Category: Call for Presentations

CFP: RBMS 2026 “Advocacy: Finding Your Voice”

RBMS 2026 is coming up June 23-26, 2026, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and online. Special collections and archives are evolving fast—new technologies, new audiences, new challenges. How do we make our voices heard, tell our stories, and secure the support we need? This year’s conference explores advocacy at every career stage, from speaking up as a newcomer to driving change as a leader. Join us to find inspiration, share strategies, and leave ready to amplify your impact.

The RBMS Conference Program Planning Committee enthusiastically invites you to contribute to an exploration of “Advocacy: Finding Your Voice.” Special collections and archives are transforming. Digitization, collaboration, expanded instruction, community engagement, and new approaches to stewardship are reshaping how we work and who we reach. In this moment of change, advocacy is more important than ever.

The committee invites proposals that explore advocacy in all its dimensions. How do you raise awareness, build support, or create change? What strategies help you amplify your voice—or the voices of others? How do you engage your communities, connect with donors, or make your case to decision-makers? Proposals that share successes, challenges, and lessons learned are also welcome. Together, we’ll explore how advocacy empowers us to move beyond sustaining our work to strengthening and reimagining it.

Join us in inspiring colleagues at every level to find their voice—and make it heard. The proposal deadline is December 12, 2025, and complete details are available on the conference website.

CFP: Istanbul: Cultural Pasts – Urban Futures

Full call and more information here. Abstracts due Dec. 15, 2025.

Definitions of heritages, cultural pasts and urban futures are intrinsically linked. They cross disciplines, geographies and times. They can be complex, contradictory and often contested. As a result, when we think about heritage we must think holistically. UNESCO is explicit about this. Heritage is related to place and the traditions of its peoples. The future of a city is connected to the history on which it was built. Questions of contemporary culture are always aligned with their past, and their future. In this context, heritage, culture and place are all entwined.

To understand this interconnection requires historical knowledge, social context and an awareness of art and design, whether that be related to a community narrative or a global movement. It needs to be viewed through artworks, buildings, cities and objects, both ‘universal’ examples of architecture and sculpture, and more understated design vernaculars and local crafts. It needs to be seen as something ‘intangible’ – a sense of place and identity or the meaning ascribed to a city, neighborhood or local artwork. In short, it needs to be examined across disciplinary boundaries and scales.

Seeking to engage with the varied ways in which we understand heritage, cultural pasts and urban futures then, this conference asks how we interpret these themes locally, regionally and internationally. It does so while seeing the host city, Istanbul, as a place that typifies the varied questions at play.

Historically seen as the meeting point of Europe and Asia, Istanbul was an imperial capital for the Byzantine, Roman and Ottoman Empires. One of the most visited cities in the world, it was European Capital of Culture in 2010. With the centre of the city classified a UNESCO World Heritage Site in its own right, it boasts iconic examples of both art and architecture, the Hagia Sophia and the Grand Bazaar being just two of the most famous examples. Home to cutting edge design, digital art, modern architecture and music, it is seen as a centre of contemporary culture.

Located in this iconic setting, the Cultural Pasts – Urban Futures conference is expressly international and welcomes perspectives from across a range of fields: the humanities and the social sciences; architecture, urban planning and landscapes; heritage studies and design, and more. As such, it is open to local, regional and international discussions of art historical research, building renovation projects, digital art and heritage, anthropological study and socio-cultural critiques – past, present and future….

Reflecting the interests of Işık University and AMPS, presentations will be loosely organized around several strands, including but not limited to:

Architecture & Design – papers on the diversity of research in the fields of architectural, landscape, urban planning and design theory | Digital Heritage – questions and cases studies of technologies and medias such as film, laser scanning, VR and data mapping in the heritage sector | Socio-Cultural Studies – critiques of the socio-cultural issues that comes into play when thinking about culture, place and heritage | Art History – discussions on art historical projects, theories and practices internationally | Historical Conservation– considerations on sites of heritage, whether from the fields of archaeology, museology & conservation, or social questions of heritage led gentrification or regeneration | Art & Design – examinations of how contemporary artists, architects, and designers engage with context and heritage.

