Category: Call for Presentations

Call for Participation: 2025 Minnesota Archives Symposium

The Minnesota Archives Symposium Work Group and your TCART Officers are pleased to release our call for participation in the 2025 Minnesota Archives Symposium, which will be held on Monday November 3, 9am-4pm in the historic Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul.

The Work Group and TCART officers are seeking proposals for participation in several formats this year, including:

  • long-form presentation (15+ minutes)
  • “Brag Box” lightning talks (5-7 minutes)
  • “Birds of a Feather” discussion facilitators

Participating in TCART programming is an excellent way to support the profession, share your expertise, and connect with other archivists!  To learn more about each participation opportunity or to sign up, visit our Call for Participation Form.  Proposals are due October 1.  If you have questions, concerns, or have problems using the form you are very welcome to email us at tcartmn@gmail.com

If you or your organization would like to sponsor the TCART Symposium, reach out to us at tcartmn@gmail.com.

Call for Papers: Queer/Trans History Conference 2026

The LGBTQ+ History Association is pleased to announce a call for papers for its fourth conference, the Queer/Trans History Conference* 2026 (#QTHC26), to be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from June 2 to 5, 2026. 

*Yes, this is a new name! The LGBTQ+ History Association has always interpreted “queer” as an umbrella that included queering of gender identity and expression, but it is important to name the work that we do more explicitly. With this name change, we’re affirming that this conference is a place to have the conversations about how sexuality, gender, and transness intersect and diverge. Also, in a political moment when the U.S. federal government is actively erasing trans history, we are committing to defending history, resisting fascism, and continuing to tell stories from the queer and/or trans past. 

Scholars working on any aspect of the queer and/or trans past, in any region of the world, during any period, are encouraged to apply. This conference highlights historical approaches to queer/trans scholarship, and while interdisciplinary approaches are welcome, we are soliciting proposals that explore queer/trans lives in the past. There is no specific theme; rather, we hope that this gathering will simply showcase the best of current work and new directions in the fields of queer and/or trans histories, including panels addressing historiographical debates or states-of-the-field. We encourage queer/trans scholarship on racial formations and racial capitalism, colonialism and empire, disability and embodiment, paid and unpaid labor, and practices of kinship and intimacy. Moreover, we are interested in panels that look beyond the twentieth-century United States. To promote robust conversations, we encourage panels organized by theme rather than region.

We particularly encourage panels and roundtables that respond to the political crises and technological changes impacting how we research, study, and teach queer/trans history today. In an era in which the teaching of history, ethnic studies and gender/sexuality studies faces increased scrutiny and backlash, we welcome panels and roundtables that explore critical reflections on queer/trans history in the classroom, from K-12 through higher education. As the US National Park Service deletes trans history content from government webpages, we encourage submissions that discuss queer/trans public history projects today. As the media through which queer/trans history knowledge circulates continue to diversify, we welcome panels that discuss how historians are using podcasts, online exhibitions, blogs, documentaries, social media rolls, Signal threads, Zoom webinars, and other formats to tell stories about the queer/trans past. 

Dorm rooms and on-campus hotel rooms will be available to make this conference as affordable as possible and registration fees will be minimal. 

A note from the conference co-chairs:

We want to thank members who’ve reached out to express concern about hosting the 2026 conference in the United States. We’re working to address those concerns, and particularly to make the conference as accessible as possible given the circumstances, including offering fully virtual options, sponsoring visas, and helping keep the costs of the conference as low as possible. We encourage folks to keep reaching out to us–this process is collaborative, and there would be no QTHC without all of you.

There is no perfect solution. While the U.S. is a place that international scholars may want to boycott or feel is unsafe to travel to, it is also a place that is hard for our trans and/or immigrant members to leave and return to. We also believe it is important to keep discussing trans and queer histories in the United States when the federal government is actively trying to erase these fields of inquiry. We considered several options and went with one where we had a dedicated local organizer with the capacity to facilitate the logistics on the ground. We want this conference to be accessible for as many people as possible. Ann Arbor has a generally welcoming climate for LGBTQ folks, ample institutional resources, interesting archives, and a richly documented local/regional LGBTQ history, so we’re excited about this opportunity. 

