International Conference Riga, Latvia October 29-31, 2024
Approaching its 100 th anniversary, the Archives of Latvian Folklore (1924), in close cooperation with the SIEF Working Group on Archives and the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property, invites contributions for an international conference addressing a diverse range of issues related to present and future of the archives of traditional culture. The centenary is, of course, a good reason to look back and take stock of what has been done, to understand how the histories of archiving have developed in different countries. But what we would like to do even more at this conference is to assess current situations and to look ahead, say, to the next 10 years.
What is the state of play in archiving and maintaining archives of intangible cultural heritage (in Europe and elsewhere)? What could the near future of tradition archives look like? What can we expect with certainty? What major research and infrastructure projects are planned in the archives? Do the next few years look optimistic for individual archives as well as their networks, or the other way around? What challenges lie ahead of us (legal, ethical, technological, of values)? What new archiving solutions can be offered? What can we learn from the past?
The conference will deal broadly with retrospective and prospective dimensions of archives of folklore, ethnology, and ethnography, encompassing both historical documentation and documentation of living traditions practiced today. We invite folklorists, archivists and researchers from other relevant disciplines to share their studies and critical reflections by submitting paper proposals that would fit into the following thematic sections, all concerning the archives of traditional culture: ● Archives’ history lessons ● International contexts and cooperation ● Current global challenges, including geopolitical and climatic fluctuations ● Archives’ legal issues and current developments, including intellectual property issues and ethics in a digital landscape ● Archival replenishment strategies (cultural memory perspectives and beyond); new structuring and categories; archiving for documentation of ICH projects ● Information technology challenges, including social media and AI; interactivity within digital archives ● Engaging society; community driven / open-source archives; collaboration between archives and community groups; proactively engaging in field research and community projects, especially with under-represented groups and communities ● Repatriation
Please send your proposals by January 31, 2024 to the e-mail address lfk@lulfmi.lv. Submissions should include the name and affiliation of the participant, the paper title and an abstract (up to 300 words).
The last three years have seen substantial changes in the world—a global pandemic, calls for social justice, climate change, economic uncertainty, and political division. Changes that are often beyond our control but affect our work and work life. We must consider the lasting impact of these changes—and ones still to come—as we look to the future of our profession.
Rather than offer a theme to focus the conference around, the Program Committee seeks a multitude of opinions and perspectives from a wide variety of regions and institutions about the state of the field and its future. For those looking for somewhere to start, the Program Committee suggests thinking about the following concepts:
Artificial intelligence and its impacts and opportunities
The future of archival work
Fundraising
Community building and engagement
Public programming and exhibits
Supporting professional growth and leadership
Embedding the archives mindset into the DNA of your organization
Navigating political uncertainty
We are also open to proposals on other topics related to archives and archival work.
Proposal Evaluation
The Program Committee invites submissions for 60–75 minute sessions (live and/or hybrid) and poster presentations. This year, we are introducing one new proposal format and one new session format, which are described below. Proposals are welcome on any aspect of archives, records, and information management—local, state or territorial, national, and international—especially their intersections with other professions and domains. Each proposal will be evaluated on its completeness and the strength of the 150-word abstract. Proposals should incorporate one or more of the following:
Statement of potential impact on archives, records, and information management;
Diversity of presenters, including but not limited to racial diversity, gender diversity, experiential or professional diversity, institutional diversity, diversity of ability, and/or geographic diversity;
Relevance of the topic for SAA members and other interested attendees; and/or
A plan for, or description of, how the session will incorporate interaction and engagement with session attendees.
We expect program sessions to reflect SAA’s commitments to a diverse and inclusive program and profession. Each session should include individuals and/or organizations with varied personal and professional experiences, perspectives, and identities. Please indicate—in a summative way—how your proposal reflects individual, organizational, or geographic diversity and/or supports the development, inclusion, and stewardship of a diverse profession or cultural record. This could include positionality statements that reflect on the unique identities of the panelists in relation to the work they will discuss, a recognition of dominant positionality inherent in your identity or organization, or the ways in which privilege and power manifest in the session and how you will use or respond to it.
