Oral History Project, we are interested in individual and panel proposals that discuss memory, the practice of oral history, and the importance of oral histories in documenting Latinxs experiences. We also welcome proposals that explore the use of oral histories in the classroom and those that examine the broader impacts and political implications of oral histories outside of academic spaces. We aim for discussions that acknowledge the strengths and difficulties associated with conducting, preserving, and accessing Latinx oral histories.

We invite proposals from faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students as well as alumni who previously worked as researchers involved with the NIU Latinx Oral History Project. The deadline to submit proposals (150-300 words) for papers, panels, performances, or workshops is September 16, 2024. Proposals should include a title, brief abstract, and contact information for each participant. Please also indicate if you prefer a virtual or in-person session. We will do our best to accommodate preferences, but flexibility on modality will be appreciated. 

To submit a proposal, please email: latinostudies@niu.edu

For any questions, please email: Dr. Christina D. Abreu (cabreu@niu.edu) 

Contact Information

Krystyna Kamka

Northern Illinois University

DeKalb, IL 60115

Contact Email

LatinoStudies@niu.edu

URL

https://www.niu.edu/clas/latino-studies/index.shtml

CFP: 2025 NCPH Annual Meeting

SOLIDARITY | SOLIDARITÉ (PDF) 

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON PUBLIC HISTORY ANNUAL MEETING
MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC, CANADA | MARCH 26-29, 2025
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2024 

Solidarity (from the French solidarité) is a word for shared responsibilities and mutual obligations. It conveys a sense of interconnectedness with our world and interdependence upon each other. Long present in France’s code civile, to be in solidarity is to assume shared debts and claim shared successes, so that when we rise, we rise together.

As 21st century public historians, we work through multiple lenses, share diverse stories, and often interpret and make relatable to the public complex histories that sometimes counter long-held ‘truths.’ As a result, our work beckons for unity, togetherness, and collective purpose to support achieving common ground across the field and “put history to work in the world.”

The 2025 NCPH Annual Meeting will center around the theme Solidarity. Pondering the question—What does Solidarity mean in the field of public history?—leads us to consider what we collectively value in the field and how we progress together as public history workers. Amplifying voices, building connections, unifying our audiences, advocating for and revealing authentic histories, fostering and promoting safe spaces, and mirroring these values internally within our organizations are a few examples of how we realize Solidarity across the field.

While submissions on all topics are welcome, in exploring Solidarity, the Joint 2025 Program and Local Arrangements Committee co-chairs particularly encourage you to consider a few of the examples below:

  • Sessions related to public history labor and public historians as workers, including efforts to improve compensation and working conditions in the field and in our institutions;
  • Sessions which model collaboration between public historians and relevant stakeholders, especially community members and grassroots organizers;
  • Sessions which demonstrate solidarity between public historians and activist movements or protests;
  • Sessions which display international cooperation and collaboration across borders;
  • Sessions which explicitly consider our shared responsibilities as public historians: to each other, to the communities we serve, to the pasts, people, and places we interpret, and to the world we live in;
  • Sessions which ask us to evaluate the past work of public history to consider the shared debts we must pay;
  • Sessions which consider public history work as a projet de société—in Québec, a societal project.

PRESENTATION FORMATS MAY INCLUDE:

ROUNDTABLE (90 mins): Roundtables are typically about half presentation and half discussion among presenters and the audience. Presenters should bring targeted questions to pose to others at the table in order to learn from and with each other.
STRUCTURED CONVERSATION (90 mins): These facilitated, participant-driven discussions are designed to prioritize audience dialogue and may contain little or no formal presentation component.
TRADITIONAL PANEL (90 mins): At least three presenters, a chair, and optional commentator. While this is the most traditional format, we still highly discourage the reading of papers.
COMMUNITY VIEWPOINTS (90 mins): A showcase that features a variety of stakeholder and collaborator perspectives across stages of the project’s development, with a particular focus on community participants and grassroots collaborators.
INDIVIDUAL (~30 mins): While individual proposals are welcome, individual presentations will either be shorter than a full session or will be combined with similar proposals to make a full session. These should be presentations of your work and, like all other sessions, not a reading of a paper.
WORKING GROUP (2 hrs): Facilitators and up to 12 discussants grapple with a shared concern. Before and during the meeting, working groups articulate a purpose they are working toward or a problem they are actively trying to solve and aim to create an end product. Proposals are submitted by facilitators, who will seek discussants after acceptance. Note that this format is submitted via a special form.
WORKSHOP (4 or 8 hrs): A half- or full-day workshop is a more intensive and skills-based deep-dive into a topic that includes concrete practical tools and lessons for a smaller group of attendees (recommended 15- 30 people). Note that this format is submitted via a special form.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

OPTIONAL EARLY TOPIC PROPOSALS: Consider submitting an optional early topic proposal by June 15, 2024 to gather suggestions on your topic, seek collaborators or co-presenters, and get feedback from the 2025 Program Committee and members of the NCPH community. Respondents will contact the original submitter directly with their ideas or offers, and the submitter may choose to select additional participants, refine the proposal, and complete a full proposal form online by the July deadline.