We see a future for the QTHC that continues to move around, and if you and your institution can host for 2028, please be in touch with the LGBTQ History Association co-chairs! We are open to a Canadian location for 2028, and look forward to an ongoing discussion with our membership to explore how best to facilitate accessible transnational dialogue about the queer/trans past in the years to come.

Guidelines for Submission

We are accepting proposals for:

  1. Fully in-person panels (three papers, a chair, and a comment; chair and comment roles can be fulfilled by the same person), roundtables (three to five speakers who will speak for 5-10 minutes each, plus a chair), workshops (an event in which one or more facilitators present on a topic and engage the audience in hands-on activity or constructive dialogue; examples might include  “Writing for the Public with the Editors of Nursing Clio,” “How to Launch a Podcast with Dig: A History Podcast,” “Writing a Book Proposal,” etc; workshops will require attendees to pre-register, and a max participant threshold should be set in the proposal), or single papers. 
  2. Fully virtual panels (three papers, a chair, and a comment; chair and comment roles can be fulfilled by the same person), roundtables (three to five speakers who will speak for 5-10 minutes each, plus a chair), or single papers. In response to member feedback about hybrid panels and prohibitive costs around technical support, we have decided not to accept hybrid proposals that require conference support to implement the hybrid experience. 

Our hope is that with options for fully virtual panels we can support opportunities for scholars who feel unsafe traveling to the United States to gather, share scholarship, and connect. 

We will consider individual paper submissions, out of which the program committee will assemble a very limited number of panels (either fully virtual or in-person). See below for ways to connect with others working in your field.

Panels and roundtables will be 1.5 hours. We encourage all full panel submissions to include at least one graduate student where possible. All panels should include a diversity of scholars in terms of institution, rank, and identity. Please only apply as part of one panel or roundtable. (The exception to this rule is for the role of chair or commentator, which may be performed by someone who is also giving a paper or appearing on a roundtable.) You do need to include someone to perform the chair, with an optional commenter. 

You may reach out to conference co-chairs for help in locating a chair and/or commentator: email conference@lgbtq-ha.org. In order to assemble panels, feel free to use the LGBTQHA listserv to connect with others working on similar topics (LGBTQHA@groups.io; if you are not already a member, you can register here: https://groups.io/g/lgbtqha) or use the hashtag #qthc26 on BlueSky or Facebook. 

Full Panels should include, in one Word document:

  • Title of panel
  • Panel abstract (300 words max.)
  • Title and abstract for each paper (300 words max.)
  • One-page CV or biographical statement with contact information for each participant
  • Chair (required) and Commenter (optional) roles specified

Roundtables should include, in one Word document:

  • Title of roundtable
  • Panel abstract (300 words max.)
  • Abstract for each contribution (300 words max.)
  • One-page CV or biographical statement with contact information for each participant
  • Chair role specified

Workshops should include, in one Word document:

  • Title of workshop
  • Workshop description  (300 words max.)
  • Maximum number of participants 
  • Expectations of participants (Do they need to bring a book proposal in progress? A laptop or other equipment? Sturdy walking shoes?) 
  • Support that the facilitators would need from the conference staff
  • Workshops can run up to 3 hours; please make a note in the proposal of the desired run time. 
  • One-page CV or biographical statement with contact information for each facilitator

Single paper submissions should include, in one Word document:

  • Title of paper
  • Paper abstract (300 words max.)
  • One-page CV or biographical statement with contact information

Please submit all proposals by November 1, 2025 to conference@lgbtq-ha.org. The QTHC 26 program committee will make decisions and send notifications in December. All presenters are expected to be (or become) members of the LGBTQ History Association by the time of the conference. Membership information is here.

