This call does not specifically mention archives, but definitely has potential for archivists to participate.

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Call for Abstracts

The journal Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built
Environment, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, invites submissions for the Fall 2019 issue.

A HERITAGE OF WAR, CONFLICT, AND COMMEMORATION

Guest Editor: William Chapman

Sites of war and conflict that symbolize collective loss or that served as pivotal moments in national or global history are sometimes elevated to the status of “heritage.” Battlefields, sites of bombings, or places of terrorist attacks are all marked by human tragedy and acts of violence and their interpretation is inherently conflictual. This issue of Change Over Time examines heritage produced by violent acts of destruction and our efforts to commemorate the complex narratives these sites embody.

To support the interpretation of sites characterized by absence, we have often erected commemorative memorials of various forms from plaques and commissioned statuary to the presentation of charred and damaged remnants of what stood before. Examples featuring the vestiges of physical destruction include: the hull of the USS Arizona, sunk during Japan’s 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor; the skeleton of the domed administrative building that marked the zero point of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945; the stabilized walls of St. Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry, a victim of the German Luftwaffe’s November 1940 blitz; and the “Survivors’ Stairs,” the last remaining element of the World Trade Center following its destruction on 11 September 2001. In this issue, we invite contributors to interrogate the types and nature of heritage produced out of war and conflict, the forms of its commemoration, and the challenges associated with its conservation. We encourage contributors to consider the influence of class, politics, and culture in commemorative expressions; the technical and conceptual challenges of conserving objects or places of destruction; inclusive or conflicting (re)interpretation; and evolving perceptions of places over time.

We welcome contributions representing a broad array of geographic, cultural, temporal, and historical contexts that may or may not include vestiges of destruction but that do address the complex attributes of collective place based tragedy. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, case studies, theoretical explorations, and evaluations of current practices or policies as they pertain to the conservation and commemoration of heritage of war and conflict.

Abstracts of 200-300 words are due 1 August 2018. Authors will be notified of provisional paper acceptance by 1 September 2018. Final manuscript submissions will be due late November 2018.

Submission

Articles are generally restricted to 7,500 or fewer words (the approximate equivalent to thirty pages of double-spaced, twelve-point type) and may include up to ten images. See Author Guidelines for full details at cotjournal.com, or email Senior Associate Editor, Kecia Fong at cot@design.upenn.edu for further information.

Contact Info:
Senior Associate Editor, Kecia Fong

Contact Email: cot@design.upenn.edu

URL: http://cotjournal.com/call-for-papers/

 

Lana Dee Povitz and I are eager to make oral history central to this special themed issue – so send us your proposals in English or French!  The deadline is coming up at the end of the month. Best, Steven

Articles Accepted in English or French

Activist Lives

This special issue seeks to bring together articles that contribute historical depth and comparative breadth to the subject of activist lives. By taking seriously the role of emotion and affect, and by focusing on individual and collective biographies, the co-editors hope to move beyond institutional or issue-based histories to show how movements for social change have flowed into one another through the medium of relationships. The aim is to show that social movements-from gender justice to workers’ rights to radical environmentalism and far beyond-are constituted by consecutive or overlapping scenes, subcultures, and often highly conflicted movement currents.

Submissions may address entirely local topics, or reach across great geographic and social distances. In addition to investigations of individual activist trajectories, we are interested in activist lives in their collective sense: generations of a family, affinity groups, radical friendships, intentional communities, political rivals, and romantic relationships between activists. The editors welcome proposals rooted in different historical moments and geographic scales, unbounded by national containers; they are concerned with movements that have been celebrated as successful as well as those that have failed or been obscured. Methodologically, they welcome inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches to the past, and encourage the use of experimental writing techniques and sources that express personal narrative, such as oral histories, diaries, eulogies, letters, family albums, home movies, and travelogues.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Politicization and disaffection: how people moved into or away from social movement participation
• The uses of anger, love, and other strong emotions in social movements
• How participants understood the significance and biographical consequences of their activism
• How movements are remembered –in public memory, private memory, and the tension between the two
• Activist genealogies, including those characterized by biology, affinity, friendship, mentorship, or antagonism
• How recent generations of activists relate to prior social movements, especially when there is seen to be a “golden age” of a particular struggle

Reunions, retrospective writing, and the role of radical nostalgia

The guest editors intend to submit selected articles for inclusion in a special issue of Histoire sociale / Social History provisionally titled “Activist Lives”.

Individuals who are interested in contributing to the special issue should send a 300-400 word abstract and a short 2-page CV by July 1, 2018 to Lana Dee Povitz and Steven High at steven.high@concordia.ca .

Completed articles will be expected January 15, 2019.

The journal Histoire Sociale / Social Historypublishes articles in both English and French.