Category: Call for Presentations

CFP: Southern Association of Women Historians (SAWH) 2025, “Unspeakable Challenges”

Unspeakable Challenges

Southern Association for Women Historians 2025 Triennial

Click here for proposal form/instructions

The Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) invites proposals for its thirteenth triennial conference, to be held June 19-22, 2025, at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. The conference provides a stimulating and congenial forum for discussing all aspects of southern women’s history and gender history. The program organizers seek to reflect the best in recent scholarship and the diversity of our profession, including college and university professors, graduate students, public historians, K-12 teachers, community organizers, and independent scholars.

In partnership with The Mary McLeod Bethune Institute for the Study of Women and Girls at Bethune-Cookman University, this SAWH meeting is an unprecedented opportunity for our organization to mark the 150th anniversary of Dr. Bethune’s birth (and the 120th anniversary of the university). This year’s theme, “Unspeakable Challenges,” is inspired by yet another taxing moment in history. The Bethune Institute is an artfully crafted resource for intentional research, programming, and support for issues paramount to the survival and success of women and girls. Of particular note are gender equity topics such as women’s leadership, food and housing security, body image, physical and sexual health and safety, LGBTQ+ challenges, mental health and emotional wellness, maternal health, and healthy relationships. In this spirit, we want to address the front lines of the battle to ensure a bright future for all in this state and nation.

We recognize the specific obstacles and challenges that traveling to Florida might present, and we acknowledge that these obstacles and challenges exist throughout the South and, increasingly, the nation. The organization is committed to providing a safe space for scholarship and conversations about “unspeakable challenges.”

Proposals on any topic related to Southern Women’s histories will be considered, but those related to this year’s theme are most likely to be accepted. Click here for proposal form/instructions.

Topics May Include:

  • Native American history and challenges
  • Immigration
  • Health Care
  • Education
  • Public History
  • Teaching in &/or about this Moment
  • Reproductive Rights
  • Sex, Sexuality and Gender
  • Safety
  • HBCUs
  • Student Movements
  • Teaching History in Florida and Other Southern Schools

The program seeks proposals for the following:

  1. Panels (we prefer to receive proposals for complete 3-paper sessions with a chair, but will consider individual papers as well). 
  2. Roundtables (informal discussions of a historical or professional issue).
  3. Workshops (informal discussions centered around professional development).
  4. Scholars or community leaders interested in chairing or commenting on a session are invited to submit a 500-word vita.

The submission deadline is September 1, 2024.

SAWH program committee:

Chairs: Françoise N. Hamlin & Robin Morris
Denise Bates
Beverly Bond
Lorri Glover
Pippa Holloway
Briana Royster

Contact Information

sawhsubmission@gmail.com

Francoise Hamlin and Robin Morris, Program Committee Co-Chairs

Contact Email

sawhsubmission@gmail.com

URL

2025 Triennial Call For Proposals

CFP: 2025 Midwest Archives Conference

The Midwest Archives Conference will hold its 2025 Annual Meeting on April 10-12, 2025 at the Hilton Minneapolis Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minneapolis is one half of the “Twin Cities” along with the state capitol, St. Paul. Minneapolis is known for its lakes and parks, as well as the Mississippi River, which runs through both downtowns. We plan to roll out our best “Minnesota Nice” to welcome you to the land of 10,000 Lakes.

In keeping with Minnesota’s famous love for sharing a good hotdish at family and community tables, the Program Committee invites session proposals touching on the theme “Serving it Up.” Join us as we explore how archivists preserve the histories and stories of communities we serve, reach across the table and collaborate, use new technologies to update policies and practices to serve up accessible collections, and stretch budgets and resources to find creative solutions to archival issues.  

The Program Committee encourages submissions from newer professionals, first-time presenters, and colleagues from non-academic institutions.  MAC membership is not required. Presenters may submit more than one proposal but may present only one session OR poster.