In solidarity,

Co-Chairs: Alex Burnett, Averill Earls, and Nikita Shepard

Contact Information

Co-Chairs: Alex Burnett, Averill Earls, and Nikita Shepard conference@lgbtq-ha.org

Contact Email

conference@lgbtq-ha.org

URL https://lgbtq-ha.org/conferences/queer-and-trans-history-conference-2026-cfp-coming-soon/

CFP: Medieval Manuscripts in North America, and How They Got Here

The Peripheral Manuscripts Project and Digital Scriptorium have joined forces to organize the following session at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, to be held May 14-16, 2026, in Kalamazoo, MI, and we are looking for submissions!

Medieval Manuscripts in North America, and How They Got Here

Recent regional digitization and description initiatives and national cataloguing efforts have increased the discoverability of medieval manuscript holdings in North American collections. Such projects have made more–and better–data about such manuscripts available, revealing complex histories of manuscript circulation on this continent. This session invites papers that explore the provenance histories of these items or collections and how those histories have shaped manuscript research in the US and Canada over the past century. We also welcome papers that present histories of rare book dealers and/or auction houses or that trace the collecting habits of individuals or institutions in North America.

Abstracts are due by September 15, 2025, and can be submitted here.

Questions can be directed to Elizabeth Hebbard (ehebbard@iu.edu), Sarah Noonan (snoonan@saintmarys.edu), and/or Lynn Ransom (lransom@upenn.edu)

Call for Papers: Oral Histories with the Dead

Virtual Symposium
“Oral Histories with the Dead: Cemeteries, Communities, and Haunting Stories”
February 13, 2026 (Online)
Organized by Naomi Frost and Anna Sheftel, Concordia University

Oral Histories with the Dead will be an intimate, one-day symposium exploring how oral historians from various backgrounds are working to understand the past and the present through cemeteries and burial spaces. We are seeking paper proposals from community or academic oral historians at all career levels who have engaged with cemeteries and burial sites, whether official or unofficial, and their evolving meanings in the present, through the practice of oral history. Oral history generally focuses on the life stories and experiences of the living: how do these stories connect us to the dead? Can we listen to the dead? How can the practice of listening help us to understand the role of these spaces and those buried there, in understanding the past, our present, and questions of inequality and injustice? How does oral history of cemeteries and burial sites require engagement with silence and forgetting?

While there has been considerable scholarly and community interest in cemeteries and burial sites in recent years, particularly in situations of violence and oppression, much of the focus has been on archeological and related methods. The hope of this symposium is to bring together people trying to make sense of these spaces through story. While cemetery oral history may seem like a niche topic, we argue that it gets to the heart of many of the major themes that preoccupy oral historians: questions of place, belonging, silences, and power. Oral histories can interrogate how cemeteries, and the permanence that comes from burial, can teach us about who is and is not allowed to be visible, who is remembered and who is forgotten. These questions are especially salient in the case of cemeteries of marginalized or historically underrepresented communities, as well as in stories of migration, where burial often connects to questions about diasporic identity and belonging.

This symposium will explore how innovative approaches to listening and oral history help us to “speak” with or “listen” to the dead and the spaces we make for them. We welcome proposals grounded in oral history and storytelling, community and scholarly research, or creative practice, that consider what listening to cemeteries can reveal about the past and how they shape our understandings of the present.

In order to welcome proposals from a range of geographical and cultural settings, and from presenters with a range of disciplinary backgrounds, this symposium will be hosted remotely via Zoom on February 13, 2026. The hope is to work towards a collective publication afterwards. 

To submit your proposal for a presentation, please email us at naomi.frost@concordia.ca and anna.sheftel@concordia.ca and include the following documents: an abstract that addresses how your work engages with the themes of the symposium (up to 300 words); and a short bio (up to 100 words).

The deadline for submissions is: September 30, 2025.

Contact Information

Naomi Frost and Anna Sheftel, Concordia University

Contact Email

anna.sheftel@concordia.ca

URL

https://bit.ly/4mhTBOs

CFP: The Work of Revolution, First Joint Conference of NCPH and AASLH

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) and American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) are excited to announce that the Call for Proposals for our first joint conference is now live, with final proposals due December 1, 2025. 