Session Formats
The Program Committee encourages submission of proposals that may include, but are not limited to, the following formats:
NEW in 2024!Bring Your Own Breakfast (BYOB). To foster more connection for in-person attendees, we are introducing “Bring Your Own Breakfast” sessions in the morning, before the convening of the main conference. These informal sessions are an opportunity to gather archivists interested in similar topics, particularly emerging areas (like Artificial Intelligence) for connection and collaboration. By proposing a BYOB session, you are committing to facilitating discussion amongst attendees. Similar proposals may be combined.
NEW in 2024! Mix and Match. “Mix and Match” is a new proposal format that will allow individuals to propose an individual talk, rather than a full session. We hope this option will encourage individuals who have not previously submitted a proposal to do so and to provide an opportunity to connect archivists who might not have otherwise met one another. We will accept proposals for 5 or 20-minute presentations.
Lightning Talks. Session consisting of eight to ten lively and informative 5-minute talks. The session chair secures commitments from speakers and compiles all presentation slides into one single presentation to ensure timely speaker transitions.
Panel Presentation. Session consisting of a panel of three to five individuals discussing or presenting theories or perspectives on a given topic. Session may consist of a series of prepared presentations or a moderated discussion, and should include time for audience feedback. If giving prepared presentations, presentation titles should be provided and will be printed in the program. A moderator is required (this role may be performed by the chair); a commentator is optional.
Poster Presentation. Report in which information is summarized using brief written statements and graphic materials, such as photographs, charts, graphs, and/or diagrams mounted on poster board (if in person) or in a PDF document (if virtual). Presenters will be assigned a specific time at which they must be with their poster to discuss it with attendees, if presenting in-person.
Alternative Format. Don’t feel confined by the prescribed formats—suggest an alternative or create your own! Alternative format sessions may take a variety of forms. Examples include world café and fishbowl discussions. Propose a moderated debate offering opposing points of view, or an “experiential” format involving simulation, role play, or games to convey key principles and learning objectives. We welcome your creative ideas about how your topic might best be addressed! Proposals in this category must: 1) specify the format and session facilitator and 2) describe briefly how the format will enhance the presentation of the material. You may suggest up to four presenters for the session.
Your format choice will not affect the Program Committee’s decision. The Committee may, however, recommend that the proposed format be changed if it believes that a different format may better serve the session’s learning objectives or desired audience.
Submit Proposal
Proposals for the 2024 Annual Meeting are due on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. CT. The Program Committee will not consider proposals received after the deadline.
Submission form will be available by November 20, 2023.
The 2024 Program Committee has created a Google spreadsheet to be used as an informal tool to connect individuals who are seeking ideas and/or collaboration on session proposals for the 2024 Annual Meeting. It is not monitored by SAA or the Program Committee and is not part of the official submission process.
Questions? Contact the Conference Office at conference@archivists.org.
The Society of California Archivists (SCA) invites submissions of session proposals for our second all-virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) which will be held from April 15-19, 2024.
The Program Committee welcomes proposals, particularly those based on next year’s theme of Pivoting: Responding to Changes in the Archives. The theme can be broadly interpreted to address how we respond to changes in the field, in the workplace, or how personal pivots affect our careers. We aim to include a broad and diverse range of sessions and topics including, but not limited to:
Career transitions
Disaster planning and recovery
Changes in institutional partnerships
Space renovations
Moving physical collections
Migrating digital collections
Pandemic-specific pivots
Institutional reorganizations
New approaches to processing/collection management
Please note that proposals do not have to fit into the theme to be included. Other aspects of archival practice and research are also welcomed.
First-time presenters, current graduate students, early-career professionals, solo archivists, community members, and other individuals who work with archival materials in less traditional or unconventional roles are encouraged to submit a proposal. We welcome proposals from archivists and memory workers at all stages of their career.