CFP ‘Instrumenta altaris’. Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy

In the Middle Ages, Christian liturgy was far more than a sequence of prayers and ceremonies: it structured religious practice, shaped sacred space, and gave material form to the expression of faith. Objects, vestments, and books played a central role in this framework, endowed with a visual, tactile, and symbolic language that embodied the theology of the sacred. The International Conference Instrumenta altaris: Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy seeks to refocus attention on the material dimension that, throughout the medieval centuries, rendered the invisible visible and preserved —often in fragmentary form— a tangible legacy of devotion.

For several decades, medieval art historiography has moved towards a reassessment of what was once pejoratively labelled as “minor arts”, no longer regarded as decorative appendices to the dominant monumental tradition, but as essential components for understanding the spaces, gestures, and imagery that shaped Christian liturgy. This shift owes much to the work of scholars such as Colum Hourihane, Eric Palazzo, Cécile Voyer, Klaus Gereon Beuckers, and Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, who have drawn attention to the luxurious, performative, and sensory dimensions of medieval liturgical art.

Organised by the research project Thesauri Rituum at Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid), this conference focuses on three main categories of liturgical artefacts: ritual objects —sacred vessels, reliquaries, crosses, censers— whose craftsmanship reveals a theology of materials; sacred vestments, textiles that not only clothed liturgical ministers but transformed them into figures of transcendence endowed with graces bestowed through ordination; and liturgical books, often illuminated manuscripts, which contained not merely the order of prayer but a spiritual choreography of Christian time. These elements were not autonomous but interdependent, belonging to a practice in which art was not simply contemplated, but activated and handled within liturgical performance —something difficult to reconstruct solely from written sources.

The International Conference Instrumenta altaris: Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy is therefore also an invitation to reconsider the status of medieval art through the vitality of liturgical practice. It calls for a dialogue between form and function, between aesthetics and rituality, between the history of images and the presence of objects. This approach reflects a historiographical sensibility that no longer accepts the nineteenth-century hierarchy between the “major arts” and objects of worship, but instead pays renewed attention to those voices excluded from traditional academic classifications. For in the Middle Ages, the sacred was not confined to grandeur; it was equally revealed in the refinement of the minute and in the quiet eloquence of material signs that accompanied each rite, gesture, and ceremony.

Preferred Thematic Lines

The International Congress ‘Instrumenta altaris’: Ritual Objects and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy accepts proposals for on-site presentations in Spanish, English, Italian, or French that may be framed within the following lines:

1. Historiography and Theory of Medieval Sumptuary and Liturgical Arts

Proposals consisting of historiographical approaches to the study of sumptuary arts, with special attention to their revaluation within medieval art history. Also included will be studies addressing Christian liturgy as an aesthetic, performative, and spatial category, from interdisciplinary methodological perspectives (art history, theology, anthropology, musicology, philology, or cultural history, among others).

2. Materiality and Agency of Liturgical Objects

Presentations addressing questions centered on the matter, technique, use, and circulation of ritual objects: sacred vessels, ritual artifacts, vestments, and liturgical manuscripts. Both case studies and comparative approaches to ecclesiastical treasuries, relics, or sacred textiles will be considered, paying attention to their symbolic construction, cultic functionality, and artistic value.

3. Image of Objects and Objects in Images

Studies addressing the visual representation of liturgical objects in manuscripts, wall paintings, sculpture, or any figurative medium, as well as research on how these artifacts were visualized, interpreted, and re-signified in artistic productions from later periods, from the Early Modern era to the present.

4. Anthropology of Sacred Objects

Analyses focused on the social, symbolic, and ritual contexts of creation, use, and transformation of liturgical objects. Special consideration will be given to studies addressing processes such as copying, dismemberment, transfer, donation, inheritance, reuse, or re-signification of these pieces in scenarios different from those for which they were originally conceived.

5. Current Presence and Musealization of Medieval Liturgical Art

Presentations addressing the place and treatment of medieval liturgical objects in current museums, collections, and heritage institutions. Included are both innovative curatorial proposals and the ethical, hermeneutic, and pedagogical dilemmas posed by exhibiting decontextualized ritual artifacts, now detached from their original cultic function.