With an eye toward clear takeaways that can be broadly applied, possible areas of focus include but are not limited to: 

  • Areas of growth in archival theory, technology, and practice
  • Approaches to collecting, outreach, reference, and instruction 
  • Managing born-digital records and analog digitization standards and preservation
  • Practical workflows for accessioning, appraisal, processing, preservation, deaccessioning, and cataloging
  • Workplace considerations including workload expectations, avoiding burnout, managing relationships, and non-traditional career paths 
  • Leadership and management roles in policy making, supervising, advocacy 
  • Promoting inclusivity, accessibility, and diversity in the workplace, collections, and archival practices
  • Community archiving approaches and practices
  • Stretching resources and budgets in innovative and practical ways
  • Advocating for funding
  • Facility issues such as space constraints, environmental stewardship, and renovations/moves
  • Impact of AI on archives 

The Program Committee will also consider proposals not related to this theme or that fall outside these areas of focus. 

Possible Session Types

  • Standard Presentation: Two to four speakers present on a common theme. May include a moderator to guide discussion and/or introduce speakers and theme.
  • Open Forum: Topical discussion with moderator leading discussion with everyone present. May include additional moderator(s) to direct breakout conversations.
  • Roundtable Discussion: Three or four participants make very brief remarks, then discuss a topic together. Includes a moderator to steer the discussion.
  • PechaKucha: Each presentation consists of 20 slides or images displayed for 20 seconds each, with comment. Each presentation lasts 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
  • Lightning Talks: Like PechaKucha, but without a set format. May or may not include slides or images. Presentations may be from 3 to 10 minutes long, with the time allotted depending on the number of presenters.
  • Debate: Moderator announces the topic, and two individuals debate. May include more than one topic and additional debaters.

In January 2025, there will be a separate call for poster proposals as well as a call for pop-up sessions for less traditional session types or time-sensitive topics.

Possible Session Lengths

60 minutes and 90 minutes. Please be mindful of your number of presenters and session type when indicating the preferred session length.

Speaker Representation

The Program Committee seeks a diverse slate of presenters representing a variety of personal and institutional backgrounds, perspectives, and voices. We seek to foster a culture of inclusion in the MAC program and encourage submissions from anyone interested in presenting, including students, new professionals, first-time presenters, and those from allied professions. In order to facilitate and promote inclusion, the proposal submission form will ask voluntary questions about presenters’ past presentation experiences as well as some demographic information.

To facilitate collaboration among those brainstorming session ideas, the Program Committee encourages use of the MAC Facebook page and this spreadsheet for brainstorming session proposal ideas.

Proposal Evaluation

The Program Committee will evaluate all proposals submitted by the deadline using the following criteria:

  • Quality and clarity of the session abstract;
  • Thoroughness of content and sufficient speakers to address all relevant aspects of the topic;
  • Originality of proposed topic;
  • Diversity of presenters and viewpoints;
  • Appropriateness of proposed format for session content.

All proposals will be considered in the context of the overall structure of the meeting and the availability of time slots for proposed sessions. You can preview a PDF of the proposal form here.

All individuals involved in an accepted proposal must sign a presenter agreement.

Proposal Submission

The deadline for submitting session proposals for the 2025 MAC Annual Meeting is August 30, 2024, at 5 p.m. CST. Use the Call for Proposals form to submit your proposal.

If you have any questions about the proposal process, please contact the 2025 Program Committee Co-Chairs, Shae Rafferty (shae.rafferty@wayne.edu) and Amy Lisinski (lisinskia@archmil.org). 

CFP: Contested/ing (Art) Histories: Memory Through Visual and Material Culture-Association for Art History

CFP: Contested/ing (Art) Histories: Memory Through Visual and Material Culture-Association for Art History, UK 

Online conference for PhD students

Keynote Speaker: 
Tanvi Mishra, Independent Photo Editor, Curator, and Writer 

Thematic Focus:
Traditional historical narratives often present a singular perspective, neglecting the multifaceted nature of the past. This approach overlooks the contested nature of history, where various experiences vie for recognition. “Contested/ing (Art) Histories: Memory Through Visual and Material Culture” delves into this complexity, exploring how visual art and material objects act as sites of memory, memorialisation, and remembrance.

