CFP: Re:assemblages Symposium (Lagos, 4-5 Nov 25)

Re:assemblages Symposium (Lagos, 4-5 Nov 25)

Alliance Française de Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, Nov 4–05, 2025
Deadline: Aug 15, 2025

Guest Artists Space Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation

Provocation: What does it mean to think with African and Afro-diasporic art archives as living, contested, and future-shaping spaces?

The 20th century can be read as a formative ecotonal space—an unsettled, generative borderland where networks fractured and reformed, collaborations ignited, and tensions gave way to new modes of relation. Within this compressed terrain, distinct ecologies of African and Afro-diasporic thought and practice took shape, producing postcolonial libraries, and archives that carried with them emergent aesthetic and epistemic registers—unfinished, insurgent, and alive with possibility.

Marking the inaugural symposium of the Re:assemblages programme, this two-day gathering brings together the African Arts Libraries (AAL) Lab and Affiliates Network, archivists, curators, scholars, artists, librarians, and wider audiences to contemplate how postcolonial African and Afro-diasporic art archives and libraries act as ecotonal sites, their everyday lives, and futures.

The Re:assemblages Symposium invites inquiry into the ecologies of African and Afro-diasporic art libraries and archives energised by the radical potential of The Short Century, a temporal arc spanning 1945 to 1994 that centers Africa in postwar decolonisation, new diasporic formations, and the modernist movement of the 20th century. The symposium asks: 
– What forms of care, friction, and futurity emerge in the gaps, silences, and transitional zones of the postcolonial archive and library? 
– How might we read these spaces not as sealed enclosures, but as ecotonal formations? 
– How can we cultivate publishing ecologies within them that disrupt extractive knowledge regimes and nurture situated ways of learning?

Symposium Themes and Provocations 
The symposium is framed by the conceptual currents of Re:assemblages 2025–26—Ecotones, Annotations, The Living Archive, and The Short Century, each offering methods to inhabit postcolonial art archives and libraries, their gaps, inventories, silences, and thresholds.

Ecotones are transitional zones—spaces between distinct ecosystems, knowledge systems, and epistemologies. Deriving from the Greek tonos (tension) and eco (home), Ecotones asks: 
– What does it mean to inhabit the boundary, the in-between? 
– What knowledge is generated at points of contact, friction, and leakage? 
– How can archives, spaces shaped by colonial histories, diasporic flows, and post-independence reimaginings be read as ecotones? 
– How might ecotonal approaches help surface marginalized voices, and foster new reading ecologies, and ecotonal practices of publishing?

Annotations takes as its point of departure the marginalia, footnotes, redactions, and fragments that often surround, rather than centre, dominant historical narratives. Here, annotation is not merely a supplement, but a method. Influenced by the speculative rigour of Saidiya Hartman’s critical fabulation and John Keene’s poetic logic, this theme embraces annotation as a radical archival gesture: a way of writing beside, between, or against the grain. Initially conceived to activate the archives of pan-African festivals FESMAN, Zaire ’74, PANAF, FESTAC ’77, Annotations draws on various frames to ask: 
– How can annotation operate as a feminist, intertextual, and multisensory method? 
– What does it mean to annotate across silences, across generations, across space? 
– How can annotation serve as an act of resistance, a tool of memory, and a speculative strategy for working across archives—especially those that are fragile, informal, or deliberately incomplete?

The Living Archive challenges static, institutional models by emphasizing process, activation, and embodied memory. Here, the archive is not simply a place of preservation and linear histories, but a site of performance, encounter, and transformation. Artists and cultural workers draw from and contribute to archives in ways that are iterative, unstable, and alive. The Living Archive draws on artistic-led methods to ask: 
– How have artists inhabited museum collections, libraries, and archives? 
– What new languages and forms emerge when archives are accessed through gesture, voice, kinship, or editorial experimentation? 
– What gestures and practices are required to keep an archive alive?