“The Work of Revolution”

Revolution is at the center of every remarkable societal change. Through formal politics, grassroots organizing, boycott, protest, litigation, war, and a wide range of other mass and individual actions, behind every revolutionary moment are the people working to bring revolutionary ideas into reality. In the face of rapid cultural, social, political, and technological change, history’s importance as a guide for our future has become clearer than ever. Documenting during crises, archiving our collective past, supporting researchers and revolutionaries alike, public historians are part of the landscape of revolution. We bring history to the public because it matters.
Read the full theme statement here. We hope you’ll join NCPH and AASLH in this semiquincentennial year in Providence, Rhode Island—a host city where the ongoing work of revolution is front and center, with revolutionary roots and legacies embedded in self-determination and self-rule—as we reflect on the work of revolutions past and the work that lies ahead as we take stock of our field and consider how we can strengthen and protect it for the future. 

Topic Proposals 

As we do for our standalone conferences, NCPH invites people looking to connect with co-presenters or seeking feedback on a draft proposal to submit an optional Topic Proposal by October 15, 2025. We’ll post the Topic Proposals we receive to the NCPH website for a period of feedback from the public history community to help you craft the strongest possible proposal. Then, you’ll resubmit your proposal on AASLH’s Submittable platform for official consideration for the program. 

Submitting Your Final Proposal

Your session, working group, and workshop proposals are due December 1, 2025. This year, proposal submissions will be hosted by AASLH on Submittable. Here you can also find explanations of our session formats (combined and streamlined from NCPH’s and AASLH’s formats) and see the review criteria that the Program Committee will use to evaluate proposals. 

General questions or topic proposal questions? Email Program Manager Meghan Hillman. Questions about the Submittable platform? Email AASLH Chief of Operations Bethany Hawkins.

CFP: The Materiality of the Late Medieval Book: Production, Reading, and Transition

Call for Papers – IMC Leeds 2026

Panel Series: The Materiality of the Late Medieval Book: Production, Reading, and Transition.

Deadline for submissions: 14 September 2025

We invite proposals for papers for a series of panels at the International Medieval Congress (IMC), to be held in Leeds, 6–9 July 2026. This session series will explore the materiality of the late medieval book between c. 1350 and 1540, with a particular emphasis on approaches that take the physical object as the foundation of scholarly inquiry. This strand aims to foreground the book as a material artefact – not simply as a vehicle for text or image, but as a made, handled, and interpreted object. We seek contributions that begin with codicological, palaeographical, artifactual, or structural features of books – bindings, layouts, quire structures, scripts, substrates, wear patterns, or added matter – and use these material traces to investigate broader questions of cultural practice, intellectual history, devotional life, or reading habits.

Papers may address, but are not limited to:

  • Material production: physical construction of books, use of specific materials (parchment, paper, pigments), regional or institutional practices
  • Reading and handling: how physical features shaped reading practices and reader interaction; evidence of use such as marginalia, damage, repairs, signs of wear, and ownership traces; and the repurposing, circulation, or afterlives of books
  • Transitions and continuities: how the rise of print engages with manuscript materiality – including hybrid books, printed texts with manuscript additions, and conservative or experimental formats that blur traditional boundaries
  • Methodologies: new approaches to studying the physical book as evidence and object

We particularly welcome work grounded in close analysis of specific manuscripts, printed books, or fragments. 

Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words, along with your name, institutional affiliation, and a brief biographical note (max. 100 words), to Janne van der Loop, (jannevanderloop@uni-mainz.de) by 14 September 2025.

Selected papers will form part of a multi-session strand proposal for IMC 2026. Applicants will be notified of the outcome around 20 September 2025. For questions or further information, please contact Janne van der Loop (jannevanderloop@uni-mainz.de) or Ad Putter (A.D.Putter@bristol.ac.uk)

We look forward to papers that place the material form of the late medieval book at the centre of scholarly interpretation.