FINAL PROPOSALS: Submit your fully formed session, working group, or workshop proposal online by July 15, 2024 via the forms in the dropdown menu at right. (Please note that working group and workshop proposal forms are separate from the main session proposal form. Individual presentations–not papers–can be proposed through the session proposal form.)

When filling out your proposal, please let us know if your session will be in English or in French, as we are planning for a track of sessions in French with simultaneous translation.

While individuals are not prohibited from presenting in consecutive years at the meeting, session proposals that include new voices will receive preference. Additionally, participants may be presenting members of only one session, but may also be discussants in Working Groups or serve as chair/facilitator on a second session.

QUESTIONS? PLEASE EMAIL PROGRAM MANAGER MEGHAN HILLMAN AT MEGHILLM@IU.EDU. THE CALL FOR POSTERS AND CALL FOR WORKING GROUP DISCUSSANTS WILL COME IN SUMMER 2024.

SOLIDARITY | SOLIDARITÉ (PDF EN FRANÇAIS)

RÉUNION ANNUELLE DU CONSEIL NATIONAL DE L’HISTOIRE PUBLIQUE À MONTRÉAL, CANADA
26 AU 29 MARS 2025

Solidarity (du français solidarité) est un terme qui désigne les responsabilités partagées et les obligations mutuelles. Il transmet un sentiment d’interconnexion avec notre monde et d’interdépendance les uns avec les autres. Longtemps présent dans le code civil de la France, être solidaire est d’assumer des dettes communes et de revendiquer des succès communs, de sorte que lorsque nous nous élevons, nous le faisons ensemble.

En tant qu’historiens publics du 21e siècle, nous travaillons sous des angles multiples, partageons des histoires diverses, interprétons et vulgarisons des histoires complexes qui vont parfois à l’encontre de « vérités » de longue date. En conséquence, notre travail appelle à un sens de l’objectif collectif pour soutenir la recherche d’un terrain d’entente dans le domaine et « mettre l’histoire au travail dans le monde ».

La réunion annuelle du CNHP de 2025 sera centrée sur le thème de la solidarité. Penser à ce que signifie Solidarité dans le domaine de l’histoire publique, nous amène à considérer ce que nous valorisons collectivement dans le domaine et comment nous progressons ensemble en tant que travailleurs pour l’histoire publique. Faire entendre les voix, créer des liens, unifier nos publics, défendre et révéler des histoires authentiques, favoriser et promouvoir des espaces sûrs et refléter ces valeurs en interne au sein de nos organisations sont quelques exemples de la manière dont nous réalisons notre mission en solidarité dans le domaine.

Bien que les soumissions sur tous les sujets soient les bienvenues, dans l’exploration de la solidarité, les coprésidents du Comité conjoint du programme 2025 et des arrangements locaux vous encouragent particulièrement à considérer quelques-uns des exemples ci-dessous:

  • Sessions liées au travail d’histoire publique et aux historiens publics en tant que travailleurs, y compris les efforts pour améliorer la rémunération et les conditions de travail sur le terrain et dans nos institutions;
  • Sessions qui modélisent la collaboration entre les historiens publics et les parties prenantes concernées, en particulier les membres de la communauté et les organisateurs locaux;
  • Sessions qui font preuve de solidarité entre les historiens publics et les mouvements ou manifestations militants;
  • Sessions qui démontrent de la coopération et de la collaboration internationale au-delà des frontières;
  • Sessions qui considèrent explicitement nos responsabilités partagées en tant qu’historiens publics: les uns envers les autres, envers les communautés que nous servons, envers le passé, les personnes et les lieux que nous interprétons, et envers le monde dans lequel nous vivons;
  • Sessions qui nous amènent à évaluer le travail passé et présent de l’histoire publique pour considérer les dettes partagées que nous devons payer;
  • Sessions qui considèrent le travail d’histoire publique comme un projet de société, ainsi nommé au Québec.