(The Short Century: Symposium contributions under this theme will be presented by US based fellows of The Short Century Intensive, a research fellowship hosted by G.A.S. Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.)

Submission Guidelines 
We welcome proposals responding to the themes, Ecotones, The Living Archive, and Annotations, especially those that go beyond traditional academic formats. Contributions may take the form of talks and panels, performances or readings, listening sessions or screenings, workshops or roundtables, or collaborative, and intermedia presentations.

Please submit the following materials via the Application Form (https://forms.zohopublic.eu/yinkashonibarefoundation/form/CallForPapersReassemblagesSymposium202526/formperma/IxSHtFlylwPAXokwh8jGlIglobYZUCY2EVFpg9rH3yY) by 15 August 2025: 
– Abstract (300–500 words): Include a clear title. Indicate the theme you are responding to (Ecotones, The Living Archive, or Annotations). Outline the form and content of your contribution. 
– Supporting Material (3-5 items): Relevant images, video/audio samples, or links connected to 
your abstract. Please include captions and brief descriptions. 
– Biography (max. 250 words) 
– Website (and or links to professional work) 
– Curriculum Vitae – PDF, 3 pages maximum.

Selected participants will be notified in the first week of September. Selection will be made by our Advisory Committee, with preliminary shortlisting conducted by the Planning Committee.

Contact and FAQs 
For questions and inquiries, please contact: library@guestartistsspace.com.

We will offer travel and accommodation grants for five Africa-based participants. While we cannot cover travel and accommodation for other contributors, we will provide invitation letters to assist with funding and visa applications.

The symposium is scheduled to coincide with Lagos Art Week and ART X Lagos, a city-wide platform for contemporary art from Lagos and beyond, encompassing exhibition openings, art fairs, public programmes, and related cultural events.

About 
Re:assemblages is a roaming body and multi-year programme designed to foster experimentation and collaboration within African art libraries. In 2025–26, its second chapter opens with a provocation: What does it mean to think with African and Afro-diasporic art archives as living, contested, and future-shaping spaces? The programme forges vital connections between artists, publishers, and research institutions in Africa, while responding to the urgent need for a global forum to advance dialogue around archives that remain under-resourced, dispersed, and shaped by enduring colonial legacies that continue to determine their access, preservation, and visibility.

The programme is curated by Naima Hassan and coordinated by Samantha Russell, with contributions from Maryam Kazeem, Ann Marie Peña, and Jonn Gale, and funding from the Terra Foundation of American Art. 

For further details, view the concept note here (https://www.yinkashonibarefoundation.com/Portals/0/Reassemblages%202025-26%20Programme%20Concept.pdf). Previous outcomes of the 2024 edition can be found here (https://www.guestartistsspace.com/Reassemblages).

Organised by Guest Artists Space Foundation & Yinka Shonibare Foundation.

Advisory Committee
Dr. Beatrix Gassmann de Sousa, Natasha Ginwala, Dr. Rangoato Hlasane, Patrick Mudekereza, Serubiri Moses, and Dr. Oluwatoyin Zainab Sogbesan.

Planning Committee
Moni Aisida, Jonn Gale, Naima Hassan, Belinda Holden, Maryam Kazeem, Siti Osman, Samantha Russell, and Ann Marie Peña.

Re:assemblages 2025–26 is generously supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art and Afreximbank under the auspices of the Afreximbank Art Program.

Contact Information

Naima Hassan

Re:assemblages Curator

Associate Curator and Archivist

G.A.S. Library and Picton Archive

Contact Email

library@guestartistsspace.com

URL: https://www.guestartistsspace.com/News/call-for-papers-reassemblages-symposium-2025

CFP: Texas Oral History Association 2025 Annual Conference

The Texas Oral History Association (TOHA), founded in 1983, promotes the use and good practices of oral history research through a variety of programs and publications, including the journal Sound Historian. Comprised of individuals representing diverse interests and disciplines, the professional organization will host its fourteenth annual conference September 5-6, 2025, on the campus of Baylor University in Waco, TX! 