Contact Email

jannevanderloop@uni-mainz.de

Seeking 1-2 scholars to co-present in LASA 2026 panel “Memoria en llamas: Archivos, fuego y narrativas de la pérdida”

We are currently seeking 1–2 scholars to co-present at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress in Paris, 2026, for a panel we are organizing titled:

“Memoria en llamas: Archivos, fuego y narrativas de la pérdida”

This panel will explore libraries and archives lost to fire, focusing on how such events can be interpreted through the analysis of archival silences—silences shaped not only by political or institutional forces, but also by environmental challenges, especially fire. We are interested in work that considers how fire transforms the archive, how destruction becomes part of its record, and how these narratives intersect with ecological, historical, and cultural contexts.

If your research engages with these themes, we invite you to join us in examining the intertwined histories of archives, preservation, and fire.  

Please send a brief abstract (150–200 words) and short bio to camilaordoricab@utexas.edu or zt3@nyu.edu by august 25th, 2025.

Contact Information

Camila Ordorica – camilaordoricab@utexas.edu

Zeb Tortorici – zt3@nyu.edu 

Contact Email

camilaordoricab@utexas.edu

URL

https://lasaweb.org/en/lasa2026

CFP (session): Neglected Heritage and Hidden Narratives in Central and Eastern Europe from 1860 to 1950

Modern states of Central and Eastern Europe have written strong narratives of national identities based on the idea of cultural and ethnic homogeneity. Formerly part of the Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Empires, they sought detachment from the Imperial past even if their history and identity were decisively shaped by it. This session aims to reflect on how the material heritage of marginalised groups has been appropriated, neglected and destroyed, but also on how it survived despite the official policies. It further focuses on the art historiography and on what was written in and written out of official narratives. Proposals are invited on any type of material heritage and writings that shed light on the survival and neglect of the minority’s heritage in Central, Eastern Europe and the neighbouring regions. Potential questions to be addressed are: How have new narratives of national art and architecture excluded other narratives? How were the diverse artistic traditions of the Roma communities racialised as less-developed foreign cultures throughout Eastern Europe, from Czechia to Greece? What happened under new nation-states to the cultural diversity of majority-Muslim regions such as Dobrogea and Crimea or with the Ottoman heritage of Yugoslavia? How was the material heritage of various “non-official” communities preserved and promoted despite states’ desires?

Contact Information

Cosmin Tudor Mine

Contact Email

cosmin.minea@phil.muni.cz

URL

https://caa.confex.com/caa/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session16745.html

CFP: Archive-It at DLF

Archive-It partners and friends will meet on the morning of Monday, November 17, 2025, to coincide with this year’s DLF Forum in Denver, CO. We invite your proposals for talks, panels, demos, and discussions. You may find the latest information and share your proposals here: Archive-It at DLF.

The Archive-It team encourages proposals from BIPOC presenters, first-time presenters, and representatives of organizations of all sizes and types on topics including, but not limited to:

  • Workflows
  • Access integrations
  • Research use cases
  • Advocacy and funding

Deadline for submission of proposals: Friday, August 8, 2025

Notification of acceptance:  Wednesday, August 13, 2025

All are welcome to attend freely but space is limited. Registration and event details will be announced soon. We hope you can join us! We look forward to hosting more Archive-It events at conferences year-round.

To learn more about recent Archive-It partner meetings, see:

Best,

The Archive-It team

CFP: 31st International Conference on the History of Cartography: Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography

Call for Papers
31st International Conference on the History of Cartography
Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography
Prague & Brno, Czechia | 7–11 July 2026
www.ichc2026.org

The Faculty of Science of Charles University, the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Moravian Library in Brno, the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, and the Czech Geographical Society, under the auspices of the Czech Cartographic Society, are pleased to invite proposals for papers and posters for the 31st International Conference on the History of Cartography. ICHC is the only academic conference solely dedicated to advancing knowledge of the history of maps and mapmaking, regardless of geographical region, language, period or topic. ICHC promotes free and unfettered global cooperation and collaboration among cartographic scholars from many academic disciplines, curators, collectors, dealers and institutions through illustrated lectures, presentations, exhibitions, and a social program. In order to expand awareness of issues and resources, each conference is sponsored by a leading educational and cultural institution.