Or if you have a session topic in mind and want to reach out to possible co-presenters, feel free to use thisAGM Session Idea Sheet to help make connections.
The deadline for proposals is Monday, December 4, 2023 (11:59p PT).
We look forward to your proposals and thanks for helping us make the 2024 AGM a successful one!
2024 Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting — Spokane, WA
May 8 – 10, 2024
Seeking Balance: Sustainability and Adaptation
Northwest Archivists’ 2024 Annual Meeting will be held in Spokane, Washington, from May 8-10. In 2024, the Spokane community will observe and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Expo ‘74, Spokane’s World’s Fair, the first such exposition to focus on the environment. Taking inspiration from the Fair, our theme is Seeking Balance: Sustainability and Adaptation. This theme invites consideration of how issues related to the environment, sustainability and adaptation intersect with archives and allied professions. While we seek balance, we are frequently required to adapt and react to changing circumstances. We must also be responsive to the changing climate, to different resource allocations, to new staffing models, and much, much more.
Call For Proposals:
Session proposals for the NWA 2024 Annual Meeting are due on Friday, December 8 by 11:59pm Pacific Time. Acceptances will be communicated to presenters in January 2024. Submission Form. See the full Call for Proposals HERE
Call for Papers Date: September 18, 2023 – November 28, 2023 Location: Finland
The new history of experience seeks to comprehend the complex, multidimensional relationships between history and experience. As a burgeoning field of study, it is self-reflective and dynamic, with scholars constantly refining their approaches, and indeed reassessing the notion of experience itself. To develop the history of experience into a robust historical approach, scholars continually ask probing questions regarding sources, concepts, methods, and methodologies. In this vein, the organisers of the sixth annual HEX conference have chosen to interrogate the concepts of memory and temporality as modes of experience. This thematic focus aims to encourage scholars to reflect on experience beyond its external traces, and to mine the more elusive spheres of the internal, the cognitive, and the unconscious. We are looking for panels and papers that consider how, or even if, memory and temporality are complicit in processes of experiencing; that is, how memory and temporality might influence, nurture, define, or disrupt individual and group experiences.
This theme will provoke some important and challenging questions, for example:
how might experience influence ephemeral concepts such as memory and temporality?
how might structures and understandings of time and memory shape experience?
how does experience, or remembered experience, change over time and what conditions impact on the changes?
how might one experience memory and temporality (materially, visually, physically, psychologically, emotionally, collectively, individually, institutionally – the list could go on) and what evidence can historians effectively use to capture this?
what is the impact of situated contexts on what is remembered (or deemed worth remembering)?
what role does historical consciousness have in selective memory, challenges to memory or experiences of the past?
how might temporality affect ways of remembering and the experience of what is remembered (including forgetfulness, situated trauma, silence, repression, and lying or truth telling)?
what methodologies are best suited to exploring the intersection of experience, memory, and temporality?
Panel Proposals and Individual Paper Proposals
The organisers invite scholars working both within the history of experiences (ancient, mediaeval, modern, from all regions of the world) to submit proposals. Contributions from disciplines other than history are warmly welcome, as long as they take a view on historical experience. We anticipate that a diversity of perspectives will be most effective in broadening our current conceptions of experience, gaining insight into the broader processes that impact it and expanding the pool of source materials deemed effective in the pursuit of historical experience. We encourage proposals for both coherent panels comprising three to four papers, or individual paper proposals.
Please submit your proposal by 28 November 2023via this link according to the following instructions. All proposals MUST address the concept of experience in addition to memory and/or temporality. The conference will take place in person only.
For complete panels, send a joint 400-word abstract, together with brief bios and paper titles for each proposed speaker.
For individual papers, send a 250-word abstract together with a brief bio.