Travel Grants for Master’s and Doctoral Students

To encourage young researchers’ participation, the congress organizing committee will award four grants to cover national or European travel expenses to the best presentation proposals submitted by master’s or doctoral students.

These grants will only cover travel expenses to the congress city (Madrid), excluding accommodation, meals, or local transportation. They will be awarded based on criteria of academic quality, originality, and relevance among applicants.

Requirements to apply for the grant:

  • Being enrolled in a master’s or doctoral program at the time of proposal submission.
  • Explicitly indicate in the submission form the intention to apply for the travel grant.
  • Traveling from within Spain or Europe.

Key Dates Summary

  • Deadline for presentation proposal submissions: October 1, 2025  →  EXTENDED UNTIL OCTOBER 15
  • Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2025
  • Early registration deadline: November 15, 2025 *
  • Congress dates: January 20-22, 2026

* At least one author per presentation must register for the conference in the corresponding category once they have received acceptance of the paper. Only properly registered participants will receive congress certifications and documentation.

Contact Information

https://eventos.urjc.es/go/instrumentaaltaris

Contact Email

proyecto.thesaurirituum@urjc.es

URL

https://eventos.urjc.es/go/instrumentaaltaris

CFP: ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2026

ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2026 

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 – Saturday, August 1, 2026

New Orleans, Louisiana

We are living in a period of momentous change for the archives, records management, and cultural heritage professions. These changes have affected everything from workflows to community engagement, and from personnel issues to sustainability. Different types of repositories have experienced these political, technological, cultural, and environmental forces in diverse ways. ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2026 gives us an opportunity to take stock, to explore innovative solutions to the problems we are encountering, and to assess our professions’ history, practices, assumptions, and training.

The Program Committee seeks perspectives from across our profession that help us strengthen our professions’ diversity, our institutions, and our people. We encourage proposals that demonstrate the amazing variety of ways to be an archivist and to participate in the archives profession. The Committee recognizes that creating a sustainable and bright future for our profession involves creating a diverse program in which participants can freely choose the topic they wish to share. Therefore, instead of specific topic suggestions, we pose the following questions to hopefully prompt some ideas for your session proposals.

  • How can the histories of our professions inform our current situation?
  • What are the impactful practices you have implemented in appraisal, processing, access, community engagement, preservation, or management in response to recent changes?
  • What types of technological changes have you implemented at your institution, and how were you successfully able to advocate for those improvements?
  • How do you appraise, gather, store and provide access to data, and how do you determine whether your practices are ethical?
  • How does archival training and professional development need to change to adapt to changes in our professions?
  • How can workplaces be more responsive to the needs of employees, including such issues as disability and trauma?

We welcome proposals on all topics related to archives and archival work.

Proposal Evaluation

The Program Committee invites submissions for 60- to 75-minute sessions (live and/or hybrid) and poster presentations. 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 and other statements. 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 core values as well as their commitment 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:

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 included in the program. A moderator is required (this role may be performed by the chair); a commentator is optional.

Professional 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 during which they must be with their poster to discuss it with attendees if presenting in-person.

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.

Mix and Match. “Mix and Match” allows individuals to propose an individual talk rather than a full session. Similar or complementary proposals will then be combined into one session. We hope this option will encourage individuals who have not previously submitted a proposal to do so, as well as provide an opportunity to connect archivists who might not have otherwise met one another. We will accept proposals for 5 or 20-minute presentations.

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 the proposed format be changed if it believes that a different format may better serve the session’s learning objectives or desired audience.

We are bringing back Pop-Ups! A separate call for Pop-Up proposals will be issued in the spring of 2026. Do not use the session proposal form for Pop-Ups.


Reminder for Proposal Submitters and Session Participants

Archivists and records administrators who participate in the program (including in Pop-Up sessions) must register and secure institutional or personal funding. Participants whose employment does not involve performing, teaching, or managing any aspect of the archival or records administration function, or who are from outside the United States and Canada, may be eligible for complimentary registration upon request. SAA cannot provide funding for speakers, whether they are international, non-archivists, non-records administrators, members, or nonmembers.

Proposal Submition

Proposals for the 2026 Annual Meeting are due on Friday, December 5, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. CT. The Program Committee will not consider proposals received after the deadline.

