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

CFP: transfer – Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection

The online journal transfer is an academic publication platform in the area of provenance research and the history of collection as well as adjacent fields of investigation, like art market studies, reception history, cultural sociology, or legal history. Issues are published semi-annually and exclusively online in Diamond Open Access. Research articles and research reports, to be submitted in English or German, are subject to a double-blind peer-review. All submissions undergo an internal evaluation by the editors supported by the advisory board and receive professional copy-editing before publication. The journal is based at the Research Centre for Provenance Research, Art and Cultural Property Law at the University of Bonn and at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. transfer receives funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Webhosting is provided by our partner institution Heidelberg University Library via arthistoricum.net.

Website: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer/index

Editors: Felicity Bodenstein, Ulrike Saß & Christoph Zuschlag

Managing Editor: Florian Schönfuß

Advisory Board: Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V., dbv-Kommission Provenienzforschung und Provenienzerschließung, Didier Houénoudé, Larissa Förster, Gilbert Lupfer, Antoinette Maget-Dominicé, Barbara K. Murovec, Gesa Vietzen

Open Call for Submissions

transfer is an interdisciplinary, cross-epoch and international journal. It primarily addresses a scholarly audience. Besides experienced researchers, transfer equally aims at early career researchers, including PhD students, offering broad impact and high accessibility for the publication of recent research. Abstaining from any author charges or other publication fees, transfer provides a Diamond Open Access platform assuring research quality as well as transparency, fostering research interconnection and the crossing of disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Authors are invited to submit papers on the following fields of interest:

– Provenance research on individual objects or object groups

– Collections, History of collection

– Translocation of art and cultural assets 

– Art and cultural property law

– Culture of remembrance, Cultural identity, Collective memory

– Art trade, Art market studies

– Art policy, Sociology of art, Cultural sociology

– Restitution, Return, Repatriation

In conjunction with the articles in transfer, corresponding research data sets can be published via the Open Research Data platform heiData. For further information on this and regarding submissions, text categories, peer-review as well as our Style Sheet, please see the journal-website or contact us under redaktion.transfer@uni-bonn.de.

The submission deadline for Volume 5 (2026), No. 1 is 15th January 2026.

Contact Information

Dr. Florian Schönfuß

transfer – Zeitschrift für Provenienzforschung und Sammlungsgeschichte / 

Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Forschungsstelle Provenienzforschung, 

Kunst- und Kulturgutschutzrecht

Kunsthistorisches Institut

Rabinstraße 1

53111 Bonn (Germany)

florian.schoenfuss@uni-bonn.de

Contact Email

redaktion.transfer@uni-bonn.de

URL

https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer/index

New Issue: Archeota

Archeota, Spring/Summer 2025

Archeota is a platform for SJSU iSchool students to contribute to the archival conversation. It is written BY students, FOR students. It provides substantive content on archival concerns and issues and promotes professional development in the field of archival studies. Archeota upholds the core values of the archival profession. 

Contents: 

Happy 10th Birthday Archeota! Celebrating Archeota’s 10 Year Anniversary by Gwendolyn Smith 

Beyond Survival: The Fragility of Context in Digital Archives by Nicholas Haynes 

“Records Doulas” and the Case for Patient Records Advocacy: An Emerging Role for Archivists by Stacy L. Vandenput 

Preserving Play: Memory, Meaning, and the Soul of Games by Jesse Jacobs

New/Recent Publications

Articles

“Tracing Transformations: (Digitized) World War II Correspondence Through the Lens of the Records Continuum Model,” written by Milan M. van Lange and Carlijn Keijzer.

Abdollahi, S., Nejdl, W. & Gottschalk, S. Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Event Collections from Web Archives and the Live Web. Int J Digit Libr 26, 12 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00419-7

Laukkoski, Helena. “Hybridisation in the Field of Museums: Case Study on the Collections Collaboration between the Finnish Music Museum Fame and the National Museum of Finland”, Ethnologia Europaea 55, 1 (2025): 50-72. https://doi.org/10.3167/ee.2025.550104

Leigh Rupinski, Katelyn Fletcher. “We Have Glue and a Dream: A Case Study on Just for Fun Outreach at the Lemmen Library and Archives.” The Journal of Creative Library Practice 2025.

Lauren Geiger, Kathryn C. New, Carolina M. Siniscalchi. “From the Research Cycle to the People Cycle: Humanizing Digital Curation.” International Journal of Digital Curation 19, no. 1 (2025).

Keren Barner. “The CopyrightChain in the Digital Curation Process: ‘Which Copyright’Project at the Nazarian Library, University of Haifa.” International Journal of Digital Curation 19, no. 1 (2025).

Schellnack-Kelly, I., & Modiba, M. (2024). Developing smart archives in society 5.0: Leveraging artificial intelligence for managing audiovisual archives in Africa. Information Development, 41(3), 626-641. https://doi.org/10.1177/02666669241286224 (Original work published 2025)

Zhuoying Jiang. “From Books to Brushstrokes: The Role of Library Archives in Teaching Art History and Practice.” Vol. 35 No. 1 (2025): African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science.

Junyan Wang, Junzhu Zhao. “Information Retrieval in Digital Sound Archives and Libraries: Preservation of the Documents of Xinjiang-Style Guzheng Music through Digital Library Curation.” Vol. 35 No. 1 (2025): African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science.

Chengfang Chen, Heng Zou. “Shaping Creative Identity: The Impact of Digital Visual Archives and Library Resources in Cross-Cultural Learning.” Vol. 35 No. 1 (2025): African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science.

