Category: Call for Presentations

CFP: 2024 Oral History Association Annual Meeting

Call for Proposals for the 2024 Oral History Association Annual Meeting, to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, from October 30 to November 2. The URLs below should offer all the essential meeting info, but we will try to answer any question that they don’t! Those questions can go to the OHA’s home office (oha@oralhistory.org), Conference Committee Chair Ellen Brooks (ellen.b.brooks@gmail.com), or me (troy.reeves@wisc.edu).

We hope to see you in Cincinnati later this year!

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CFP: Graduate Student Program Proposals SAA Annual Meeting

The 2024 Student Program Subcommittee is accepting proposals for two special sessions dedicated to student scholarship during the 2024 Annual Meeting in August. Work from both master’s and doctoral students will be considered. This call encompasses proposals for sessions to be presented either in-person or virtually during the hybrid annual meeting.

Graduate Student Presentation

The work of three current archives students and/or SAA student chapters will be selected for presentation. Each speaker will be allotted fifteen minutes to present a paper. Be creative! Proposals from individual students as well as SAA student chapter groups will be considered. Proposals may relate to the student’s applied or theoretical research, research about the archives profession itself, or even practical/internship experiences. Student chapters may consider presenting on projects or initiatives conducted in the current term (Fall 2023 through Summer 2024). Participant selection will be based on the quality of proposals submitted.

Graduate Student Poster

The 24th annual Graduate Student Poster Session will showcase the work of both individual students and SAA Student Chapters.

All posters will be presented in-person and virtually in PDF format. More information about preparing posters will be shared upon acceptance. Posters will be available to all meeting attendees throughout the week of the conference and on the virtual platform.

Individual posters may describe applied or theoretical research that is completed or underway; discuss interesting collections with which students have worked; or report on archives and records projects in which students have participated (e.g., development of finding aids, public outreach, database construction, etc.). Submissions should focus on research or activity conducted within the previous academic year (Fall 2023 to Summer 2024).

Student chapter posters may describe chapter activities, events, and/or other involvement with the archives and records professions. A single representative should coordinate the submission of each Student Chapter proposal.

Submission Instructions and Deadline

To submit a paper or poster proposal, please complete the proposal form no later than March 15. (Proposals received after this date will not be considered.) Emailed submissions or submissions in any other format will not be accepted.

SAA encourages broad participation in the ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2024. All presenters—including speakers, session chairs, commentators, and poster presenters—are limited to participation in one session. Please alert the 2024 Student Program Subcommittee if you have agreed to participate in another accepted session.

If presenters wish to attend any portion of the 2024 Annual Meeting, they will need to secure institutional or personal funding to register for the conference. SAA is not able to consider complimentary registration for student presenters.

Proposals are due on March 15

Proposals received after this date will not be considered. If you have any questions, please contact conference@archivists.org.

Submit Your Proposal

CFP: CIMA Annual Conference

The 2024 hybrid Annual Conference for the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists will be held from May 29, 2024 to June 01, 2024 in Reno, Nevada, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.

We are bringing it back to the basics and looking to the future for 2024 with a program focused on discussing core archival principles as well as innovative projects with an eye on the future! Session topics may include but certainly are not limited to workflows, processes, archival description, mentoring, outreach, relationship building, digitization, and beyond! 

For the full Call for Proposals and to submit, go to: cimarchivists.org/annual_conference

Proposals for the following are encouraged: Pre-conference workshops, Conference Sessions, Breakout rooms/roundtable discussions, and Posters.

Presenters can attend in person or present virtually. 

Submission deadline: February 16, 2024 (may be extended)

Call for Posters: Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting

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 Posters:

The Northwest Archivists 2024 Program Committee welcomes poster proposals in broad support of the Annual Meeting theme Seeking Balance: Sustainability and Adaptation. Deadline for proposals is March 1, 2024. Notification will be made the week of March 11. Submit your proposal using 2024 Poster Proposal Form.

CFP: Southwest Oral History Association

The Southwest Oral History Association is a 40+-year-old organization celebrating oral history in and of the American Southwest. Our annual meeting will take place at the University of California, Riverside from May 31 to June 3, 2024. 

We invite independent oral historians, university-affiliated scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, community members, and others to submit a proposal.

Proposals from interdisciplinary fields (such as American studies, ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, musicology and critical dance theory, media and cultural studies, and education) along with traditional fields (such as history, anthropology, and sociology) are welcomed and should include clear evidence of oral history research and/or offer innovative insights on methodologies and practices.

