CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age

CFP
Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age
Wiener Holocaust Library, London. Friday 27 November 2026, 10.30am-4pm

NB: This is an IN PERSON event. There is unfortunately no hybrid option. 

Improved digital access to far-right material at archives, libraries, and beyond has been benefitting researchers and anti-far right educators and activists. It also presents challenges, not least amidst a surge in public support for far-right parties and an increase in racist and antisemitic incidents.

This one-day workshop will bring together archivists, librarians, scholars, educators, and practitioners, to explore the opportunities and challenges of researching, preserving, and teaching with far-right materials in an increasingly digital environment.

We invite proposals for contributions that engage with one or more of the following themes:

  • Challenges of digitisation and access to far-right archival collections, including practical, ethical, legal, and methodological considerations.
  • Digital materials and pedagogy, including teaching with born-digital or digitised far-right sources, and broader approaches to teaching with far-right materials.
  • Artificial intelligence, social media, and far-right research, including the ethics of use of AI in archival and research contexts, digital methods, platform studies, and the implications of emerging technologies for the study of the far right, including the use of AI and social media platforms by contemporary far-right groups.

Rather than formal conference papers, we invite informal ten-minute presentations that introduce a challenge, case study, project, or methodological question. Presentations should conclude with one or more questions to stimulate discussion, allowing the workshop to prioritise conversation, knowledge exchange, and collaborative problem-solving.

We warmly encourage participation from:

  • Archivists and librarians
  • Curators
  • Academics, including early career researchers and doctoral students
  • Educators and teachers
  • Practitioners working in far-right prevention and counter-extremism
  • Digital humanities scholars and digital preservation specialists
  • AI, social media, and digital technology experts whose work intersects with these issues

Our goal is to create an interdisciplinary and welcoming forum where participants can share expertise, reflect on common challenges, and identify opportunities for future collaboration.

Submission
Please email a short abstract of up to 150 words by Tuesday, 29 September to Rosie Frank at rfrank@wienerholocaustlibrary.org outlining your proposed presentation and indicating which workshop theme(s) it addresses.

We look forward to bringing together colleagues from across sectors to discuss the future of far-right archives and research in the digital age.

This event is a collaboration between the Wiener Holocaust Library, London, as part of its National Heritage Lottery Fund project ‘Digital Transformation: Connecting Collections and Communities’, and Dr Rachel Moss, the University of Northampton, in relation to her British Academy Small Research Grant ‘Medievalism, gender and politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right, 1962 – 1982’. There will be a modest fund available for travel expenses for colleagues who are unable to access institutional funding; please contact us for further details.

Contact Information

Submit abstracts to at rfrank@wienerholocaustlibrary.org; for more general queries, email rachel.moss@northampton.ac.uk. 

Contact Email

rfrank@wienerholocaustlibrary.org

URL

https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org

CFP: Radio, Podcast, & Sound Media Area, Popular Culture American Culture Association Conference

RADIO, PODCAST, & SOUND MEDIA AREA

POPULAR CULTURE AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

MARCH 24-27, 2027, BOSTON

 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: OCTOBER 31, 2026

We invite papers and presentations on all aspects of radio and audio media, including but not limited to: radio and audio media history; radio and audio media programs and content (music, drama, talk, news, public affairs, features, interviews, sports, college, religious, ethnic, community, low-power, pirate, etc.); podcasting (news, public affairs, commentary, audio drama, branded content); new audio media (internet radio, streaming audio, etc.); audio social media (Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Reddit Talk, etc.); radio literature studies; media representations of radio and audio media; rhetorical research; legal and regulatory policy; economics of radio and audio media; and radio and audio media technology. We welcome U.S., international, or comparative works and media presentations and are catholic regarding method, theory, or approach. Papers or presentations should be planned for no more than fifteen minutes. We encourage you to emphasize audience involvement and elicit stimulating questions and discussion.

Joint Panel with The Sixties Area

This year we are also featuring a joint panel between The Sixties and the Radio, Podcast & Sound Media areas that relate to the conference’s theme: Revolutions & Revisions in Popular Culture. Possible paper topics are wide open, and could include things like: the FM radio revolution in the U.S. (freeform/progressive formats, changes in FCC policies, etc.); significant radio stations, such as WDIA in Memphis, KSAN in San Francisco, etc.; “pirate radio” in the U.K. (Radio Caroline, etc.) and official responses (the creation of BBC1, etc.); the expansion of stereophonic audio in relation to popular music, psychedelic rock, etc.; the influence of/by particular record labels on pop culture and the counterculture (especially independents such as Motown, Vanguard, ESP, etc.); more recent podcasts or other audio media about the 1960s; any of the above in non-U.S./U.K. contexts; and any other related subjects. If you would like your paper submission to be considered for the shared panel(s), please note that on your abstract or via email to the area chair.