Online Video Poster Competition
We also invite submissions for an online video poster session and competition. We especially encourage submissions from doctoral students and early career researchers who cannot make it to Finland but who would like both to share their ideas and to discuss them with scholars working in the field. As per the conference theme, posters must directly engage with the concept of experience along with memory and/or temporality. The posters will be strictly 5 minutes maximum in length. Posters that fit the criteria will be uploaded to the HEX website before the conference where an associated discussion board will be available for commentary and critical discussion. A selection of posters will be chosen by a committee for a hybrid screening and discussion session at the conference. €To participate in the poster video competition, please send an email to hexconference@tuni.fi. We will send you detailed information on how to make and submit the video. The deadline for video posters is 1 February 2024.
A one-day symposium sponsored by Historic Deerfield, and the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College
Date: Saturday, March 9, 2024
CFP Deadline: December 11, 2023
Location: Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA
This symposium will explore the textual, visual, and material cultures of queer New England from the time of European settlement to the present. Conceptions of sex, gender, and sexuality changed dramatically from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, and scholars continue to assess the consequences of those changes for diverse historical subjects. Ideas about sex operated in tandem with ideas about race and class and these perceptions shaped the ways some New Englanders created queer spaces and places by blurring normative boundaries. The symposium will address echoes of queerness where it was expressed explicitly and implicitly and consider the implications of locating queer pasts among more traditional narratives of America’s history, art, literature, and built environment.
We invite paper proposals that evaluate some of the terminological and methodological challenges inherent in scholarly approaches to determining queer expressions in the past. Is it fruitful to question the apparent shift from conceiving of same-sex eroticism as based in acts as opposed to individual identities? What comprised queerness in visual and literary sources, and how did that differ from its resonance in design, architecture, and social spaces? How did New Englanders’ race, class, ethnicity, or disability factor into conceptions and expressions of queerness? How did New Englanders leverage notions of queerness both to restrict and to amplify individuals’ self-expression? How should twenty-first-century museums and historical sites interpret queer pasts for public audiences?
The symposium aims to attract scholars from various disciplines and those working in public-facing cultural organizations who are undertaking work on topics as varied as the New England resonances of particular queer identities (such as indigenous two-spirit people), intersections between queer artists, authors, and architects and their creative work (such as same-sex relationships and the Colonial Revival), and ways in which New Englanders imbued landscapes and social spaces with queer meanings (as in queer resort towns).
Papers should be theoretical or analytical in nature rather than descriptive and should be approximately 20 minutes long. All proposals will be peer-reviewed. Speakers invited to present papers will receive overnight accommodation and are expected to participate fully in the in-person symposium program on site.
Please submit via email a 250-word proposal and a two-page c.v. to Erika Gasser egasser@historic-deerfield.org and Martha McNamara mmcnamar@wellesley.edu. Proposals should include the title of the paper and the presenter’s name. The deadline for submissions is December 11, 2023.
Please note that the 2024 Forum will be virtual. We encourage in-person satellite events to be organized in conjunction with the virtual forum, see below for more information. We will be adding information to the Event page as it becomes available. We hope to see you there!
The BitCurator Consortium (BCC) invites proposals for the 2024 BitCurator Forum to be held virtually the week of March 18-22, 2024 (final dates TBD). An international, community-led organization with 39 member organizations representing 53 institutions, the BCC promotes and supports the application of free and open-source digital archives tools and practices in libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations.
2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the BitCurator Consortium. As we take a moment to celebrate our achievements from the past 10 years, we also take a step back to reflect on our journey so far.
How have things changed?
How has your practice changed? (i.e., shifting away from digital forensics to other methods of transfer and acquisition)
How have you faced the challenges of working with born-digital material in the cloud?
How do you make the decision to use AI and machine learning in your work?
How have the existential issues facing digital archives changed and how has that changed your work?
Lessons learned?
How are you working to reevaluate past work and reflect on your failures and successes?
How do you measure your successes and failures?
How are you incorporating changes into your existing workflows?
Where do we go from here?
How do we sustain and foster a healthy community of practice?
How do you achieve buy-in and support for your work?
How to onboard folks new to the field of digital archives?