Submission Form will be available by mid-November.

Review the submission form questions (PDF) before submitting your proposal. Note: Submissions will only be received through the online submission form not the PDF.

See frequently asked questions (FAQs) https://www2.archivists.org/am2026/program/calls/program-proposals-faqs 

The 2026 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 2026 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.

CFP: Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting

deep in the heart of Archives
April 29-May 2, 2026
Waco, Texas and Virtually via Zoom Events

An archive is more than a collection of documents, books, and media. These materials are processed, exhibited, and stewarded by the dedicated individuals who make up our profession. At the heart of every archive is an archivist. Whether you’re a lone arranger or part of a team, archivists are passionate, resourceful, and ready to help. For this year’s conference, we want to focus on the library, archive, and museum professionals that contribute to this amazing work. Please join us in Waco to find out what’s “deep in the heart” of your colleagues. Tell us what you are passionate about in your collections and what issues matter to you. Discuss how we as archivists can help each other. Share with us your fears and concerns and let’s encourage a sense of mutual support and community. Do what you do best by sharing what you know and love with folks throughout our region and beyond.

Session proposals are welcome on any subject, training, or topic relevant to library, archive, and museum professions. Proposals will be evaluated on the completeness of the description, the originality of the topic, and the diversity of speakers. Abstracts outlining presentations should be 200 words or less.

The 2026 Annual Meeting will be held both in-person in Waco, Texas, and virtually, allowing for broader participation and engagement.

Proposals must be submitted no later than Friday, November 21, 2025. Click here to submit your proposal.

The Program Committee invites submissions in the following formats:

  • Panel Discussion

A traditional session with three or four speakers, each giving 15 to 20 minute presentations on a single theory or perspective on a given topic, followed by time for questions. One of the speakers should act as a moderator or session chair.

  • Roundtable Discussion

A roundtable discussion consists of one to three presentations of 10 minutes each that describe a theory, issue, or initiative followed by small group discussions where participants and speakers share ideas. A session chair is not required.

  • Lightning Talks

A large panel of eight to ten speakers that deliver five minute talks on a common theme or issue, keeping a lively pace and sharing relevant take-away ideas. A session chair is required to compile presentation materials and maintain the time schedule.

  • Skills Training

Are you a whiz at making phase boxes? Do you have advanced Excel skills or other technical expertise? Share your skills with other members in a mini-workshop setting. Focus on one or two skills that can be shared in a 60 or 90-minute session. Skills training sessions should have one or two speakers. Proposals should include details of the speaker’s relevant experience or training.

  • Lunch Meetings/Discussion

Are you part of a state or local archival organization that would like to meet up at SSA? Want to start a book club or a study group? Get your special interest in the program to reach more potential members.

Have a session idea and are looking for other folks with the same interests? Use our 2026 Annual Meeting Proposal Connector Spreadsheet to build sessions with other folks in the region. 

Click here to submit your proposal. Have a question? Email us at program@southwestarchivists.org.

Please note conference registration is required for presenters whose proposals are accepted. 

Join us in Waco as we explore what’s deep in the heart of archives!

Call for Radio and Audio Media Papers, Popular Culture/American Culture Assoc. Conference

RADIO AND AUDIO MEDIA AREA POPULAR CULTURE AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

April 8-11, 2026, ATLANTA

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:  NOVEMBER 30, 2025

We invite papers and presentations on all aspects of radio and audio media, including but not limited to: radio and audio media history; radio and audio media programs and content (music, drama, talk, news, public affairs, features, interviews, sports, college, religious, ethnic, community, low-power, pirate, etc.); podcasting (news, public affairs, commentary, audio drama, branded content); new audio media (internet radio, streaming audio, etc.); audio social media (Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Reddit Talk, etc.); radio literature studies; media representations of radio and audio media; rhetorical research; legal and regulatory policy; economics of radio and audio media; and radio and audio media technology. We welcome U.S., international, or comparative works and media presentations and are catholic regarding method, theory, or approach. Papers or presentations should be planned for no more than fifteen minutes. We encourage you to emphasize audience involvement and elicit stimulating questions and discussion.