Paper or presentation proposals must include an abstract of 300 words and paper or presentation title, and author’s institutional affiliation and email address. We do not accept undergraduate student submissions. Submit your paper or presentation proposal to: https://www.aievolution.com/pcaaca/

The proposal will include an abstract of 300 words and paper or presentation title, institutional affiliation, and email address. In order to submit a paper or presentation proposal your PCA membership must be valid for 2026-2027.

August 1, 2026 – Paper submissions and early registration open

October 31, 2026 – Deadline for submissions

November 15, 2026 – Travel Grant applications due

December 31 – Early registration ends

Address paper or via email to:  Matthew Killmeier, PCA/ACA Radio and Audio Media Area Chair, Dept. of Communication and Theatre, Auburn University at Montgomery

Contact Information

Matthew Killmeier, Dept. of Communication & Theatre, Auburn Univ. at Montgomery, 334-244-3950, P.O. Box 244023, Montgomery, AL 36124-4023, USA

Contact Email

mkillmei@aum.edu

URL

https://www.aievolution.com/pcaaca

Call for Digital Posters: Scotland’s Community Heritage Conversations 2026

The Scottish Council on Archives is delighted to share that submissions for the digital poster session at this year’s Scotland’s Community Heritage Conversations hybrid event are now open! The  event will take place Thursday 26 November 2026 at the Engine Shed, Stirling and Microsoft Teams.

Digital Poster/Video Session (2026) 

This year’s event will feature a digital poster/video session, designed to let community heritage groups and organisations show off their projects, work and initiatives. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your organisation or project to a diverse group of delegates. We will be displaying posters/video clips based on the conference theme Sharing our Strengths, in a constant loop throughout the day on large screens situated in the Open Hall at the Engine Shed. This is the space where delegates will be networking and enjoying refreshments and lunch. You could also use your poster/video as a background slide for your one-minute mayhem talk, a 60-second ‘soap-box’ opportunity to share your news and views on any aspect of Scotland’s community heritage. It’s a great way for people to know about your work and it’s easy to submit a poster by following these simple instructions: 

 To submit a poster:  

  • Create a bold and informative poster that tells the story of your organisation using our Poster-Template-2026. Get inspiration from from last year’s posters. 
  • Include your group’s name and any other important details, such as a website or social media page – where you want people to reach out to you.  
  • Make sure the submission is on a single widescreen PowerPoint slide and is accessible (see below). 
  • Send it as an email attachment to Marissa Trimble, m.trimble@scottisharchives.org.uk with the subject line POSTER SCHC CONFERENCE 2026 by Monday 9 November. Text within the email must include: 1. Group name; 2. Name of contact person in the group; 3. Email address of contact person.  

Make your poster accessible:   

  • Font size minimum of 24pt   
  • Use contrasting colours, e.g. Black text on a light background. Avoid light fonts on light backgrounds, or dark on dark which are hard to read.   
  • Make images or graphics large and clear    
  • Use a sans serif font which is readable  

To submit a video: 

  • Videos must be no longer than 20 seconds 
  • We cannot play sound when showing these videos so if someone is speaking you will need to have captions 

We’d love to see you at the conference in person, but if you can’t attend, please still send your poster/video so attendees can learn more about your group!  

If you have any questions or want your poster checked for accessibility, feel free to contact m.trimble@scottisharchives.org.uk  

Deadline for submissions: 9 November 2026 

CFP: Critical Digital Archives. Travel, Translation, Transformation.  A Hybrid Symposium on Archives in and from the SWANA Region

British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies (BILNAS) 
School of Advanced Studies, University of London (ILCS-ICS) 
21–22 January 2027 

Call for papers: Critical Digital Archives. Travel, Translation, Transformation.  

A Hybrid Symposium on Archives in and from the SWANA Region. 

This symposium aims to provide a forum for scholars, archivists, community and cultural organizations interested in critical approaches to digital archives containing materials from and about the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) region, understood as a geographic, historical, and cultural space. In this space, archives have been historically imposed, looted, extracted, dispersed, destroyed, but also rescued, rebuilt and reinvented, pioneering practices of resistance, reparation and return that raise compelling ethical, theoretical and practical questions for scholars and stakeholders (Ghaddar, 2025). Building on Itza Carbajal and Michelle Caswell’s framework (2021), our approach seeks to advance a language-sensitive understanding of reparative archival practices that are attentive to and accountable for the technological, social, and environmental impacts of digital archives.  

We are interested in digitisation as a transformative process that reshapes archival practices, knowledge production, and power relations. 