Scholars, educators, students, history enthusiasts, folklorists, family historians, and more are encouraged to submit proposals for papers or sessions to be considered for the program. Topics should include clear evidence of oral history research or provide new insights on the methodology.

Both complete sessions and individual paper proposals are welcome. Individual presentations must not exceed twenty minutes, and the session format will include opening remarks by a chair, followed by two or three papers, and concluding remarks from a commentator.

Proposals should include the names, affiliations, and contact information of participants (bio), the titles of sessions and papers, and a brief description of the topics to be covered. Please submit your proposals via email by July 18, 2025.

Direct all submittals and inquiries to:

Adrienne Cain Darough, Secretary-Treasurer

adrienne_cain@baylor.edu

Contact Information

Adrienne Cain Darough

Asst Director, Baylor University Institute for Oral History

Secretary-Treasurer, Texas Oral History Association

adrienne_cain@baylor.edu

Contact Email

adrienne_cain@baylor.edu

URL

https://toha.web.baylor.edu/2025conference

Article Discussion – TPS Fest Edition

The Teaching with Primary Sources subcommittee of RAO would like to invite you to attend our next article discussion, held in conjunction with TPS Fest 2025. Join us for a discussion of the article “Teaching with Archival Materials Using a Trauma-Informed Framework” by Jennifer Follen, 2025 (click here for a free copy https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1924). We ask that you read the freely accessible article before this session and come ready to discuss this article. We will provide questions and prompts for you to think about, but we welcome any insights and discussions this may lead to. All practitioners of TPS are welcome! Register for Session R3c HERE

For more information on TPS Fest 2025, please visit tpscollective.org/events-and-opportunities/tpsfest2025

Call for Papers: Library Careers for Medievalists (A Roundtable)

The International Society of Medievalist Librarians seeks speakers with an academic background in Medieval Studies to join a *hybrid* roundtable taking place at the International Congress on Medieval Studies taking place May 14-16, 2026, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.

Session Description: Many Medieval Studies students express an interest in library careers, but they are often unsure what qualifications are needed for positions in the cultural heritage sector. Similarly, traditional teaching faculty often don’t have enough information to advise students on becoming a librarian or searching for entry-level library jobs. Using their own career paths as a starting point, librarians and archivists will share up-to-date advice about cultural heritage work and engage in a productive discussion with attendees about how medievalists can break into this field.

We welcome contributions from established and emerging professionals in libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. Similarly, we welcome representatives from across this diverse field, from curators to catalogers, from acquisitions staff to digital media specialists, and from reference librarians to program developers. The preponderance of time in the session will be spent responding to questions from attendees about training, qualifications, and career pathways for the cultural heritage sector.

Anyone interested must submit through the conference portal (icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi/Session/7119). Please include information about your job and your Medieval Studies background in your abstract, as well as if you expect to participate in person, virtually, or are undecided. Proposals are due by Monday, September 15th.

Call for submissions: De Gruyter Brill’s Technology and Change in History book series

Call for submissions: De Gruyter Brill’s Technology and Change in History book series

Series editors: Adam Lucas and Phillip Reid

The role played by technology in transforming human societies has been a preoccupation of the modern period. Technology and Change in History is a peer-reviewed series of monographs and edited volumes which surveys the development of technology from a variety of different historical perspectives.

Since 1997, the series has published eighteen volumes, with the nineteenth due out in June 2025. The current editors seek to increase the pace of publication while maintaining the highest standard of original scholarship. 

We invite scholars at all postdoctoral career stages to submit monographs or edited volumes in the history of technology for consideration. We encourage submissions from archaeologists and material culture specialists as well as historians. We are currently exploring the feasibility of commissioning monographs and edited volumes featuring the technologies and techniques of Indigenous people, and welcome proposals that meet those criteria. 