The BCC Forum Committee recognizes that the field of digital archives is broad and diverse, and accepts proposals that focus on any related topic from any areas of interest. We particularly encourage proposals to consider the themes mentioned above.
The Forum Committee welcomes participation from organizations and individuals working outside of academic and special collections libraries and archives, members from BIPOC communities, students, and new professionals.
The BitCurator Forum is open to all. You do not need to be a BCC member or BitCurator user to submit a proposal and/or attend the event.See examples of past Forum presentations here.
Deadlines
Submission Deadline: Friday, November 17
Acceptance Notification: Friday, December 8
Speaker confirmation/changes: Friday, December 22
Program Posted: Week of January 8
Session Types
The Forum Committee encourages participant-focused session formats that incorporate interactivity. This can include any type of non-traditional session format, such as peer-to-peer learning sessions, collaborative working sessions, roundtables, goal-oriented hack-a-thons, etc
Demos / How-to’s
Sessions facilitated by individuals or groups are welcome. 60 minutes
Please submit a 250-word (maximum) abstract describing the session format and topic(s), as well as learning objectives if applicable.
These sessions are intended to replace workshops and have a broad audience, but serve as an opportunity to share workflows or demonstrate a new tool or process you are working on or have used at your institution.
To encourage participation and access for all attendees, these sessions will not have registration limits.
Panels Presentations or Short Papers
Panel: 40 minutes
Short Papers: 20 minutes
Please submit a 250-word (maximum) abstract. If submitting a short paper, individual panelists may be matched by the BCC Forum Committee based on the complementarity of subjects or overarching themes.
We encourage presentations to move beyond the case study (see Lightning Talks for this format) and address pressing issues, best practices, opportunities for collaboration, visions, and expanded uses for digital archives in libraries, archives, museums, and beyond. The Forum Committee strongly encourages proposals from underrepresented groups, and/or those that feature the perspectives of a variety of roles — including students — organizations, or fields. For group presentations, we strongly discourage proposals from all white male presenters. We particularly welcome alternative panel formats that will facilitate engagement, including group discussions.
Lightning Talks
1 presenter, 5 minutes
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words.
Lightning talks are a great format for case studies, digital archives “success stories” or “tales of woe,” research updates, and short demos or how-tos.
BitCurator Satellites and Other Formats
Other types of formats can be proposed, and we welcome formats that incorporate in-person elements.
This year we again encourage community members to host BitCurator Satellites, local on-site events held in conjunction with the online BitCurator Forum. This is an experimental hybrid conference model, intended to complement the online BitCurator Forum by supporting partners and friends so they can host sessions, workshops and talks for a local audience. Here are some examples of events from 2023.
A call for satellite hosts will be sent out later this fall.
All sessions will be hosted live on Zoom. Final time length of sessions may be adjusted in the final program. The Forum Committee will communicate any changes about this with speakers as early as possible.
Authors are invited to submit a minimum 2-page abstract (not including references and bio) using the Archiving Submission Template as a base (all sections MUST be addressed) for peer-review describing original work in technical areas related to 2D, 3D, and AV materials. Papers may also address business and cost models; collaborations and partnerships; best practices, lessons learned, and case studies. Submissions are welcome in, but not limited to, the following areas:
Digitization / Imaging
New developments in digitization technologies and workflows
Advanced imaging techniques and image processing, e.g., multispectral imaging, 3D imaging, software
Large scale/mass digitization and workflow management systems
Quality assurance and control of digitization workflow, e.g., data, targets, software, automation, integration
Preservation / Archiving
Standards and guidelines for secure and sustainable preservation and archiving methods
Management of metadata, formats, specifications, and systems
Archival and preservation models and workflows
Techniques for analyzing and processing collections at scale
Access / Presentation
Dissemination/use of digitized/imaged materials, e.g., rights management, crowdsourcing, data mining, data visualization
Deep learning algorithms to improve search results; AI, machine learning, etc.