LES TYPES DE PRÉSENTATION PEUVENT ÊTRE :

TABLE RONDE (90 minutes) : les tables rondes sont généralement composées d’une moitié de présentation et d’une moitié de discussion entre les présentateurs et le public. Les présentateurs doivent apporter des questions ciblées à poser aux autres participants afin d’apprendre les uns des autres.

CONVERSATION STRUCTURÉE (90 minutes) : ces discussions facilitées et dirigées par les participants sont conçues pour donner la priorité au dialogue avec le public et peuvent ne contenir que peu ou pas de composante de présentation formelle.

PANEL TRADITIONNEL (90 minutes) : au moins trois présentateurs, un animateur et un commentateur optionnel. Bien qu’il s’agisse du format le plus traditionnel, nous décourageons toujours fortement la lecture de documents.

Points de VUE de la COMMUNAUTÉ (90 minutes) : une vitrine qui présente une variété de points de vue des parties prenantes et des collaborateurs à travers les étapes du développement du projet, avec un accent particulier sur les participants de la communauté et les collaborateurs locaux.

INDIVIDUEL (~30 minutes) : Bien que les propositions individuelles soient les bienvenues, elles seront soit plus courtes qu’une session complète, soit combinées avec des propositions similaires pour former une session complète. Il devrait s’agir de présentations de votre travail et, comme toutes les autres sessions, pas d’une lecture d’un document.

GROUPE DE TRAVAIL (2 heures) : les animateurs et jusqu’à 12 participants se penchent sur une question commune. Avant et pendant la réunion, les groupes de travail définissent un objectif qu’ils poursuivent ou un problème qu’ils tentent activement de résoudre et visent à créer un résultat final. Les propositions sont soumises par les animateurs, qui rechercheront des participants après validation.

ATELIER (4 ou 8 heures) : Un atelier d’une demi-journée ou d’une journée est une immersion plus intensive et axée sur les compétences dans un domaine, qui comprend des outils pratiques concrets et des leçons pour un groupe plus restreint de participants (de 15 à 30 personnes).

DIRECTIVES POUR LES SOUMISSIONS DE PROPOSITIONS

PROPOSITIONS DE SUJETS PRÉLIMINAIRES FALCULTATIVE : envisagez de soumettre une proposition de sujet préliminaire facultative d’ici le 15 juin 2024 pour recueillir des suggestions sur votre sujet, rechercher des collaborateurs ou des coprésentateurs et obtenir des commentaires du Comité du programme 2025 et des membres de la communauté CNHP. Les répondants contacteront directement l’auteur de la proposition initiale pour lui faire part de leurs idées ou de leurs offres, et l’auteur de la proposition pourra choisir de sélectionner d’autres participants, d’affiner la proposition et de remplir un formulaire de proposition complet en ligne avant la date limite du mois de juillet.

PROPOSITIONS FINALES : soumettez votre proposition complète de session, de groupe de travail ou d’atelier en ligne d’ici le 15 juillet 2024 via https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/. (Veuillez noter que les formulaires de proposition de groupe de travail et d’atelier sont distincts du formulaire de proposition de session principale.)

Lorsque vous remplissez votre proposition, veuillez nous indiquer si votre session sera en anglais ou en français, car nous prévoyons une série de sessions en français avec traduction simultanée.

Bien qu’il ne soit pas interdit aux individus de présenter une session plusieurs années de suite, les propositions de sessions qui incluent de nouvelles personnes seront privilégiées. En outre, les participants peuvent être membres présentateurs d’une seule session, mais peuvent également être participants aux discussions dans les groupes de travail ou être présentateur/facilitateur lors d’une autre session.

DES QUESTIONS? VEUILLEZ ENVOYER UN COURRIEL À LA RESPONSABLE DU PROGRAMME, MEGHAN HILLMAN, À MEGHILLM@IU.EDU. L‘APPEL POUR LES PRÉSENTATIONS ET L’APPEL POUR LES PARTICIPANTS AUX DISCUSSIONS DES GROUPES DE TRAVAIL SERONT LANCÉS AU PRINTEMPS 2024.

SUBMISSION FORMS

Submit an optional early topic proposal by June 15 for feedback: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/topic-proposal-form/
Submit a session proposal (including individual presentations) by July 15, 2024: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/session-proposal-form/
Submit a working group proposal by July 15, 2024: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/working-group-proposal-form/
Submit a workshop proposal by July 15, 2024: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/workshop-proposal-form/

CFP: Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) Events

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is currently inviting proposals for events that will take place between September 2024 and January 2025. The deadline for applications is July 24, 2024. 