Information and a list of previous publications may be found here. 

Proposals and manuscripts should be submitted to Helena Schöb, Acquisitions Editor, at helena.schoeb@degruyterbrill.com. 

General queries about appropriate topics may be submitted to the series editors at alucas@uow.edu.au and phillipfrankreid@gmail.com. 

Contact Information

Proposals and manuscripts should be submitted to Helena Schöb, Acquisitions Editor, at helena.schoeb@degruyterbrill.com. 

General queries about appropriate topics may be submitted to the series editors at alucas@uow.edu.au and phillipfrankreid@gmail.com. 

Contact Email

helena.schoeb@degruyterbrill.com

URL: https://brill.com/display/serial/TCH

CFP: Lessing’s Materials/Materialities, Philadelphia

Lessing’s Materials/Materialities

Lessing Society Sponsored Panel 

ASECS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 9-11, 2026 

In May 1770, Lessing assumed the office of librarian at the ducal library at Wolfenbüttel, known today as the Herzog August Bibliothek, a position he held until his death in 1781. As librarian, he was responsible for reorganizing the library’s holdings, which consisted of over 100,000 volumes, and for expanding the library’s collection on a very limited budget, which he accomplished by selling off or exchanging duplicates (Doublettentausch). Although born of necessity, this concern with the materiality and exchange value of the book mirrors the frequency with which material goods and objects are foregrounded in Lessing’s oeuvre, including rings (Minna von Barnhelm, Nathan der Weise), letters (Miß Sara Sampson), textiles (Nathan der Weise), and paintings and sculptures (Emilia Galotti, Laokoön). Today, our understanding of Lessing’s biography and his cultural significance continues to be shaped by the materiality of objects displayed in archives and collections in Wolfenbüttel, Kamenz, and beyond. In both Lessing’s oeuvre and in the collections and archives that frame his legacy, the (in)authenticity of an object’s provenance is central to its interpretation – most notably in the Ring Parable, in which the symbolic overdetermination of the three rings is linked to their exchangeability. 

This panel draws attention to the role of material objects and materiality in Lessing’s life, works and reception. Inquiries could address topics such as:

  • Representations of material objects, collections, and collectors in Lessing’s works (e.g., the rings in Nathan der Weise, the Laokoön sculpture, the painting of Emilia Galotti)
  • Library and museum collections connected with Lessing, such as the Herzog August Bibliothek, the Lessinghaus Wolfenbüttel, and the Lessing-Museum Kamenz
  • The materiality of books, periodicals, and correspondence (e.g., paper, marginalia, writing utensils, ephemera)
  • Inventories and the (re)classifying of objects, e.g., Lessing’s reorganization of the library in Wolfenbüttel 
  • Dupes, frauds, and fakes; exchanges and exchangeability (e.g., the Doublettentausch, the three rings in the Ring Parable) 
  • Lessing’s involvement with theater and its material objects (props, costumes, actors’ debts)
  • Money, gambling, and lottery tickets 
  • Correspondences and collections of letters 
  • Materiality and the spirit/matter distinction in Lessing’s theological writings 

Please send a 250-word abstract and a short CV to Mary Helen Dupree (mhd33@georgetown.edu) and Francien Markx (fmarkx@gmu.edu) by September 15, 2025. 

Redaktion: Constanze Baum – Lukas Büsse – Mark-Georg Dehrmann – Nils Gelker – Markus Malo – Alexander Nebrig – Johannes Schmidt

Diese Ankündigung wurde von H-GERMANISTIK [Lukas Büsse] betreut – editorial-germanistik@mail.h-net.msu.edu

Contact Information

Mary Helen Dupree, mhd33@georgetown.edu

Francien Markx, fmarkx@gmu.edu

Contact Email

mhd33@georgetown.edu

CFP: Library Trends Special Issue, “Cultural Heritage in Crisis”

CFP – Special issue, “Cultural Heritage in Crisis” to be published in Library Trends, 75(1), 2026.