Please consider submitting an abstract that includes, but is not limited to:

  • Community-based methodologies
  • Oral histories as repair work/reparative archives
  • Intersectional justice frameworks
  • Cross-collaborative memory work
  • Storywork/storytelling
  • Digital humanities
  • Decolonization and collective healing

To review submissions requirements and submit a proposal, visit: https://forms.gle/rW6WZQjVxPbKGCHe9 

Contact Information

Southwest Oral History Association 
SOHA@unlv.edu 

Contact Email

SOHA@unlv.edu

URL

https://southwestoralhistory.org/

CFP: MAC 2024 Pop-Up Session

The 2024 Program Committee invites pop-up session proposals on all aspects of archival practice and research, as well as from related fields. Touching on the conference theme, “Sowing Seeds of Change,” we encourage you to consider areas of growth, cultivation and restoration in our profession that have recently “popped-up.” Proposal submissions from students, new professionals, and first-time presenters are highly encouraged.  Note that membership in MAC is not required to present.

Resubmissions of proposals that were not accepted to the 2024 program are encouraged.

Proposals are due February 5, 2024. 

Call for Presenters: Collection Management and Description Sections webinar

The Collection Management & Description Sections will be hosting a webinar in April on the theme of “Getting Basic Descriptive Control over Collection Holdings” and we are actively seeking presenters!

Have you experienced a collection move and lived to tell the tale? Do you have helpful suggestions for people embarking on a backlog project or barcoding project? Are you a traditional archivist now responsible for getting basic descriptive control over “non-archival” materials, like books, periodicals, or museum-type artifacts? We welcome proposals around any of the following topics:

  • Collection moves
  • Barcoding projects
  • Backlog projects
  • Accessioning as processing
  • Descriptive control over non-archival materials, like books or periodicals

We are looking for speakers to share their experience in a 10-15 minute virtual presentation planned tentatively for a Monday in April, date TBD based on presenters’ availability. We would love to have diverse presenters and institutions represented: speakers from small institutions, HBCUs, and community archives are encouraged.  

If you’re interested in presenting, please send a brief proposal to Sarah Jones (sarah.jones1@unlv.edu) by January 31st. Please feel free to email with any questions!

Call for Submissions to 2024 ALA LHRT Research Forum: Trouble, Trouble, Trouble 

The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) seeks proposals for its annual Research Forum, to be held in advance of the 2024 ALA Annual Meeting. 

To accommodate as many LHRT members as possible, the 2024 LHRT Research Forum will be held virtually on a date to be determined in early-to-mid June 2024.

 The theme of the Forum is “Trouble, Trouble, Trouble.” The Forum will examine libraries facing internal or external crises around the globe and across centuries. Each speaker will be asked to present for approximately 20 minutes, with a 10-minute Q&A to follow.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, histories of: 

  • Censorship, book banning, book burning
  • Libraries during wars and wartime conditions
  • Institutional financial difficulties and funding issues
  • Natural disasters and their impact on libraries and services
  • Survival and loss of libraries and staff
  • Disinformation and the spread of disinformation 

LHRT welcomes submissions from researchers of all backgrounds, including library students, practitioners, faculty, independent researchers, and those retired from the field. LHRT especially encourages submissions from early-career researchers.  

Each proposal must give the paper title, an abstract (up to 500 words), and the presenter’s one-page vita. Please indicate in the abstract whether the research is in-progress or completed. 

The LHRT Research Committee will select up to three authors to present their completed work at the Forum. Proposals are due January 31; successful proposals will be notified shortly thereafter. Completed papers are due May 31. 

Please submit proposals and direct inquiries to Alea Henle, LHRT Vice Chair/Research Committee Chair, at henlear@miamioh.edu. 

Research Committee Members: 

Alea Henle 
Jennifer Bartlett 
Catherine Minter 
Deborah Smith
Leah DiCiesare

CFP: Sustainability in Practice: DIY Repair, Reuse and Innovation

Sustainability in Practice: DIY Repair, Reuse and Innovation
30 October–2 November 2024 
Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
Conference webpage: http://enmconferences.ee/sustainability-2024

This conference addresses ecological sustainability through do it yourself (DIY) practices, and through consumer behaviour and heritage. The focus on DIY repair, reuse and vernacular innovation seeks to examine sustainability in the context of everyday life and domestic and community settings. By bringing together anthropological, ethnological, sociological and craft studies perspectives, the conference aims to show and discuss contemporary, traditional and vernacular sustainable practices.