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.

CFP: ICA Section on Archives of Literature and Art Symposium

Please contact Heather Dean, hdean  @ uvic.ca (no extra spaces) with questions!

International Council on Archives
Section on Archives of Literature and Art
November 20-21 2024 | Virtual Symposium

The English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton is credited with the well-known phrase, “the pen is mightier than the sword.” This sentiment on the power of literature and art can be found across cultures. Those in the arts are uniquely poised to provide social commentary, to speak truth to power, and to provide an unflinching portrayal of our shared humanity. Literary and artistic archives include archives created by journalists, poets, novelists, painters, sculptors, and other writers and artists, as well as arts organizations, galleries, publishers, editors, and all of those involved in arts creation and dissemination. These archives – like the creators and works they document – are bestowed with a unique and resonant power.    

The International Council on Archives’ Section on Archives of Literature and Art welcomes proposals for a 2024 virtual symposium celebrating and interrogating the power of the arts and cultural archives. 

The Program Committee encourages proposals on the following themes. Note: Proposals on other themes related to archives of literature and art will also be considered:    

  • The intersection of human rights, archives, and the arts, such as the archives of dissident artists and writers, journalists, and other creatives and arts organizations who have challenged injustice.
  • Born digital archives and the unique challenges of preserving and providing access to archives of artists and writers.
  • Ensuring the enduring preservation of arts archives during times of political unrest and turmoil.
  • Approaches to decolonizing archives with particular focus on arts and cultural archives.
  • The role of cultural archives in truth and reconciliation and fostering cultural resilience.  

Session Formats 

The symposium will be held online over two days (November 20 and 21) to accommodate various time zones. The conference will take place in English, however, speakers are invited to present in their language of choice, and translation into English will be provided. 

You do not need to be a member of ICA to submit a proposal, however, we ask that presenters consider joining the ICA.  

Single Paper: Submissions of single presentations, of no more than 15 minutes, are welcome, and will be coordinated into panels by the programme committee.  

Roundtable Talks: These sessions are comprised of 5-6 speakers providing short presentations which are thematically related, and which may include a more informal discussion in response to questions organized in advance by the session moderator.  The moderator is responsible for organizing speakers and distributing questions in advance. Please include the name of the moderator and speakers.  

Panels: Panels are comprised of 3 speakers, each providing a 15 minute talk on a related topic. These sessions are 60 minutes (inclusive of time for questions). These can be pre-arranged between groups (please include an abstract and title for each paper), or submitted individually. 

Symposium Language

The symposium seeks to foster a global exchange of perspectives and ideas. While the symposium will largely take place in English, proposals for presentations in any language are welcome and a limited number of translators will be available to provide live translation into English.  

Submission Process

Proposals are due on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee starting the first week of July and decisions will be shared by July 31. 

Please complete the following form with your submission details: forms.gle/FYUVDFhe7rPUXSSs8. 

Important Dates

June 30                              Deadline for Submissions

July 31                                  Notification of Submissions 

August 14                          Confirm Attendance

September 1                     Registration Opens

November 20-21:            Symposium 

CFP: MARAC Fall 2024 Meeting

The Program Committee for the Fall 2024 Virtual Meeting being held on November 13-15, 2024 is formally opening the call for proposals. Inspired by ongoing commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, the theme is “Renaissance & Renewal.” The Program Committee invites session proposals that celebrate and explore creativity, advocacy, versatility, and innovation in archival work. Potential session topics might include:

  • Emerging technologies (AI, VR) or using technology to look at collections in new ways (data sets, digital humanities projects)
  • Career reinvention, pivots, skills development, or reconfigured responsibilities
  • Initiatives to highlight overlooked or underrepresented voices
  • New perspectives on community engagement, partnerships, audiences, and stakeholders

The Program Committee is committed to incorporating diverse perspectives within the program and across the entire conference. Session proposals should reflect varied personal and professional experiences, including individual, institutional, and geographic diversity. The Program Committee is also interested in supporting a range of session types, including panel presentation or discussions, lightning talks, mini-workshops, case studies, and birds of a feather. 

Any questions, please contact the Program Committee co-chairs, Megan Craynon (megan.craynon@maryland.gov) and Hillary Kativa (hkativa@udel.edu).

Proposals are due Monday, June 24, 2024.