In a recent issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Aronson et al write: “Cultural heritage represents the physical manifestation of the culture and history of a social group and forms a major component of its identity.”1 A people’s culture, history, and social identity can be destroyed, censored, suppressed, purged, or rewritten through attacks on their cultural heritage as well as the institutions and systems that support and preserve the creation of knowledge, free speech, and artistic expression. Within the last three years alone, we have witnessed attempts by individuals, governments, and extremist groups to destroy a people’s culture and identity – whether through deliberate action or ignorance – with the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, war in Gaza in October 2023, and in 2025 the intentional removal and revision of content about the history of women, LGBTQIA+ people, immigrants, and people of color from government pages in the United States.

For this special issue of Library Trends, we interpret cultural heritage broadly, it may include physical tangible artifacts, such as books, manuscripts, art, sculpture, monuments, or buildings, as well as intangible artifacts, such as language, knowledge, folklore, and traditions. We also include digital cultural heritage, which may include websites, data, digital images, 3D models or visualizations, multimedia, etc. Proposals for this issue should focus on how cultural heritage professionals working in organizations with a mission to preserve and make cultural heritage accessible have engaged in activities such as digital activism, culturally responsive curation, preservation of physical or digital cultural heritage, or community-centered archives and collections within the context of cultural heritage in crisis. We are also interested in approaches, case studies, or theoretical approaches on how cultural heritage is created, preserved, or reconstructed before, during, or after crises within the library and archives profession.

Potential topics may include:

  • Activism and community engagement
  • Supporting open culture
  • Culturally responsive curation/metadata practices
  • Centering community and care in preservation of cultural heritage
  • Anti-colonial practices in approaches to digital curation, metadata, archives, etc.
  • Digital approaches to preserving or reconstructing cultural heritage (e.g. 3D modeling, machine learning, AI, linked data, etc.)
  • Developing institutional collaboration and partnership with damaged libraries and archives
  • Digital repatriation of cultural heritage
  • Crisis documentation and rapid response archiving
  • Countering disinformation

Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract outlining their proposed article by July 25, 2025. Decisions about the abstracts will be communicated by August 1, 2025. Final articles should be 7,500-9,500 words (including bibliographic references). The issues will use an open peer review process in which article authors review two manuscripts by other contributors. As part of submitting an article proposal, authors will be asked to commit to participation in this process as both an author and a reviewer.

Inquiries about the planned issues and ideas for articles should be directed to Anna Kijas (Tufts University) and Andreas Segerberg (University of Gothenburg), Guest Co-Editors of Library Trends (anna.kijas at tufts.edu / andreas.segerberg at gu.se). Proposals for articles should be submitted via an online proposal form. 

Full CfP with details is available at https://annakijas.com/news/cfp_2026-librarytrends/. 

Contact Information

Guest Co-Editors of Library Trends 

Anna Kijas (Tufts University), anna.kijas@tufts.edu

Andreas Segerberg (University of Gothenburg), andreas.segerberg@gu.se

Contact Email

anna.kijas@tufts.edu

URL

https://annakijas.com/news/cfp_2026-librarytrends/

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800

Prayer was central to religious life in the late medieval and early modern period. Despite growing scholarly interest in religious texts, devotional practices, and spirituality, prayer and prayer books remain comparatively understudied. Prayer could take on a multitude of forms and occur in a range of spaces, from public to secluded and private; from monastic, liturgical prayer to short, indulgenced invocations and meditative prayers that evoked a rich scala of emotions and mental images.  