Conceived as a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and horizontal forum, the symposium invites participants, both in person and online, to engage in discussion and exchange around three interconnected themes and interpretative lenses. Two keynote speakers – Sara Salem (LSE) and Amanda Egbe (UWE) – will act as discussants, facilitating collective reflection and dialogue around participants’ contributions. The three themes of the symposium are Travel, Translation and Transformation: 

Travel: Archives in Movement 

This strand explores journeys and movement both as subjects represented in archival collections and as conditions shaping the archive itself, opening up questions of archival looting, dispersal and dispossession as well as care, stewardship, and reparation. Discussions may engage with spatial humanities approaches, including digital mapping and gazetteers; the displacement and mobility of archives; practices and ethics of archival solidarity and return; and questions of heritage, ownership, and identity from indigenous and diasporic perspectives. 

Translation: Languages in the Archive 

This strand will examine issues relating to languages and translation, both in the records and in the archival metadata that make them searchable by and accessible to stakeholders. We will especially welcome contributions reflecting on the role of metadata as descriptive as well as interpretative text, exploring the potential for linguistic, semantic and epistemological translations.  We will also welcome contributions that explore the multilinguality of archival records as enduring representations of human activity and consider the practices and ethics of reparative translation in digital archives. 

Transformation: Digital Futures and Ethics of Dematerialization 

The third strand will look at digitisation as a transformative process for the archive that involves new materialities and highlights new absences. We aim to discuss the impact of digital projects on key stakeholders (users, subjects of records, source communities). We invite contributions on the fragility of digitised and born-digital heritage, as well as the specific biases and risks that digitalisation processes may introduce, particularly through the reproduction, by digital tools, of historical and ongoing harms to people and the environment.  

We also aim to assess the potential of digital technology, especially non-corporate and low-threshold, to act as vectors of resistance and tools against erasure. 

Keynote speakers:   

Sara Salem is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Her first book, published with Cambridge University Press, is entitled Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (2020). Her second book, co-authored with Mai Taha, is entitled Anticolonial Radios: On the Sonic Lives of Internationalism, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Along with Mai Taha, she curates Archive Stories, a platform exploring radical and creative archives. 

Amanda Egbe is a Senior Lecturer in Media Production at the University of the West of England and leads Heritage Futures, a practice-led research programme building infrastructure for heritage at risk through archives, film, and digital systems. Her research focuses on how cultural memory is documented, governed, protected, transformed, or lost in contexts shaped by social change, technological transformation, environmental stress, and historical inequity.  

Convenors:  

Barbara Spadaro, University of Liverpool 

Valeria Vitale, University of Sheffield 

The event is jointly hosted by the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS) and the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London, and funded by the British Institute for Libyan and North African Studies (BILNAS).  

Please send via email a 300words abstract and short bio to b.spadaro@liverpool.ac.uk and v.vitale@sheffield.ac.uk  

Deadline: 30 SEPTEMBER 2026 

A limited number of travel bursaries will be offered to participants travelling to the symposium in London. 

URL: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/critical-digital-archives-travel-translation-transformation

Contact Email

b.spadaro@liverpool.ac.uk

URL: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/critical-digital-archives-travel-translation-transformation

New Issue: Arbido

Theme: Archives and Durability, 2026
(open access)

Ackermann Nadja
Editorial

Lorenz Natalie
The Liechtenstein National Archives: Experiences with a sustainable archive building

Pfister Magdalen
Where sustainability is practiced. For people, culture, and the mountain region

Nicolet Aurèle
Pour des archives durables: small panorama of solutions and existing initiatives

Nina Hens
Preventive conservation and sustainability in the PTT archive

Makhlouf Shabou Basma
Nicolet Aurèle
Evaluating the durability of the artificial intelligence: défis et enjeux

Casula Philipp
Amsler Eri
Sievi Olivier
Sustainability remains an important issue in academic libraries

Akgül Vedat
“Lessons learned” and “Best Practices” – Digital sustainability in the St.Gallen State Archives

Research Study – Share Your Perspective on AI and Archival Description of Intangible Cultural Heritage

My name is Madelaine Davis, and I am a graduate student in the School of Information Studies (SIS) at Louisiana State University, conducting a research study under the supervision of Dr. Kristina Shiroma, Assistant Professor (SIS).

We are inviting archivists, heritage professionals, faculty, graduate students, researchers, and community members/stakeholders with lived experience in intangible cultural heritage (ICH) to take part in a brief online survey. The survey asks you to review a small set of archival description samples and share your perspective on their accuracy, cultural sensitivity, and the ethical considerations of using AI to write these kinds of descriptions.

The survey takes about 15–20 minutes and is entirely online. Participation is voluntary, and there is no compensation. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate.

If you are interested, you can access the survey here: https://lsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7WeSh5CDeg2is2G 

Feel free to forward this message to colleagues or contacts who may also be interested in participating.