Data visualization and automated programming interface
Open access and open data strategies
Integration of linked open data and source solutions
Management and Assessment
Sustainability in archiving and digitization
Policies, strategies, plans, and risk management; repository assessment
Work models: adaptation and opportunities in a hybrid model
Remote collaboration and hybrid work
In recognition of some continued limitations within lab and in-person environments, we will still consider a selection of submissions that may be more focused on significant updates or additions to existing projects or projects in progress; lessons learned are also welcome, including approaches that turned out to be less than optimal (lessons of what not to do).
All papers presented at Archiving 2024 are published Open Access. For reference, papers from past Archiving conferences are published on the IS&T Digital Library/Archiving.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS AND PUBLICATION
All submitted proposals are peer-reviewed to ensure that the program provides significant, timely, and authoritative information.
Papers presented at the conference should be complete in regard to advancing the state of knowledge in the area of cultural heritage archiving.
All papers presented at Archiving 2024 are published Open Access in the conference proceedings, indexed with various services, filed with the US Library of Congress, and made available as downloadable PDFs through the IS&T Digital Library. Authors may also post the authoritative version of accepted papers in repositories and on websites.
Authors are expected to adhere to the guidelines and ethics found in the IS&T Publication Policy.
To help support free access to manuscripts, a paid conference registration is required for each paper presented.
The conference language is English.
How to Submit
Prospective authors are encouraged to review all the details below, as well as the IS&T Publication Policy.
Authors have the option to submit either a traditional conference paper, which will be published in the Archiving proceedings, or a Journal-first paper, which appears in the journal prior to the meeting start date, and as a reprint in the Archiving proceedings, giving the author a journal citation. Journal-first is available for the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (JIST) or the Journal of Perceptual Imaging (JPI).
JOURNAL-FIRST PAPER
Submit via: jist.msubmit.netORjpi.msubmit.net Submission Deadline: 15 Nov 2023 Submission Format: Standard-length, publication-ready paper Review Format: Standard journal peer-review
Why Journal-First?
Gain an Open Access journal citation, plus conference presentation.
Guaranteed presentation slot if accepted with minor revisions. Papers requiring major revisions may or may not have a speaking slot depending on timing.
Initial decisions and requests for revision, if required, will be sent to authors by 10 January. Final papers are due by 29 February 2024, following the final decision letter.
Upon acceptance of papers, authors will pay page charges and register for Archiving per the individual journal’s requirements. Rejected papers will be reviewed for possible inclusion in Archiving using the conference submission criteria.
Prospective authors are encouraged to review all the details below, as well as the IS&T Publication Policy.
Submit: Archiving Submission Site Submission Deadline: 20 December 2023 Submission Format: minimum 2-page extended abstract (excluding bio and references) using the Archiving Submission Template (MS Word) Review Format: Peer-review
REQUIREMENTS
Extended abstract (minimum 2-pages of content excluding references and bio) describing original work in any technical areas related to the program topics. This may include updates to existing projects or projects in progress, as well as completed projects.
Only abstracts submitted according to the IS&T guidelines and template will be considered.
The abstract should clearly explain the technical content, including how the material is new or distinct from previously presented/published work on the same topic, or whether it is an update or addition to previous work. Submission may also include “lessons learned”, approaches that turned out to be less than optimal that can be shared as learning experiences of what not to do. The paper may speculate on how your research ideas will impact the field in the future.
List primary author and all co-authors with a maximum 50-word bio for each.
Provide complete contact info (address, phone, e-mail) for the primary author.
Agree to register for the conference and present the paper during the technical program as scheduled.
Agree to submit a final paper by 4 March 2024, if accepted. While IS&T encourages 4-6 page proceedings papers, we also accept 1-2 page extended abstracts. Extended abstracts are provided to registrants, but not posted with the Archiving Proceedings in the IS&T Digital Library.
PRESENTATION FORMAT
Authors may request a 20-minute oral presentation (includes Q&A) or 40-minute interactive poster session presentation format; both are considered of equal value, importance, and merit.