To pray, devotees – whether clerical or lay – often took a book to hand. Prayer books played a vital role during many moments in a person’s life in the performance of prayer and prayer-related practices. While the act of prayer is inherently transient, the books held or touched by late medieval and early modern devotees form codified and material evidence of the practices in which they engaged. Still extant in large numbers and containing a vast variety of textual and visual materials, these books – through both content and appearance – reflect the diversity of prayer practices as well as developments in book production. Taking the book as the central artefact for the study of prayer allows for an analysis that encompasses all aspects and components of prayer books, along with the actors involved in their production and use. This, in turn, enables us to chart the ‘cultural ecosystem’ in which prayer books were produced, circulated, and used. 

This three-day international conference, hosted at Leiden University by the PRAYER project (ERC Starting Grant), with keynotes by Walter S. Melion (Emory University) and Kathryn M. Rudy (University of St Andrews), aims to bring together researchers working on books that were (intended to be) used in any form of prayer practice in the late medieval and early modern era (up to the eighteenth century). This conference aims to shed new light on prayer across late medieval and early modern Europe by exploring the broader ecosystem of prayer books. This includes a wide range of interactions between the material book, texts and images disseminated through it (and their connections to other types of objects, such as rosaries, small pipe clay figures, and single-sheet prints), the devotions inspired by these texts and images, the producers and buyers/readers of the books, and the communities they belonged to.  

We particularly welcome proposals for 20-minute papers (in English) on the following topics: 

  • The material book as instrument in prayer practice 
  • The nature of prayer books and prayer texts; prayer books as miscellanies, repositories 
  • Co-transmission of prayer texts across manuscripts and/or printed books; dynamics within cycles or series of texts 
  • The language(s) of prayer books; vernacular, Latin, and multilingual prayer 
  • Social functions of prayer; communities of prayer and the role of the book 
  • Customization and personification of prayer and prayer books 
  • Multisensory experience of prayer as elicited by prayer books and their material context, including the function of mental and pictorial images (in- and external to the book), music, space, light etc. 
  • Connections and overlaps between private forms of prayer and liturgy, and between lay and professional prayer  
  • Production (centers) of handwritten and/or printed prayer books; how do changes in production process affect prayer books in terms of content and appearance? 
  • Methodological reflections on the study of late medieval and early modern prayer books, including digital and computational approaches 

We also welcome alternative formats, such as – but not limited to – roundtable discussions. Additionally, we could potentially organize on-site presentations that incorporate manuscripts or printed books from Leiden University Libraries or other nearby collections, thereby fostering direct engagement with primary source materials. 

Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) and short biography (max. 100 words) to prayer@hum.leidenuniv.nl by 1 October 2025. We aim to inform our speakers by 1 November 2025. 

A selection of revised contributions, pending double peer-review, will be published in an edited volume in Brill’s series Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture (https://brill.com/display/serial/INTE). 

The conference organizers will cover all conference costs, including lunches and the conference dinner, but will unfortunately be unable to reimburse travel and accommodation costs. A limited number of bursaries will be available to support (early career) researchers without access to adequate institutional funding. If you wish to be considered for a bursary, please note this with your proposal and explain why. 

Organizing Committee:  

Anna Dlabačová 

Irene Van Eldere 

Susanne de Jong 

Lieke Smits

Contact Email

prayer@hum.leidenuniv.nl

URL

https://www.rsa.org/news/704603/Bound-for-Devotion-The-Prayer-Book-as-Object-and-Practice-13001800-1-3-July-2026.htm

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Kersting-Lark, Dulce (2025) “Teaching Archival Intelligence through an Immersive Class Experience,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 12, Article 1.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/1

Pasquetto, I. V., Abdu, A. A., & Chtena, N. (2025). Essential work, invisible workers: The role of digital curation in COVID-19 Open Science. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 76(4), 703–717. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24965

Baldivia, Stef; Hollis, Tanya M.; Jarosz, Ellen E.; Sorvetti, Laura; Steele Gajewski, Heather M.; and Wakimoto, Diana (2025) “Assessing the State of Archives and Archives Workers in the California State University,” Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 16: Iss. 1, Article 2.
DOI: 10.59620/2154-7149.1187
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol16/iss1/2