If you have any questions about the study, please contact us at kshiroma@lsu.edu or mdav415@lsu.edu. This study has been approved by the LSU Institutional Review Board (IRBAM-26-0690).

Thank you for considering participating!

Madelaine Davis
Graduate Student, LSU School of Information Studies

CFP: 2027 IIIF Online Meeting

The 2027 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Online Meeting will be held January 26-28, 2027. This year’s meeting will again follow a Working and Learning theme, with a program built to provide attendees with a look into new and innovative IIIF projects, implementations, developments, and tools, as well as opportunities to learn new skills.

All submissions are due by November 3, 2026.

Format

The event organizers are looking for proposals in the following formats:

  • Lightning talks (7 minutes)
  • Tool Demos (5-7 minutes)
  • Online workshop/training sessions (up to 2 hours)

Note:

  • Accepted lightning talks will be pre-recorded, though presenters are asked to be present during the online meeting if possible to participate in Q&A following the presentation.
  • Demonstrations of tools should be pre-recorded. Please do not attempt to do live demonstrations.
  • Online workshops or training sessions should be interactive events with clearly stated target audiences and learning outcomes.
  • All submissions will be reviewed by a committee. This year, we will prioritize submissions from first-time presenters; likewise, while it is possible to submit multiple proposals, we will ask that any given speaker appear only once in the final program.
  • Final versions of the accepted abstracts and presentations will be made openly available after the conference.

Proposal themes

Lightning Talks

We encourage showcasing developments in IIIF and in particular would welcome presentations in the following areas:

  • IIIF implementations featuring unique or uncommon collections
  • Using IIIF material for Machine Learning and AI
  • Implementations of IIIF outside of North America/Europe
  • IIIF in the classroom
  • Annotation use cases

Tool Demos

Have a new IIIF tool? Have you built something for personal use that you want to share with the community? Looking for feedback on a project in progress? This is your opportunity to show off your work with a brief (5-7 minutes) demo.

Workshops

Workshop submissions must have an abstract, a proposed outline schedule, and desired outcomes (e.g., “at this end of this session, participants will be able to place IIIF manifests on a web map”, or “at the end of this session, participants will be able to use IIIF manifests to create guided storytelling exhibitions”). This year, we are seeking workshop proposals aimed at end users, researchers, and educators as well as workshops for experienced IIIF practitioners.

We encourage workshop organizers to set the registration cap for their sessions as high as possible without sacrificing quality.

Submissions

Please submit proposals through Google Forms: Submission Form

Questions?

Please contact staff@iiif.io.

CFP: SHARP News Features

The SHARP News Features section is currently seeking proposals for written pieces in an array of categories that take a wide and creative approach to topics in book history, book studies, print culture, authorship and publishing studies, and media studies. These pieces can include articles, interviews, and reviews of games, books, or video media relating to the above topics.

Please submit your proposal via this Google form, or by emailing the Features editor Allie Alvis at news-features@sharpweb.org.

For more information about the Features section and submitting a proposal, check out this handy dandy PDF.

CFP: Poster and Demo Submissions for IDCC27

Poster and demo submissions for IDCC27 open until 16 October

There’s still time to submit your Poster or Demonstration proposal. You have until 16 October to secure the opportunity to join other international presenters at the 21st International Digital Curation Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, from 9-12 February 2027.

  • Poster Submissions: Offer a great opportunity to showcase and promote your work through images, interact with others, gather feedback, and exchange ideas.
  • Demonstrations: Showcase a working software tool, hardware prototype, or interactive system.

Submit your proposals now!

New Issue: Archival Issues

Archival Issues 43, no. 1 (2026)
(open access)

Articles

Student Life Materials in Association of Research Libraries University Archives: Connecting Policy to Practice
Leanna Barcelona and Paula Dempsey

Accessible AI in the Archives: Tools and Methods for Small Repositories
Liz Bloodworth

Using Data to Identify Gaps and Improve Institutional Collecting in Public University Archives
Hannah Pryor

Publication Reviews

Decolonial Archival Futures. By Krista McCracken and Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey
Gianni Brassil

Family and Justice in the Archives: Historical Perspectives on Intimacy and the Law. Edited by Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore.
Ruth Cody

Alone in the Stacks: Succeeding as a Solo Archivist. By Christina Zamon.
Jayne Kelley

Teaching Primary Source Research Skills to 21st-Century Learners. By Julie Thomas.
Laura Kiely

Thriving as a Mid-Career Librarian: Identity, Advocacy, and Pathways. Edited by Brandon K. West and Elizabeth Galoozis.
Krista M. Oldham

Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice. Edited by Hannah Leah Crummé.
shady Radical

The Burpee Seed Company: Planting U.S. History since the Nineteenth Century. By Christopher M. DeMairo.
Leah Tams