The interactive poster option enables presenters to engage with other conference delegates and get more feedback during an interactive poster session.
DECISION NOTIFICATION
Final decisions on acceptance and presentation format (oral or interactive poster paper) are at the discretion of the Technical Program Committee. Notices of acceptance will be sent 16 January 2024.
Upon notice of acceptance, authors are sent detailed instructions for submitting the revised 1-2 page extended abstract for inclusion in the final program to registrants, or the full text of the final 4-6 page paper for publication in the conference proceedings, including forms for “transfer of copyright,” which includes CC-BY and government employee options. Please note that each author is responsible for obtaining appropriate clearance as necessary.
Final papers and extended abstracts are due 4 March 2024.
The Business of Music Symposium 2024 Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Ragtime & Jazz Festival Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Wednesday and Thursday, February 21-22, 2024
Mississippi State University Libraries is pleased to announce the second annual Business of Music Symposium to be held as part of the 18th Annual Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Ragtime & Jazz Festival. The Symposium will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, February 21-22, and the Ragtime Festival will follow on February 22-24, 2024.
The Symposium is a free multidisciplinary gathering that aims to encourage and support research and scholarship on topics related to the Charles H. Templeton, Sr. “Business of Music” Collection at the Mitchell Memorial Library on the campus of Mississippi State University.
The Templeton Collection focuses on music business during the Ragtime era (1890-1930), but paper proposals may cover any era of the sheet music and recording industries. The Templeton Music Collection includes approximately 20,000 pieces of sheet music, over 200 instruments, 2,000 cylinders and 14,000 flat discs. More information about the collection, as well as digitized material from the collections, is available here: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/charles-h-templeton/
The first day of the symposium will be in-person; the second day will be reserved for virtual presentations. Submissions are now open for proposals for individual presentations and panels. Presentations based on research conducted using the Templeton Collections are encouraged, although use of the collections is not a requirement for acceptance.
Possible topics include:
Careers of individual singers, composers, or people otherwise involved in creating music
Role and impact of individual publishing houses or record labels
Art and design themes of sheet music and record sleeve covers
Approaches to teaching with sheet music
Intersections of art, design, and commerce: musical instruments and machines as home décor
Music and advances in recording and playback technology
Issues of race, gender, class, and ethnicity in the sheet music and recording industries
Please submit an abstract (with title) of no more than 300 words and a brief professional bio to msstate.libwizard.com/f/BusinessofMusic2024 by November 15, 2023. Pre-selected panels of 3-4 presenters are welcome; individual presentations will be assembled into panels by the program committee. Individual papers should be no longer than 20 minutes and complete panels should not exceed 60 minutes. Please also indicate if you are able to present virtually, in-person, or both and if you would like your presentation to be recorded and/or streamed.
We welcome proposals from scholars at all stages of their professional and academic careers.
Chip and Connie Templeton Research Scholarship
The Chip and Connie Templeton Scholarship, which is $500 to be applied towards the costs of presenting at the Symposium, will once again be offered for the 2024 Symposium. To apply, please complete the scholarship entry form at https://msstate.libwizard.com/f/BusinessofMusic2024_Scholarship and include your name, affiliation, proposed session title, and a brief summary (not more than 500 words) on how the funds would positively affect your participation in the symposium. Deadline for applications for the scholarship is November 15, 2023. While the use of the Templeton Collection is not a requirement of the award, preference is given to scholars who have utilized the collection in their research.
About the Charles H. Templeton Ragtime and Jazz Festival
The Charles Templeton, Sr. Ragtime & Jazz Festival is sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the Charles Templeton Sr. Music Museum as a means of enhancing the research in the area of ragtime music, increasing the awareness of the Templeton collection housed in the MSU Library and introducing people to the sounds of Ragtime being performed by world-renowned ragtime musicians.