Manus, Jolene D. (2025) “Ethics of Care: Applying Cultural Protocols to Indigenous Sound Recordings,” Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 16: Iss. 1, Article 1.
DOI: 10.59620/2154-7149.1189
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol16/iss1/1

Mbinge, U., Stanley, C., Kandjabanga, I. et al. Co-creating digital representations of indigenous knowledge: an ovaHimba curated digital repository. Int J Digit Libr 26, 7 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00418-8

Wright, C.R. and Rogova, I. (2025), “Defining harmful content statements: cultural humility work that leads to institutional change and accountability”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 81 No. 2, pp. 456-468. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2024-0188

Mbinge, U., Stanley, C., Kandjabanga, I. et al. Co-creating digital representations of indigenous knowledge: an ovaHimba curated digital repository. Int J Digit Libr 26, 7 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00418-8

Beshirov, A., Dobreva, M., Dimitrov, D. et al. Post-ocr text correction for Bulgarian historical documents. Int J Digit Libr 26, 4 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00415-x

Han, Y. (2025), “People first, preservation later: critical community engagement to activate dialogue-based archives”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 81 No. 3, pp. 767-787. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-09-2024-0210

Kosciejew, M. (2023). Facing Threats to Libraries and Cultural Heritage in the Russia-Ukraine War: A Case Study and Comparative Review of the Library and Information Community’s’ Responses to the Conflict. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 57(1), 191-210. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231208026

Books

Rozas-Krause, Valentina; M. Shanken, Andrew, eds.. Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory, and Public Space. Fordham University Press, 2024.

Production and Provenance: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula
John Goldfinch, Takako Kato, and Satoko Tokunaga, editors
Brill, 2025

Travels in Time: Essays on Collective Memory in Motion
Astrid Erll
Oxford University Press, 2025

Photo Archives and the Place of Photography
Edited By Geraldine A. Johnson, Deborah Schultz
Routledge, 2025

Report

Jessica Bushey, Marina De Souza, Kailey Fukushima, David Iglésias, Marta Riess, Eng
Sengsavang, Hrvoje Stancic, Zeljko Trbusic, Report on the Survey “Digitization and Artificial Intelligence for Archives and Documentary Heritage Materials,” InterPARES Trust AI, May 2025,
https://interparestrustai.org/assets/public/dissemination/RA03-InterPARESAI-Survey_Report_FI
NAL.pdf

Conference Proceedings

Advances in Digital Forensics XX
20th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference, New Delhi, India, January 4–5, 2024, Revised Selected Papers

Case Study

Case 30 in the Teaching with Primary Sources (TWPS) case study series—sponsored by the Reference, Access, and Outreach (RAO) Section of SAA—is now available. Written by Bree’ya N. Brown and Rachel E. Winston, Las Archivistas Enseñando Afro-Latinidad: Teaching History and Culture with Primary Sources highlights a partnership between archivists at Huston-Tillotson University (HT) and The University of Texas at Austin (UT). Archivists at both institutions worked together to develop a workshop series for students centered on Afro-Latin American perspectives in primary source instruction.

Podcast

Archives in Context
Season 9, Episode 2: Chris Pandza

Call for Submissions: MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award

The Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee seeks submissions for its annual award recognizing the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) region – the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Works under consideration include, but are not limited to, monographs, popular narratives, reference works and exhibition catalogs using archival sources. Works must be relevant to the general public as well as the archival community and published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

All submissions must be received by July 31, 2025.

Electronic submissions in PDF format of the entire work are encouraged. Submissions and a letter of nomination should be sent to Senior Committee Co-Chair Sarah E. Almond at sarah.almond@mail.wvu.edu. More information about the award may be found online at https://www.marac.info/arline-custer-memorial-award.

Contact Email

sarah.almond@mail.wvu.edu

URL

https://www.marac.info/arline-custer-memorial-award