Recent papers have included “Landing Radio on the Moon and Mars: From Tik Tok radio, “Spatial Audio to Space Radio,” “Mic Check: Does the term Auteur fit Podcasting?” and “’A Forceful Agency’: New York Governor Alfred E. Smith and Radio Broadcasting, 1925-1927” 

Paper or presentation proposals must include an abstract of 200 words and paper or presentation title, and author’s institutional affiliation and email address. We do not accept undergraduate student submissions. Submit your paper or presentation proposal to: https://www.aievolution.com/pcaaca/

The proposal will include an abstract of 200 words and paper or presentation title, institutional affiliation, and email address. In order to submit a paper or presentation proposal, your PCA membership must be valid for 2025-2026.

Address paper or presentation proposals inquiries via email to:  Matthew Killmeier, PCA/ACA Radio and Audio Media Area Chair, Dept. of Communication and Theatre, Auburn University at Montgomery, mkillmei@aum.edu 334-244-3950 (work) 207-317-7693 (mobile)

Contact Information

Matthew Killmeier, Auburn Univ. at Montgomery

Contact Email

mkillmei@aum.edu

URL

https://www.aievolution.com/pcaaca/

CFP: Session(s) on the Empire-Self Making of the Land-Grant University

Thank you Dulce Kersting-Lark at University of Idaho for sending this CFP!

Call for Proposals: Session(s) on the Empire-Self Making of the Land-Grant University
Western History Association | Portland, OR | October 21-24, 2026

Considering the Western History Association’s 2026 theme, “Unsettled: New Wests, New Lessons,” we call attention to how federal land-grants, including the universities they enabled, fueled westward expansion toward industrialization. Scholarship on the modus operandi of the land-grant university has emphasized mechanized agriculture and exploited labor on stolen land as outputs of a fraught system, but scattered discourse abounds regarding the ways the wheels of the land-grant university empire-self making apparatus could not turn without the reconstitution of its own image/knowledge. Indeed, much of this conversation resides in Anthropological and Sociological study, and we seek to aggregate Historical-adjacent analysis into interconnected panels focused on the knowledge regime of the land-grant university.

Ethnic studies scholar Sarah E. K. Fong offers racial-settler capitalism as a term to explain the co-constitutive relationship between the violent accumulation of Indigenous lands and racialized labor exploitation on stolen land.i Abolitionist university studies scholars Abigail Boggs and Nick Mitchell co-locate the university within and between settler colonial and racial capitalist accumulation.ii

The proverbial land-grant university’s three-prong approach (agriculture and mechanical arts education; agriculture experiment stations; cooperative extension service) manifests racial-settler capitalism in three ways: 1) the Morrill Acts of 1867 and 1890, as well as the Equity in Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 redistributed stolen Indigenous land to 2) physically occupy stolen land with machines, domesticated plants, factories, and workers and 3) legitimates the ongoing recreation of its own empire through a knowledge regime that includes university archives, community engagement projects and marketing, and youth programming. It is this self-legitimizing knowledge regime which we highlight in these sessions.

Feminist studies scholars Abigail Boggs and Nick Mitchell instruct us to short circuit the university to confront its “foundational epistemological and material violences,” and ethnic studies scholar la paperson (aka K. Wayne Yang) urges us to “hot-wire” the university to make it do what we need and want.iii Together, they help us to imagine and repurpose the university’s “resources, capacities, and function of reproducing sociality with and for other ways of being, other ways of living.”iv Preference is given to panels which direct us toward tangible solutions.

Interconnected panels focused on the knowledge regime of the land-grant university might include discussion of:

Critical archives and knowledge production

Decolonization and/or abolition archives, broadly construed

Critical youth instruction and Cooperative Extension programming

Indigenous land theft and occupation

Community-engagement marketing, land-grant lexicon on stolen land

What does it look like to short circuit and hot-wire the university for ends which prioritize our relationships with each other? How do we make the university do the community engagement to which it claims commitment?

Session Organizers and Deadline: Please submit proposals of up to 250 words to both organizers below by 11:59p PST on November 24, 2025. See the second page for special consideration. Shiloh Green Soto, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University: shiloh.greensoto@wsu.edu. Dulce Kersting-Lark, Head of Special Collections & Archives, University of Idaho: dulce@uidaho.edu.