Program Proposal Form

Call for Papers: Forgotten Journalists: Lived experiences and professional identities in the past

Various Belgian partners organise in June 2025 an international academic conference on the lived experiences and professional identities of forgotten journalists. The deadline to submit an abstract is 30 August 2024. 

The conference aims to reconstruct the careers and lived experiences of a mass of anonymous news workers. Three groups of forgotten media professionals stand out (amongst others): war correspondents and foreign correspondents, female journalists, and those who founded and shaped professional journalists’ associations and trade unions behind the scenes. Thanks to the ever-increasing amount of digitised historical news media, the digitisation of genealogical sources and the growing access to the archives of professional journalists, the lives and works of forgotten journalists have become easier to trace. By focusing on lived experiences and professional identities from a historical and decentered perspective, we want to make visible those whose work has been underestimated, or whose journalistic (or partly journalistic) careers have been neglected. 

All information can be found in the attached CfP. 

Contact Information

Liberas

Kramersplein 23

9000 Ghent

Belgium

christoph.despiegeleer@liberas.eu

Contact Email

christoph.despiegeleer@liberas.eu

URL https://www.liberas.eu/call-for-papers-colloquium-forgotten-journalists-2025/

Attachments

Full Call for Papers

Call for Proposals: RAO Marketplace of Ideas 2024

The Reference, Access, and Outreach Section (RAO) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) seeks proposals for the 2024 Marketplace of IDEAs to be held during the Virtual Annual Meeting on Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 4pm EDT/3pm CDT/2pm MDT/1pm PDT.

Topics related to the sub-committee areas of Teaching with Primary Sources, Exhibits and Events, and Public Services Assessment are encouraged.
Proposals addressing topics or themes related to the following will also be prioritized:
– evolving the archival profession, public services, new ideas, fresh perspectives
– orienting reference, access, and outreach efforts as Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, and Accessible
– collaborations/co-sponsorships with other Sections

Submission Due Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Submission Form: forms.gle/TaGwUREqpuarbJSGA

CfP: Artefacts XXIX: New Digital Practice for Science and Technology Collections | Science Museum Research Centre, London

Artefacts XXIX, 2024: New Digital Practice for Science and Technology Collections / Congruence Engine End of Project Conference

The Artefacts Consortium is an international network of museum professionals and scholars of the history of science, technology, and medicine who promote the use of objects in research. Annual Artefacts meetings, each organised under a pertinent theme, provide a collegial venue to gather to discuss exciting work being done with collections in museums and universities across the globe.

Call for Papers

How are digital techniques changing museum practice: for objects, for museum workers, for audiences? With digital approaches: Is it becoming easier for the objects and documents within collections to be found, researched and displayed? Is the texture of day-to-day museum practice changing? Are visitors and researchers enabled to have new kinds of experience in museums or online, or use collections in new ways?

This year’s Artefacts conference will be held October 13th-16th at the Science Museum Research Centre, London, back-to-back with the final conference of the Museum’s Congruence Engine digital collections-linking research project.

Artefacts

For the traditional Sunday-Tuesday Artefacts conference days, we are inviting contributions on the theme of new digital practice in science and technology museums. We are looking for contributions (papers, panels, demonstrations, etc) that reveal the ways in which science museums internationally are embracing the affordances of new digital techniques. For example:

• Collections as data

• Uses of machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with

catalogue data

• Online complements to exhibitions

• Novel uses of new media -visual or sonic – in exhibition and gallery contexts

• Virtual- and augmented-reality techniques

• Digital means to enable access to reserve collections

• How museum work is changing because of digital techniques

• Histories of electronic, digital and new media practice in museums

Please submit an outline of up to 300 words per individual paper or up to 1000 words for whole sessions by 1st June to: research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk We plan to send acceptances no later than mid-August.

Congruence Engine

Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th will be the associated Congruence Engineend of project conference, which is primarily to report the research, findings and recommendations from the project. This exciting major three-year project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under its Towards a National Collection funding stream has been experimenting with using machine learning and other computational techniques to link collections of all kinds for the sake of better curation of science collections and to ease historical work using those collections for historians of all kinds. Themes will include:

• The ‘social machine’ approach to creating linked industrial collections.

• AI and machine learning for data enhancement and collections linkage

• Taxonomies, thesauruses and ontologies for linking collections.

• Spatial and geospatial approaches to collections linkage

• Narrative sources and collections linkage

• Responsible and ethical digital collections research

• New historiographies and new curatorial practices

The conference will also see the launch of the Science Museum Group’s Digital Research Cluster; plenary sessions will address some of the broader issues and opportunities of the current digital moment.