This conference seeks to explore how visual and material culture shape our understanding of the past. This call encourages critical engagement with diverse perspectives, ethical considerations, and the potential of artistic interventions to challenge dominant historical narratives from post-colonial and de-colonial perspectives.

The key questions addressed by this conference include: 

● How do diverse perspectives and experiences influence historical narratives within the arts? 
● How can visual and material culture challenge or reinforce dominant historical accounts? 
● What are the ethical considerations in using and interpreting visual and material culture for historical research? 
● In what ways can artistic interventions act as sites for memory-making and contesting official narratives? 
● How do we tend to the silences and gaps in official narratives?

Who is this for? 

This year’s Global New Voices invites proposals from PhD students in any stage of their research, exploring the theme over any historical period or geographic region. We welcome submissions from international scholars and practice-researchers to open a dynamic discussion about the similarities, divergences and interconnectivity of contested histories taking place around the world. We particularly welcome talks which integrate digital technologies with the featured themes.

We invite proposals in any of the following three formats: 

● 15-minute paper presentations: Papers focusing on the idea of contested histories through material or visual thinking in a wide variety of contexts. 
● Pecha Kucha presentations: 20 images with a limited time (20 seconds) commentary on each slide. The aim is a swift, visually-led presentation that is succinct and powerful. 
● Curatorial and artist showcase: Artists, curators, and image-makers to share their practice – this consists of approximately 5-10 minutes of viewing the work (shared online) followed by discussion and constructive feedback. We welcome submission from artists and curators working in any medium which contains a strong visual element. 

Potential themes are outlined below, but we encourage experimental and novel approaches: 

● Colonial and postcolonial experiences in visual art and museum collections 
● Gender and sexuality in Orientalist representations 
● Gender-based violence in Colonial or post-Colonial settings 
● Indigenous perspectives and histories 
● The role of digital technologies in shaping historical narratives 
● The ethics of collecting and exhibiting objects with contested histories 
● The use of visual and material culture in memory activism 
● Legacy of Empire in all its forms 
● Colonialism and civil wars in visual culture 
● Experiences of incarceration or/and silencing 
● Visual renditions related to the question: who owns the past? 
● Objects as carriers of memory 
● Silenced and unsilenced narratives

When and where will this conference take place? 

Online, ensuring an international platform for inclusive, enriching, and creative discussion.  This year, the conference will take place over a day, Thursday 7 November 2024, with coffee and lunch breaks for down-time. 

How to apply and when is the deadline? 

Proposals and abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with a 100-word biography, should be sent to globalnewvoices2024@gmail.com by 11:59 pm GMT on Sunday 1 September 2024. Notifications of acceptance and rejection will be sent out by Monday 16 September. 

Please let us know in the email subject if you are proposing a paper, a Pecha Kucha, or curatorial and artist showcase. 

Please state which country / time zones you will be participating from to facilitate our programming. 

Finally, please indicate whether you agree for your session to be recorded. We will be uploading the conference (or as much as is feasible), to the AAH YouTube channel. 

For more information, contact the organisers: Dr. Alia Soliman, Sean Cham, and Olivia Garro at globalnewvoices2024@gmail.com
https://forarthistory.org.uk/events/cfp-global-new-voices-2024-contested-ing-art-histories-memory-through-visual-and-material-culture/

Contact Information

Online conference for PhD students

Conference Date: Thursday 7 November, 2024

Deadline: Sunday 1 September 2024

Contact Email

globalnewvoices2024@gmail.com

URL

https://forarthistory.org.uk/events/cfp-global-new-voices-2024-contested-ing-ar…

Call for Proposal: The Material Text in Latin America – 2025 College Art Association Annual Conference session