The biennial conferences are organized in conjunction with Imago Mundi CIO. ICHC 2026 builds upon Czechia’s robust tradition of research in the history of cartography and related disciplines, a tradition that has flourished for more than a century.

Proposal submission now open: Please submit proposals for paper and poster presentations at www.ichc2026.org

Under the broad rubric of Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography, ICHC 2026 welcomes paper and poster presentations on the following themes.

1) Maps and Tourism

Encompasses the role of maps and related works in promoting tourism to regions or particular destinations and in the experience of touristic places.

2) Maps as Artefacts

Investigates the nature of maps as cultural objects that circulate within the marketplace and other networks, and that are variously collected and preserved within institutions of memory (GLAM).

3) The Third Dimension: Representing Elevation on Maps

Explores the particular strategies developed to represent the earth’s crumpled surface of hills and valleys for specific tasks, from military and geological mapping to forest management.

4) Mapping the Past: Historical Cartography at the Turn of the Digital Era 

Pursues interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on the ideological implications of new digital technologies in mapping the past, including the risks of distortion and of the instrumentalisation of historical content for political or ideological purposes.

And any other aspect of the history of cartography

Papers: Paper presentations will comprise 15 minutes for presentation, followed by a short discussion.

Posters: Posters will be installed for a dedicated session on the second morning of the conference and will remain on display through the remainder of the conference.

Panel proposals: We welcome the proposal of organized sessions. However, proposals for paper presentations, whether by one or more presenters, must be submitted and evaluated individually. Therefore, if a proposed paper is intended for an organized session, please include the information at the end of the submission form. The session’s organizer must also submit a separate proposal for the session that lists all the papers and presenters.

Workshops: In addition to the academic programme, four thematic workshops will be organised.

Scholarships: The Kislak Family Foundation will provide scholarship opportunities for up to 5 participants. More information at https://ichc2026.org/fellowship/.

Conference Language: The language of the conference is English, and all proposals and presentations must be prepared and delivered accordingly.

Key Dates:

  • Opening of the call for papers: 15 July 2025
  • Deadline for submission of proposals: 14 November 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2026
  • Early Bird Registration: until 15 April 2026

Estimated Registration Fees:

  • Regular: 340 EUR
  • Students: 150 EUR

Conference Venues: ICHC 2026 will convene in the historical campus of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague (Albertov); the Moravian Library in Brno; and the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University (Brno). Participants will have the opportunity to engage with key cartographic collections and take part in thematic exhibitions, guided tours, field trips, and social events.

Inquiries: ichc2026@hiu.cas.cz

The International Conferences on the History of Cartography: 

London (1964, 1967); Brussels (1969); Edinburgh (1971); Warsaw (1973); Greenwich (1975); Washington, DC (1977); Berlin (1979); Pisa, Florence, Rome (1981); Dublin (1983); Ottawa (1985); Paris (1987); Amsterdam (1989); Uppsala, Stockholm (1991); Chicago (1993); Vienna (1995); Lisbon (1997); Athens (1999); Madrid (2001); Cambridge, MA, Portland, ME (2003); Budapest (2005); Bern (2007); Copenhagen (2009); Moscow (2011); Helsinki (2013); Antwerp (2015); Belo Horizonte (2017); Amsterdam (2019); Bucharest (2022); Lyon (2024); Prague, Brno (2026)

Contact Information

The Czech Geographical Society / Česká geografická společnost, z. s.
Albertov 6, 128 00 Praha 2, Czechia 

Contact Email

ichc2026@hiu.cas.cz

URL: https://ichc2026.org/