Repair, reuse and repurpose of diverse commodities and materials, and vernacular innovation, are today increasingly perceived as part of sustainable consumption culture. However, the role and meaning of these practices have changed over time, depending on social, economic and political environments. Facing the global climate crisis, we are looking for lessons from the past and present for more sustainable and resilient ways of life.

Keynote speakers:
Prof. Steven J. Jackson (Cornell University)
Prof. Tomás Errázuriz (Universidad Andrés Bello, Campus Creativo)
Assoc. prof. Ricardo Greene (Universidad de las Américas)

We invite presentations, workshops and documentaries that explore various forms of DIY practice, solutions, innovation and material culture related to sustainability in a variety of settings and regions. Apart from academics, experts from memory institutions and craft scholars, this conference also invites activists, craftsmen and designers to share their experience and knowledge.

Possible topics include:

  • Repair and maintenance
  • Reuse and repurpose
  • Vernacular innovation and invention
  • The material culture of sustainability
  • Sustainable and resilient lifestyles and communities
  • Forms of activism (for example, repair cafés, the right to repair movement, low-tech, etc.)
  • Heritage and applied heritage
  • The role of museums and memory institutions in maintaining and promoting sustainability
  • Insights from activists and craftsmen or designers

The deadline for submission is 31 March 2024. Please send an abstract (200–300 words) of the presentation, workshop or documentary film with the title and your details. In addition, for workshops please add special requirements, and for documentaries please add online access to the film with English subtitles.

Please send your submission to the conference e-mail: sustainability@erm.ee

The conference is organised by the Estonian National Museum in collaboration with the Washing Machine Made of Beetroot joint exhibition project, curated by the Estonian Road Museum, the Estonian Agricultural Museum, and the Tartu City Museum. The conference programme involves organised tours of the exhibition on invention, ingenuity, recycling and DIY mentality, and visits to various public repair workshops in Tartu.

The conference and the exhibition are part of and supported by the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 programme.

Sincerely,
Tenno Teidearu
Estonian National Museum
sustainability@erm.ee

Contact Information
Estonian National Museum, Muuseumi tee 2, Tartu, Estonia
sustainability@erm.ee

Contact Email
sustainability@erm.ee

URL: http://enmconferences.ee/sustainability-2024

CFP: Making Nature: The Labor of Natural History

Inspired by the APS Museum’s upcoming exhibition Sketching Splendor: Natural History in America, 1750-1850 the American Philosophical Society is organizing a daylong conference that will explore the ways humans have imagined, depicted, and constructed representations and knowledge about the natural world over time. The conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists, naturalists, and collection professionals, as well as artists, filmmakers, climate activists, and others to consider the different forms of labor and expertise that have contributed to shaping past, present, and future understandings of nature as well as the place of humans within it. The conference will be held in-person at the Society in Philadelphia on June 6-7, 2024.

The program committee invites paper proposals from scholars in all fields as well as scientists, curators, artists, educators, collections stewards, and others whose work bears upon this theme. The committee especially welcomes proposals that situate natural history in a wide range of geographic and historical contexts.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • The economic, social, and political implications of natural history collections and collecting practices over time.
  • The role of institutions, including botanical gardens, zoos, arboretums, libraries, museums, aquariums, and others, in shaping scientific and public understandings about the natural world.
  • The impact and contributions of local and Indigenous labor and expertise within natural history projects.
  • Critical studies addressing the relationship between natural history and empire.
  • Studies of how nature and the natural world inform art, music, film, literature, and other creative pursuits in the past and present.
  • The role of images, visualizations, and other non-text based approaches in conveying ideas about nature and natural history.
  • Discussions about specific techniques and craft knowledge used in the preservation and display of natural history.
  • The needs and opportunities of digital tools and platforms for past, present, and future work in natural history.
  • The impact of climate change and extinction narratives on understandings and depictions of nature.
  • Papers exploring decolonial and antiracist approaches to natural history.

Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word proposal along with a C.V. by February 15, 2024 via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/137229

All presenters will receive travel subsidies and hotel accommodations. Presenters may also have the opportunity to publish revised papers in the APS’s Transactions, one of the longest running scholarly journals in America.

Contact Information
Adrianna Link (alink@amphilsoc.org)
Thomas Johns (tjohns@amphilsoc.org)

Contact Email
alink@amphilsoc.org

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