This session, sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America, will explore textual artifacts that have originated or been adapted for use in one or more Latin American cultures. The interplay between cultures, including relationships between different Latin American cultures or between Latin American and other cultures, will be a particular focus. Papers that address any period up to 1914 will be prioritized. A variety of media will be considered, including painted pottery, carved stucco, coins and other metalwork, engraved stone, and manuscripts or printed materials. Examples include the use and reuse of items bearing Indigenous or European script; the reinterpretation of imagery from elsewhere to illustrate Latin American texts; the early European historiography of indigenous Latin American ideographs and pictographs. While attending to the specificity of local traditions, the session will consider the significance of these textual artifacts in intercultural and historiographic perspective. The geographical definition of “Latin America” is open.

Contact Information
Send proposals (title and 250-word maximum abstract) and your CV by 29 August 2024 to Jeanne-Marie Musto, Librarian, New York Public Library, and Bibliographical Society of America liaison to the College Art Association.

Contact Email
musto.jeannemarie@gmail.com
URL
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/cfp.cgi

CFP: Student Employment in Academic Libraries

We at the Indiana University Indianapolis University Library are planning our second Student Employment in Academic Libraries virtual symposium and are looking to expand the scope and audience – to more supervisors AND student employees. If you supervise a student worker, are a student worker, or are interested in working with students, please take a second to consider the following invitation to our program. 

It’s almost time for the second Student Employment in Academic Libraries (SEAL) Symposium, happening virtually October 24 & 25, and we’re inviting you to participate! We’re looking for your proposals for presentations or virtual posters related to the theme of an ethics of care as it’s applied to student employment.

How is the student employment experience at your library informed by an ethics of care? How does knowing student employees and being responsive to their needs, skills, goals, development, interests, identities, or lived experiences factor into specific elements of the employment lifecycle? As a student employee, how has an ethics of care in these aspects shaped your employment experience? These might include for example:

  • Developing positions, projects, or workflows;
  • Hiring, orientation, and training;
  • Evaluation, coaching, and feedback;
  • Communication, project management, teamwork, and workplace relationships, among others.

Give us 150 words (or less) about your work, culture, or practice in student employment or student employment management that embodies an ethic of care. The proposal process is open to both library student employees and staff. Proposals are being accepted for 20-minute presentations, or digital posters.

We’re accepting proposals until July 31st, 2024. We can’t wait to hear from you!

For questions about the symposium or the proposal process, please reach us via email.

sealcomm@iu.edu

CFP: Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration Symposium 2024

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration Symposium 2024, which will take place during this year’s conference on 24 October 2024 at the Te Pae Convention Centre, Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa. Join us on the lands of the Ngāi Tahu to reflect on and discuss the implementation of the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration.

The Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration (the Declaration) is a milestone document that was launched by the International Council of Archives (ICA) and the National Archives of Australia (NAA) on 25 October 2019. The Declaration called on the jurisdictional archives of the world to acknowledge and adopt themes and commitments of the declaration for immediate action. 

The Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration Symposium will provide opportunities to critically reflect on the Declaration, both as a statement of purpose but also as a guide to practical action. The event is an opportunity to hear from and connect with First Nations community members, GLAM practitioners and allies on work undertaken to implement the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration. 

Themes

The Symposium Programming Committee invites community, organisational and institutional perspectives on the use of the Declaration. Participants are encouraged to share the ways in which they have been utilising the Declaration in their work and activities. The day aims to focus on discussing existing projects and invites critical conversations on gaps and needed improvements. 

The Symposium Programming Committee will give preference to lightning talks that align with the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration’s five themes:

  1. Knowledge authorities
  2. Property and ownership
  3. Recognition and identity
  4. Research and access
  5. Self-determination

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Monday 22 July 2024, midnight (AEST)

Submission

You can find full details and how to submit your abstract here.

Questions? Contact the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Special Interest Group

Symposium Programming Committee: Indigenous Archives Collective and ASA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Special Interest Group

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