CALL FOR PAPERS : Queer New England

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.

Contact Information

Erika Gasser egasser@historic-deerfield.org and Martha McNamara mmcnamar@wellesley.edu

Contact Email

egasser@historic-deerfield.org

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BitCurator Forum 2024 – 10 Years of BCC

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.

The focus of Archiving 2024 is Science, Sustainability, Security.

2024 PROGRAM TOPICS

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.net OR jpi.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.
• Fast-tracked review.

Visit the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology or the Journal of Perceptual Imaging pages for more details on how to submit to the journal of your choice. 

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.

Submit JIST-first

Submit JPI-first

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.

Final papers are due by 29 February 2024.

Questions? Contact us at either jist@imaging.org or jpi@imaging.org

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PAPER*

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.

Questions?  Contact arch-papers@imaging.org

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Call for Papers

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 18^th 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. 

AI in OH: How New and Evolving Technologies Will Impact the Profession

Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the fall of 2022, artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has pervaded our shared discourse and lexicon. Myriad organizations and sectors are at once hurriedly embracing and cautiously considering the impacts large language models and complex algorithms might have on their industries. Oral history is not immune to AI’s influence, and in certain cases the profession might already hold extant examples of its effects on practice.

For this online symposium, OHA invites oral history practitioners and scholars from all disciplines who utilize oral history in their work to submit paper or roundtable proposals detailing any number of intersections between artificial intelligence and oral history. Topics could include, but are not limited to:

• Augmenting/Improving oral history workflows with AI tools
• Impacts of utilizing oral histories for large language model training
• Influences of AI in representations of racial/ethnic identity or racial power structures
• Creative/Productive uses of oral history material via AI tools
• Ethical considerations regarding AI behaviors or products
• Ruminations on the future of the field in an AI-driven world

The symposium is tentatively set for the work week of July 15, 2024, with its ultimate timing/length determined by the strength of the submission field. Proposals may either be submitted as stand-alone papers/presentations, a panel of topically coherent papers/presentations, a roundtable centered around a central theme, or a two-hour workshop. Your proposal should include:

• The title of each paper, presentation, and/or proposed panel/roundtable/workshop
• An abstract of no more than 500 words for each individual paper/presentation/workshop, or a single abstract for a proposed roundtable
• Name, affiliation, and email address for each prospective participant
• A short bio of no more than 250 words for each prospective participant

For those looking to find fellow presenters for their panel, roundtable, or workshop idea, feel free to use OHA’s collaborative Google Doc for the symposium found HERE.

Submit your proposals within the OHA Symposium Portal by January 1^st, 2024. If you have any questions about the submission process, please reach out to AI in OH program co-chairs Steven Sielaff (steven_sielaff@baylor.edu) & Sarah Milligan (sarah.milligan@okstate.edu).

Proposals will be reviewed by a program committee in early 2024, with applicants being informed of their acceptance or declination by March 1^st, 2024. The full program will be released and registration for the symposium will open shortly thereafter. For future news and updates, please visit the official symposium website: https://oralhistory.org/ai

Contact Information

Steven Sielaff – Associate Director, Oral History Association

Contact Email

Steven_Sielaff@baylor.edu

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AI in OH Virtual Symposium (July 2024)

Call for Papers: Cultural Heritage Institutions, Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 45th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels.  For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/

The Cultural Heritage Institutions area solicits proposals from librarians, archivists, curators, graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, independent scholars, and other aficionados (yes! including people who use libraries, archives, and museums!) of popular culture and cultural heritage settings of all types. We also encourage proposals for slide shows, video presentations, panels, and roundtables organized around common themes.

Some suggested topics include:

• Histories and profiles of popular culture resources and collections in cultural heritage institutions; a chance to show off what you’ve got to scholars who might want to use it
• Intellectual freedom or cultural sensitivity issues related to popular culture resources
• Book clubs and reading groups, city- or campus-wide reading programs
• Special exhibits of popular culture resources, outreach programs, etc. of cultural heritage institutions
• Collection and organization of popular culture resources; marketing and ethical issues
• Web 2.0, gaming, semantic web, etc. and their impact on libraries, archives, museums, and digital humanities collections
• The role of public libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in economic hard times and natural disasters
• Oral history projects
• Digital humanities and other digital/data-based projects on popular culture, the Southwest, and other relevant subjects, both those based in cultural heritage institutions and those in academia or other organizations.

We encourage proposals for panels and roundtables organized around common themes.

All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca

For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/

Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words. Including a brief bio in the body of the proposal form is encouraged, but not required.  

For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.  

The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2023.  

SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2024.  SWPACA also offers travel fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students. For more information, visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/

Registration and travel information for the conference will be available at http://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/

For 2023, we are excited to be at a new venue, the Marriott Albuquerque (2101 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110), which boasts free parking and close proximity to dining, shopping, and other delights.

In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org/

If you have any questions about the Cultural Heritage Institutions area, please contact its Area Chair, Suzanne Stauffer, Louisiana State University, stauffer@lsu.edu. If you have general questions about the conference, please contact us at support@southwestpca.org, and a member of the executive team will get back to you.

This will be a fully in-person conference. If you’re looking for an online option to present your work, keep an eye out for details about the 2024 SWPACA Summer Salon, a completely virtual conference to take place in June 2024. However, do keep in mind that the Summer Salon is a smaller conference with limited presentation slots and no student funding assistance.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) have emerged as powerful tools that enhance and expand the role of libraries, empowering them to provide innovative services and experiences to their patrons. Delve into the myriad ways AI, VR, and other emerging realities intersect with library services and learn how libraries leverage these developments to redefine their work.

Amigos Library Services is now accepting presentation proposals for the November 30, 2023, online conference, “Reimagining Libraries: Exploring the AI & VR Revolution in Library Services.”

Potential presentation topics can include, but are not limited to:

• Impact of AI and VR on information literacy and library instruction
• Intellectual property, privacy, and ethical considerations and challenges
• AI-driven information retrieval
• Virtual collections, repositories, and archives
• Collaborative opportunities and partnerships with AI and VR
• Automated cataloging and metadata tagging
• Enhancing user experience

If you are interested in sharing your knowledge and experiences, please submit your proposal by September 20, 2023: https://forms.office.com/r/u9ea0ViSPT(link is external).

For more information about this conference, contact Jodie Borgerding, borgerding@amigos.org(link sends e-mail) or (972) 340-2897.