While all are welcome, we seek intellectual representation from/about the following land-grant universities and colleges in the U.S. West:

Alaska:
University of Alaska
Iḷisaġvik College
Arizona:
University of Arizona
Tohono O’odham Community College
Diné College
California:
University of California
Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University
Colorado:
Colorado State University
Hawaii:
University of Hawaii
Idaho:
University of Idaho
Kansas:
Kansas State University
Haskell Indian Nations University
Montana:
Montana State University
Blackfeet Community College
Salish Kootenai College
Aaniiih Nakoda College
Stone Child College
Little Big Horn College
Chief Dull Knife College
Fort Peck Community College
Nevada:
University of Nevada
New Mexico:
New Mexico State University
Navajo Technical College
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
Oregon:
Oregon State University
Texas:
Texas A&M University
Prairie View A&M University
Utah:
Utah State University
Washington:
Washington State University
Northwest Indian College
Wyoming:
University of Wyoming

CFP: Photographic interiors: between staging and documentation / Intérieurs photographiques : entre mise en scène et documentation

Photography, along with other printed image technologies, is a major component of the ordinary visual environment that papers domestic surfaces, at the same time it proves to be a particularly adequate means of documenting interiors. The conference “Photographic Interiors: Between Staging and Documentation” aims to think through this mirror effect of photographed photographs, by considering together images of domestic worlds and everyday image practices anchored in the dwelling. The aim is twofold: to examine the various ways of capturing interiors through photography, and to think about the life of images within interiors. The conference will be held on 7 April 2026 at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), Paris and co-organised by InVisu (INHA/CNRS) and ECHELLES (Université Paris Cité/CNRS). We invite you to send your proposals in French or English (an abstract of 300 words max. with a title and an image) by November 7, 2025 to images.invisu@inha.fr

Contact Information

Organization:
Manuel Charpy (InVisu, CNRS/INHA)
Éliane de Larminat (ECHELLES, Université Paris Cité/CNRS)
Ece Zerman (ECHELLES, Université Paris Cité/CNRS)
 

Contact Email

images.invisu@inha.fr

URL

https://invisu.cnrs.fr/2025/10/14/7-11-2025-appel-interieurs-photographiques/

Attachments

interieurs-photographiques-conference.pdf

CFP: 5th Biennial GSISC 2026

Existence is Our Resistance

How do the very acts of being, knowing, and communicating outside of normative frameworks create new forms of information, alternative archives, and innovative approaches? How do diverse gender and sexual identities illuminate biases in existing information practices and inspire more just and equitable futures?

Librarians, archivists, and information workers are on the frontlines of the assault on free speech, academic freedom, dissent, DEI, and the intellectual and creative foundations of social equity. As we convene in 2026 for the fifth Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium (GSISC), we seek to explore and celebrate the myriad ways in which lived realities, information practices, and intellectual contributions of queer, trans, non-binary, and other gender and sexually diverse individuals inherently challenge, disrupt, and transform the information landscape in this challenging time.

The GSISC planning committee invites you to join us June 17 and 18 for a virtual gathering to foster community and connection as we confront forces that seek to erase our existence, honor the legacies of the movements before us, and work to collectively imagine liberatory futures into being: we are everywhere. We welcome proposals that address a range of topics on how we nurture resistance in our profession, with consideration for its locus among the intersections of gender, queerness, race, and sexuality.

Questions and considerations might include, but are not limited to:

Existence as Resistance

Queer Realities

  • Affect in the body
  • Entering the LIS profession in 2026
  • Where can we work: navigating the assault on intellectual freedom and free speech

Self-care/Collective-care

  • Coming out whole on the other side: surviving the present wave of authoritarianism
  • Protecting our peace: stepping up and stepping back as strategic defenses
  • Loving the work when the work doesn’t love you back

Resistance as Existence

Misinformation, Disinformation, Censorship, and Freedom of Expression

  • Identifying silences, gaps, and lies in dominant information landscapes
  • Activating/archiving alternative information resources
  • Working outside of/against the establishment: providing information in defiance of institutional compliance
  • Teaching and mentorship in LIS graduate education in this liminal time

Know Your Rights

  • The right to resist: addressing rights information as an information literacy issue
  • Protest and the right to privacy on college campuses
  • Labor organizing and collective action, within and without unions

Submit your proposal: forms.gle/Uc9G3ofbvZxzCnoZA 

Please direct any questions or concerns to GSISC2026@gmail.com. Please note that we are a fully volunteer run conference. While we staff our inbox, sometimes we may take a few days to get back to you.

Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium (GSISC) logo by Bernadette Floresca.

Important dates

Deadline for proposals – February 27, 2026

Notification of acceptance – March 31, 2026

Registration opens* – April 13, 2026

Colloquium dates – June 17 and 18, 2026, Noon – 4pm (EST) each day

*Rates: Please note there will be a modest registration fee for this event, 

Note: Further logistics will be unfolding.

The Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium emerged from the Litwin Books and Library Juice Press Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies, and was founded by the series founding editor, Emily Drabinski. The first GSISC colloquium was held in 2014, inspired in part by the Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader (2013). Its aim was to respond to the challenges posed by critical perspectives on gender and sexuality in our field. This gathering seeks to create an inclusive space for difficult, fruitful conversations that foreground gender, sexuality, and the body, with consideration for libraries and cultural heritage institutions as sites of both liberation and oppression. The colloquium intends to foster dialogue among librarians, archivists, and information workers on our profession and its locus among the intersections of gender, queerness, race, sexuality, and the freedom to exist and thrive in our bodies.

CFP: Treasures of Jewish Material Culture: Living Archives of Memory, Heritage, and Research in the Middle East and North Africa

The Ben Zvi Institute in Jerusalem invites scholars to submit proposals for a day-and-atwo-day-half conference, to be held in Jerusalem on March 29–30, 2026. This conference will explore the rich material legacy of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa, examining how these tangible remnants serve as living archives of social, cultural, and historical experience. 

Although today only a few Jewish communities remain in the Middle East and North Africa, the region preserves a rich and multifaceted Jewish past. This heritage is embodied in an extensive array of material culture, including hundreds of synagogues and cemeteries, and countless Judaica items and textual sources dispersed across Arab and Islamic countries.These materials are not static relics; they form part of a living archive, a dynamic and tangible conduit through which the histories and experiences of Jewish communities can be reinterpreted within their lived environments and the social, cultural, political, and historical dynamics thatshaped them and continue to reshape them. The study and preservation of this living archive emerges within the broader context of minority rights and cultural heritage in the region, though this conference will focus specifically on Jewish heritage itself rather than minority issues more broadly. 

Building on this perspective, the dynamic character of the living archive is continually reinforced, as ongoing discoveries and studies of archives, sites, and genizot further underscore its vitality. It is a continually evolving repository, offering invaluable sources for both qualitative and quantitative research across disciplines. Beyond their historical significance, these materials are vital for understanding how Jewish heritage is preserved, reused, and reinterpreted within local cultural practices and public discourse today—usually taking place through government institutions and civil-society organizations—most of whom are not Jewish and who regard the products of Jewish culture as part of the local culture. 

The conference invites contributions that explore, but are not limited to, the following themes: 

  • Mapping Jewish Material Culture: aesthetics, spatial organization, and reinterpretations of Jewish-Muslim relations 
  • Jewish Sites as Spaces of Memory: synagogues, cemeteries, and public heritage sites 
  • Libraries, Genizot, and Papyri: archival discoveries and the study of Jewish life in MENA 
  • Contemporary Responsibilities: preservation and legal status of Jewish sites, Judaica, and cultural heritage in modern Arab states  
  • Nationalism and Identity: the positioning of Jewish heritage within national narratives 
  • Repurposing and Reuse: adaptive uses of Jewish sites and Judaica in contemporary contexts 

Each talk will be 20 minutes long, followed by a discussion. 

Interested participants should submit a 300-word abstract and a short biography to: via this link  by November 9, 2025.

Questions may be directed at Ms. Sandra Furtos:  Sandra@ybz.org.il  The conference will be conducted primarily in Hebrew, with several lectures in English. Proposals may be submitted in either language.