The festival is comprised of a blend of major concerts, mini-concerts, seminars and tours of the Music Museum. Seminars are held in Mitchell Memorial Library and major concerts are held at the Bettersworth Auditorium in Lee Hall on the MSU Campus. For more information about the festival visit http://festival.library.msstate.edu.
Oral history can be powerful in so many ways. Interviews generate potent emotions. Recordings capture the power of voice as well as the power of silence. Multimedia productions engage and connect new audiences with the complexities of the past.
Fundamentally, oral history transforms the historical archive and challenges mainstream histories. It can shift traditional power dynamics, bring forth new voices and perspectives, reshape policies and politics, and shake up old certainties.
Yet those possibilities come with risk as well as reward. Recording sensitive subjects is never easy. Creating an oral history production takes time, skill and care, and sometimes goes wrong. Imaginative re-uses of oral history recordings can raise ethical and legal complexities. And oral histories that disrupt accepted narratives can generate pain and conflict, in families, communities and nations.
Our conference welcomes participants who use oral history in their work across the many fields and disciplines that contribute to community, professional and academic histories. We welcome presenters from Victoria and around Australia, from across the Tasman and throughout the oral history world, from First Nations and culturally diverse backgrounds. We invite proposals for individual presentations, workshops, performances and thematic panels that speak to The Power of Oral History– Risks, Rewards and Possibilities.
Join us in Melbourne in November 2024 for a celebration of the power of oral history. Our conference venue is the state-of-the-art Trinity College Gateway Centre on the campus of the University of Melbourne, in inner city Parkville, close to cafes, restaurants, parks, public transport and accommodation. The venue is accessible with a dedicated lift.
On Thursday 21 November oral history training workshops will be followed by the conference welcome reception in the evening. The main conference will be on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 of November, and on Sunday 24 participants may enjoy a variety of history tours in Melbourne and Victoria.
Conference sub-themes
Conference sub-themes may include, but are not limited to:
Indigenous oral histories and oral traditions
Oral history, culture and language
Interpreting memory in oral history
Transgressing boundaries with oral history
Documenting diverse voices with oral history
Histories of protest, activism and rights
Contested memories and histories
Oral histories of working lives and social class
Migrant and refugee history
Gender and oral history
LGBTIQA+ oral histories
Ethical issues in oral history
Technology and oral history
Archiving and oral history
Giving voice to history through music
Oral histories of family, community or place
Creative uses of oral history recordings
Oral history in galleries, libraries and museums
Requirements
All proposals to present at the conference must be submitted using the conference EasyChair submission portal (see below) no later than 1 April 2024.
We welcome proposals for presentations in a variety of formats and media, including standard paper presentations (typically 20 minutes); short ‘lightning’ accounts of work in progress (typically 5 minutes); participatory workshops; performances; or thematic panels comprising several presenters. Presentations should involve oral history. Contact the Chair of the Conference Program Committee, Professor Alistair Thomson, (alistair.thomson@monash.edu) if you would like to discuss the format or focus of your presentation before you submit it.
Proposals for presentations / papers / panels / posters should be no more than 200 words (single space, 12 point font in Times New Roman) and must include at the top of the page, your name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), postal address, phone number and email address, the title for your presentation/panel, the sub-theme/s your work best connects to, and the presentation format (standard 20 minute paper; 5 minute ‘lightning’ account of work in progress; thematic panel; performance; or participatory workshop).
Presenters will be encouraged to submit papers to the refereed, online Oral History Australiajournal, Studies in Oral History.
To use this online conference management system, you will need to create an author account (a simple process that we have used in previous conferences) and then submit your proposal by uploading it as a PDF document (with full details as listed above).
If you are unable to use this system, please email your proposal as a PDF attachment to ohavictoria2024@gmail.com.
Further information
In launching this website we are also inviting submissions for Presentations. Go to our Call for Presentations to find out more about the conference theme and the guidelines for submitting a proposal.
For conference information or to join the conference mailing list, email our Oral History Victoria hosts at: ohavictoria2024@gmail.com.
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