Attendees are warmly encouraged to attend both sides of the conference.

Organisers: Tim Boon, Nayomi Kasthuri Arachchi, Max Long, Arran Rees, Nina Webb-Bourne

Contact Information

Tim Boon, Nayomi Kasthuri Arachchi, Max Long, Arran Rees, Nina Webb-Bourne

Contact Email

research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk

URL

https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/sites/default/files/2024-04/Artefacts%20X…

CFP: History, Memory, and Heritage

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

RMC History Symposium 2024

History, Memory, and Heritage

Location: Royal Military College (Kingston, Ontario)

Date: September 26-27, 2024

The History Department at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) extends a special invitation to all scholars, graduate students, researchers, and custodians of traditional knowledge to submit papers and panels for its next annual symposium to be held at the RMC campus, September 26-27, 2024, in Kingston, Canada. The theme for the 2024 History Symposium is “History, Memory, and Heritage.”

For more than four decades, historians from various fields have been studying how societies remember and commemorate. In doing so, they seek to understand how, who, and why peoples and nations construct versions of the past that celebrate certain individuals and events while forgetting others. Historians acknowledge that memory has been an important instrument of power mobilized in the name of nation, ethnicity, race, and religion. As part of this complex process, this symposium aims to discuss whose collective memory has a privileged place in textbooks, films, museums, and monuments as well as whose version of the past has prevailed. Topics include but are not limited to:  

–       Memory and war 

–       Public memory and history

–       Historical consciousness and commemoration

–       The politics of remembrance and forgetting

–       Heritage and celebration

–       World heritage and Indigenous peoples in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania

–       The impact of disinformation and fake news in history, memory, and heritage

Keynote Speakers
The Symposium organizers are pleased to welcome Dr. Dara Price (Director, History and Heritage, Department of National Defence) and Dr. Tim Cook (Chief Historian and Director of Research, Canadian War Museum) as this year’s opening and closing keynote addresses.

Instructions

Individual Submissions: Individual proposals should include an abstract in (250-word maximum), and the email and affiliation of presenter(s).

Panel Submissions: Panel proposals should comprise a 250-word summary, abstracts, and the e-mails and affiliations of all panelists. A minimum of three participants is required.

Presenters are welcome to submit an abstract or panel in French or English.

Deadline for submission of proposals: June 1, 2024.

For questions and/or inquiries, please e-mail rmc.symposium.cmr2024@gmail.com.

Organizers:

Vanessa S. Oliveira and Katherine Rossy (Co-chairs)

Caroline D’Amours

Emanuele Sica

Contact Email

rmc.symposium.cmr2024@gmail.com

CFP: H-Net 2024 Teaching Conference

“History, Social Science, and the Humanities: Working in Classrooms and Communities”
Proposal Due: May 24, 2024
Conference Date: August 19 – 24, 2024
Location: Virtual on Zoom

H-Net is excited to announce that “History, Social Science, and the Humanities: Working in
Classrooms and Communities” will be our theme for the third annual, 2024 Virtual Teaching Conference. This year’s theme places an emphasis on community building of all kinds, from cultivating educational communities within public history venues to preserving inclusive classrooms in K-16 pedagogy. We welcome individual, panel, and roundtable proposals, as well as workshops or charrettes, that focus on the use of library and digital resources, the influence of career-focused university curriculum on student learning, how attacks on DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and humanities programs affect communities, and any other topic that relates to this year’s theme.

This year, our keynote speaker will be Dr. Steven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and former H-Net President. Dr. Mintz, who is the author and editor of 14 books, is particularly well known for spearheading new teaching methods. He has long been a leader in the development of digital history and has received more than $15 million in grants for educational innovation.

The conference will be held in a virtual format during the week of August 19th, 2024. Presenters will have the opportunity to be recorded for future reference via the H-Net Commons. Selected presenters will also be invited to publish their work in the H-Net Conference Proceedings publication.

All proposals should include a title, CVs and email addresses for all presenters, and an abstract of no more than 200 words. No pre-recorded sessions will be accepted.

Submissions are encouraged to focus on any of the following issues:

  • How communities shape and encourage engagement with the social sciences and the
    humanities
  • Challenges and strategies related to the use of digital resources and artificial intelligence
  • How public-facing educational programs and resources (H-Net, National History Day,
    literacy initiatives, etc.) can enrich existing humanities efforts on the local, state, and
    national levels
  • Difficulties relating to government mandates at all educational levels

Email submissions to brothe10@msu.edu by Friday, May 24, 2024.