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

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…

Biennial conferences of the International Oral History Association (IOHA) allow for reviewing the global conditions and problems of oral history, regardless of the actual conference theme. This time, the organizers of the 23rd IOHA Conference call on oral historians worldwide to consciously rethink the idea and practice of their discipline.

Oral history today faces both old and new challenges with long-lasting and unpredictable consequences: the crisis of liberal democracy, growing tensions in international politics, climate change with its devastating outcomes on human life, increasing inequalities, wars, and mass migrations. All of the foregoing not only affect the conditions in which oral history is made, but also compels us to rethink its very aim. For Central and Eastern Europe, the full-scale Russian aggression in Ukraine beginning in February 2022 and its consequences are an especially painful reminder of that. Though oral history was, and still is a part of history, it has always been conscious of the responsibility (oral) history has for the current society. Aware of that mission, we encourage the global oral history community to return to the core questions of our practice: what kind of histories should we tell and pass on to the current and future generations?

Therefore, we invite oral historians to rethink this essential issue during the conference that will take place in September 2025 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Participants are encouraged to address one or more of the following questions in their proposals:

– Political involvement or independence: is ethical neutrality achievable and morally correct in a polarized world?
– Methodological standards: how much does the technological development of AI challenge them?
– Healing the wounds: how far can the therapeutic role of oral history go?
– Oral history responses to human crises: what methodological and ethical problems of emergency documenting and archiving may we use?
– “Lending our ears” (Portelli): how can we provide silenced and marginalized voices access to the public discourse?
– Oral history and environmental history: what are the areas of cooperation?
– Empowering community archives: how to teach them to create their own oral histories?
– How do we balance the dominance of Western academia with the voices of the non-Western world? – agency and resources.
– Globality versus locality of oral history: how to translate local practices into internationally recognized scholarship?
– Post-coloniality: how does oral history help societies reckon with colonial pasts and assist in building post-colonial futures?
– Disseminating oral history: what new methods can we use to present interviews to our audiences?
– Multilingualism as a challenge to global oral history: how to record stories in mother tongues?

Proposals for individual papers, session panels (5 papers each), or audiovisual presentations (film/play screenings followed by round table discussions) are to be submitted by July 31, 2024, via the online form on the conference website: https://ioha2025.conference.pl. Members of national oral history associations are encouraged to check the appropriate box and provide the name of the relevant organization. Individual paper proposals (up to 300 words) must contain the title of the paper, an abstract, and a short bio-note of its author(s). Panel proposals (up to 600 words) must include the title and a description of the session, the titles of all papers, and short bio-notes for all participants. Panel proposals must be international in membership (representing at least two countries). Please indicate the language of your paper/panel (English or Spanish). Audio-visual presentation proposals, in addition to including a description of the film/play (up to 300 words), must provide the names and bios of all discussants. If the film/play is not in English, please make sure that it is subtitled. English will be the main language of the conference. Only the plenary events will be translated into Spanish.

Decisions on the acceptance or rejection of proposals will be announced by the end of September 2024. Registration will be open between October 2024 and January 2025. The conference’s program will be ready by February 2025.

The organizers will not cover travel and accommodation costs; however, IOHA may provide a limited number of travel grants (more information on how to apply can be found on the IOHA website: https://www.ioha.org).

In case of any questions, do not hesitate to contact organizers via email: ioha.krakow@gmail.com

Organizer: Polish Oral History Association
Co-organizers: Centre of Community Archives in Warsaw, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity in Warsaw (ENRS), Faculty of History, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, International Oral History Association (IOHA), The Remembrance and Future Centre in Wrocław

Contact Email

ioha.krakow@gmail.com

URL

https://ioha2025.conference.pl