Books

Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the digital playground
Andrew Burn (Editor), John Potter (Editor), Kate Cowan (Editor), Julia Bishop (Editor)
University College London Press, 2025

Transitional Justice Archives: Documenting Human Rights Violations in Latin America
Edited By Anita Ferrara, Beatrice Canossi
Routledge, 2025

Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo: Archives, Waqf and Society
Daisy Livingston
Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Human Rights: Towards an Integrated Approach
Edited By Laura Pineschi
Routledge, 2025

Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations
Lise Jaillant (Editor), Claire Warwick (Editor), Paul Gooding (Editor), Katherine Aske (Editor), Glen Layne-Worthey (Editor), J. Stephen Downie (Editor)
University College London Press, 2025

Archival Communities: Constructing the Past in the Early United States
Derek Kane O’Leary
University of Virginia Press, 2025

The Visitor Studies Guide: Theory and Practice for Heritage Contexts
Lee Davidson
Routledge, 2025

The Archival Impermanence Project
Ross Lipman
Sticking Place Books, 2025

The Black Curator: Activists for Representation, and Decolonization of Museums
Kemuel Benyehudah
Routledge, 2025

Podcasts

Archives in Context Discusses AI in Archives
In episode 3 of season 9 of Archives in Context, cohosts Lauren Kata and Emily Mathay chat with Ben and Sara Brumfield about the future of AI in archives. Sara and Ben discuss their ongoing work develping projects at the intersection of cultural heritage and emerging technologies. This episode also discusses the challenges of integrating AI into archives work. Listen to the episode here.

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

New Issue: RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

Vol 26, No 1 (2025) Spring

Editor’s Note
Editor’s Note: Work Is Work
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

“Some Days, My Work Is Unbearable”: The Impact of Chronic Illness and Disability on Recruitment and Retention for Workers in American Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries
Melanie Griffin

“But Do They Really Want Me?”: Reflecting on the Language of DEIA Adopted in Entry-Level Job Postings for Special Collections Librarians in 2023
Ruth Xing, Yuzhou Bai

Moving Forward: Membership and the Future of RBMS
Rebecca Bramlett, Eric Friede, Sophia Dahab, Michael Seminara

Getting Inked? A Survey of Current Institutional Marking Practices in Rare Books and Special Collections
Gemma Steele, Hayley Webster

Anthology: Papers from “The Power of New Voices”

Sustainably Critical Cataloging: Maximizing the Impact of Term Funding with the Black Bibliography Project
Mara Caelin

Making Third Spaces Safe Spaces: How Trauma-Informed Care Informs Librarianship
Lyric Grimes

Call for Editors: Humanities Methods in Librarianship #OpenAccessJournal

Call For Editors

Apply by: September 15th, 2025

Humanities Methods in Librarianship – a new, no-fee, open access journal – is looking for editors to join our talented editorial team! The journal publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research, creative works, and book reviews. We aim to broaden the scholarly conversation by encouraging submissions that deploy methods from the humanities to address current or salient issues in the library profession.

If you are interested in being an editor, irrespective of your academic background, we’d love to hear from you!

Please fill out the form here, and we will reach out to you to start a conversation. 

For additional information, please reach out to editors@humanitiesmethods.org.

New Issue: Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information

Volume 25, Issue 3 September 2025

Fires and floods: records, archives management and destruction in Zimbabwe since the colonial period
George Bishi

Persona creation methods as a step toward user-oriented archival curriculum: a case study of a Polish archival course
Monika CołbeckaAnna Pieczka-Węgorkiewicz

Toward effective digital records management in Oman: key enablers, barriers and policy implications from government institution experiences
Hamad Humoud Hamad Al-HinaiAhmed Maher Khafaga ShehataAbderrazak Mkadmi

Diplomatics and paleography: a study of judges’ signatures in the Mamluk period
Mohamed Hussien Mohamed

Displaced, but not destroyed: archives in the Thirty Years’ War
Natalie Krentz

Development of the trauma-informed archival practices scale
Cheryl Regehr, Wendy Duff, Christa Sato & Jessica Ho

Exploring archival absence: silences, imagined records and materiality in nineteenth-century Europe
Emma Hagström Molin

Authenticity as a travelling concept: from heritage conservation to archives
Heather MacNeil

Parchments on the move. Removed archives and documentary culture in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Italy
Maria Pia Donato

Missing persons document management as disaster response: the case of handling missing persons in Timor Leste
FebriyantoIke Iswary LawandaRahmi

Discoverability, usability, and readability: a framework for assessing accessibility for disabled users of online archives
Elizabeth A. Pineo

Adaptive learning models for efficient and standardized archival processes
J. A. Pryse

Archives and imperial power: archival destruction in the Roman context
Anna Dolganov

Privileged access to archives and the interest of research illustrated by the examples of German and French archival systems
Mikuláš Čtvrtník

Displaced, hence, not lost: the afterlife of private archives from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Mario C. D. Paganini

Palestine as provenance: archiving against genocide from Gaza to South Lebanon (Jabal Amil)
J. J. Ghaddar

Submit a Topic

Greetings Readers:

Recently, I realized that I wasn’t receiving notifications from the Google form I had on the Contact page. I have since adjusted the settings and it should working now! To those who had previously used the form – I apologize for missing your submissions and I hope you will submit again in the future.

I subscribe to and follow many journals, websites, organizations, and so forth. But of course it’s hard to find everything. If you hear of calls for papers or presentations, new publications and journals, or anything related to publishing in the archives profession, please send it along and I’ll be glad to post it.

Thanks for reading!
Cheryl